In most companies unstructured information (the millions of files scattered
across network storage devices, servers, laptops, and desktops) consumes
at least 70-80% of an organization's storage. These files are in hundreds
of formats, practically invisible, and it is very challenging
Data Management task for companies.
"As enterprises implement comprehensive strategies for lowering costs
and reducing the risks of unmanaged data, the ability to intelligently
classify, search and manage unstructured data becomes essential."
Establishing a data management strategy is a high priority for
many companies as they struggle to deal with data growth, storage optimization and data consolidation. Data
management strategy will include policies for what kind of information
should be stored, and what service levels should be applied.
The need to contain rising IT costs and drive efficiencies coupled with
the availability of a variety of server and storage optimization / virtualization technologies
has also led to an increasing number of data consolidation projects each
year.
IT is also faced with backup and recovery challenges to meet business
data management requirements. This has led companies to deploy disk-to-disk backup solutions
to improve backup performance and have information online for rapid
recovery. With companies now storing months-to-years of backup data
online the ability to quickly find and recover files i.e. backup search
has become essential for IT staff, legal teams, and end users.
For storage optimization, manage growth and contain costs, companies
need a solution to search, classify, and act on their data
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Information Management Solutions
The Kazeon Data Management Solution enables IT administrators to
dramatically reduce the amount of effort spent manually gathering information
and instead focus on higher value activities such as tracking trends
for better planning, reviewing utilization by users and groups, or attributing
storage consumption to different departments for chargeback.
These capabilities can be applied to many business use cases, including:
data consolidation, file reporting, storage optimization and backup search & recovery.
Kazeon advanced file reporting capabilities enable IT to create reports
about file history (creation, modification, deletions, etc), file distribution
across storage tiers, and duplicate files. Default reports are provided
or IT can create new reports to meet their needs.
A unique value that Kazeon provides is the ability to take an action
from the file reporting results screen such as tagging, archiving, or deleting
files.
After running file reports and analyzing the results, IT can create policies
to optimize its tiered storage infrastructure by defining levels of
service across tiers of storage that simplify management, optimize storage
utilization, and cut costs. Policies enable organizations to move or
copy files from one class of storage to another and identify what files
can be deleted.
Organizations can migrate entire projects or take aged, infrequently
accessed files and move them to more cost effective secondary storage
based on end user service level requirements
Information Management Benefits
Kazeon enables companies to gain visibility into information scattered
across their storage optimization infrastructure.
IT staff, legal teams, and end users also now have a fast, efficient,
simple, and non-disruptive way to restore files from online backup,
providing unmatched simplicity for data recovery.
Benefits of the Kazeon Information Management solution include:
Gain insight necessary to build a solid information
management policy
Reduce storage optimization and backup costs through the identification
of files that can be deleted or de-duplicated
Implement tiered storage based on a sound understanding
of the information stored
Improve planning through trend tracking
Automate data consolidation and file reporting to eliminate
manual processes.
The award-winning Kazeon Information Server delivers scalable,
automated, feature-rich file reporting, data consolidation and storage optimization capabilities enabling
organizations to optimize and more cost-effectively manage their information
