About the Hitachi Content Platform

Hitachi Content Platform is the distributed, fixed-content, data storage system from Hitachi Vantara. HCP provides a cost-effective, scalable, easy-to-use repository that can accommodate all types of data, from simple text files to medical images to multigigabyte database images.

A fixed-content storage system is one in which the data cannot be modified. HCP uses write-once, read-many (WORM) storage technology and a variety of policies and services to ensure the integrity of the stored data and the efficient use of storage capacity. HCP also provides easy access to the repository for adding, retrieving, and deleting or shredding data.

HCP has an open architecture that insulates stored data from technology changes, as well as from changes in HCP itself due to product enhancements. This open architecture ensures that users will have access to their data long after it’s been added to the repository.

HCP runs on a networked redundant array of independent nodes (RAIN) or a SAN-attached array of independent nodes (SAIN). SAN stands for storage area network.

RAIN systems use only the internal storage in each node. SAIN systems use both the internal storage in each node and the storage in Fibre Channel SAN arrays.

HCP-VM systems run on virtual machines in a VMware® environment or in a KVM environment. HCP-VM systems function mostly as a RAIN system, with the virtual storage emulating internal storage.