Hitachi Content Platform Helps Global Organizations Move to the Cloud at Their Own Pace and See Fast

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT / TSE: 6501), today announced that service providers and enterprise IT organizations such as Otto Fischer (Germany), Peak Web Hosting (U.S.), St Teresa’s Hospital (Hong Kong), and Zhongda Hospital (China) have achieved significant ROI by easily and cost effectively building private cloud infrastructures to reliably store, search, preserve and protect data using Hitachi Content Platform (HCP). The superior data protection, disaster recovery, intelligent utilization and chargeback capabilities offered by HCP are high in demand and are key factors driving the platform’s exceptional fiscal second quarter 2011 revenue growth percentage in the mid fifties compared to the second quarter of fiscal year 2010.

 

“Today’s rampant growth of unstructured content requires organizations to adopt solutions that help reduce associated costs, complexities and risks,” said Miklos Sandorfi, chief strategist, Hitachi Data Systems. “HCP is unique in that it evolves with the scale and scope of IT technologies over time – an invaluable capability for organizations looking to stay agile and meet business, economic and regulatory demands in cloud and distributed environments. Customers implementing HCP benefit from the ability to move data and applications into the cloud at their own pace through an integrated edge-to-core infrastructure that enables greater control over content, making it easier and faster to deploy cloud solutions.”

 

In a recent survey conducted by third-party research organization, TechValidate, users highlighted the HCP ability to work at a variety of scales, with more than 40% reporting 100 or more terabytes of data stored. Additionally, 77% of IT organizations experienced less than an hour of unplanned downtime with HCP in the previous year, resulting in enhanced business resiliency and lowered operational costs.

 

Supporting Hitachi Content Platform Customer Quotes

·         Otto Fischer: “Otto Fischer leverages HCP as a distributed object store for archiving purposes and to store documents such as vendor and customer invoices and other accounting documents that we are legally required to archive and protect from manipulation and data loss. In the future, we plan to use HCP to manage many additional documents including digitized contracts, customer and supplier documents, planning and project records and emails. We greatly value the high performance, stability and scalability of HCP, and the trust we have in Hitachi as a reliable and long standing partner. The outstanding service delivered by the HDS team we work with is very important for us.” – Max Bürgi, CIO

 

·         Peak Web: “Peak Hosting’s commitment to provide our customers with always-on deterministic performance compute platforms, built to scale and support all levels of production, deliver the reliability and peace of mind required for any enterprise's critical infrastructure. Deploying HCP in our cloud infrastructure, Peak Hosting leveraged a storage environment that is highly available, offers 100% up-time, is trivial to manage and delivers on Peak’s commitment to seamless scalability. These benefits represent a vital component to Peak’s business, reinforcing our core customer commitment to ‘What's the most I can do’ for our customers.” ­– Jeffrey Papen, CEO

 

·         St Teresa’s Hospital: “In line with our strategy of providing lifelong data preservation of electronic healthcare records, HCP delivers a high level of compliance, security and the capability of continual checking on the record archive content’s integrity throughout its retention period. Our health system streamlines all provisioning of medical record and images into one single HCP that helps to automate our entire storage management and allows an extraordinary breadth and depth of scalability to meet our future health records proliferation.” – Pascal Tse, chief information technology officer

 

·         Zhongda Hospital, Southeast University: “The advanced system consolidation offered by HCP has helped us address the problems of heterogeneous storage automation and enables high optimization for data configuration. With this content platform, high volumes of data storage, retrieval and archiving are easily handled and all our health records and diagnostic imaging content are properly documented. This greatly enhances the security of the whole central system and lays a solid foundation for our vision of digitalization.” – Beihua Wu, director, Hospital Information Center