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Regulatory Compliance and Content Archiving: Strategies for Long-term Preservation of Business Critical Data
Data stays protected in unaltered form through a variety of methods including file authentication and retention. This is important to archivists � and auditors � who are unlikely to vouch for the reliability of a record if they can�t prove the record hasn�t been tampered with at some point in the chain of custody. Similarly, the Content Archive Platform�s WORM (write once, read many) capabilities assure that records remain unaltered even if they�re replicated many times over.
The Hitachi Content Archive Platform offers other benefits as well. Its self-managing cluster design allows storage nodes to be added or removed without configuration changes, simplifying storage management and administration. Standards-based interfaces, including NFS, CIFS/SMB, HTTP, HTTPS, WebDAV, SMTP, and NDMP, also help minimize the time staff spends configuring and managing the system. Industry-standard document and file formats offer the additional advantage of enabling archiving and future retrieval of all types of fixed-content digital data objects and their associated metadata.
This SAIN architecture, combined with RAID-6 protection, ensures high availability. And because it distributes workload balance, it offers better performance and storage utilization.
A solution for today and tomorrow
The Hitachi Content Archive Platform works seamlessly with other Hitachi storage devices, supporting all models of the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform�, the Hitachi Network Storage Controller�, Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage systems, and Hitachi Workgroup Modular Storage systems. It also supports Hitachi Device Manager software and Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager software for metrics reporting.
As one of the Hitachi Data Systems Services Oriented Storage Solutions, the Hitachi Content Archive Platform uses technology as a means to achieve a specific business goal. Organizations can start from business requirements—namely, keeping records unaltered and available for quick retrieval in the case of auditing or legal discovery—and proceed from there to the technology that best fits those needs. The Content Archive Platform satisfies regulatory compliance requirements, offers a standards-based architectural model, simplifies storage and retrieval, and integrates archive management within the greater storage environment. In providing these benefits, the platform achieves what�s most important when it comes to regulatory compliance: it ensures that archived content will be continually accessible for years to come.
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