Unstructured Data Assessment
Unstructured Data is the fastest growing type of data in your infrastructure. Getting control over it will dramatically improve your ability to manage growth, minimize complexity in your environment, and reduce overall storage costs. The Unstructured Data Assessment will review your file and network attached storage servers to locate, categorize, and report on its usage and age. This will allow you to make intelligent decisions on how and where to store your data as it ages in your infrastructure. Armed with this information, you will be able to dramatically reduce the ongoing costs of storage management, reduce backup times significantly and enable dynamic, online, data mobility across disparate storage targets.
What is it?
Unstructured Data is a key data growth area comprised of user, departmental, email archives and even application file stores. This data is often replicated between users, stored in multiple folders (personal, departmental, project), in multiple revisions; most cases never to be accessed (or changed) again. The Unstructured Data Assessment will review your current Unstructured Data management challenges, gather statistics from targeted file servers, NAS appliances and network shares, collect and analyze the metadata, and provide recommendations on how to optimize data management and storage.
How will you benefit?
The benefits of addressing the issues related to Unstructured Data growth include the ability to:
- Automate your data management tasks by establishing real-time and scheduled data policies
- Better utilize the storage assets you already have by distributing data among them equally, dynamically, in real-time
- Achieve higher levels of performance by load balancing writes across multiple storage devices, in real-time
- Target where data should be stored based on what type of data it is, and how it will be accessed. Block storage of data types not appropriate for business use
- Reduce costs through the process of tiering based on age, moving lower use files to lower cost storage, and eliminate them from the daily/weekly backup process
- Eliminate data migration times and vendor lock-in by establishing a global name space that permits data policies to duplicate and move data without user impact
- Dramatically reduce backup times be moving unchanged data out of the backup cycle for daily/weekly/monthlies, and only move it back in when the data is accessed
Our approach?
Our technical consultants will work with you to:
- Identify your current and projected challenges related to Unstructured Data
- Capture details about your current environment, file systems/shares and NAS appliances for inclusion (define scope)
- Collect metadata for each of the targeted shares through implementation of a data capture utility
- Analyze the results looking for ways of addressing your challenges
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