

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-
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-
Storage will continue to grow, managed or not!
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File Sense is an agent-

Industry analysis shows data storage needs will grow 50 fold in three years at the current rate of storage purchases!
How will you organize and classify data as needs grow over the next year, two years, three years...?

Data can be analyzed by extension, file size, duplicates, age and more, before creating a professional report in HTML and printed formats.

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