Hitachi Data Systems' file and content solutions offer organizations a systematic approach to reduce costs and complexity while enhancing data management through their 'A-B-C' strategies. These strategies focus on archiving data first, followed by minimizing backup processes, resulting in up to a 30% reduction in backup capacity needs. Utilizing solutions like the Hitachi Content Platform, firms can streamline operations, improve data accessibility, and ensure compliance without relying extensively on traditional tape backups.

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 2nd step is Back Up Less: Organizations
streamline the backup process to shorten backup and recovery times,
improve data protection and reliability, and lower management and
capital costs.
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Reduce Total Backup
Capacity Requirements
by 30% or More
In the 1st step of the A-B-C strategies, orga-
nizations employ HDS solutions to Archive
1st. After tiering data based on its value and
reducing the load on primary storage, orga-
nizations can move to the 2nd step: Back
Up Less, in which total backup capacity can
be reduced by 30% or more by leveraging a
backup-free infrastructure and other capacity
efficiency technologies. Depending on spe-
cific needs, HDS offers a broad portfolio of
solutions designed to enhance data protec-
tion operations.
Reduce Costs and
Complexity With
Backup-Free Storage
Hitachi Content Platform data protection
and preservation features make it possible
to back up far less data to tape and tran-
sition to disk-based data protection. Like
traditional tape-based backup, Content
Platform stores and tracks multiple versions
of objects (data, metadata and custom
metadata) for preservation and retrieval. But
A-B-C Strategies to Hitachi Data Systems File and Content Solutions
Step 2: Back Up Less
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
unlike traditional tape-based backup, with
Content Platform, versions can be easily
browsed and accessed from protected,
replicated disk systems, and data can
be moved to a variety of media including
spin-down disks. Users can access and
recover versions directly from the object
store, which means the data no longer
needs to be on primary storage.
Hitachi Data Ingestor integrates seamlessly
with Content Platform to provide a bottom-
less, backup-free storage solution, with
seamless access to storage for distributed
users and cloud consumers. The solution
eliminates the need for backups at the edge
by providing a highly available on-ramp into
a centralized, self-protecting, multitenant
repository that segregates data without the
need for physically separate systems.
Organizations can also reduce risk with
Data Ingestor and Content Platform, as
the solution automates management and
enforcement of regulatory, governance
and data lifecycle policies. Content is
made more secure with encryption, “write
once, read many” (WORM), replication,
RAID, data integrity checks, and other
advanced security measures.
Advantages of Hitachi
Content Platform
Hitachi Content Platform can help organi-
zations cut costs, greatly enhance archiving
and backup efficiency, and better govern
data to support more informed decision-
making. The solution features:
■■ Reduction of total backup capacity
needs by 30% or more.

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■■ Increased data availability and restore times
with more recovery points, data integrity
checks, versioning, and a variety of data
protection and disaster recovery options.
■■ Easy search of information using objects
tagged with smarter metadata.
■■ Visibility and control of information using
automated, repeatable processes.
■■ Support for regulations and corporate
governance mandates through retention
and compliance capabilities.
Reduce Operational and
Capital Expenses
Hitachi Content Platform provides a
backup-free, immutable storage format
that does not need to be supported by a
constant backup cycle. This results in
significant cost savings, including:
■■ Lower capital expenses (hardware,
software licensing and so forth).
■■ Reduced maintenance costs.
■■ Reduced management overhead and
complexity.
■■ Reduced backup volume, cost and time.
Depending on specific needs, Hitachi
Content Platform, Hitachi Data Ingestor,
Hitachi Unified Storage or Hitachi NAS
Platform and a variety of applications can
provide the freedom to solve customer
backup challenges with the most effective
technology.
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.
The Next Step
After completing the first 2 steps in the
A-B-C strategies, Archive 1st and Back
Up Less, organizations are ready to
Consolidate More. By consolidating silos,
you’ll streamline management and oper-
ations, maximize utilization and efficiency,
and accomplish more with fewer resources.
While all of these steps are not essential
for every company, organizations can
incrementally improve the management of
unstructured data and maximize savings
and benefits by employing multiple steps or
the complete A-B-C strategies.
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.
■■ Provides significant backup savings: A medium enterprise insurance company
saved 32 hours on a full system backup with Hitachi Content Platform.1
■■ Reduces tape-based backups: A Fortune 500 computer services company
found that internal Hitachi Content Platform protection and replication capabilities
eliminate the need to back up to tape.2
■■ Factoid: 33% of IT organizations stated that the internal Hitachi Content Platform
protection and replication capabilities eliminate the need to back up to tape.3
HDS Backup Use Cases
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