Content Archive Platform
The New York Times recently reported that the amount of digital information that was created, captured, and replicated in 2006 was estimated at 161 exabytes, or about 3 million times the information in all the books ever written. This information explosion is indelibly tied to the more than 10 thousand government regulations, which either require or encourage businesses to preserve many types of digital content for long periods of time. In some industries the regulations require that the content be preserved in an unaltered and easily authenticated form. In fact, the risks of not doing this can be severe.
The Hitachi Content Archive Platform is a robust "active archive" that enables effective long-term, fixed-content data preservation for organizations of all sizes. Designed to seamlessly integrate into an existing enterprise storage infrastructure, the high-performance, high-availability, highly scalable archiving solution satisfies an organization’s regulatory compliance requirement by ensuring the secure, long-term preservation and fast search and retrieval of valuable business records.
A first in SAN-based digital archival solutions, the Hitachi Content Archive Platform uses world-class Hitachi storage systems to provide scalability, availability, and performance -- satisfying the growing demand for long-term fixed-content storage management. With built-in authentication, protection, and retention capabilities, the platform ensures that archived content will be continually accessible for years to come.
Features
The Hitachi Content Archive Platform provides:
- A WORM file system and time-base retention at the object level
- Authenticated content preservation with a user choice of digital signature or hash algorithms
- Embedded full-text index, search, and retrieval for content discovery
- Automated object-level remote replication
- Custom metadata support
- Content privacy (encryption of data at rest utilizing patent-pending "secret sharing" technology)
- Standards-based interfaces, including NFS, CIFS/SMB, HTTP, https, WebDAV, SMTP, NDMP
- Duplicate data elimination
- Support for Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ V, Hitachi Universal Storage Platform, Hitachi Network Storage Controller™, Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage, and Hitachi Workgroup Modular Storage
- Support for Hitachi Device Manager software and Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager software for reporting of Content Archive Platform metrics
- Highly scalable with up to 32 billion objects (such as files or emails), and up to 20 petabytes of total data archiving
- High-availability with no single point of failure based on SAIN architecture (reliable SAN storage with an array of independent nodes)
Benefits
- Meet regulatory and governance requirements. Ensure compliance with requirements for content preservation and retention.
- Protect your business. Reduce risk of fines and penalties for not meeting regulatory compliance or providing timely responses to audit and legal discovery requests.
- Save time and money. Reduce cost and complexity via a single active archive repository; expedite content retrieval; place archived data on lower-cost storage tiers; reduce duplicate copies of the same data.
- Protect and secure content. Provide a high-availability environment; authenticate file integrity and access; enforce retention rules.
- Simplify searches. Ease access and retrieval of archived content whenever needed.
- Grow with your business. Scale horizontally to support multiple applications and content types; scale vertically to support continued data growth.
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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...
Quote
"The Hitachi Content Archive Platform provides one of the best content archive solutions out there on multiple levels including intelligence, scalability, performance and ease of management, Version 2.0 of the Hitachi Content Archive Platform is feature-rich providing a compelling offering in their arsenal giving them real potential to be a leader in this space. ... HDS is one of the kings of structured data storage with solutions such as the Universal Storage Platform V and are poised to be a leader in the next wave."
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—Tony Asaro, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, May 2007
