D A T A S H E E T 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 Hitachi Data Systems D A T A S H E E T 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. Corporate Headquarters 750 Central Expressway Santa Clara, California 95050-2627 USA www.hds.com Solution Benefits ■■ High return on investment: reduction in primary storage of up to 75 percent ■■ Scalable solution that grows with requirements ■■ Centralized control of data across the enterprise: one solution across multiple file systems ■■ WORM (“write once, read many”) and proactive archive authentication ensures content integrity over time ■■ Ability to dynamically respond to issues relating to the governance of data ■■ Scheduling control to balance the movement of data with operational demands of critical resources across the network ■■ Ability to assign data storage budgets to reflect the value of specific data sets with ensured data access and data integrity ■■ Able to leverage existing Hitachi storage via a diskless configuration of the Hitachi Content Platform ■■ Optional Hitachi Content Platform index and search capability supports e-discovery requirements Solution Highlights ■■ Highly scalable: up to 40 petabytes ■■ No separate middleware ■■ Supports flexible rules that permit users to create policies that determine which files will be migrated, moved or copied, and automates proactive processes ■■ Provides a single point from which policies can be defined and propagated across the network, implementing a distributed execution model ■■ Requires a very small footprint in the operating environments ■■ Single architecture supports a variety of operating system platforms ■■ Built-in disaster recovery ■■ Duplicate elimination ■■ Easy configuration via Web interface ■■ Can be deployed within hours, delivering immediate and measurable benefits ■■ Highly available storage with self-healing architecture, RAID-6 storage and up to four local copies of objects Regional Contact Information Americas: +1 408 970 1000 or [email protected] Europe, Middle East and Africa: +44 (0) 1753 618000 or [email protected] Asia Pacific: +852 3189 7900 or [email protected] Hitachi is a registered trademark of Hitachi, Ltd., in the United States and other countries. 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