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1. Improve Efficiencies in Archiving of File
and Content in the Enterprise
Hitachi Cloud Service for Content Archiving lets you
get maximum value from your data while passing data
management and infrastructure responsibilities to
Hitachi Data Systems. We maintain your data remotely
using our hardware, software and personnel, while
you retain easy access to the data regardless of user
location. Our fully managed service is part of Hitachi
Cloud Services, delivered by Hitachi Data Systems.
It can be customized based on your application
archiving and content requirements, and enables your
applications to index and search across multiple data
types. Customization options will expand in the future
to enable more value-added content, compute and
analytics capabilities. Make our enterprise-class archive-
as-a-service model part of a hybrid or public cloud
strategy to reduce costs, improve overall operational
efficiencies, and provide competitive advantage.
Hitachi Cloud Service for Content Archiving,
Delivered by Hitachi Data Systems
SOLUTIONPROFILE
The explosive growth of data is adding complexity
and expense to most IT environments. The bulk of
today’s data growth comes from unstructured data,
such as business documents, files, computer-aided
design, computer-aided manufacturing and Web
content. In an effort to store, process, optimize and
serve this information back to end users, many orga-
nizations have built large network attached storage
(NAS) environments. These sprawling environments
require continual storage investments. They are
costly to manage and rob resources needed for an
organization’s most valuable data.
With a remotely managed public cloud service
from Hitachi Data Systems, you can successfully
tackle challenges associated with unstructured data
growth while improving the performance, scalability
and manageability of your existing storage invest-
ment. Hitachi Cloud Service for Content Archiving
relieves capital expenditure, ends oversubscription
of storage, and reduces management overhead
and other operational expenses. When you offload
underutilized, legacy or shared data to Hitachi Cloud
Services, we use our hardware, software and person-
nel to maintain that data for you, while you pay only
for the storage you use.

2. SOLUTION PROFILE
Figure 1. Cloud on-ramps, such as Hitachi Data Ingestor, Rocket Arkivio Autostor, and Hitachi
NAS Platform, integrate seamlessly with Hitachi Cloud Services to simplify moving content into
cloud storage.
Hitachi Cloud Service for Content Archiving
is ideal for organizations that need to:
■■ Centrally archive for file services to remote
and branch offices.
■■ Reduce and reclaim storage on older NAS
environment, to improve performance and
storage utilization.
■■ Support policy-enabled archive of
SharePoint content to the cloud.
■■ Archive infrequently accessed content
to relieve bloat in primary systems.
■■ Support archival for compliance and con-
tent preservation.
■■ Remotely store and access archived
content.
In the following sections, we’ll discuss the
value of Hitachi Cloud Service for Content
Archiving in 3 typical use cases, as shown
in Figure 1.
Use Case #1: Streamline File
Tiering to Increase Performance
and Production Time
Much of the data residing on expensive
primary storage goes untouched after 3
to 6 months. However, it often remains in
place much longer because of the time
and difficulty involved in cataloging it and
either deleting or moving it, depending on
its compliance profile. This inactive data
consumes costly capacity and can impact
performance. In the event of an outage,
businesses must restore massive amounts
of content that may not be mission critical.
This poses a threat to recovery time objec-
tives and business continuity.
Without an alternative storage solution,
storage growth forces businesses to
purchase and support additional NAS plat-
forms. This adds to the data center footprint
and to the resources required to oversee an
increasingly complex storage environment.
Storage growth can overwhelm the ability
of backup systems to collect all data within
the available backup window. A failure to
achieve full protection within a backup
window can put SLAs at risk, result in lost
datasets, and add weeks to a project.
Hitachi Cloud Services is an enterprise-level public and enterprise-to-cloud solution
owned by Hitachi Data Systems. Our solution covers all cloud delivery models and
provides a set of cloud storage services as well as REST API support for enterprise
applications. We maintain your data remotely using our hardware, software and per-
sonnel, while you retain easy access to the data, regardless of user location.
Our fully managed cloud services include steps to:
■■ Provide an object storage solution that enables you to store, share, protect, pre-
serve, analyze and retrieve file data from an enterprise-level cloud platform.
■■ Move content from primary stores on-site into off-site cloud storage.
■■ Store copies of files remotely in a secure facility, reducing backup.
■■ Monitor consumption and availability, addressing any issues before they impact ser-
vice level agreements (SLAs).
■■ Allow versioning on files returned to the cloud with changes.
■■ Enable on-demand capacity requests and pay as you go pricing.
■■ Adhere to efficient management practices that keep prices low.
■■ Provide “write once, read many” (WORM) functionality for data retention enforcement
and compliance.
Customization options will expand in the future to include compute and analytics capabilities.
