Hitachi Content Platform Portfolio Transforms Cloud Infrastructure To Achieve Over 60% TCO Savings Versus Public Cloud

 
SINGAPORE, June 7, 2017 — Hitachi Data
Systems (HDS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501), announced
major updates to the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) portfolio, providing a path
to digital transformation for enterprises while achieving significant cost
savings over public cloud. The integrated portfolio offers the capability to
increase profitability and productivity through cloud economics and by applying
analytics to uncover new opportunities and insights. It also can reduce risk by
enhancing security, availability and data protection.With this release, HCP gains a 400 percent
increase in usable storage per cluster, 67 percent more storage node capacity
via 10TB drives, a 55 percent increase in objects per node and simplified
software licensing so customers can achieve over 5x lower storage costs than
public cloud, which leads to over 60% TCO savings than public cloud for
enterprise use cases.

“Once again, we’ve raised the bar for object
storage with our uniquely integrated Hitachi Content Platform portfolio.
Hitachi Content Platform provides the ideal ecosystem to support customers’
existing content-centric applications and newer cloud use cases and workloads
simultaneously. It also provides a central way for customers to securely
incorporate hybrid cloud storage on their terms to react faster to change and
to optimize costs.” — Peter Sjoberg, Chief Technology Officer, Cloud and
Mobility, Hitachi Data Systems

The HCP portfolio is a unique end-to-end
solution that eliminates silos; promotes collaboration; enables governance and
compliance; provides safeguards for sensitive data; automates management in
private, hybrid and multicloud environments; and surfaces insights through
sophisticated search and analytics. The HCP portfolio includes Hitachi Content
Platform for software-defined object storage; HCP Anywhere for file
synchronization and sharing and data protection capabilities; Hitachi Data Ingestor
(HDI), an elastic-scale cloud file gateway; and Hitachi Content Intelligence,
where rapid insights emerge from your data.

“At MCIS, Inc., we are a healthcare information
technology company dedicated to delivering and managing innovative products and
services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Marshfield Clinic Health System
(MCHS), MCIS products and services deliver better outcomes at lower costs
across the system. Hitachi helped us decrease costs with the Hitachi Content
Platform portfolio’s native, self-healing capabilities, which removed the need
for traditional backups. We’ve expanded with Hitachi to include other medical
imaging sources and as a replacement of traditional backups for large static
datasets within MCHS. The flexible security, multi-tenant support, and built-in
encryption, combined with other products from the Hitachi Content Platform
portfolio, have also allowed us to realize true cost savings by enabling us to
repurpose existing primary storage capacity, deferring budgeted upgrades and
delaying new purchases.” — Tim Buss, Vice President, Infrastructure Services
and Chief Technology Officer, Marshfield Clinic Information Services (MCIS).

“Klinikum Wels-Grieskirchen is committed to
leveraging innovative IT solutions to provide the best healthcare to our
patients. Over the past four years, Hitachi Content Platform has consistently
delivered value as a highly scalable cloud-based clinical repository that can
integrate with any clinical system. Furthermore, the healthcare data stored on HCP
is readily available, which has drastically improved the speed and quality of
our response to patient emergencies. We are excited about the addition of
Hitachi Content Intelligence to the HCP product portfolio based on the
potential to use sophisticated analytics to accelerate diagnoses.” — Elmar
Flamme, CIO, Klinikum Wels-Grieskirchen.

“The challenges surrounding unstructured data
growth has triggered a renaissance in object storage; both on-premises and in
the cloud. The key to next-generation data management lies in collecting the
high quality metadata needed to provide enhanced data visibility, automation
and policy-based management regardless of where the data may physically reside.
The economics of storage are evolving, and the smart move may be to start with
an on-prem object storage framework that best matches company needs and is
extensible to public cloud options; rather than the other way around.” —
Steven Hill, Senior Storage Analyst, 451 Research

Hitachi Content Platform Updates
As traditional organizations transform to
compete with companies born in the digital era, they need a cloud-driven
infrastructure for greater agility. With this release, HCP gains a 400 percent
increase in usable storage per cluster, 67 percent more storage node capacity
via 10TB drives, a 55 percent increase in objects per node and simplified
software licensing so customers can achieve over 5x lower storage costs than
public cloud alone. Customers can also take advantage of enhanced multipart
file transfers to speed performance of large file uploads, downloads and range
reads for Amazon cloud storage applications. APIs have also been enhanced to
give organizations greater visibility to analyze the performance and health of
their infrastructure.

For today’s always-on IT environments, HCP
offers several reliability, availability, security and flexibility
improvements. HCP adds geo-distributed erasure coding for multisite
deployments, resulting in lower capacity overheads, reduced total cost of
ownership (TCO), and faster rebuilds. Corrupted files are restored from storage
across geographies, rather than from redundant sites, which maintains
availability during adverse events, such as a large-scale outage. HCP users may
choose the right  combination of data protection options including local
and geographically distributed erasure coding, RAID and replication based on
their business, regulatory and performance requirements. This release also
includes a variety of customer-driven enhancements to further extend existing serviceability
and monitoring capabilities. To provide customers with even greater
flexibility, HCP has added KVM Hypervisor support to further improve the total
cost of ownership and extend software-defined capabilities. To address
security-conscious customer needs, HCP has added a dedicated management port
that isolates user and administrator network traffic for an added level of
security.

Hitachi Data Ingestor Updates
With Hitachi Data Ingestor, organizations can
greatly reduce risk, cost and complexity of providing IT services to
geographically dispersed locations and cloud users. New features include
multipart file transfers to HCP for faster uploads of large files such as
videos. Other enhancements include: easier resolution of content sharing
conflicts, universal file migration improvements that boost performance, and
updated cryptographic hash algorithms to further protect data.

Hitachi Content Platform Anywhere Updates
This announcement builds on HCP Anywhere updates
announced last month to enable organizations to advance their digital workplace
experience in a way that incorporates existing content repositories; delivers
next-generation file sharing, collaboration and data protection capabilities;
simplify searches; and provides APIs to design new workflows and customize the
user experience. For additional details, the full release is available here.

Hitachi Content Intelligence
Announced in November 2016, this search and
analytics solution is the latest addition to the portfolio which allows organizations
to exploit the value of their data. The Hitachi Content Platform portfolio is
the only offering that allows organizations to bring together object storage,
file sync and share, cloud storage gateways, and sophisticated search and
analytics to create a tightly integrated, simple and smart cloud storage
solution.  For additional details the full release is available here.

Enrico Signoretti, Head of Product Strategy at
OpenIO, in a March 2017 Gigaom report called Sector Roadmap: Object storage for
enterprise capacity-driven workloads, wrote the following: “The HCP (Hitachi
Content Platform) is one of the most successful enterprise object storage
platforms in the market. It has more than 1700 customers, with an average
cluster capacity between 200 and 300TB. … Alongside the hardware ecosystem, HDI
(remote NAS gateway) and HCP Anywhere (Sync & Share) stand out for the
quality of their integration and feature set.”

Hitachi Data Systems is a sponsor at the Cloud
Expo, June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City.