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Storage Management

Business Challenge

ESI is increasingly placing serious burdens on email servers, files servers, portals and other application servers impacting performance, management and driving up costs. Laws, regulations and company policies establishing the legal status of ESI, mandatory retention periods and its discoverability have exponentially impacted the volume of ESI and virtually assured it rapid growth rates for the foreseeable future. The reliance on ESI has grown irreversibly and as a result, no organization is immune to the challenges it has created.

Storage optimization can alleviate some of the pain by moving ESI from primary storage to less expensive secondary storage. This takes the immediate burden off servers allowing them to run at peak efficiency reduce downtime and the chance of failure.

However, storage optimization is about more than just moving ESI from one location to another. The ability to automatically and consistently capture, archive, secure, store and retain the ESI you have created at the source in a seamless and effective manner while providing users with seamless self-service search, access and retrieval is now the new baseline. Furthermore, the ability to set and enforce retention policies brings a much needed level of structure to managing the ESI lifecycle. Knowing the size of your ESI, where it is stored securely and when it will be deleted is fundamental to storage management.

Business Challenges

  • Performance degradation of email servers, file servers, portals etc…
  • Poorly optimized and silo based storage of ESI
  • Poorly indexed and difficult to search ESI
  • No ability to automatically capture and archive ESI
  • ESI is duplicated, uncompressed and unsecure
  • ESI access control is limited with no audit control
  • No centralized ability to set and enforce retention policies
  • Control of storage growth and costs

Nayatek Benefits

Storage optimization

Datosphere’s flexible archiving policies & powerful stubbing of ESI offloads storage from primary storage to lower cost secondary storage providing more efficient storage utilization, single instance storage, de-duplication and an immediate reduction in storage costs.

Open storage layer provides flexibility & the utilization of excess storage capacity

Datosphere currently supports local direct connect storage, iSCSI, NFS/CIFS, CAS (EMC Centera) and SAN, NAS and WORM storage devices through these protocols. Datosphere’s federated storage capabilities provide the ability to utilize existing and excess storage capacity and have Datosphere see it as one virtual storage pool.

De-duplication, single instance storage and compression

True global single instance storage and compression of archived ESI can realize substantial savings in the amount of total storage. The cost savings of de-duplication are clear; store each email and file only a single time. Separate silos of data containing the same content over and over is stored only once with effective de-duplication capabilities.

Redundant and cloud storage capabilities provides business continuity

Datosphere provides capabilities to work seamlessly with redundant and cloud storage scenarios providing off-site business continuity copies of all archived ESI. Offsite storage of redundant copies of ESI is no longer the domain of large organization nor depend upon hard to access and search backup tapes.

Centralized management of electronically stored information

Datosphere is a single unified content archiving platform that can ensure the capture, indexing, storage, security, retention and discovery of disparate ESI. Silos of ESI can be consolidated while providing powerful search, retrieval and discovery functionality simplifying the management and lifecycle of ESI. Flexible retention policies can be centrally managed to control the size and rate of growth of the archive.

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