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File Tiering Solution
With a file tiering solution from Hitachi Cloud
Service for Content Archiving, you gain a
simple and effective way to reduce content
on primary NAS (see Figure 2). You can
delay the purchase of additional Tier 1
storage by tiering infrequently accessed
files to the Hitachi cloud or migrating them
to various on-premise tiers. Storing data
on the most cost-effective tier decreases
your total cost of storage ownership by at
least 25%. Our solution lets you develop a
holistic tiering strategy that classifies your
data to allow automated, policy-based data
movement and management. Because you
have less data to back up on site, you gain
back production time and can meet SLAs
for decreased recovery time in the event of
an outage. Our integrated service offering
helps you:
■■ Identify old or inactive data and move it
off Tier 1 storage to a core repository.
■■ Collect and analyze detailed informa-
tion about storage utilization and data
relevance.
■■ Automatically store data on the appropriate
storage tier.
■■ Set parameters on what type of data to
place in the cloud and adjust policies to
adapt to changing requirements.
■■ Easily find and retrieve data for analy-
sis, e-discovery, compliance or other
purposes.
■■ Pass to Hitachi Data Systems the
responsibility for storing, protecting and
managing all but your most active data.
The example in Figure 2 shows how you
can leverage HDS for both your on-site
and off-site storage requirements for differ-
ent tiers of storage using HNAS software
functionality. For storage from other ven-
dors, you can also tier storage to Hitachi
Cloud Services through file tiering software
from a 3rd party like Arkivio, which is a
valued partner of HDS.
Use Case #2: Simplify the
Delivery of File Services to
Satellite Offices
Providing file services to remote and branch
offices is a time-consuming and expen-
sive undertaking that requires backup of all
edge devices to a disaster recovery site and
Figure 2. With a file tiering solution from Hitachi Cloud Service for Content Archiving, you can
develop a holistic tiering strategy based on business needs, data type, protection and other
factors. Our tiering solution leverages policy-based business rules to automatically offload data
from Hitachi NAS Platform or Hitachi Unified Storage VM to the Hitachi cloud or to various
storage tiers on your premises.
constant management of storage system
capacity, utilization and performance. Remote
offices need a NAS system for their own files,
and they rely on the home office for version
control, security, and quick and easy access
to shared network files.
As data volumes increase at the edge, enter-
prises struggle to budget for more storage
hardware and a bigger data center footprint.
They seek to devote more management
resources to the needs of an increasingly
complex IT environment.

4. SOLUTION PROFILE
Challenges include meeting service level
objectives for access speed, upgrading
hardware, and complying with corporate
and regulatory standards for recoverability
and data protection.
File Serving Solution
With a file serving solution from Hitachi
Cloud Service for Content Archiving, you
gain a simple and cost-effective way to
ensure a wide range of workloads (see
Figure 3). It enables distributed users to
experience safe and easy file retrieval from
a single, shared repository. Our integrated
service offering helps you:
■■ Improve content sharing between sites
(one namespace for multiple file systems,
but only one system that can write to the
namespace).
■■ Automatically move content into the core
infrastructure to provide seemingly end-
less storage capacity at the edge.
■■ Keep at the edge only those files that
are unique to each remote locale for
shorter backup windows and less
management overhead.
Figure 3. When you archive content to the Hitachi cloud, a pointer remains behind to give users
a familiar way to retrieve documents.
At the core of Hitachi Cloud Service
for Content Archiving is Hitachi
Content Platform, which we own
and manage for you from one of
our facilities. Content Platform is a
high-performance object archive with
built-in data protection capabilities.
We configure it to meet business-
specific tenant and namespace needs.
Content Platform:
■■ Scales from terabytes to petabytes
of usable capacity.
■■ Uses a multitenant architecture to
securely support thousands of users
per system.
■■ Ensures data integrity with such
content preservation and retention
capabilities as encryption, WORM,
and content authenticity services.
■■ Offers advanced search and index
capability.
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Platform Advantage
■■ Cache recently used files at the edge to
meet low-latency SLAs.
■■ Ensure access to the latest version
of a document.
■■ Give authenticated users a familiar way
to interact with storage, regardless of
location.
Use Case #3: Reduce
Application Storage
Requirements, Eliminate
SharePoint Sprawl
Exponential growth of data, particularly
unstructured data, is driving up costs and
creating unprecedented complexities and
risks. To improve management of unstruc-
tured data, HDS provides cost-effective
strategies for archiving unstructured data.
By archiving and reducing the load on pri-
mary storage, organizations 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
Cloud Service for Content Archiving with a
variety of applications and archiving soft-
ware to tier data based on its value.
The popularity of Microsoft SharePoint for
creating, managing and sharing content is a
major contributor to the growth of unstruc-
tured data in enterprise storage environments.
Adding instances of SharePoint can over-
whelm Microsoft SQL Server®
and lead to
a sprawling SharePoint environment. Such
sprawl interferes with efficient SharePoint
management and risks compliance with cor-
porate and industry regulations for content
retention and e-discovery.
