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Hitachi Data Protection Suite, Powered by CommVault

A Unified Platform for Enterprise Data Protection

and Management
Hitachi Data Systems has partnered with CommVault to deliver
Hitachi Data Protection Suite (HDPS), a comprehensive platform
for solving difficult data management challenges, including:
■■ Backup and recovery of a wide range of system, application
and virtualized environments.
■■ Automation and orchestration of hardware-based snapshot
and cloning to quickly protect and recover critical applications
and large databases.
■■ File and email archiving, with search and e-discovery, to
meet corporate governance and compliance requirements
for data retention.
■■ End-point protection and self-service recovery for desktops
and laptops.
■■ Off-site replication for cost-effective disaster recovery.
HDPS is built on CommVault Simpana 10, the fastest growing
solution on the market for several years, and ranked as a leader
in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup Software
and Integrated Appliances1.

June 15, 2014. ID:G00262146. Analysts: Dave Russell, Pushan Rinnen.

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Each of these capabilities is built on a

common code base and shares a common
management console, dramatically simplifying Hitachi Data Protection Suite is a full-featured data protection
administrative processes when compared to and management solution for distributed, heterogeneous,
competing enterprise-class offerings.
midrange-to-enterprise-level computing environments.
With the latest release of our breakthrough
Hitachi Data Protection Suite software,
Hitachi Data Systems can help you protect,
manage and access information like never
before. So you can face the future with
greater confidence and competitiveness.

Yes, data is growing exponentially. And yes,

technologies like cloud, virtualization, mobil-
ity, bring your own device (BYOD), and a
movement toward a shared services model
continue to present new challenges.

But new challenges are what progress is all

about. And Hitachi Data Systems has proven
that the key to meeting the challenges of
today and tomorrow is to anticipate and
innovate. It’s time to discover how HDPS
can help transform your organization and not
only take control of your information, but also
make it available for positive exploitation.

Hitachi Data Protection Suite

Organizations worldwide have discovered
the value of managing data and information
through a single platform, thanks to Hitachi
Data Protection Suite (HDPS) (see Figure 1).

This powerful software solution can help you:

Take Control
Hitachi Data Protection Suite was designed
to enable all functions to share a single
code base and revolutionary back-end
technologies. Through a single pane of
glass, you can view, manage and access
all functions and all data across your enter- Figure 1. Hitachi Data Protection Suite takes a holistic approach to data management.
prise. Our console is simple, efficient and
comprehensive. So it requires less time, access ensures secure management. It Ensure Accessibility
labor and budget to operate. also provides built-in alerts and reporting, All Hitachi Data Protection Suite managed
for easier oversight of your data manage- data resides within a safe, efficient, intelligent
Simplify Management
ment operations. and accessible virtual repository of all cor-
With Hitachi Data Protection Suite, you can
porate data. You set the policies, and HDPS
protect and manage data from virtual and Streamline Operations
intelligently automates the process. Whether
physical servers, applications, storage-based With backup, archive and reporting you need copies for disaster recovery or
snapshots and replication, NAS shares, built into a single platform, Hitachi Data regulatory compliance, data within HDPS is
cloud-based infrastructures and mobile Protection Suite performs these operations secure, deduplicated and application-aware,
devices, simply and easily. from a single collection of data. Plus, by available when you need it.
leveraging built-in source-side deduplica-
Automate Key Processes And now HDPS is more secure, capable
tion, HDPS ensures that only unique data
Hitachi Data Protection Suite enables blocks are transferred over the network and accessible than ever.
policy-based automation, while role-based and stored on media.
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Hitachi Data Protection Suite:

A Common Platform Innovation is the engine of change, and
Hitachi Data Protection Suite software information is its fuel. Innovate intelligently
delivers the unparalleled advantages and to lead your market, grow your company,
benefits of a holistic approach to data man- and change the world. Manage your www.HDS.com/innovate
agement. It is one product that contains information with Hitachi Data Systems.
several data management modules that
share a common code base.

