Explains each strategy, including archive 1st, back up less, consolidate more, distributed IT efficiency, enable e-discovery and compliance, and facilitate cloud. For more information on Unstructured Data Management Solutions by HDS please visit: http://www.hds.com/solutions/it-strategies/unstructured-data-management.html?WT.ac=us_mg_sol_udm

1. A-B-C Strategies for Hitachi Data Systems
File and Content Solutions
Cost-Effective and Modern, the Hitachi
Approach Answers Today’s Data and
Information Management Challenges
Data is the lifeblood of businesses today. But
exponential growth of data, particularly unstruc-
tured data, is driving up costs and creating un-
precedented complexities and risks. In response,
many organizations have rapidly added short-term,
piecemeal solutions to their corporate infrastruc-
tures, which, over time, become expensive, ineffi-
cient and unwieldy to manage.
Hitachi Data Systems offers a better way forward:
a single, integrated platform to manage all your
structured and unstructured data. Through the
straightforward “A-B-C” strategies, organizations
can move from expensive silos of stored data to
a streamlined, cloud-ready solution that simplifies
management, reduces risks and supports innova-
tion for years to come.
OVERVIEW

2. OVERVIEW
Use Case
Provides significant backup savings:
A medium enterprise insurance company
saved 32 hours on a full system backup
with Hitachi Content Platform.2
Step 3: Consolidate More
Today’s NAS environments suffer from
massive data growth, which results in the
proliferation of file servers and their related
storage and backup systems. This leads
to inefficient use, increasing management
costs and complexity, wasted capacity,
slower performance of primary systems,
and an uneven cost-to-value ratio of data
and storage.
By consolidating to Hitachi Unified Storage
or Hitachi NAS Platform, you can put more
workloads into fewer systems. You can
optimize capacity utilization by eliminating
silos, cutting out inefficiency and reducing
complexity in a smaller footprint. In other
words, you can do more with less, with
integrated solutions. These solutions may
include Hitachi Unified Storage or Hitachi
NAS Platform, as well as Hitachi Content
Platform and Hitachi Data Ingestor.
Benefits
Consolidation addresses the inefficient use
of storage capacity that leads to costly stor-
age sprawl. Benefits include:
■■ Improved efficiency.
■■ Simplified management.
■■ Reduced power and cooling costs.
Use Case
Consolidates file servers: A media and
entertainment enterprise reduced costs and
improved performance by replacing or con-
solidating 11-20 file servers by deploying a
high-performance Hitachi NAS Platform.3
Step 4: Distributed IT
Efficiency
The cost and complexity of managing distrib-
uted IT in remote offices, branch locations or
One Integrated Platform, Easy
as A-B-C
With a single, integrated platform that can
manage all types of data, organizations can
address today’s file and content challenges
and prepare for tomorrow’s innovation and
growth. To help you transition from siloed
solutions to an integrated platform, Hitachi
Data Systems has developed easy-to-follow
A-B-C strategies:
1. Archive 1st.
2. Back up less.
3. Consolidate more.
4. Distributed IT efficiency.
5. Enable e-discovery and compliance.
6. Facilitate cloud.
Step 1: Archive 1st
The A-B-C strategies begin with a better
approach to archiving unstructured data. By
reducing the load on primary storage, orga-
nizations can improve data governance, limit
storage sprawl, and reduce overall storage
costs by more than 25%.
Depending on the specific needs of your
business, you can combine Hitachi Content
Platform with a variety of additional compo-
nents to tier data based on its value. Online
access to unstructured data can be main-
tained via stub files. No stub file is created for
applications and structured data, so this data
can be removed or retired from primary envi-
ronments to reduce management and backup
costs and complexities.
Benefits
Seamlessly tier unstructured data from remote
and branch offices, Microsoft®
SharePoint®
,
NAS environments, email and other sources
out of application or primary storage. Move
this data onto Hitachi Content Platform to
enjoy significant benefits, including:
■■ 60% lower overall costs.
■■ 30% reduction in total backup capacity
needs.
■■ Capital expense avoidance, by freeing up
expensive Tier 1 disk space.
