SafeCapacity, an automated data management and capacity monitoring
solution, addresses
the difficulties inherent to exponential data growth, 24 by 7 operational
requirements, and optimization of data across varying levels of
storage resources.
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SafeCapacity
provides the following significant benefits to its users:
- Delivers clear, file-level reports on storage
utilization
- Increases the efficiency of existing
storage
- Transparently migrates files across devices to cost balance
storage resources
- Eliminates
out-of-disk-space events
- Reduces system administration time monitoring storage
systems by twenty percent
- Reduces over-capacity allocation of storage
space
- Provides a robust front-end management system for handling
fixed-content data
Visual data reports - SafeCapacity's included SRM
(Storage Resource Management) feature allows IT management to
easily make storage decisions based on graphical reports that
provides file information on:
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Days Since Modified
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Days Since Accessed
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Statistics by Size of File
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Count by File Extension
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Space by File Extension
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Complex combinations of the above combined with additional file
attribute matching.
The graphical reports provided by SafeCapacity allows
users to easily identify
- Improperly allocated storage
- Storage intensive users or applications
- Files that are candidates for relocation
- Match data location to physical storage by access time and
price per megabyte.
- Existence and quantity of illicit data types that may be
stored in violation of corporate rules
Efficient use of storage resources - Provides
more than
20% in cost savings from increasing storage efficiency by
automatically migrating less accessed files to archival storage,
reducing storage growth rate on high end storage. Users
can choose to have less frequently used files automatically
compressed in-place or routed to less expensive and storage
systems.
Automated capacity management - SafeCapacity automates data
optimization and life-cycle management
using "Set and Forget" policies. System administrators no longer
need to closely monitor storage on each individual
file system or spend hours on end juggling physical file placement to meet
business needs.
Optimization of High Speed storage - For high-end environments,
SafeCapacity's Hotfile option allows for easy identification and
transparent migration of hot files to
faster storage without requiring modification to applications.
SafeCapacity maintains the high speed I/O data rates delivered by
the faster storage through its pass-through relocation method,
guaranteeing
that critical applications receive the performance they need.
By continuously monitoring and maintaining optimum file I/O performance in mixed
storage device systems SafeCapacity-Hotfile delivers near perfect IOPS [input/output per
second] levels.
Cost savings - The ability to balance storage resources by
segmenting data based on business rules allows users of SafeCapacity
to achieve enormous
cost savings. By following user configurable storage
policies SafeCapacity automatically categorizes and transparently migrate
files to other storage devices at scheduled intervals freeing
storage administrators from this previously tedious and time
consuming task.
Continuous storage availability - SafeCapacity virtually eliminates downtime
caused by out-of-disk-space events by monitoring remaining free
space and automatically freeing additional space when needed,
within seconds.
Management by automated alerts - Administrators may now
manage their storage either by exception or proactively. SafeCapacity provides a unique and revolutionary,
real-time approach to managing storage resources. When a
storage capacity crisis is looming administrators receive instant
notification both of the impending issue and that SafeCapacity has
begun following its policy to automatically correct the
problem.
Ease of scaling - SafeCapacity automatically scales to any size file
system environment and facilitates the expansion of user's storage
facilities without unnecessary downtime.
Support for all storage architectures - Network Attached
Storage (NAS), Storage Area Network (SAN), SCSI over IP (iSCSI)
and Direct Attached Storage (DAS).
Solution-Soft invites you to test-drive SafeCapacity today.
Free evaluations are available through our sales group.
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Morrison - Storage Management and Date & Time Testing
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