Storage Management Software - Manage Large Storage with Less Manpower

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Back in the pre-digital days, documents were stored in file cabinets in desks and offices, then physically culled and relocated into file rooms when they were no longer deemed immediately relevant, then eventually shifted onto microfiche and stored elsewhere based on regulations or an organization’s internal policies. The process was cumbersome, time-consuming, inefficient and expensive, and locating a specific document could take weeks. The advent of computers and electronic storage has certainly made a dramatic difference, but has not eliminated the essential problem – organizations need to store and have access to their growing volume of data, and they need to do it in a way that is both efficient and cost-effective. Storage management software offers a solution: by creating a tiered storage management process, data can be deduplicated and consolidated while being placed on less expensive, secondary storage devices.

Tiered storage management provides your organization with the one thing that it most desperately needs – space – but in doing so it also reduces costs and boosts performance. It prioritizes data based upon the value that the organization’s administrators assigned to it, enables old data to be offloaded for extended storage and freeing up the more expensive shared storage for critical documents and information. The establishment of different classes of data value enables migration to slower, larger disks and keeps the performance level at the top tier humming. As expensive storage is reserved for mission-critical applications, the documents that are aged out or deemed less critical are distributed in a way that still allows access, but at a lower cost. This process can be repeated if the organization sees the need, creating a third tier at even lower cost and slower performance for archival storage.

Though organizations have attempted to create tiered storage in the past (even in the days of paper and hard copy), the process has always been hampered by an inability to properly understand exactly where data is stored, and for what reason. ShareArchiver’s storage management software addresses this issue by providing tools that provide insight into data usage, thus enabling a real-time assignment of value that can help establish policies. The program is flexible and works within existing platforms, thus enabling the process to be fully automated, yet fully customized to your organization’s needs. The determination of what type of data needs to be placed on the fastest drives can be managed without requiring extensive administrative interventions or monitoring.

Tiered storage management takes the problem of storage consumption and offers an elegant solution: rather than eliminating data or making it virtually inaccessible in order to create more space or simply purchasing additional (and expensive) storage appliances, it consolidates older and less-used data onto lower tiers and secondary storage devices, thus easing the demands placed on high performance storage, improving performance and reducing storage costs. For organizations that are currently storing data on individual servers, the shift can represent a remarkable improvement in their capabilities and performance and a dramatic reduction in cost. For more information on Share r’s storage management software and what a difference it can make for your organization, contact us today.

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