Case Study: National Library of New Zealand achieves long-term safekeeping of digital heritage with Hitachi Vantara

Hitachi Helps National Library of New Zealand Preserve Digital Heritage

The National Library of New Zealand needed a scalable, cost‑effective way to collect, share and preserve the country’s born‑digital and digitized cultural heritage while meeting international preservation standards and recovering from infrastructure risks (including a nearby earthquake). To address growing storage volumes, geographic redundancy and provable digital provenance, the Library partnered with Hitachi Vantara, deploying Hitachi Content Platform object storage delivered as a service through partner Revera (white‑labeled as Cascade).

Hitachi Vantara implemented an end‑to‑end, 900TB integrated object storage solution with two fully virtual Hitachi Content Platform instances across dual Revera data centers, providing geographic redundancy, disaster recovery and a fully redundant recovery site. The deployment adds intelligent archiving, rich custom metadata, WORM/versioning and file object protection to guarantee integrity and chain of custody, enables automated compression and rapid rebuilds, and is expected to deliver material cost savings while ensuring long‑term access and authenticity of the Library’s digital collections.

National Library of New Zealand

Steve Knight

Programme Director Preservation Research