Benefits

• Migrate content from tiered storage. Move static data to an active archive tier and provide a high availability environment, long term file integrity and access and authentication and retention enforcement.
• Protect your business. Reduce risk of fines and penalties for not meeting regulatory compliance or providing timely responses to audit and legal discovery requests.
• Meet regulatory and governance requirements. Ensure compliance with requirements for content preservation and retention.
• Save time and money. Reduce cost and complexity via a single active archive repository; reduce duplicate copies of the same data.
• Expedite content retrieval. Rapidly retrieve authenticated content; either through integrated search or independent software vendor (ISV) search functionality.
• Expedite content retrieval. Rapidly retrieve authenticated content, either through integrated search or independent software vendor (ISV) search functionality.
• Protect and secure content for long term preservation. Content is continually checked throughout its retention period for integrity.
• Grow with your business. Scale horizontally to support multiple applications and content types; scale vertically to support continued data growth.

Features

The Hitachi Content Archive Platform 300 and 500 provide:

• Write once, read many (WORM) file system and time base retention at the object level
• Authenticated content preservation with a user choice of digital signature or hash algorithms
• Optionally Automate object-level remote replication
• Custom metadata support
• Standards-based interfaces, including NFS, CIFS/SMB, HTTP, HTTPS, WebDAV, SMTP and NDMP
• Object-based duplicate data elimination
• Support for Hitachi Device Manager software and Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager software for reporting of Content Archive Platform metrics

Hitachi Content Archive Platform 300:

• Available in affordable configurations from 2TB to 8TB that meet mid-sized or departmental archive requirements
• Enterprise-class active archive appliance that leverages Hitachi Content Archive Software
• Highly available RAIN architecture with embedded storage and RAID protection on each node with no single point of failure

Hitachi Content Archive Platform 500:

• Highly scalable with up to 32 billion objects (such as files or e-mails) and up to 20 petabytes of total data archiving
• Support for Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ V, Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM, Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage and Hitachi Workgroup Modular Storage
• High availability based on SAIN architecture (reliable storage area network [SAN] storage with an array of independent nodes)
• Optional embedded full text index, search and retrieval for content discovery
• Configurable content privacy (encryption of data at rest using patent pending "secret sharing" technology)

Hitachi Content Archive Platform and Technology Partners

Hitachi Content Archive Platform and its ISV partners offer industry leading technology solutions to help organizations of all sizes cost effectively meet their unique archive requirements for data preservation, governance, regulatory compliance and recovery.

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Analyst Coverage

"As the importance of corporate content increases, and with the exponential growth of data, organizations need a solution that can provide a scalable, reliable and available content archive environment for many different content sources while addressing the complex regulatory, service-level, and integration issues faced by enterprise firms. With these new features, Hitachi Data Systems strengthens its position in the content archive market. The added functionality bridges the gap between technical requirements and business objectives and enables firms to more effectively secure, manage, retain, protect and copy information to meet regulatory compliance, electronic discovery and business requirements." Read more...