An intelligent content-based storage solution, the Hitachi Content Platform provides a single storage platform that supports multiple tiers of storage for a wide range of unstructured content. By providing a multitenant architecture, object versioning, retention and disposition services, encryption, immutability, high availability and search capabilities, Hitachi Content Platform enables organizations to securely segregate data and provide different features and levels of service for different datasets.
Hitachi Content Platform (formerly known as Hitachi Content Archive Platform) is a mature storage platform with new features and capabilities that transcend the concept of a typical archive platform and enable intelligent, content focused storage. Hitachi Content Platform abstracts away the detail of the underlying storage system (Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V, Universal Storge Platform VM, Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage or other systems) and presents a common distributed object view to both the user and the application. Most significantly, Hitachi Content Platform eliminates the need for a siloed approach to storing unstructured content. Thanks to its massive scale, multiple storage tiers, Hitachi reliability, secure multitenancy and configurable attributes for each tenant, IT can support a wide range of applications on a single cluster.
Hitachi Content Platform can enhance the performance of production applications by functioning as an intelligent, active long term target for records that are not accessed daily, but may be needed for reference from time to time. With its familiar directory hierarchy, Hitachi Content Platform provides an easy method for users to traverse the system to locate the desired data objects. This approach is simply not possible in other object-based storage systems.
Unstructured data growth, application proliferation and increasing variation in data types continue to accelerate. This leads to increased server and storage sprawl that drives up management costs. Strategies like consolidation or cloud storage show promise but are often hindered by a lack of security among consumers of the shared environment. Even in a completely trusted internal environment, there is still the challenge of adapting the storage to work with the variety of applications, protocols and data types in modern IT environments.
Hitachi Content Platform provides a massively scalable, multitenant object storage environment with the security and broad protocol support needed to enable organizations to gain the benefits of consolidation without compromising security or completely rewriting critical applications. Because different attributes (retention, indexing, replication) can be assigned to different namespaces, Hitachi Content Platform can easily address a number of different use cases in a single Hitachi Content Platform cluster, spreading the cost of the object storage purchase across numerous applications and workloads and making Hitachi Content Platform an ideal storage solution for enterprise or cloud environments.
The Hitachi Content Platform enables creation of an agile unstructured content environment with general purpose object stores that support a variety of services via a single optimized storage platform that abstracts details of the back end storage systems and creates homogeneous storage environments for applications of all types. With Hitachi Content Platform, organizations have visibility into what data is actively stored as well as the metadata that is associated with it. This provides IT with the ability to understand the content that is stored, further enabling cost effective tiering, governance and compliance policy enforcement and an overall improvement in business process.
Hitachi Content Platform is a feature rich, multipurpose content storage solution with the security, scale and broad application support to enable multiple workloads in one cluster. Hitachi Content Platform provides the features and functionality to improve the delivery of a wide range of IT services and simplify the storage, tracking of, and access to unstructured data. By doing away with the complexity of mixed storage environments without sacrificing the ability to leverage existing resources as part of the larger object store, the Hitachi Content Platform helps organizations get the most out of their storage investments and prepares the storage environment to stay agile as demands on IT grow in scope, complexity and cost.
Active Archive
- Store and preserve data for long term storage for corporate governance
- Provide for long term file integrity and access along with authentication and retention enforcement
- Protect and secure content for long term preservation; content is continually checked throughout its retention period for integrity
- Set retention and disposition services
- Rapidly retrieve authenticated content through integrated search or independent software vendor (ISV) search functionality
- Integrate with third party software
Content Cloud
- Store different versions of unstructured content
- Multiple protocol support including REST
- Secure multi-tenancy and namespaces
- Highly reliable with replication and various data protection levels
Consolidation
- Employ a single multipurpose unstructured data platform for archive, cloud and backup capabilities.
- Defer capital expenditure budget on higher tiered storage and enable intelligent content focused storage.
- Configurable levels of service for each tenant/namespace
- Massive scale, multiple protocol support and multiple storage tiers to support a variety of applications
Data Reduction
- Single instancing and compression reduce storage consumption
- Data disposition services remove expired content
- Reduce backup times and data volume
- Versioning and a browseable directory structure simplify content retrieval
