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Hitachi Content Platform and QStar SntrySTR/HSM

Driven by corporate, legal and regulatory requirements, organizations are required to provide access to business records for an ever increasing length of time. Data Systems and QStar help companies meet this long term storage challenge with a resilient, flexible and cost-effective archive.

Retain Archive Data in Flexible, Cost-effective Environment

Data Retention Challenge three copies of all critical data, archived on two different storage technologies, with one Many data centers are completely over- Solution Benefits copy offsite on removable media. whelmed by the extended retention periods ■■ Meets corporate demands for for a rapidly expanding volume of data. A 3-2-1 strategy addresses the archive long term data retention and Organizations are struggling to cope with challenges facing the data center today. The access both the cost and administration required multitier archive approach provides physi- ■■ Reduces the demand for to preserve and protect growing digital cal system resilience by managing valu- storage hardware acquisition archives. Simply adding more RAID storage able data on multiple storage technologies and the associated backup and disas- across multiple locations. At the same time, ■■ Optimizes the use of existing ter recovery infrastructure is not effective the 3-2-1 model allows organizations to storage infrastructure or economical for infrequently accessed optimize expensive storage resources, while ■■ Eliminates backup overhead archive data. Companies need a resilient retaining archive data in a very flexible and for archive data and cost-effective archive strategy that cost-effective environment. ■■ Reduces total cost of ownership efficiently manages their data and optimizes through offline media copies The Hitachi Content Platform provides their storage resources. highly scalable storage that preserves ■■ Improves archive resilience with mirrored site management The Solution content with assured integrity over the long term. A disk-based online “write once, read ■■ Provides a foundation for The combination of Hitachi Content many” (WORM) store, it offers the abil- regulatory compliance Platform and QStar SntrySTR/HSM enables ity to store multiple local copies, replicate ■■ Cuts power consumption costs a robust and flexible “3-2-1 archive” acces- content to remote locations and encrypt the and carbon footprint sible via a CIFS/NFS gateway. Endorsed content at rest. QStar provides a middle tier, by leading industry analysts, the 3-2-1 allowing applications without direct support Archiving and Data Protection Best Practice of Hitachi Content Platform to pre-stage provides a proven framework that calls for

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data, make required updates and store final content to the archive. The QStar SntrySTR Solution Highlights ■■ Retention enforcement at archive appliance and HSM both support storage layer data mirroring of archival storage to energy ■■ Multitier storage architecture ■■ Scales to multiple petabytes of efficient tape or optical libraries at the ■■ Flexible CIFS/NFS gateway allowing archive storage same site or remotely. Optionally, the QStar improved access control list (ACL) solution adds a third layer to offline media support ■■ Active authentication to support con- tent longevity for the deployment of a very cost-effective ■■ Automated data lifecycle copy. management ■■ Optional mirroring and data capabilities ■■ Online and offline storage media About QStar Archive Solutions management ■■ Supports ® Windows®, UNIX, For more than two decades, QStar has and Apple Mac ■■ Support for WORM disk, tape and been delivering enterprise archival storage optical technologies operating systems and data management solutions around ■■ HSM solution can be pre-installed ■■ File retention management for online the world. When deploying a QStar archive, and offline data on a NAS appliance organizations have the choice installing HSM software on Microsoft® Windows®, UNIX, Linux or Apple platforms or inte- grating a NAS-based SntrySTR archive appliance. Both solutions provide the same level of advanced data and archive man- agement functionality. The QStar archive provides a second tier of removable storage to the Hitachi Content Platform environ- ment, extending data longevity, eliminating backup, reducing disaster recovery over- heads and slashing power consumption in the data center. The use of removable optical or tape storage as part of a 3-2-1 Best Practice dramatically improves system resilience in a very cost-effective and flexible archive framework. To learn more about QStar’s archive solutions and the 3-2-1 Archival Storage and Data Protection Best Practice, visit the QStar website at www.qstar.com. About Hitachi Content Platform Figure 1. QStar writes primary archive copy to Hitachi Content Platform while supporting The Hitachi Content Platform is a multi- secondary and tertiary copies on other targets. purpose, distributed storage solution that addresses many challenges in the growth of unstructured data. An intelligent, content- based system, it supports multiple tiers of to securely segregate data and provide capabilities, including a multitenant archi- storage for a wide range of unstructured different features and levels of service tecture, object versioning, retention and content, all in a single platform. IT profes- for different datasets. The system does disposition services, encryption, immutabil- sionals use the Hitachi Content Platform this by providing a number of important ity, high availability and search.

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