Hitachi Data Systems Delivers Industry’s First and Only Object Storage Portfolio With Content Intelligence Capabilities

Hitachi Data Systems Delivers
Industry’s First and Only Object Storage Portfolio With Content
Intelligence Capabilities

 Hitachi Content
Portfolio With Hitachi Content Intelligence Transforms Data Into Relevant
Business Information Delivered to the Right People When It Matters Most

SINGAPORE, November
16, 2016 — Hitachi Data
Systems (HDS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501), today
announced Hitachi Content Intelligence, an addition to its trusted Hitachi
Content Portfolio (HCP), making it the industry’s only object storage portfolio
with search and analytics capabilities. The new intelligence solution rounds
out the HCP portfolio, which already offers a seamlessly integrated cloud-file
gateway and enterprise file sync and sharing, and continues to improves
organizations’ ability to strategically manage data. More than 1700
customers have already adopted HCP as a key component in their digital
transformation journey. With Hitachi Content Intelligence, these customers can
transform data into relevant business information and deliver it to the right people,
when it matters most.

Hitachi Content
Intelligence addresses the challenges of exploring and discovering relevant,
valuable and factual information across the growing number of data producers
and siloed repositories that plague organizations today. By aggregating
multistructured data, Hitachi Content Intelligence enables insights to be
surfaced faster, data management and governance to be more complete, and to
understand the distribution of organizational data based on its value to the
business.

“Hitachi Content
Platform has transformed the way we handle compliance investigations and cut
the time needed for discovery searches from weeks to hours. Hitachi Content
Intelligence is now an important and necessary part of our global compliance
monitoring, discovery, and intervention architecture,” said Walter Hendricks,
BA, CCEP-I, business change manager, Discovery & Intervention – Compliance
Expertise & Operations, Rabobank.

Rabobank serves more
than 10 million customers in 47 countries, employs over 51,000 people worldwide
and, like all financial institutions, is subject to strict regulations in each
of the countries where it operates. The company needed a solution that would be
efficient, flexible and comprehensive for current and future compliance investigations.
With Hitachi, the bank now gives approved users all the data they need at their
desks without having to ask for IT support.

Customers such as
Precision Discovery, and the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA)
have turned to HDS to solve their most critical digital transformation
initiatives. With the seamless integration of Hitachi Content Intelligence,
long-standing HCP portfolio customers are able to analyze their endlessly
growing amounts of structured and unstructured data without having to turn to a
third party.

The National Archives
and Records Administration uses HCP and Hitachi Content Intelligence to store,
preserve and make accessible their largest and most prominent electronic
records collections to include emails, photos, documents and dozens of source
applications that have been converted to open formats. “We selected Hitachi
Content Intelligence over competing Solr-based implementations or building our
own, due to its use of a flexible software developers kit and its integration
with HCP. In addition, we know the architecture will not constrain what we want
to do with the platform,” said Jason vanValkenburgh, vice president at Hitachi
Consulting, which provides project management and application development for
the project with HDS Federal and prime contract holder, ViON Corporation.

“Precision Discovery
recognizes the value in HCP with Hitachi Content Intelligence in solving the
parts of the litigation lifecycle that are the most difficult to manage. This
platform allows us to build custom solutions that greatly reduce customer
costs, increase visibility and manage risk. None of this is possible without
the intelligence, extensibility and raw power of Hitachi Content Intelligence,”
said Howard Holton, CIO, Precision Discovery

According to Scott
Baker, senior director of Emerging Technologies at Hitachi Data Systems, “For
today’s enterprises, data is the most strategic asset, and connecting the right
people to the right data in a timely and meaningful way is critical to staying
relevant and competitive in their market segment. Hitachi Content Intelligence
lets customers organize, transform and package organizational data into factual
information, making it invaluable to the business.”

With Hitachi Content Intelligence organizations
can:

·  Improve employee productivity and efficiency by
creating a standard and consistent enterprise search process across the entire
IT environment.

·  Empower all levels of the organization with a
self-service and intuitive out-of-the-box data exploration experience that
includes support for detailed queries and ad hoc natural language searches.

·  Discover new insights faster through automated extraction, classification, enrichment and
categorization of all of their data.

·  Minimize business risk and exposure from data
that is inaccessible, dark, or has been lost, while improving the operational
effectiveness of the business.

·  Optimize existing infrastructure by identifying
infrequently accessed data and automate its relocation to a lower-cost object
storage tier.

Key features of Hitachi
Content Intelligence include:

·  Centralizes organizational data and transforms
it into valuable and relevant business information.

·  Connects to and aggregates multistructured data
across heterogeneous data silos and different locations.

·  Offers flexible deployment options that include
physical, virtual, or hosted (public or private cloud).

·  Handles high degrees of scalability and availability
with support for distributed and dynamic cluster sizes that can burst to more
than 10,000 instances.

·  Maintains data sensitivity safely and securely
by ensuring that only authorized users have access to specified results with
integrations to authentication services, document-level security controls, and
granular access policies.

·  Delivers personalized and self-service results
that are tailored to the individual user or group that accesses the data.

·  Includes extensibility with published
application programming interfaces that support customized data connections,
transformation stages, or building new applications.

·  Deploys with an intuitive workflow designer,
administration tools, and a guided data exploration and search application.

With Hitachi Content Intelligence, organizations
can now connect to and aggregate data silos, transform, and enrich the data as
it’s processed, and provide analytics across all the data stored on the
platform — making it the industry’s only object storage portfolio with
seamlessly integrated cloud gateway, file sync and share, and data search and
analytics capabilities.