In most corporations, unstructured information consumes over 80% of an organization's storage. To complicate matters, the unstructured data is dispersed across network storage devices, servers, laptops, and desktops. Managing the storage, dispersion and hundreds of different file formats presents a significant Data Management challenge for corporations.

To deal with data growth, data management and data consolidation, corporation's highest priority is establishing a holistic data management strategy. Data management strategy will include policies for what kind of information should be stored and what service levels should be applied to different types of information, so to meet regulatory laws and business demands.

IT is faced with backup and recovery challenges to meet business data management requirements. This has led corporations to deploy disk-to-disk backup solutions to improve backup performance and have information online for rapid recovery. With corporations now storing months-to-years of backup data online, the ability to quickly find and recover files, i.e. backup search, has become essential feature for IT staff, legal teams, and end users. Corporations need a solution to search, classify, and act on the growing informational volume to deliver storage optimization, information growth management and costs containment.

Kazeon's Data Management Solution enables IT administrators to dramatically reduce the amount of effort spent manually gathering information from inside the Data Center, as well as from Remote Offices, which allows administrators to focus on higher value activities such as tracking trends for better planning, reviewing utilization by users and groups, or monitoring storage consumption for departmental chargeback.

Kazeon's 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, such as tagging, archiving, or deleting files.

After running file reports and analyzing the informational assets, IT can create policies to optimize its tiered storage infrastructure by defining quality of service levels across storage tiers that simplify management, optimize storage utilization, and balance their data value verses storage costs. IT can migrate entire projects or identify infrequently accessed files and move them to more cost effective secondary storage based on end user service level requirements. Furthermore, automated policies capabilities enable IT administrators to move or copy files from one class of storage to another seamlessly, as well as identify what files can be deleted to reclaim storage capacity.

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 Data 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 move to a more appropriate storage tier, deleted or de-duplicated
• Optimizing Tiered Storage Hierarchy 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.

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