Hitachi Content Archive Platform
An Active Archive platform for the Long-term Preservation, Optimization and Discovery of Business Critical Digital Unstructured Content
The Hitachi Content Archive Platform is a cost effective active archive solution that meets preservation and retention challenges for virtually any size data center.
Designed to seamlessly integrate into an existing enterprise storage infrastructure, the Hitachi Content Archive Platform preserves and authenticates fixed content while scaling and optimizing both performance and availability.
The Hitachi Content Archive Platform is an ideal solution for archiving reports, e-mail records, and enterprise content management repositories, medical records, scanned documents, digital voice recordings and other digital content in an effort to reduce backup windows, improve response time and meet both corporate governance and regulatory compliance retention objectives.
Ideal target for migration of 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.
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.
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.
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
Standards-based interfaces, including NFS, CIFS/SMB, HTTP, HTTPS, WebDAV, SMTP and NDMP
Scalability optimization with object-based duplicate data elimination and object level compression
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 17TB 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 80PB 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 (crosslink to these product pages)
High availability based on SAIN architecture (reliable SAN storage with an array of independent nodes)
Hitachi Data Discovery - Optional embedded full text index, search and retrieval of archived content for easy discovery
Configurable content privacy (encryption of data at rest using patent pending "secret sharing" technology)
Hitachi Essential NAS Platform Tech Specs
Feature
Feature Description
HCAP Platform 300
HCAP Platform 500
Application Interfaces
Standard file system interfaces and protocols for
integration — no proprietary API required
Supported Protocols include HTTP(S), WebDAV, SMTP, NDMP
High Availability and Data Protection
Data Protection Levels (DPLx) ensure specified number of replica copies are maintained to tolerate simultaneous points of failure
DPL2
Multiple DPL Levels Available
Retention Periods
Enforces application defined retention — prevents premature deletion of archived files based on file-level settings
Data Shredding
Ensures no trace of file is recoverable from disk after deletion Complies with US DoD 5520-M spec
Encryption at Rest
Enables choice of encryption level
Custom Request for Price
Multi-application support for Simultaneous Archiving of Data
Single global name space — enables multiple applications to target Hitachi Content Archive Platform
Data Authenticity
Policy-based object management guarantees archived data is authentic, available and secure using selectable hash algorithms Guards against corruption or tampering
De-Duplication
The Hitachi Content Archive Platform not only compares HASH generated fingerprints but also does a binary compare of the contents of the object for guarantee of duplicity
Support for Custom Metadata
Providing meaningful customized metadata to archived data provides a level of control for faster and more accurate access of content
Optional Features
Search
Product Option: provides full text and metadata search on all data, metadata and custom metadata
Object-based Replication
Optional: allows folder-level replication of objects