The Best Object Storage Just Got Better

SANTA CLARA, CA--(Marketwired - Oct 27, 2015) - Growing concern for cloud storage privacy and security along with recent challenges to the Safe Harbor agreement are forcing global enterprises to evaluate their data management practices and prioritize the merits of private clouds versus the cost efficiencies of public clouds. Today, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) announced new enhancements to the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) portfolio that extend the flexibility, security and content mobility breadth of its award-winning object storage platform, thus enabling robust, compliant and massively scalable private cloud storage solutions that have the economics of public cloud.

Enterprises require explicit control of data and cloud storage security in a flexible cloud solution. The latest version of HCP provides enhanced data management and cutting edge data protection features that deliver robust data security, sovereignty and compliance. Included in these enhancements is the new HCP S30, which offers over 450PB of affordable commodity storage in a single system. The new HCP G node server architecture also gives organizations greater flexibility to support mixed workloads with varying performance and scale requirements, and support for SSDs for higher performing workloads. A new version of Hitachi Data Ingestor (HDI) rounds out the new offerings, bringing customers greater performance and economy of storage, expansion of software-defined architectures and improved data mobility. Combined, these new updates allow IT professionals to build, run and manage their own private or hybrid cloud storage within budget.

The new Hitachi Content Platform v7.2 guarantees explicit control of data, allowing enterprises to better manage how data is accessed and shared. Together with Hitachi Content Platform S30, customers can manage data security and data sovereignty and compliance risks associated with cloud storage cost effectively. The solution delivers dense, highly scalable storage that extends the existing HDS hybrid architecture with an erasure-coded, low cost tier. HCP v7.2 includes support for the new HCP S30 and HCP G10 storage and server nodes and support for solid state drives. It also enables HCP write-through to S series storage, allowing customers with applicable use cases to reduce TCO by leveraging the S series instead of direct-attach storage arrays.