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.
Benefits
- 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.
- 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.
Features
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
- Optionally automate object-level remote replication
- Custom metadata support
- Standards-based interfaces
- 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 42.5TB 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 up to 40PB 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 Content Archive Platform and Technology Partners
Hitachi Content Archive Platform and its ISV partners offer industry leading technology solutions to help organizations of all sizes cost effectively meet their unique archive requirements for data preservation, governance, regulatory compliance and recovery.

