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Hitachi Content Platform and Moonwalk
The explosive growth of unstructured data calls for rethinking how to
manage the lifecycle of this information across the enterprise. The Hitachi
Content Platform and Moonwalk provide a powerful solution for costeffectively and securely preserving that data whilst significantly reducing
the ongoing operational overheads.
Nonintrusively Regain Control of Unstructured Data Across the Enterprise
Data Storage Challenges
System administrators are being confronted
with rapid growth in unstructured data, which
is growing at a rate of 125 percent a year. Up
to 80 percent of this data remains inactive in
production systems, crippling performance
and clogging up primary disk space.
Traditional hierarchical storage management
(HSM) systems, often used to address this
growth, are disruptive. They introduce some
form of middleware that requires ongoing
management, tends to scale poorly and is
clumsy to manage as scale increases. They
also tend to be proprietary in nature, essentially
locking customers in and significantly reducing
the options to evolve with new technologies.
The Solution
Together, the Hitachi Content Platform and
Moonwalk provide a nonintrusive solution
for regaining control of the unstructured data
across the enterprise. Essentially a turnkey
solution, this Hitachi Content Platform and
Moonwalk solution can be implemented without the overhead typically associated with data
management solutions, it provides immediate benefits, such as massive reduction in
Figure 1. Tiered Management Solution
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primary storage, significantly reduced backup
overheads and the ability to manage data
according to attributes of those data.
Moonwalk allows data to be transparently
moved throughout the enterprise according to
corporate policy and relocated to the Content
Platform environment, where it is secure and
can be managed according to lifecycle rules
(see Figure 1). Moonwalk enables implementation of granular data governance policies that
reflect the regulatory requirements affecting
data. It offers the ability to test assumptions
and data management rules prior to execution
to help optimize benefits.
A robust, object storage solution, the Hitachi
Content Platform stores content with ensured
integrity over the long term. It offers the ability
to store multiple local copies, replicate content
to remote locations and, as an option, encrypt
the content at rest.
About Hitachi Content Platform: The Hitachi
Content Platform is a cost-effective active
archive solution designed to answer data
growth, preservation and retention challenges
for any size data center. Designed to seamlessly integrate into an existing enterprise
storage infrastructure, the Hitachi Content
Platform preserves and authenticates archived
content while scaling and optimizing performance and availability. The Hitachi Content
Platform is an ideal solution to migrate inactive
data from higher storage tiers, reduce backup
windows, improve response time and meet
both corporate governance and regulatory
compliance retention objectives.
About Moonwalk: Moonwalk, a new
generation, policy-based file management
system, provides enterprise-scale information
lifecycle management across various environments that currently include Novell NetWare,
Microsoft Windows and Linux. Moonwalk can
be applied to a variety of operations, including HSM, archiving, disaster recovery and
unstructured file management.
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Solution Benefits
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High return on investment: reduction in primary storage of up to 75 percent
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Scalable solution that grows with requirements
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Centralized control of data across the enterprise: one solution across multiple
file systems
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WORM (“write once, read many”) and proactive archive authentication ensures
content integrity over time
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Ability to dynamically respond to issues relating to the governance of data
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Scheduling control to balance the movement of data with operational demands
of critical resources across the network
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Ability to assign data storage budgets to reflect the value of specific data sets
with ensured data access and data integrity
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Able to leverage existing Hitachi storage via a diskless configuration of the
Hitachi Content Platform
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Optional Hitachi Content Platform index and search capability supports
e-discovery requirements
Solution Highlights
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Highly scalable: up to 40 petabytes
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No separate middleware
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Supports flexible rules that permit users to create policies that determine which
files will be migrated, moved or copied, and automates proactive processes
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Provides a single point from which policies can be defined and propagated
across the network, implementing a distributed execution model
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Requires a very small footprint in the operating environments
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Single architecture supports a variety of operating system platforms
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Built-in disaster recovery
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Duplicate elimination
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Easy configuration via Web interface
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Can be deployed within hours, delivering immediate and measurable benefits
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Highly available storage with self-healing architecture, RAID-6 storage and up to
four local copies of objects
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