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suitable algorithms that generate the required outcomes, driving business benefits and return on investment. A final touch is the ability to apply rules to dispose the data, recently termed as the right to be forgotten.
“ For us it is key to make sure we mobilise that data, which is making it available and useful for us.”
An important requirement of business digital transformation
is to guarantee the right of data protection across its entire lifecycle. In other words to guarantee that the data has never been changed. This implies the original data as it has been created is preserved and the changes are recorded in the metadata. This allows organisations to host any type of data in their systems, preserve digital data assets as per specific retention regulations, and guarantee the disposition of the data at the end of it.
Hitachi Content Platform from Hitachi Data Systems is an answer for this requirement. Hitachi Content Platform is a software layer that sits on top of traditional storage technology, whether physical or virtual. Hitachi Content Platform delinks the data from the application and helps to make it accessible through any application and any location. It also ingests, retains, governs, augments, and disposes the data as per user defined guidelines.
While the application can still see and access the data, its siloed connections are replaced by a more open architecture. This type of an open networked solution is common in private datacentres.“ The technology is the foundation of every storage cloud. Every storage cloud that can be envisioned is built upon this type of architecture,” remarks Sjoberg.
Organisations usually start by governing email and documents, but the requirements for business digital transformation go far beyond that. Hitachi Content Platform helps organisations to begin their journey of digital transformation by allowing them to extend the reach of their data governance. Self-driven cars are being facilitated by years of data collection by car manufacturers and the development of algorithms from the underlying analytics. Financial institutions can meet the requirements and reduce the costs of data compliance and data governance by investing in solutions like Hitachi Content Platform.
While data inside datacentres can be secured, the challenges of data at rest and in-flight can be met by encryption, which is built into the Hitachi Content Platform. The challenges of managing and storing the exponential growth of content data can also be met suitably by tape drives and optical drives.
Going by Hitachi’ s bold move of offering railway as a service, by combining its core competence across industrial, operational, and information technologies, and its spin-off of Hitachi Insight Group, we may see the same innovation appearing soon in other real life use cases as well.
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