Storworks Software

Data consolidation is first achieved by classifying your data. Before consolidating, before archiving, you need to understand what type of data you have and how it is being used.

Understanding your data profile is the first step

Are you just buying storage because you are out of space?

Do you have vacation pictures on expensive Fiber Channel or SAS drives?

File Sense is one of the most cost-effective tools available today.

Sample from real production data:

Over 14,000 files have not been accessed in over a year.

If these were 500 Meg files that could be costing up to $100K in extra cost based on the industry average cost per Gigabyte.

Do your users store a lot of inappropriate data on expensive storage?

As storage density increases more data will be retained. This means the capacity of shared storage devices like SAN or NAS devices will continue to grow at an even faster rate. We are already seeing a large push from customers backing up to disk and many have gone completely tape-less as backup windows have become unreasonable. Storage has become very affordable but high performance storage is and will continue to be a premium for Databases and other applications that require high performance. The ability to profile your data allows you to better manage your data and control cost.

Storage will continue to grow, managed or not!

OVERVIEW

File Sense is an agent-less heterogeneous reporting tool that provides the power of efficient visualization to help you increase capacity utilization in multi-vendor storage environments. File Sense is an easy to use tool that automates the collection of data to allow storage managers to apply best practices to data management policies. The reports provide file level detail to help in determining what data is appropriate for archiving, with metrics like what data has not been accessed or modified in days, months to over a year. Forecast your budgetary storage needs for next year by analyzing the growth over the past seven years. No more “guesstimating” use real data to plan for future growth.