Hitachi Data Systems Platform Accelerates Cloud Adoption

Hitachi Data Systems Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd, has launched new integrated technologies to simplify and accelerate cloud adoption. As a foundational platform to the Hitachi cloud portfolio, the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) v4 builds upon its leadership in intelligent, content-focused storage with new simplified and automated replication, more granular multitenancy and chargeback capabilities. The Hitachi Data Ingestor (HDI) is a new “on ramp” to the Hitachi Content Platform and is integrated with HCP’s massive 40PB of capacity and new data and storage management capabilities to provide bottomless, backup-free storage at distributed locations. Both offerings help cloud service providers and private IT organizations cost effectively design and build their own infrastructure to store, search, preserve and protect data – all without disrupting users or applications.

“Hitachi Data Systems is focused on providing our proven, integrated portfolio of cloud technologies, solutions and services to simplify and accelerate cloud and distributed IT environments to readily accommodate shifts in business, economic and regulatory demands,” said Miki Sandorfi, Chief Strategist, File, Content and Cloud, Hitachi Data Systems. “The new Hitachi Data Ingestor and Hitachi Content Platform directly address distributed IT customers’ pressing challenges such as getting data and users into cloud at their own pace by delivering an integrated edge-to-core cloud infrastructure. This enables enterprise organizations and cloud service providers to easily, quickly and cost effectively create a cloud-based service.”

“The Hitachi Data Ingestor, is a dedicated on ramp system optimized for the Hitachi Content Platform, an intelligent object store,” said Ravi Rajendran, Vice President and General Manager for ASEAN, Hitachi Data Systems. “This integrated edge-to-core solution, will provide enterprises and organizations with remote or branch office locations with seamless, scalable, backup-free storage solution. With this solution in place, organizations – be it in telcos, systems integrators or service providers – can greatly reduce the cost and complexity of providing IT services to geographically dispersed locations or even to their business and enterprise consumers.”

The Hitachi Content Platform is an advanced object storage solution that enables intelligent, content-focused storage. It simplifies the detail of the underlying storage system and presents one object view to both the user and the application. HCP reduces the need for silos to store unstructured content. With massive scale, multiple storage tiers, broad interoperability, secure multitenancy and configurable attributes for each tenant, customers can support a wide range of applications on a single cluster.

Hitachi Content Platform v4 eliminates tape-based backups and includes built-in chargeback tools. It is integrated with the new Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform for industry-leading scale and virtualization. It adapts to existing, legacy environments through the new Hitachi Data Ingestor to improve longevity and return on assets for customers’ existing investments. It also integrates tightly with an industry-leading archiving software, Symantec EnterpriseVault.

The Hitachi Data Ingestor seamlessly connects to HCP and simplifies cloud adoption by providing standard file serving access – NFS or CIFS – to stored content. HDI acts as an on-premise intelligent storage cache for distributed sites to adapt users and applications to a cloud-based or centralized Hitachi Content Platform. The new on ramp can reside at remote or branch offices or public cloud locations, to provide bottomless, backup-free storage by connecting to the multitenant, multipurpose HCP. In addition, cloud service providers can create environments that can satisfy the demands of a wide range of customer types with a single infrastructure.

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