■■ Fewer application licenses.
■■ Greater visibility and control of information
using automated, repeatable processes.
Use Case
Provides successful archiving and added
benefits: A Global 500 computer services
company used Hitachi Content Platform for
archiving, backup, cloud storage, compliance
and metadata management solutions, includ-
ing data migration and automated tiering.1
Step 2: Back Up Less
The 2nd step in the A-B-C strategies
involves streamlining the backup pro-
cess. Doing so can help your organization
improve the reliability of its data protec-
tion efforts and meet recovery point and
recovery time objectives (RPO/RTO) more
consistently.
By archiving your data out of primary stor-
age 1st, you can leverage the power of
Hitachi Content Platform data protection
and preservation features to back up far
less data to tape. Disk-based data pro-
tection fundamentally changes the way IT
organizations can protect their data, and
can drastically reduce or even eliminate the
need for tape altogether.
Tailor your solution to your specific needs.
Use Hitachi Content Platform, Hitachi Data
Ingestor, Hitachi Unified Storage or Hitachi
NAS Platform and a variety of independent
software vendor applications as part of your
backup reduction strategy.
Benefits
Improving your backup processes can lead
to many benefits, including:
■■ Lower disk, licensing and server costs.
■■ Reduced management overhead.
■■ Significantly shorter backup and recovery
times.
■■ Improved data protection and reliability.
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Innovation is the engine of change, and
information is its fuel. Innovate intelligently
to lead your market, grow your company,
and change the world. Manage your
information with Hitachi Data Systems.
multiple data centers is a challenge for many
organizations. Managing and sharing a con-
sistent set of content requires organizations
to centralize their data and reduce IT resource
requirements at the edge.
A centralized IT strategy can protect your data
in multiple ways, including through replication,
disaster recovery and rapid remote-site recov-
ery capabilities. A variety of Hitachi file and
content solutions components can support
deployment of this centralized strategy. For
example, Hitachi Data Ingestor delivers a truly
bottomless and backup-free storage solution
while ensuring effective control, compliance
and cost reduction. As a result, Hitachi Data
Ingestor simplifies and accelerates distributed
IT environments for retail, banking and other
organizations with a large number of remote
locations.
Benefits
By using a centralized strategy to manage
and share a consistent set of content to
and from geographically dispersed sites,
your organization can:
■■ Reduce IT resource requirements at the
edge.
■■ Simplify management.
■■ Enhance data protection.
■■ Reduce the risk of data loss or
mishandling.
Use Case
Simplifies administrative workload: An
enterprise retailer with multiple locations
reduced its bandwidth and simplified
administration when it replaced its low-end
NAS with Hitachi Data Ingestor and Hitachi
Content Platform.4
Step 5: Enable E-Discovery
and Compliance
Once the first 4 steps in the A-B-C strategies
are complete, organizations can add Hitachi
Data Discovery Suite to index, search and dis-
cover across the file and content environment.
Combine Hitachi Data Discovery Suite with
other Hitachi file and content solutions to
easily perform cross-platform searches of
both production and archive environments,
all from a single interface. You can auto-
mate migration of data among classes of
storage based on file content, and auto-
matically migrate data from Hitachi NAS
Platform to Hitachi Content Platform.
To aid compliance, the Hitachi solution
enables proper long-term retention and
disposal of data according to legal and busi-
ness practices. You can ensure proper data
stewardship and promote data privacy with
directory service integration, so users can only
search for data they have permission to view.
Benefits
When you can index, search and discover
across your file and content environment,
the benefits include:
■■ Faster identification of data at risk.
■■ Greater access control.
■■ Lower litigation costs.
■■ Greater control over the speed and cost
of e-discovery.
Use Case
Solves unstructured data issues, facil-
itates search: Hitachi Content Platform
addressed rapidly growing unstructured
data at a large industrial manufacturing
company and helped users search data
held for long-term retention.5
Step 6: Facilitate Cloud
The benefits of the A-B-C strategies are evi-
dent, but many organizations are looking to
gain greater IT agility by leveraging different
consumption and delivery models in order to
be more flexible and provide faster response
times to business users. Additionally, cloud-
based solutions are an especially desirable
solution for organizations that are concerned
with upfront capital costs.
