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Information Technology News Hitachi puts a green spin on long-term data storage
Information Technology News Hitachi puts a green spin on long-term data storage | Hitachi puts a green spin on long-term data storage |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Monday, 10 December 2007 | |
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Hitachi says an estimated 70 percent of data stored by organisations is more than six months old. "Much of this data must be retained for compliance purposes but it is generally stored inefficiently, offers very little business value stored on tape, and takes up a great proportion of the available power, space and management resources." It claims that, by removing archived data from the corporate network and cost-effectively storing it on disk, organisations benefit from reduced power consumption and cooling, increased space, better compliance with corporate regulations and far better use of resources." According to Sol Squire, executive member of the board of directors and CBDO for Data Íslandia: "Organisations are focused on making their data centres more efficient, but virtualising six-month old information, which is effectively digital toxic waste, is a very poor use of resources. Instead, they should be looking to completely remove this data from the corporate network. We offer an ideal solution, with our geographic, regulatory and environmental advantages combining to offer very stable long-term rates on archival storage." Data Íslandia's facilities benefit from Iceland's lower real estate, telecommunications and energy costs. "These reduced operational costs combined with Hitachi's archiving technology means that Data Íslandia can offer disk-based archiving as a cost-effective alternative to tape," Hitachi says. "The benefit of this is that customers can access their archived data via a high-speed connection and use it for business intelligence, fraud prevention and other information management activities." Data Íslandia will use the Hitachi Content Archive Platform as the core digital indexing and archival platform, and will use Hitachi's flagship storage system, the Universal Storage Platform V, for the storage of the archived data. The Hitachi Content Archive Platform is claimed to offer numerous benefits including native content archiving, sophisticated policies data lifecycle management and compliance, petabyte scalability and the ability to migrate seamlessly across generations of storage technologies using the virtualisation capabilities of the USP V.{moscomment}
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