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Hitachi enhances its content archive platform

18 Jun 2007

Hitachi Data Systems has announced several enhancements to its 21st century digital archiving solution, the Hitachi Content Archive Platform.

The enhanced platform can support up to 20 petabytes in an 80 node archive system. A single Hitachi Content Archive Platform node can scale up to 400m objects (files + metadata + policies), and an 80-node system can support up to 32bn objects.

Hitachi said the platform delivers up to 470 per cent greater performance than first-generation CAS solutions.

"The features and flexibility of a content archive solution are of paramount importance to today's businesses which are required to store, manage and secure an exploding amount of data," said chief operating officer, Hitachi Data Systems, Jack Domme.

"As opposed to burdening customers by introducing yet another island of storage for content archives and another set of software tools and management interfaces, we are delivering unique content archive services within a common management framework that enables customers to take advantage of the established heterogeneous storage virtualisation services already available from Hitachi."

Hitachi said the platform is the first solution in the industry to enable customers to scale archive server nodes and storage capacity independently.

"While other archiving solutions require additional servers and additional processing power to scale storage, the Hitachi Content Archive Platform V 2.0 reduces the number of server nodes required to scale, resulting in considerably lower heat emissions and power consumption and greatly simplified management," the company said in a statement.
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