Robust Archival Storage Helps Tame a Tsunami of Data

Businesses today of all sizes face an overwhelming need to digitally store information. Thousands, perhaps millions of digital records are generated daily from e-mail to documents to multimedia and image files.

The explosive growth of digital content makes offline archival media management extremely manpower intensive. This increase in demand creates a ripple effect, driving upward the cost of storage, backups and management.

Businesses need a robust archival storage platform to store ever increasing amounts of inactive fixed content data in an affordable, scalable way. An intelligent archival platform provides rapid content search and retrieval of infrequently referenced, business critical, fixed content data: everything from medical records to accounting files.

An "active archive" should allow you to archive data in a secure, unaltered format where auditors or regulators can verify the data has not changed and has been stored within a validated "chain of custody".

The Hitachi Content Archive Platform answers all of these challenges. This robust "active archive" both preserves and authenticates fixed content data as being verifiably unchanged for long periods of time, while optimizing performance and availability to handle the explosive growth of data. The Content Archive Platform can be used to move inactive data from expensive higher tiered storage, reduce backup windows, improve response time, and meet both corporate governance and regulatory compliance objectives.

Whether the need is legal discovery, regulatory audits, restoring capacity on tiered storage, improving backup windows or improving customer service levels, the Hitachi Content Archive Platform provides the benefits of a robust "active archive" for businesses of all sizes at a total cost of ownership (TCO) that is often equal to or better than tape or optical archives.

Hitachi Content Archive Platform Goes Hand in Hand with Specialized Software

The Hitachi Content Archive Platform partners with third party software vendors who are the industry leaders in their respective fields.

- E-mail archiving: Symantec, Mimosa and others
- File archiving: Arkivio, CommVault, Symantec
- ECM and ERP archiving: OpenText
- Call Data Records/PCI/Log Files: Sensage

These partnerships ensure that Hitachi Data Systems customers don’t have to make sacrifices when it comes to finding the best archive to work with the best industry- or task-specific software: now you can have them both.

For a complete list and more information on the Hitachi Content Archive Platform’s Independent Software Vendor visit this website.

Low Cost Option

The Hitachi Content Archive Platform now comes in three varieties: two pre-set configurations and one customizable, at sizes as low as 2 TB. Now there's storage for all sizes of archiving, from the very small to the largest of the large enterprises – which means that businesses of all sizes can have stable, searchable long term storage.

How the Hitachi Content Archive Platform Fits Into the Hitachi File Services Strategy

The enhanced Hitachi Content Archive Platform is an integral component of the Hitachi Services Oriented Storage strategy and features new authentication services to ensure the secure, long term preservation and retrieval of valuable information. The new features and flexibility of the Hitachi Content Archive Platform deliver the speed, authentication, security and scalability organizations need to manage constant change and prepare for a future of unhindered data expansion.

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The Hitachi Data Systems Academy helps you get started with the Hitachi Content Archive Platform! An updated course will be available on December 15 - "Getting Started with the Hitachi Content Archive Platform." The course provides the learner with the necessary skills required to perform administration, search, and replication operations using Hitachi Content Archive Platform, Hitachi Content Archive Platform Diskless, and Hitachi Content Archiver software.
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