A buildup of binary large objects (BLOBs),
which constitute unstructured data, often
causes performance to degrade in large
SharePoint deployments and untenable
backup and restore times. This leads to
slower document query and retrieval, and
an accompanying loss of productivity.
Solving these issues by adding SQL hard-
ware and software licenses increases total
cost of ownership.
SharePoint Archiving Solution
With a SharePoint archiving solution from
Hitachi Cloud Service for Content Archiving,
you can reduce SharePoint content on SQL
Server. This improvement allows for a more
efficient environment, a reduced cost of

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ownership, and maximum control over the
movement of SharePoint data and metadata.
Our integrated service offering helps you:
■■ Reduce the size of SQL databases to
defer hardware upgrades and improve
backup and recovery time.
■■ Set policies to determine which data is
archived and when (instantly, at a specific
time and date, or at regular intervals).
■■ Transparently retrieve documents from
the familiar SharePoint interface.
■■ Pass to Hitachi Data Systems the
responsibility for storing, protecting
and managing all but your most active
SharePoint content.
■■ Store SharePoint data in a manner that
supports information governance and
regulatory requirements.
Tiered Pricing for Predictable
Budgeting
A remotely managed cloud service should
help you budget for operational expenses,
so the last thing you need is a surprise.
That’s why we make pricing simple to under-
stand and give you options for increased
savings. Here’s what you can expect:
■■ Graduated pricing: The more you store,
the more you save.
■■ A no-surprise pricing approach that is
easy to understand, minimizes fluctua-
tion, and allows you to predict your costs.
With service from Hitachi Data Systems, you get a single vendor capable of handling
both the high service-level requirements of your on-site production data and the
requirements of other data that you chose to store economically off site. We can seam-
lessly implement NAS and object-based storage in your data center. With our unique
Hitachi NAS Platform data migration functionality, we enable policy-based migration
to your on-site content archive storage or to your off-site content archive with Hitachi
Cloud Services. You benefit from:
■■ A single point of contact to address any issues.
■■ Our help in identifying what content should be moved and in managing data
migration to the most cost-effective tier.
■■ The flexibility to tier data to multiple on-site archive and tape storage options
or to move it off site with Hitachi Cloud Services or another cloud service,
such as Amazon.
One Trusted Vendor to Meet Your On-Site and Off-Site
Storage Requirements
Benefits of Hitachi Cloud
Service for Content Archiving
Hitachi Cloud Service for Content Archiving
can play an important role in relieving the
problem of storing, managing and protect-
ing increasing data volumes. We target
your most challenging storage problems
with integrated solutions that eliminate
up-front capital expenditure for underuti-
lized assets and minimize operational
expenses brought on by data growth and
management complexity.
Reduce Cost
■■ Gain back production time by reducing
the amount of storage requiring backup.
■■ Align payment with the volume of storage
consumed.
■■ Enable chargeback based on utilization.
■■ Decrease management overhead and
tape expense by eliminating backups at
the edge in favor of centralized, advanced
replication at the core.
■■ Decrease your total cost of ownership by
turning file storage from a capital expense
into an operating expense.

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Reduce Complexity
■■ Scale easily to meet fluctuating
capacity needs.
■■ Simplify storage administration by
consolidating content from multiple sites
or SharePoint environments.
■■ Automate enforcement of regulatory,
governance and data lifecycle policies.
■■ Centralize backup, compliance and
lifecycle management.
■■ Simplify search and retrieval of
archived data.
Reduce Risk
■■ Protect content with encryption WORM,
replication, RAID, data integrity checks
and more.
■■ Get full integration with Microsoft Active
Directory®
and Lightweight Directory
Access Protocol (LDAP).
■■ Meet your service level objectives and
protect mission-critical content with
improved backup and recovery time.
■■ Ensure compliance by setting retention,
litigation hold and shredding policies.
What Are You Trying to Do?
The cloud can form an integral part of your
enterprise storage strategy. Following are
some of the top reasons for buying cloud
storage:
■■ Do you need ongoing storage capacity
for a cloud-ready product you already
own, such as Hitachi Data Ingestor,
Hitachi NAS Platform, or Symantec Vault?
You can use these existing products
with minimum configuration changes for
easy connection to the cloud.
■■ If you are a medium or large storage user,
owning or renting storage space for non-
critical data is costly. Backup, replication
and disaster recovery can double or triple
your storage requirements. You can free
up expensive storage by tiering, archiving
and backing up to the cloud.
Take the Next Steps
To learn more about how the Hitachi
Cloud Service for Content Archiving can
improve efficiencies in your organization,
please contact your Hitachi Data Systems
representative or visit us at www.HDS.com/
services.
With a file serving solution
from Hitachi Cloud Service
for Content Archiving, you
gain a simple and cost-
effective way to ensure a
wide range of workloads.