Leveraging the strengths of this “common” business continuity and resiliency environments include auto-discovery, pro-
platform, each module, licensed and capabilities. tection and simplified management. These
deployed by itself or in combination with features were designed to help you elimi-
others, delivers unsurpassed feature-for- It is designed not only to protect data, but
nate data protection roadblocks and rapidly
feature performance against alternative also to transform businesses like yours by
recover VMs from a from a hardware snap-
point-level solutions. turning managed data into an asset.
shot copy. Automatically discover, protect
Select from the following modules to easily With HDPS, you can empower your organi- and retain VMs based on business value and
solve your most pressing data management zation with a modern IT infrastructure. From need.
challenges: there, you can scale to a shared services
Converge backup and archive opera-
structure. You can enable a mobile enter-
■■ Backup and recovery with replication and tions. HDPS integrates backup, archive
prise, dramatically increase productivity, and
archiving. General-purpose, scheduled and reporting into a single process that only
ensure the continuity of your business with
backup of a broad range of applica- captures new data one time from the source
efficient replication for disaster recovery.
tions and operating environments. The system. That process reduces hardware
protected data can then be replicated Exactly how does Hitachi Data Protection needs and lessens the impact on production
for disaster recovery or archived for Suite help you better protect, better systems so you can simplify administration
long-term retention, both without further manage, and better access your data? and reduce the infrastructure required for
impact to the production systems. Let’s take a closer look. unstructured data. Deliver “zero footprint
■■ Email protection and archive for archiving” by eliminating separate passes
Protect and data stores with a single collection, while
Microsoft® Exchange, Microsoft Office
365™ and IBM® Lotus Notes®. Automate Secure and archive data while reducing providing granular recovery and streamlining
retention and streamline search and time, risk and cost. Data is the lifeblood Microsoft Exchange performance.
discovery operations. Eliminate personal of your organization. But before it can
Simplify disaster recov-
archives, which are difficult to monitor become an asset, it must be efficiently pro-
ery. Hitachi Data Protection Operational
and search. Enable transparent end- tected and archived. By blending advanced
Suite easily and efficiently
Recovery
user access to archived content. Employ security technologies with the core capa- e-Guide
replicates secure data
advanced analytics to improve visibility bilities of our single platform, Hitachi Data
to any location or cloud DOWNLOAD
and support decision-making processes. Protection Suite takes an exponential leap
service, allowing for rapid
forward in protection.
■■ Virtualized environment protection: disaster recovery scenarios
Flexible solution for virtual machine (VM) Leverage storage-based snapshot at the click of a button. Cut disaster recov-
backup, VM archiving and cloud manage- and replication. The application-aware ery costs and reduce recovery times with
ment. Choose the approach that’s right CommVault IntelliSnap feature of Hitachi the ability to create and deploy business
for you, and adapt as needs change. Data Protection Suite is tightly integrated continuity plans quickly with new disaster
■■ Intelligent snapshot management: Use with the Hitachi Thin Image snapshot and recovery services that Hitachi Data Systems
the power of storage-based snap- Hitachi ShadowImage Heterogeneous delivers.
shot (Hitachi Thin Image) and cloning Replication technologies in Hitachi Data
Systems storage systems. These systems Manage
(Hitachi ShadowImage Heterogeneous
Replication) technologies to eliminate include the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform Efficiently manage large-scale operations
the backup window, protect critical data family and Hitachi Unified Storage VM. and shared services. With Hitachi Data
more often, and restore fast. Application- With this integration, key database appli- Protection Suite, you can manage data pro-
consistent orchestration and automation cations can be protected faster and more tection and retention as a service for tens
eliminates the complexity of tedious script frequently. At the same time, it eliminates the of thousands of workers, all from a single
management. performance impact that traditional backup platform. As a result, you can spend less
HDPS offers exceptional levels of func- processes impose. time on routine administration and more time
tionality, scalability, reliability, efficiency, delivering value to the business.
Accelerate virtualization. New features
performance, availability and automation. and enhancements for Microsoft Hyper-V®, Ready for the future. The management
It is cloud-ready and provides enhanced VMware vSphere, and vCloud Director 5.1 features of Hitachi Data Protection Suite are
optimized for enterprise IT and designed for HITACHI DATA PROTECTION SUITE BENEFITS
cloud and shared services. They include new
workflow automation features that increase ■■ Realize up to 50% faster backups, which dramatically shorten your backup
the scale of operations and control of stan- window.
dard processes. Multitenant architecture and
■■ Reduce administrative overhead by up to 80%.
self-service operations help eliminate IT inter-
vention and reduce calls to help desks with
■■ Lower aggregated annual support costs by up to 35%.
workforce access to files and emails through ■■ Ensure protection for hundreds of VMs in minutes; full recovery is offered for any
Web and mobile devices. virtual machine in the set.

