Hitachi Cloud Service for Private File Tiering

The Hitachi Cloud Service for Private File Tiering will enable enterprise users to move legacy or lower value file data to a private cloud located within the user’s firewall. In partnership with Digi-Data, the company also has a public online cloud storage solution that provides a complete services menu for telecommunications, service providers and systems integrators to deliver public cloud storage-as-a-service offerings to consumers and SMBs.

The service will integrate the company’s data systems hardware, software and services in a pay-per-use model and will help organisations reduce costs, simplify management and improve the efficiency and utilisation of their primary NAS environments.

The service is built on technologies and services that include Hitachi content platform (HCP), a single optimised storage platform that abstracts details of the back-end storage systems and creates homogeneous storage environments.

Remote management and dynamic provisioning of the cloud storage environment provides capacity information and performance reporting, and quickly and cost-effectively provides best practice monitoring, provisioning, reporting and consumption-based billing capabilities for the file tiering cloud environment.

The data protection suite software, powered by CommVault and integrated with the company’s content platform, provides intelligent policy-based data movement that enables seamless tiering to the cloud.

The public online cloud storage solution leverages the company’s flexible storage infrastructure with Digi-Data applications and services, allowing service providers to have access to multiple connectivity options into the cloud and a reliable architecture for building and deploying an online cloud service. Providers also have access to metering features and integration to billing systems to charge end users based on consumption. Leveraging a comprehensive set of APIs, providers can integrate their own applications, business and processing systems and end-user interfaces into the cloud infrastructure.

Services such as web portal integration that simplify customer on-boarding and single sign-on and e-commerce integration to extend the capabilities of providers’ IT teams are also available.