The Hitachi NAS Platform is designed for consolidating unstructured data, highly efficient content indexing and "intelligent file tiering", capabilities that enable policy based migration of data and content among storage and archive tiers. Users working on even the largest data sets see dramatic improvement in information management, storage, sharing, backup and retrieval.

The software for Hitachi NAS Platform works seamlessly with the platform's powerful, hardware accelerated architecture. In fact this comprehensive network attached storage (NAS) solution leads the industry in performance and scalability, and it complements other powerful Hitachi solutions.

The combinations of features available make the Hitachi NAS Platform 3000 family ideal for diverse applications, from NAS or file server consolidation to high performance storage for VMware and Microsoft® Hyper V™ virtual machine environments and commercial enterprise applications, including Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL Server® and SharePoint®, Oracle and more. Enhanced high availability as well as intelligent file tiering features and advanced content management capabilities simply data reorganisation, classification, movement and protection.