Introduction to Hitachi Content Platform

Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) is a distributed storage system designed to support large, growing repositories of fixed-content data. An HCP system consists of both hardware (physical or virtual) and software.

HCP stores objects that include both data and metadata that describes that data. HCP distributes these objects across the storage space. HCP represents objects either as URLs or as files in a standard file system.

An HCP repository is partitioned into namespaces. Each namespace consists of a distinct logical grouping of objects with its own directory structure. Namespaces are owned and managed by tenants.

HCP provides access to objects through a variety of industry-standard protocols, as well as through various HCP-specific interfaces.

This chapter:

Contains an overview of Hitachi Content Platform

Describes the HCP hardware architectures

Highlights some of the product features

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