APTARE StorageConsole File Analytics

Gain Visibility and Control of Your Unstructured Data

A significant amount of your data exists as files such as emails, documents, and digital media. While many of these files are critical to the enterprise, countless others are duplicates, stale, or worse yet, inappropriate and non-compliant. Many organizations don't know what file content they have, how much exists, who created it, what resources it is consuming and how much is duplicated in multiple locations.

Managing this unstructured data is critical to reducing your storage costs and corporate risk. Until now, this task has been difficult and time consuming, and can impact performance of critical systems. APTARE StorageConsole File Analytics eliminates these problems using agentless data collection techniques to quickly glean file information from filesystems in multiple storage systems and then store this data in a purpose-built database. This patented technology provides insight into billions of files, highlights inappropriate data use, assists with legal and regulatory compliance, and identifies duplicate and obsolete data for improved storage tiering.

Policy Automation with File List Export

The APTARE StorageConsole File Analytics File List Export feature creates lists of files based on user-based policies, which then can be fed into any data mover for archiving, implementation of storage-tiering policies or compliance file management. One example, a list of all files not accessed in more than six months from selected NAS appliances can be exported and then moved to an archival appliance.

Use Cases

Policy Enforcement and Compliance
A major concern for IT staff centers on unauthorized use of corporate resources; for example, NAS volumes that hold files unrelated to the business, such as private music or videos.

• Aggregate and analyze information by file type.
• Enforce corporate retention and unauthorized usage policies.

Security and Corporate Risk Mitigation

Data owned by employees who are terminated or reassigned represents a security concern and APTARE StorageConsole File Analytics can help identify these files.

• Identify and quarantine or archive files to ensure corporate guidelines on data ownership and retention are maintained.

Storage Tiering Decisions

The sheer deluge of data makes it critical to store unstructured data on appropriate storage tiers throughout its life cycle.

• Identify last access dates to determine the "time value" of files.
• Move data to specific tiers based on the value of the data.

Reclamation and Deduplication

End-user files often have numerous versions that are duplicated and stored in multiple locations, needlessly consuming vast amounts of storage resources.

• Identify duplicate files, including location details to enable IT to free up resources for business-critical information.
• Consolidate and remove duplicate files for faster, optimized data backups.

The APTARE StorageConsole Platform

APTARE StorageConsole File Analytics is fully integrated into the APTARE StorageConsole platform for comprehensive reporting and management of storage and data protection environments.

• Provides an end-to-end view of the entire environment for data center optimization and total cost of ownership (TCO) reduction.
• Correlates a broad view of storage capacity at the volume level with a granular view of individual files.