Hitachi Data Systems has introduced a new Content Archiving Platform (CAP) which is used for archiving structured and unstructured data on disk and doesn't need to use content-addressed storage (CAS) technology like Centera. Hitachi claims that this is better option that those systems using technologies like Centera as they feature a software API interface between users and the data they use. This is what they say when it comes to CAP "supports policy-based (archiving) from many distributed or centralized repositories such as e-mail, file systems, databases, applications and content or document management systems."By using a single archive for all the data one is able to access the data via a centralized search and authentication. The data is also further protected thanks to the policy-based retention rules. Some of the access protocols include NFS, CIFS, WebDAV and HTTP. The data is stores in its original form and the product has been created from HDS's WMS100 serial-ATA-based disk product or NSC55 virtualizing disk storage appliance.
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