We talked with Hitachi Vantara this past week at a special Tech Field Day extra event (see videos here). This was an all day affair and was a broad discussion of Hitachi’s infrastructure portfolio.
There was much of interest in the days session but one in particular caught my eye and that was the session on Hitachi Vantara’s Content Platform (HCP).
Hitachi has a number of offerings surrounding their content platform, including:
- HCP, on premises object store:
- HCP Anywhere, enterprise file synch and share using HCP,
- HCP Content Intelligence, compliance and content search for HCP object storage, and
- HCP Data Ingestor, file gateway to HCP object storage.
I already knew about these offerings but had no idea how successful HCP has been over the years. inng to Hitachi Vantara, HCP has over 4000 installations worldwide with over 2000 customers and is currently the number 1 on premises, object storage solution in the world.
For instance, HCP is installed in 4 out of the 5 largest banks, insurance companies, and TelCos worldwide. HCP Anywhere has over a million users with over 15K in Hitachi alone. Hitachi Vantara has some customers using HCP installations that support 4000-5000 object ingests/sec.
HCP software supports geographically disbursed erasure coding, data compression, deduplication, and encryption of customer object data.
HCP development team has transitioned to using micro services/container based applications and have developed their Foundry Framework to make this easier. I believe the intent is to ultimately redevelop all HCP solutions using Foundry.
Hitachi mentioned a couple of customers:
- US Government National Archives which uses HCP behind Pentaho to preserve presidential data and metadata for 100 years, and uses all open APIs to do so
- UK Rabo Bank which uses HCP to support compliance monitoring across a number of data feeds
- US Ground Support which uses Pentaho, HCP, HCP Content Intelligence and HCP Anywhere to support geospatial search to ascertain boats at sea and what they are doing/shipping.
There’s a lot more to HCP and Hitachi Vantara than summarized here and I would suggest viewing the TFD videos and check out the link above for more information.
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