Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) announced the new version of Hitachi Content Platform (HCP), promising cost savings to enterprise CIOs for digital transformation — over public cloud.
The tech company said HCP promises 400 percent increase in usable storage per cluster, 67 percent more storage node capacity via 10TB drives, 55 percent increase in objects per node. Hitachi’s HCP offers simplified software licensing for achieving over 5x lower storage costs than public cloud, which leads to over 60 percent TCO savings than public cloud for enterprise use cases.
HDS said the HCP portfolio offers the capability to increase profitability and productivity through cloud economics and by applying analytics to uncover new opportunities and insights. It also can reduce risk by enhancing security, availability and data protection.
“Hitachi Content Platform provides the ideal ecosystem to support customers’ existing content-centric applications and newer cloud use cases and workloads simultaneously. It also provides a central way for customers to securely incorporate hybrid cloud storage on their terms to react faster to change and to optimize costs,” Peter Sjoberg, chief technology officer, Cloud and Mobility, Hitachi Data Systems.
HCP portfolio includes Hitachi Content Platform for software-defined object storage; HCP Anywhere for file synchronization and sharing and data protection capabilities; Hitachi Data Ingestor (HDI), an elastic-scale cloud file gateway; and Hitachi Content Intelligence, where rapid insights emerge from your data.
Hitachi said it is assisting MCIS, a healthcare information technology company, to decrease costs with the Hitachi Content Platform’s self-healing capabilities, which removed the need for traditional backups.
“The security, multi-tenant support, and built-in encryption, combined with other products from the Hitachi Content Platform, have allowed us to realize true cost savings by enabling us to repurpose existing primary storage capacity, deferring budgeted upgrades and delaying new purchases,” Tim Buss, chief technology officer, Marshfield Clinic Information Services (MCIS).
Klinikum Wels-Grieskirchen CIO Elmar Flamme said Hitachi Content Platform has delivered value as a scalable cloud-based clinical repository that can integrate with any clinical system.
“Furthermore, the healthcare data stored on HCP is readily available, which has drastically improved the speed and quality of our response to patient emergencies. We are excited about the addition of Hitachi Content Intelligence to the HCP product portfolio based on the potential to use sophisticated analytics to accelerate diagnoses,” Elmar Flamme said.
