Hitachi Cloud Service for Content Archiving. Delivered by Hitachi Data Systems

Transcription

1 SOLUTION PROFILE Hitachi Cloud Service for Content Archiving, Delivered by Hitachi Data Systems Improve Efficiencies in Archiving of File and Content in the Enterprise Bridging enterprise IT infrastructure and public cloud solutions is difficult: The scale, level of integration, and control required for enterprise IT is greater than that required by a small or medium-sized business or a consumer. Hitachi Data Systems meets this challenge by enabling you to extend your storage strategy from within your enterprise to the public cloud. Hitachi Cloud Service for Content Archiving delivers lower costs and simplified management by out-tasking management of fast-growing and aging data assets. Designed as an HDS hybrid content cloud, the service uses the same proven and reliable HDS infrastructure products that support our private infrastructure cloud solutions for customers and cloud service providers around the world. The service is managed, operated and supported by HDS, and it provides enterprises with the reliability and integrity they expect from HDS. 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 organizations 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 hybrid cloud service from Hitachi Data Systems, you can tackle challenges associated with unstructured data growth successfully, while improving the performance, scalability and manageability of your existing storage investment. 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 personnel to maintain that data for you, while you pay only for the storage you use.

2 SOLUTION PROFILE HITACHI CLOUD SERVICES Hitachi Cloud Services deliver an enterprise-level hybrid and enterprise-to-cloud solution owned by Hitachi Data Systems. An enterprise-to-cloud solution is a combination of both Hitachi Cloud Services off site and cloud on-ramp technology on site. Cloud on-ramps are critical as they connect the private enterprise IT to the external public cloud service, mitigating risk while delivering the benefits of public cloud. The cloud on-ramps support key enterprise IT functions, including archiving, backup and tiering. 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 personnel, 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, preserve, analyze and retrieve file data from an enterprise-level cloud platform. Move content from on-site primary stores 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 service 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. 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 Microsoft SharePoint content to the cloud. Archive infrequently accessed content to relieve bloat in primary systems. Support archival for compliance and content 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 critical. This poses a threat to recovery time objectives and business continuity. Without an alternative storage solution, storage growth forces businesses to purchase and support additional NAS platforms. 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.

3 3 Innovation is the engine of change, and information is its fuel. Innovate intelligently to lead your market, grow your company, and change the world. Manage your information with Hitachi Data Systems. 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-premises 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 information 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 analysis, 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 different tiers of storage using HNAS software 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. functionality. For storage from other vendors, 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 expensive undertaking that requires backup of all edge devices to a disaster recovery site and 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, enterprises 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 GET THE HITACHI CONTENT PLATFORM ADVANTAGE 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 businessspecific 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. 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 endless 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. 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 unstructured data, HDS provides cost-effective strategies for archiving unstructured data. By archiving and reducing the load on primary 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 software 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 unstructured data in enterprise storage environments. Adding instances of SharePoint can overwhelm Microsoft SQL Server and lead to a sprawling SharePoint environment. Such sprawl interferes with efficient SharePoint management and risks compliance with corporate and industry regulations for content retention and e-discovery. Figure 3. When you archive content to the Hitachi cloud, a pointer remains behind to give users a familiar way to retrieve documents. 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 hardware 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

5 5 efficient environment, a reduced cost of 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 understand 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 fluctuation, and allows you to predict your costs. ONE TRUSTED VENDOR TO MEET YOUR ON-SITE AND OFF-SITE STORAGE REQUIREMENTS 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 seamlessly 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. 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 protecting increasing data volumes. We target your most challenging storage problems with integrated solutions that eliminate up-front capital expenditure for underutilized 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.

6 With a file serving solution from Hitachi Cloud Service for Content Archiving, you gain a simple and costeffective way to ensure a wide range of workloads. 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 noncritical 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 partner, or visit us at Corporate Headquarters 2845 Lafayette Street Santa Clara, CA USA community.hds.com Regional Contact Information Americas: or [email protected] Europe, Middle East and Africa: +44 (0) or [email protected] Asia Pacific: or [email protected] Hitachi Data Systems Corporation All rights reserved. HITACHI is a trademark or registered trademark of Hitachi, Ltd. Innovate With Information is a trademark or registered trademark of Hitachi Data Systems Corporation. Microsoft, SharePoint, Active Directory, and SQL Server are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks, service marks, and company names are properties of their respective owners. Notice: This document is for informational purposes only, and does not set forth any warranty, expressed or implied, concerning any equipment or service offered or to be offered by Hitachi Data Systems Corporation. SP-150-D KK January 2014