Improve End User Productivity and IT Efficiency with Hitachi File and Content Services

It’s no secret in the storage community that data growth presents a huge challenge. Structured data will continue to grow at a healthy pace in the years ahead, regardless of the current economic conditions. However, the really big story is about unstructured data.

Unstructured data, in the form of e-mail, fixed content archives, images, movies, spreadsheets, Web content, presentations, and other types of content not included in structured databases, will far outpace the growth of structured data in the years ahead. Simply storing this much data will present its own challenges. But even more pressing is the question of how to make this data easier to search through, retrieve and migrate between platforms or tiers so that it actually becomes a useful asset to the business.

With the uncertainty in the global economy, IT departments are facing budget cuts in 2009. It’s critical to find ways to stretch the IT budget through a variety of measures focused on cost reduction and infrastructure simplification. Hitachi Data Systems helps you do more with what you already have. Hitachi File and Content Services aims to improve IT efficiency and end user productivity by speeding up and streamlining search, retrieval and migration. Support for search of NetApp filers, as well as the new ability to move data between the Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform, powered by BlueArc® and the Hitachi Content Archive Platform in a transparent way, provides “intelligent file tiering”: a way of storing data using a flexible and extensible file content and metadata model to assign data to the most appropriate media.

Intelligent file tiering can reduce backup times on front end devices and curb data growth on premium storage by making it easier to move data onto less expensive storage tiers. These improvements can translate to significant cost savings for IT departments.

On the end user side, faster access to data translates to greatly enhanced productivity. With the powerful Hitachi Data Discovery Suite, you can search across platforms and tiers to quickly locate information wherever it’s stored. Users can more efficiently find exactly the data they need and immediately begin to work with it.

Even without the pressures of today’s economy, it’s absolutely vital for businesses to find ways to minimize costs and increase productivity. Hitachi File and Content Services does just that. Intelligent file tiering lets organizations benefit from the economics of tiered storage. The flexibility and scalability of Hitachi storage solutions can integrate and manage all types of data, and even let customers leverage the investments they’ve already made with other vendors. Plus, a single interface provides full text search capability for the Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform, the Hitachi Content Archive Platform and NetApp filers, which simplifies management and mitigates risks. In short, Hitachi storage creates the sort of sensible efficiencies that organizations will always seek out—and which are absolutely required to weather more challenging economic environments.

Make Intelligent Tiered Storage a Reality with the Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform

The Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform, powered by BlueArc®, offers a robust platform for enterprise consolidation, file virtualization, data protection and high-performance applications. With the cost effective Hitachi Essential NAS Platform®, Hitachi delivers best-in-class file server consolidation and backup at an affordable price. Hitachi High-performance NAS integrates seamlessly with the Hitachi Content Archive Platform and the Hitachi Data Discovery Suite for search and index as well as content and file attribute based data migration.

Manage and Search across Data Silos with Hitachi Data Discovery Suite

The Hitachi Data Discovery Suite simplifies e-discovery and improves the efficiency of identifying, searching, retaining and managing unstructured data across online, nearline and archive media. Users can search across multiple data silos—including e-mail archives and snapshots/versions from remote locations—from a single interface. The Hitachi Data Discovery Suite also provides advanced storage management tools for the Hitachi High-performance NAS and Hitachi Content Archive Platforms, which increase the overall storage environment efficiency with reduced backup times, faster retrievals and less duplication of data.

Hitachi Content Archive Platform Offers Cost Effective Storage for the Enterprise

Designed to seamlessly integrate into an existing enterprise storage infrastructure, the Hitachi Content Archive Platform preserves and authenticates fixed content while scaling and optimizing both performance and availability. It’s a cost-effective solution for archiving reports, e-mail records, medical records, scanned documents, digital voice recordings and other digital content. When used in conjunction with the Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform and the Hitachi Data Discovery Suite, it can form an essential component of a tiered storage solution that reduces backup windows, improves response time and meets both corporate governance and regulatory compliance retention objectives.

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SNIA 2009 Winter Symposium, January 20, 2009 - January 23, 2009 San Jose, California, Sainte Claire Hotel
Don't miss our Winter Symposium where you and your colleagues can join together for networking, working group meetings, informative keynote sessions, and other unique programs designed for SNIA members. More...

SNIA Europe Academy - Zurich, January 27, 2009 - January 27, 2009 Zurich, Zurich
SNIA Europe Academy events focus on the key technology areas and issues facing storage professionals today including: positioning IP Storage solutions alongside Fibre Channel, unraveling the myths surrounding Information Lifecycle Management and introducing the latest thinking around data management in the IT arena.

Academy content is drawn from the SNIA IP Storage Forum (IPSF) and from the array of SNIA Tutorial materials. Often referred to as the "Voice of SNIA", these tutorials are vendor-neutral, and aim for technology education, not advocacy. More...

SNIA Academy - Dubai, February 03, 2009 - February 03, 2009 Dubai, UAE, Madinat Jumeirah - The Arabian Resort
A one-day seminar that delivers unbiased and knowledge-based education and information on networked storage and associated technologies.
The SNIA Europe Academy events will cover the key technology areas and issues facing storage professionals today including: positioning IP Storage solutions alongside Fibre Channel, unraveling the myths surrounding Information Lifecycle Management and introducing the latest thinking around data management in the IT arena. More...

From the Hitachi Data Systems Academy: - Prepare yourself for Hitachi Data Systems Certification!  Special Orlando Event in February!
The Hitachi Data Systems Academy is offering exam prep sessions with onsite testing plus course offerings in Orlando, Florida February 9-13^th.   The prep sessions provide participants with refresher training on key areas of expertise for the Hitachi Data Systems Certified Implementer credential and the Hitachi Certified Professional credential.    There are a series of packages put together for the Orlando event that combine courseware offerings and the prep sessions. 

The sessions can serve as an introduction for customers new to Hitachi Data Systems and for the seasoned student, the sessions provide a valuable review of Hitachi Data Systems infrastructure, products and technology. You can also find more information at
http://www.hds.com/services/education
/certification.

Additional Prep Session Dates and Locations: Frankfurt, Germany, December 9-10, 2008, London, UK, December 9-12, 2008.  Other dates and locations are being considered. Contact hdscertifications@hds.com for more information.