What’s in a name? Would you like to buy an Ingestor?
 
That is what HDS calls its object storage solution – Hitachi Data Ingestor (HDI). HDS positions HDI (I thought the alphabet has 26 letters) as an elastic and backup-free cloud on-ramp and filer. When combined with the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) it is marketed as able to deliver ‘seamlessly scalable and backup-free for distributed consumers of IT, such as remote offices, branch offices (ROBO) and cloud storage users. According to HDS, HDI provides a standard connection, or on-ramp, into the core data center without requiring application recoding and without changing the way users interact with storage.
 
HDS is expanding its HCP portfolio adding Hitachi Content Platform Anywhere (HCP Anywhere) addressing what the vendor claims is demand for “extended workforce mobility and increased productivity from anywhere, anytime and from any device.” The HCP portfolio will also offer the ability to tier data to a public cloud without sacrificing visibility or control of data. Think of HCP Anywhere is the sync and share version of HCP.
 
So what HDS is doing here is adding “cloud as a storage” to its HCP object storage offering. HDS uses the term adaptive cloud tiering to describe the ability to allow organizations to intelligently and automatically move data to and from a choice of leading public clouds from Google, Amazon and Microsoft based on changes in demand and policies set by the organization.
 
HCP includes archive, backup-free, and hybrid cloud storage for diverse users and applications in a single platform. Marketed to both internal IT organizations and cloud service providers, HDS claims HCP can store, share, synchronize, protect, preserve, analyze and retrieve file data from a single system.
 
View this video for more on the Hitachi Content Platform and Hitachi Data Ingestor.