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 final step is to move to the cloud, with a proven Hitachi capital or operating expenditure (capex or opex) solution that can dramatically reduce costs and increase performance, scalability and manageability. For more information on our Unstructured Data Management 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 final step is to move to the cloud, with a proven Hitachi capital or
operating expenditure (capex or opex) solution that can dramatically reduce costs
and increase performance, scalability and manageability.
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The complexities, high costs and inef-
ficiencies of legacy systems are simply
not sufficient to keep pace with today’s
onslaught of unstructured data and new
data requirements. Moving to the cloud is
one way for organizations to respond faster
and more efficiently to market and compet-
itive pressures, as well as to address new
and changing customer demands.
Hitachi cloud services and solution packages
are designed to help organizations of all
sizes transition to the cloud while protecting
their existing investments. The packages
help organizations with unstructured data in
NetApp, EMC and Microsoft®
Windows®
file
serving environments, as well as in Microsoft
SharePoint®
farms.
Hitachi offers several cloud solutions.
One is the traditional, cloud-ready capex
packages that organizations manage
themselves. Another is the opex-based
service, in which Hitachi Cloud Services
are delivered as a fully managed,
A-B-C Strategies to Hitachi Data Systems File and Content Solutions
Step 6: Facilitate Cloud
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
consumption-based cloud service. With
the opex service, organizations can move
data into an on-site, private cloud that
eliminates their capital costs, while also
simplifying management and offloading
data from primary environments. A 3rd
option is Hitachi Content Platform and
Hitachi Content Platform Anywhere. They
open up a new world of opportunities to
bring the cloud in-house by connecting
applications that work with Amazon’s S3
interface and your mobile workforce to
your own, private cloud.
Hitachi Content Platform Anywhere brings
one of cloud’s most demanded applications,
file synchronization and sharing, to the enter-
prise in a safe, secure on-premises solution.
It allows your end users to access data and
collaborate on any device, from any location.
You can rest easy knowing that they’re doing
it safely, securely, and with appropriate cor-
porate oversight using your private cloud.
■■ It’s secure – enterprise-ready, on-
premises, encryption, access control,
IT managed, remote wipe, and more.
■■ It’s easy to use – active directory
integration, client apps, self-registration,
and more.
■■ It’s efficient – backup free, compression,
single instancing, spin-down, multiple
media types, metadata only, and more.
A Proven Cloud Infrastructure
Hitachi capex and opex cloud solutions
offer a proven infrastructure that delivers
high availability and reliability, high-end
performance and industry-leading scalability.
The infrastructure features:

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■■ Built-in data protection; backup not
required.
■■ Dual controllers, top quality components
for high availability.
■■ High-density SATA for high capacity,
smaller footprint and lower cost.
■■ Modular design for on-demand scale up
and scale down.
■■ Petabyte scalability, easily managed,
intelligently automated.
■■ Legacy and Web 2.0 storage connectivity
designed, built, integrated, tested and
supported by Hitachi Data Systems.
Benefits of Moving to the
Cloud
Adopting a cloud service delivery model based
on a secure, multitenant Hitachi infrastructure
lets you:
■■ Reduce capex and opex requirements
through pay-per use services.
■■ Pay only for what you use with
consumption-based pricing.
■■ Support unpredictable demands with
just-in-time storage.
■■ Eliminate oversubscription of storage.
■■ Increase service levels and employee
productivity.
■■ Provide employee file sharing capabil-
ities through mobile and Wi-Fi devices
to maximize productivity.
■■ Deliver employee-demanded cloud
applications internally, regardless of the
cloud delivery models you choose.
■■ Ensure higher availability and faster
recovery of data.
■■ Optimize primary environments and their
associated costs.
■■ Reduce amount of storage in the pri-
mary environment.
■■ Improve performance, scalability and
manageability.
■■ Improve efficiency and utilization of
existing investment.
■■ Improve backup performance and
operations.
■■ Reduce required amount of backup
media, licensing and management
overhead.
■■ Reduce amount of storage to be
backed up.
■■ Improve backup and restore times.
Hitachi Data Systems File and
Content Solutions
By combining products from Hitachi Data
Systems file and content solutions, organiza-
tions 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 enter-
prise cloud storage solution.
■■ Hitachi Content Platform Anywhere.
Synchronize and share content in a safe,
secure manner at any time, from any-
where 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 powerful consolidation platform on
the market.
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.
■■ Delivers IT services to geographically dispersed users: A Global 500 insurance
company deployed Hitachi Content Platform in a private cloud environment that
provides IT services to remote internal customers and partners.1
■■ Provides 1 object store, multiple use cases: Global 500 computer services company’s
projects or initiatives around archiving, backup reduction and elimination, big data, cloud
storage, and regulatory compliance led them to select Hitachi Content Platform.2
■■ Factoid: 42% of IT organizations use Hitachi Content Platform to support a private
cloud.3
HDS Facilitate Cloud Use CasES
1
TechValidate. http://www.techvalidate.com/tvid/A87-F27-517
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TechValidate. http://www.techvalidate.com/tvid/959-B29-384
3
TechValidate. http://www.techvalidate.com/tvid/EE0-AB4-9C2