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suitable algorithms that generate the required outcomes , driving business benefits and return on investment . A final touch is the ability to apply rules to dispose the data , recently termed as the right to be forgotten .
“ For us it is key to make sure we mobilise that data , which is making it available and useful for us .”
An important requirement of business digital transformation
is to guarantee the right of data protection across its entire lifecycle . In other words to guarantee that the data has never been changed . This implies the original data as it has been created is preserved and the changes are recorded in the metadata . This allows organisations to host any type of data in their systems , preserve digital data assets as per specific retention regulations , and guarantee the disposition of the data at the end of it .
Hitachi Content Platform from Hitachi Data Systems is an answer for this requirement . Hitachi Content Platform is a software layer that sits on top of traditional storage technology , whether physical or virtual . Hitachi Content Platform delinks the data from the application and helps to make it accessible through any application and any location . It also ingests , retains , governs , augments , and disposes the data as per user defined guidelines .
While the application can still see and access the data , its siloed connections are replaced by a more open architecture . This type of an open networked solution is common in private datacentres . “ The technology is the foundation of every storage cloud . Every storage cloud that can be envisioned is built upon this type of architecture ,” remarks Sjoberg .
Organisations usually start by governing email and documents , but the requirements for business digital transformation go far beyond that . Hitachi Content Platform helps organisations to begin their journey of digital transformation by allowing them to extend the reach of their data governance . Self-driven cars are being facilitated by years of data collection by car manufacturers and the development of algorithms from the underlying analytics . Financial institutions can meet the requirements and reduce the costs of data compliance and data governance by investing in solutions like Hitachi Content Platform .
While data inside datacentres can be secured , the challenges of data at rest and in-flight can be met by encryption , which is built into the Hitachi Content Platform . The challenges of managing and storing the exponential growth of content data can also be met suitably by tape drives and optical drives .
Going by Hitachi ’ s bold move of offering railway as a service , by combining its core competence across industrial , operational , and information technologies , and its spin-off of Hitachi Insight Group , we may see the same innovation appearing soon in other real life use cases as well .
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