Highly scalable and

■■ Eliminate up to 90% of redundant data at the source.
Hitachi
resilient. Hitachi Data Solutions ■■ Slash deployment time by 30% using new automatic discover and deploy options.
Protection Suite provides for Data
4th-generation, grid-based Protection
WATCH an intuitive search experience with HTML Data Systems offers a common, virtualized
deduplication technology
that doubles protection previews of all intelligently indexed data. platform for all data and information.
and recovery performance, It allows you to search emails archived in
Our solutions manage data growth while
while increasing resiliency. Easily protect HDPS directly from Microsoft Outlook®.
they collect and connect data to create
performance-intensive applications in You can also search and retrieve healthcare
valuable information. They cut costs,
growing and large enterprise environments. images and records (picture archiving and
reduce operational complexity and improve
Automated failover between nodes doubles communications systems, electronic med-
IT agility. They let people access, share and
backup resiliency and helps enable zero ical records and electronic health records).
secure information. They help organizations
downtime operations. No 3rd-party applications are required.
innovate, collaborate and grow.
Access it anywhere. Edge technology is
Access We combine our systems, software and
an enterprise-class protection and access
Transform the way you discover, access expertise to meet the needs and budgets
capability that helps accelerate workforce
and analyze information. HDPS empowers of the most demanding companies. Our
productivity for end users, IT organizations,
your global, connected workforce to securely solutions include end-to-end virtualization,
compliance officers and legal teams. At the
share information from anywhere, boosting massive consolidation, data replication,
same time, it reduces risk. With it, you can
productivity organization-wide. It minimizes archival solutions and the ability to scale
empower end users with an efficient, reliable
IT intervention, allowing more time to deliver up and scale out as business objectives
and transparent desktop and laptop pro-
strategic value to your business. At the same require. Our solutions enable broad hetero-
tection solution. Edge technology delivers
time, it allows your legal professionals to fulfill geneous storage management, business
self-service access to personal data within
their discovery requirements quickly. continuity, backup and recovery, perfor-
the HDPS via new mobile apps, a Web-
mance enhancement, data migration and
See it all. HDPS includes a secure infor- based console, and a Microsoft Windows®
data life-cycle management.
mation repository for all snapshot, backup Explorer plug-in.
and archive data. It offers massive scalabil- Learn More
ity, a single management framework, and Hitachi Data Systems Vision
The dramatic economic and operational
embedded intelligence about stored data. Hitachi Data Systems helps organizations
value Hitachi Data Protection Suite software
All data managed within HDPS is dedupli- transform raw data into valuable information
delivers can be only touched upon in a small
cated, encrypted and placed on the most by making it easier to manage and more
brochure. We invite you to visit www.HDS.
cost-optimized tier of storage, providing accessible. We provide best-in-class infor-
com, call (888) 234-5601, or join the HDS
regulatory compliance based on priority, mation technologies, services and solutions
Community to start a conversation. Discover
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what Hitachi Data Systems and Hitachi Data
demonstrable business impact. As the
Retrieve it faster. Hitachi Data Protection Protection Suite can solve for you!
leader in storage virtualization, only Hitachi
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