Hitachi Data Systems file and content solutions feature an integrated portfolio to help organizations reduce costs, minimize complexity and manage growth. To achieve those benefits, organizations can follow our step-by-step “A-B-C” strategies. The 5th step in that process is Enable E-Discovery and Compliance: Index, search and discover to efficiently manage, retain and discover volumes of information and meet legal obligations. For more information on our Unstructured Data Management Solutions please check: http://www.hds.com/go/hitachi-abc-ebook-managing-data/

1. Hitachi Data Systems file and content solutions feature an integrated
portfolio to help organizations reduce costs, minimize complexity and
manage growth. To achieve those benefits, organizations can follow
our step-by-step “A-B-C” strategies. The 5th step in that process is
Enable E-Discovery and Compliance: Index, search and discover to
efficiently manage, retain and discover volumes of information and
meet legal obligations.
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Index, Search and Discover
With Ease
E-discovery and regulatory compliance
issues add to the burden of managing
enterprise data for many organizations.
E-discovery requests, for instance, can
easily duplicate or place a hold on signifi-
cant amounts of data, increasing the need
for data persistence.
Hitachi Data Discovery Suite makes it pos-
sible to index, search and discover across
the file and content environment. Combining
Hitachi Data Discovery Suite with other
Hitachi file and content solutions enables
easy-to-perform cross-platform searches
of production and archive environments —
all from a single interface. Organizations
can automate the migration of data
among classes of storage based on file
content and automatically migrate data
from Hitachi NAS Platform to Hitachi
Content Platform.
To aid compliance, Data Discovery Suite
works with Content Platform to enable
proper long-term retention and disposal
of data according to legal and compliance
practices. Organizations can ensure proper
A-B-C Strategies for Hitachi Data Systems File and Content Solutions
Step 5: Enable E-Discovery and Compliance
The HDS file and content solutions
process for better managing
unstructured data involves A-B-C
strategies in 6 steps:
■■ Archive 1st.
■■ Back up less.
■■ Consolidate more.
■■ Distributed IT efficiency.
■■ Enable e-discovery and
compliance.
■■ Facilitate cloud.
A-B-C Strategies for
Unstructured Data
data stewardship and promote data privacy
with directory service integration, so users
can only search for and access data they
have permission to view.
Advantages of Hitachi Data
Discovery Suite
Hitachi Data Discovery Suite helps organi-
zations search, identify, collect and preserve
data across their storage infrastructure — all
from one secure location for improved stor-
age management. The solution also helps
organizations proactively manage, retain
and discover volumes of information and be
litigation ready.
With Data Discovery Suite, organizations can:
■■ Easily perform cross-platform search of
production and archive environments
from a single interface.
■■ Perform intelligent file tiering to migrate
data among classes of storage based
on file content.
■■ Perform proper discovery, audit,
long-term retention and data disposal
according to legal or compliance
requirements.
■■ Automate migration of data from
Hitachi NAS Platform to Hitachi Content
Platform.
Reduce Costs and Regain
Control
Organizations that can index, search and
discover across their entire file and con-
tent environment enjoy significant benefits,
including:
■■ Faster identification of data at risk.

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■■ Lower cost of litigation and e-discovery.
■■ Faster backup and restore times.
■■ Reduced replication burden.
■■ Reduced help desk demand for data
retrieval.
■■ Greater access control.
■■ Greater control over the speed and cost
of e-discovery.
Hitachi Data Systems File and
Content Solutions
By combining products from Hitachi Data
Systems file and content solutions, organiza-
tions can reduce the costs and complexity
of managing big data “as easy as A-B-C.” The
integrated portfolio includes:
■■ Hitachi Content Platform. Aggregate,
manage, protect and share content with
an open, centralized and multitier enter-
prise cloud storage solution.
■■ Hitachi Content Platform Anywhere.
Synchronize and share content in a safe,
secure manner at any time, from any-
where on any device.
■■ Hitachi Data Discovery Suite. Search,
identify, collect and preserve data across
the storage infrastructure from one
secure location for improved storage
management.
■■ Hitachi Data Ingestor. Integrate with
Hitachi Content Platform for edge-to-
core storage that streamlines the entire
backup process and greatly reduces
backup windows.
■■ Hitachi Unified Storage or NAS
Platform. Perform the same or more
work with fewer devices, more efficient
capacity and lower overhead using the
most powerful consolidation platform on
the market.
The Next Step
After completing the Enable E-Discovery
and Compliance stage of the A-B-C strate-
gies, organizations are ready for the 6th and
final step: Facilitate Cloud. While all of these
steps are not essential for every company,
organizations can incrementally improve
the management of unstructured data and
maximize savings and benefits by employing
multiple steps or the complete set of A-B-C
strategies.
Learn More
To learn more about the A-B-C strategies,
please contact your HDS representative,
your Hitachi TrueNorth Partner or visit
www.HDS.com/123.
■■ Solves unstructured data issues, facilitates search: Hitachi Content Platform
addressed rapidly growing unstructured data at a large industrial manufacturing
company and helped users search data held for long-term retention.1
■■ Ensures compliance: Hitachi Content Platform enabled a Fortune 500 profes-
sional services company to offer new services to clients with rigorous compliance
requirements.2
■■ Factoid: 35% of IT organizations purchased Hitachi Content Platform to solve
regulatory compliance challenges.3
HDS E-Discovery and Compliance Use Cases
1
TechValidate. http://www.techvalidate.com/tvid/C47-D4C-715
2
TechValidate. http://www.techvalidate.com/tvid/99C-7AE-8C6
3
TechValidate. http://www.techvalidate.com/tvid/898-12E-DCC