Hitachi offers a variety of solutions starting
with traditional, cloud-ready capex tech-
nology and solution packages that you can
manage yourself. Another alternative is
the operating expenditure or opex-based
service, in which Hitachi manages the
environment through a highly affordable
pay-per-use model. With the opex service,
you can move data into an on-site private
cloud that reduces or even eliminates your
capital costs, while also simplifying man-
agement and offloading data from your
primary environments.
Benefits
By moving unstructured data to an on-site
private cloud, organizations can:
■■ Increase agility.
■■ Deliver more value-added services to
business users, faster.
■■ Reduce or eliminate capital expenses.
■■ Simplify management.
Use Case
Delivers IT services to geographically
dispersed users: A Global 500 insur-
ance company deployed Hitachi Content
Platform in a private cloud environment that
provides IT services to remote internal cus-
tomers and partners.6
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■■ Reduce the load on primary storage by at least 40%.
■■ Reduce licensing and management costs, complexity and backup by up to 75%.
■■ Streamline backup-and-restore operations by up to 60%.
■■ Improve reliability over 24x in RPO and 30x in RTO.
■■ Eliminate silos, prevent sprawl and reduce complexity by 50%, or more.
■■ Simplify management, improve data protection, and reduce risk.
■■ Identify data at-risk, ensure appropriate data access, and simplify compliance.
■■ Reduce or eliminate capex, simplify management and improve IT agility.
HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS FILE AND CONTENT SOLUTION BENEFITS
■■ Hitachi Content Platform (HCP): Providing an open, centralized and multitier
enterprise cloud storage solution, HCP aggregates, manages, protects and shares
content. The platform supports multiple use cases, such as content preserva-
tion and archiving, data protection, and cloud and content sharing. HCP lets you
accomplish these uses from a single, easy-to-manage and scalable environment.
■■ Hitachi Content Platform Anywhere: An option for the Hitachi Content Platform,
HCP Anywhere enables mobile workforces and supports bring-your-own-device
(BYOD). It enables users to access their data anywhere, at any time, on any device.
They can protect their data without the need for laptop and mobile device back-
ups, and share that data in a safe, secure way with co-workers and collaborators
outside of the organization.
■■ Hitachi Data Discovery Suite: With Hitachi Data Discovery Suite, users can
search, identify, collect and preserve data across the storage infrastructure from 1
secure location for improved storage management. The solution lets you efficiently
manage, retain and discover volumes of information and meet legal obligations.
■■ Hitachi Data Ingestor: By integrating HCP with Hitachi Data Ingestor, organiza-
tions can enjoy edge-to-core storage that streamlines the entire backup process
and greatly reduces backup windows. This can lower backup costs and reduce
complexity, as well as improve control, security and protection of data.
■■ Hitachi Unified Storage or Hitachi NAS Platform: The most powerful consol-
idation platform on the market, Hitachi Unified Storage or Hitachi NAS Platform
enables organizations to consolidate existing file servers and NAS devices on to
fewer nodes. This capability allows them to perform the same or even more work
with fewer devices and lower overhead, while also reducing floor space require-
ments and associated power and cooling costs.
HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS FILE AND CONTENT SOLUTIONS
A-B-C Strategies: Your Path
to Reducing Costs and
Complexity While Managing
Growth
Data can drive business agility and innova-
tion. However, it can hinder growth if it is not
stored, protected and managed in a stream-
lined, cost-effective manner. To identify and
react faster to the needs of your customers,
markets and competitors, it is essential to
transition away from short-term siloed stor-
age solutions to a single, integrated platform
for all your data.
The Hitachi Data Systems A-B-C strategies
provide a pathway to regain control over
your organization’s structured and unstruc-
tured data. In doing so, you can dramatically
reduce the cost of storing and protecting
that data, while also strengthening gover-
nance and streamlining management and
operations.
For more information about our file and
content solutions and A-B-C strategies visit
www.HDS.com.