Hitachi Content Platform Anywhere

Hitachi Content Platform Anywhere is the corporate mobile solution providing storage, synchronization and data protection, and also a possibility of joint work of staff of the enterprise with content. Using this platform users can address corporate data, being worldwide, at any time and from any device. The companies using such applications within own IT infrastructure save complete transparency and a possibility of control of corporate data, supporting the proper security level, managements and placements of data.

HCP Anywhere is a part of a complex Hitachi Content Platform – the integrated solution integrating object storage, means of synchronization and file sharing and file gateways. All complex of solutions includes such components as Hitachi Content Platform, Hitachi Content Platform Anywhere and Hitachi Data Ingestor. Using a complex of the solutions HCP, the IT organizations and providers of cloud services can organize without effort placement, sharing, synchronization, protection, long-term storage, the analysis and extraction of file data based on a single system. Such consolidation simplifies to IT departments processes of management of large volumes of data: for example, HCP automates such labor-intensive transactions as data protection and their distribution by storage levels. Finally functions of compression and elimination of duplication of data and also support of excess coding (erasure coding) and hybrid cloud infrastructures does new storage systems more effective and economic. The consolidated structure of HCP allows customers to accelerate obtaining benefit, and to providers – to reduce terms of an output of services to the market, saving the clients from problems of independent integration.

2017: There was a release of the version of HCP Anywhere

On May 22, 2017 the Hitachi Data Systems company announced release of the version of Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) Anywhere. Creators of software improved work of the house cloud HCP directories, functions of the protected synchronization, search and sharing of corporate data.

Among opportunities there are technologies:

• Universal access at any time and from any devices, ensuring mobility of data by means of cloud house directories, the protected synchronization and sharing of corporate data.
• The optimized handshaking simplifies workflows and increases productivity of groups of specialists.
• Possibilities of data protection at corporate and user level allow to reduce new threats – for example, such as actions of programs racketeers – and to increase data security of the company.
• Reliable mechanisms of security, search and management provide the highest level of transparency, control and compliance to normative legal requirements for crucial data assets.
• The modern, intuitive and personalized user interface is capable to adapt to any devices.
• Ample opportunities of the API setup allow to adapt the solution for requirements of the most different users, to flexibly configure workflows and to develop new applications.

2016: Version 2.1 Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) Anywhere

Hitachi Data Systems announced in March, 2016 release of the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) Anywhere platform of version 2.1 allowing providers of services and to IT services quickly to provide to the users safe mobile solutions for access to content.

As noted in the company, today the staff of the enterprises — producers and consumers of corporate information — becomes more and more mobile. Each of them, as a rule, uses several mobile devices. Attempts to reach compromise between the need for a convenient information access from users and need to provide protection of corporate information from the company led to emergence of a difference in expectations at producers and consumers of information.

"Using the HCP Anywhere platform providers of services and private IT services will be able to offer users the innovation tools for work with files — Peter Sjoberg, the technical director of Hitachi Data Systems of cloud and mobile computing told. — The fresh version of the HCP Anywhere platform does not require compromises in terms of expectations of business or convenience of work of employees. Proposes the solution to the organizations and providers of services new functionality: data protection and automatic recovery of the user files and directories, secure shared access to external information, space for working interaction and convenient management tools content".

This version of the platform includes additional improvements which raise the security level and simplify use of the solution. Experts of HDS claim that irrespective of whether business of their clients is regulated by internal regulations or a third party, requirements to transparency of information which is kept by the enterprise become more and more tough. The HCP Anywhere platform is the direct answer to these requirements, emphasized in the company.

In general, HCP Anywhere represents carefully integrated, checked solution which will allow business to create the expanded cloud storages and to offer them to users under own brand. Providers of services IT, both public, and private, will be able to offer the clients expanded tools for work with files. The solution literally saves them from need to develop such services independently.

2015: Updating of Hitachi Content Platform Anywhere

On January 21, 2015 the Hitachi Data Systems corporation announced a release of the updated^[1].

Chart of interaction Hitachi Content Platform Anywhere, 2015

Hitachi Content Platform Anywhere helps employees to be beyond synchronization and file sharing now, providing them mobile data access in the existing NAS systems. Users have an opportunity of secure access to data in cloud and corporate systems from any devices, in any place and at any time.

This functionality increases investment soundness in the operating infrastructures of NAS and helps services IT to eliminate a gap between the traditional NAS systems and file services of new generation, consider in the company. Hitachi Content Platform Anywhere allows to select language of a client system from several options and provides synchronization of the big, open and duplicated files.

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Simply and safely

The application provides a possibility of safe mobile work with corporate data – users can get data access when necessary and from where it is necessary, to interact by means of any devices and with ease to exchange files. At the same time IT specialists retain full control over data, and all procedures of security and normative compliance are supported – what cannot be told about services of consumer level for file sharing which they not always trust corporate services IT.

The solution HCP Anywhere is created especially for corporate use and far advances the alternatives existing in the industry on simplicity of implementation and extent of control in such important aspects as data encryption, ownership of keys and terms of service.

Installation

HCP Anywhere differs in simplicity in installation, setup and management, both for IT specialists, and for users. Work of users is carried out through a self-service portal, and no special training at the same time is required. The solution is compatible to the existing IT procedures and processes and does not require the organization of backup. Users can load the client application HCP Anywhere for devices iOS from online store Apple iTunes Store.

Synchronization

The application provides automatic synchronization with all registered devices and access to files using web browsers. Users can work from the devices and get access to files from everywhere, and not just from office. The solution allows them to exchange safely files using links with controlled access and preset time of action.

Advantages

The built-in functions of mobile device management, audit and full integration with services Microsoft Active Directory help IT specialists to perform administration, managing a large number of users. Sending links instead of investments allows to release the capacity of mail storages and it is essential to lower load of network.

The software tool uses opportunities of storage, protection, synchronization, data security provision, shared access and management which are given by HCP – the most effective and easily scalable platform with the most high density of storage of objects. For data compression and single instance storage is provided and also there is no need of backup on tape carriers.

In addition to synchronization and file sharing the solution HCP Anywhere provides to services IT of advantage of a high-quality cloud platform of storage which effectively copes with the existing loadings and is ready to future development of IT infrastructure. Using HCP Anywhere of the organization can:

• it is safe to implement possibilities of mobile work and use of own user devices (the concept of BYOD);
• improve an information access to stimulate business development;
• it is more effective to control costs for IT;
• reduce data loss caused by unauthorized applications;
• avoid legal problems and non-compliance with normative legal requirements because of availability of uncontrollable data or unknown user devices.

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