Hitachi Data Systems has announced that its Content Archive Platform has achieved SAP certified integration designation. Through testing in the SAP Integration and Certification Centre (SAP ICC), the Hitachi Content Archive Platform has attained ‘Certified for SAP NetWeaver’ designation for the information lifecycle management (ILM) solution from SAP. Customers can now easily employ the Hitachi Content Archive Platform for use with the information lifecycle management (ILM) solution from SAP to ensure end-to-end enforcement of data retention policies to better meet compliance requirements, while lowering operating costs.

"We're excited about our certification for the Hitachi Content Archive Platform," said Brian Householder, senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing and Business Development at Hitachi Data Systems. "The use of open standards in this certification helps ensure that customers can store and protect their data, obtain access to data following requests more quickly, and support corporate content preservation initiatives."

The WebDAV integration certification for the ILM solution from SAP, known as 'ILM – WebDAV storage interface 2.0 (BC-ILM 2.0)', relies on a new capability of the SAP NetWeaver platform Release 7.0 to define archive and retention policies, apply legal hold, conduct e-discovery requests, and decommission legacy systems. This functionality enables data to be passed to an intelligent, 'ILM-aware' tier of archive storage via the open-standard WebDav for SAP Data Archiving interface.
 
By achieving SAP NetWeaver designation, the Hitachi Content Archive Platform allows customers to store SAP application data in the Hitachi Content Archive Platform directly via WebDAV, without a third-party connector. It also allows archive and retention policies set in the SAP application for objects and unstructured content to be applied to archived data. It enables protection of SAP application data through the Hitachi Content Archive Platform's pro-active data protection and replication policies. Finally, it allows users to leverage Hitachi Data Systems' services-oriented approach to storage, which provides a multi-tier solution to store and manage data utilising a common, integrated platform and reducing management and operational costs.