Explains how Hitachi Content Platform can be used to tier unstructured data and archive applications and structured data. Describes benefits, including improved maangement and security, and reduced long term costs. Also incudes brief HDS archive use cases. For more information on our Step 1: Archive 1st solutions please check: http://www.hds.com/go/hitachi-abc-ebook-managing-data/

1. Hitachi Data Systems file and content solutions feature an integrated portfolio
to help organizations reduce costs, minimize complexity and manage growth.
To achieve those benefits, organizations can follow our step-by-step “A-B-C”
strategies. The 1st step begins with a better way to archive unstructured data,
which can lead to lower overall storage costs and dramatically reduced backup
volumes, application licenses and operational overhead.
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An Intelligent Data Archival
Strategy
This step of our A-B-C strategies focuses on
data archiving, which leads to and enables
steps 2 through 6. By archiving unstructured
data in more efficient and cost-effective
ways, organizations can lower their over-
all storage costs by reducing the load on
primary storage and enabling better data
governance.
Intelligent archiving with Hitachi Content
Platform is estimated to reduce overall stor-
age costs by more than 25%. At the same
time, the solution enables organizations to
meet security and compliance requirements
by providing low-cost, long-term data pro-
tection for all inactive data.
Organizations with complex, heterogeneous
environments can combine Hitachi Content
Platform with a variety of additional com-
ponents to tier unstructured data between
different platforms based on the value of the
data, while maintaining online access via
stub files. Content from remote and branch
offices, Microsoft®
SharePoint®
, NAS envi-
ronments, email and other sources can be
A-B-C Strategies for Hitachi Data Systems File and Content Solutions
Step 1: Archive 1st
The HDS file and content solutions
process for better managing
unstructured data involves A-B-C
strategies in 6 steps:
■■ Archive 1st.
■■ Back up less.
■■ Consolidate more.
■■ Distributed IT efficiency.
■■ Enable e-discovery and
compliance.
■■ Facilitate cloud.
A-B-C Strategies for
Unstructured Data
tiered out of the application or primary stor-
age to the Hitachi Content Platform.
Hitachi Content Platform can also be used to
archive applications and structured data. No
stub file is created for this type of data, which
means organizations can completely remove
and retire their data and applications from
their primary environments. Doing so lowers
licensing and management costs, as well
as reducing management complexities and
backup requirements.
Respond Better to Changing
Customer Needs
The advanced efficiencies of Hitachi
Content Platform enable organizations to
understand their customers better and
provide faster service. Content Platform
provides:
■■ Highest density with petabyte scalability to
support customers storage needs.
■■ Easily searchable information using
objects tagged with smarter metadata.
■■ Visibility and control of information using
automated, repeatable processes.
■■ Higher service levels for data-dependent
services, with full backups in 32 fewer
hours.
■■ Increased data availability and restore times
with more recovery points, data integrity
checks, versioning and a variety of data
protection and disaster recovery options.
■■ Reduction of total backup capacity
needs by 30% or more.
■■ Seamless handling of content from any
application or data type.

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Improve Management
and Security
Regulations and governance expecta-
tions will continue to change, and Hitachi
Content Platform enables organizations
to keep pace with those changes through
policy-based management. The secure,
compliance-ready content structure is
flexible enough to be applied to legal
requirements, internal mandates and social
responsibilities.
Content Platform also ensures easy access
to data, so organizations can query and
search content and metadata even after it’s
archived. The long-lived, massively scalable
platform optimizes performance, availability
and scalability to enable organizations to
grow safely, even as their archiving needs
change.
Reduce Long-Term Costs
Using Hitachi Content Platform to tier older
data to a less expensive format and out of
the production environment leads to sub-
stantial cost savings, including:
■■ 60% lower overall costs.
■■ Capital expense avoidance, as expen-
sive Tier 1 disk space is immediately
reclaimed for other production usage.
■■ Reduce or even eliminate the need for
tape backup.
■■ Purchase deferrals of new capacity for up
to 2 years.
■■ Lower total cost of disk.
■■ Lower average cost of growth.
■■ Reduced capacity requirements with
compression, single instancing and other
features.
■■ Improved data protection and migration
efforts.
Hitachi Data Systems File and
Content Solutions
By combining products from Hitachi
Data Systems file and content solutions,
organizations can reduce the costs and
complexity of managing big data “as
easy as A-B-C.” The integrated portfolio
includes:
■■ Hitachi Content Platform. Aggregate,
manage, protect and share content with an
open, centralized and multitier enterprise
cloud storage solution.
■■ Hitachi Content Platform Anywhere.
Synchronize and share content in a safe,
secure manner at any time, from anywhere
on any device.
■■ Hitachi Data Discovery Suite. Search,
identify, collect and preserve data across
the storage infrastructure from one secure
location for improved storage management.
■■ Hitachi Data Ingestor. Integrate with
Hitachi Content Platform for edge-to-core
storage that streamlines the entire backup
process and greatly reduces backup
windows.
■■ Hitachi Unified Storage or Hitachi NAS
Platform. Perform the same or more work
with fewer devices, more efficient capacity
and lower overhead using the most power-
ful consolidation platform on the market.
The Next Step
Once organizations have archived their data
more intelligently, retired applications and
related content, and centralized remote
data from branch offices, they are ready to
move to the 2nd step in the A-B-C strat-
egies: Back Up Less. While all of these
steps are not essential for every company,
organizations can incrementally improve
the management of unstructured data and
maximize savings and benefits by employ-
ing multiple steps or the complete A-B-C
strategies.
Learn More
To learn more about the A-B-C strategies,
please contact your HDS representative,
your Hitachi TrueNorth Partner or visit
www.HDS.com/123.
■■ Provides successful archiving and added benefits: A Global 500 computer ser-
vices company used Hitachi Content Platform for archiving, backup, cloud storage,
compliance and metadata management solutions, including data migration and
automated tiering.1
■■ Delivers effective archiving, cloud storage and compliance: A Fortune 500
professional services company uses Hitachi Content Platform to solve archiving,
cloud storage and regulatory compliance solutions.2
■■ Factoid: 45% of companies use Hitachi Content Platform to solve archiving
challenges.3
HDS Archiving Use Cases
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TechValidate. http://www.techvalidate.com/tvid/151-2E8-008