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 4th step of the process is to manage distributed IT more efficiently by adopting a centralized strategy for data collection, protection and management.

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 4th step of the process is to manage
distributed IT more efficiently by adopting a centralized strategy for data
collection, protection and management.
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A Centralized Strategy for
Data Collection, Protection
and Management
Managing the increasing volume and variety
of data at a single location is difficult. For
organizations with distributed IT located in
remote offices, branch locations or alternate
data centers, the challenges are far greater,
often leading to sprawling storage silos and
inadequate IT resources and safeguards at
remote locations.
Hitachi Data Systems is committed to sim-
plifying distributed IT environments to readily
accommodate shifts in business, economic
and regulatory demands. Through a central-
ized IT strategy that ingests and distributes
data to and from geographically dispersed
sites, organizations can reduce IT resource
requirements at remote and branch offices
and simplify management. With integrated
edge-to-core solutions from Hitachi, data
can also be protected throughout the dis-
tributed locations in multiple ways, including
replication, disaster recovery and rapid
remote-site recovery capabilities.
A-B-C Strategies of Hitachi Data Systems File and Content Solutions
Step 4: Distributed IT Efficiency
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
Depending on the specific needs of the
organization, a variety of Hitachi components
can be integrated to manage distributed
IT environments more efficiently, including:
Hitachi Data Ingestor, Hitachi Unified Storage
or Hitachi NAS Platform, Hitachi Content
Platform and Hitachi Storage Optimization
for Microsoft®
SharePoint®
.
Combined Benefits of Hitachi
Content Platform and Hitachi
Data Ingestor
Two products are integral to centralized
data management. One is Hitachi Content
Platform, which offers built-in intelligence and
data protection that eliminates the need for
a siloed approach to storing and protecting
unstructured content. The other is Hitachi
Data Ingestor, a seemingly bottomless,
backup-free on-ramp appliance that requires
little administrative overhead and frees IT
from constant capacity planning.
Content Platform and Data Ingestor work
together as a single solution to orchestrate
cost-efficient distributed IT deployments.
Data Ingestor is a minimal-footprint or vir-
tual appliance that is placed at the edge.
Purpose-built for Content Platform, Data
Ingestor functions as a caching device, with
automated policies that replicate all resident
files to Content Platform and keep active
data in the local cache.
Placing Data Ingestor at the edge of dis-
tributed IT environments can help lower
operating expenses and, ultimately, the total
cost of ownership. No application recoding
is required for applications to work with
Data Ingestor and interoperate with Content
Platform.

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Simplify Management, Ensure
Data Protection
Using a centralized strategy to distribute and
share a consistent set of content to and from
geographically dispersed sites enables orga-
nization to:
■■ Simplify management.
■■ Improve cost efficiency.
■■ Ensure data protection.
■■ Reduce the risk of data mishandling or
loss.
■■ Reduce IT footprints at remote and
branch sites.
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
Once organizations have completed the
first 4 of the 6 steps in the A-B-C strategies,
they can move on to the 5th step: Enable
E-Discovery and Compliance. While all of
these steps are not essential for every com-
pany, organizations can incrementally improve
the management of unstructured data and
maximize savings and benefits by employ-
ing 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.
■■ 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.1
■■ Centralizes content from remote locations: A small healthcare organization with
remote offices moved data from previous NAS to Hitachi Data Ingestor to keep
active content locally cached while centrally managed and protected.2
■■ Factoid: 20% of IT organizations use Hitachi Content Platform to deliver IT services
to geographically dispersed internal consumers and/or trusted partners.3
HDS Distributed IT Efficiency Use Cases
1
TechValidate. http://www.techvalidate.com/tvid/8DB-BB0-D2E
2
TechValidate. http://www.techvalidate.com/tvid/10A-57E-963
3
TechValidate. http://www.techvalidate.com/tvid/2CA-4B6-A1F