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A Guide to Comprehensive File Data Management (FDM) |
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File data continues to grow rapidly in both the number of files and average file size, resulting in massive amounts of difficult-to-organize file data whose growth and use are often hard to understand. As users store more and more data over time, managing this data becomes increasingly challenging. This paper describes a new approach entitled File Data Management (FDM) and shows you how to use FDM to gather the information needed and take the steps required to manage your file data. |
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The Business Case for NTPS Products |
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Storage is one of the costliest resources that IT owns and manages. As a result, controlling storage costs is
a priority for most companies. In this area, almost everyone can profit from an investment in NTP Software’s technology. This paper shows you how. |
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Protecting the Value of Your Business Data with NTP Software File Intelligence |
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Establishing a comprehensive data monitoring plan for your organization is a key part of securing the value of your stored data, but manual methods of data monitoring are simply infeasible in most environments. This paper shows you how to use automated data monitoring software to expose and reduce the security risks in your data. |
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Finding the Risks and Opportunities in Your Storage |
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In an organization of any size, it is simply not possible to figure out what is important and what your storage management priorities should be by manually analyzing the environment. A terabyte of data contains tens of thousands of directories and millions of files. Multiple terabytes spread across a number of systems that grow and change every day is something that defies human analysis. Only a computer program designed specifically for this purpose can give you the information you need.
The purpose of this White Paper is to show you what to look for and to help you understand the risks and opportunities that the information about your storage environment can expose. |
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Reducing Primary Storage Costs and Complexity with NTP Software Precision Tiering |
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Allocating resources to high-cost storage for low-use data doesn’t make sense. Most organizations would rather match storage to data and use the saved budgetary resources for other projects. NTP Software Precision Tiering™ makes it easy for you to find and migrate data automatically to the most appropriate storage tier, ensure proper archiving of valuable data, meet compliance and governance requirements, and ensure proper data protection. |
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Six Easy Ways to Control Storage Growth |
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What people often miss in all the hype surrounding these new technologies is that there are very effective ways to control storage growth that have existed for years and that don’t require rebuilding your current infrastructure or need new hardware platforms. Many companies have used these ‘legacy’ techniques successfully for years.
The purpose of this White Paper is to highlight these methods and to explain their benefits and how you can profit from them. |
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Improve NetApp Storage Efficiency
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Directory-Based and Group-Based
Quotas and Policies |
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What this means is that if we want to improve the cost-effectiveness of our storage, then
how we manage file data is the place to look. By choosing NetApp as your host platform,
you have already taken one of the most important steps in implementing a cost-effective
solution.
The purpose of this Paper is to help you increase the return on your investment
by showing you Best Practice techniques for managing the data stored on your NetApp
storage systems. |
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Best of Breed End User Experience
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The storage hosted on your network is a service you provide to your end users. The right way to think about it and its management is not as hardware, but as a consumer service offering. Once you frame it this way, you manage it differently. The key to success in running this service offering is the same as with any other service - keep the client informed and engaged throughout the process. Here is a best practice way to do this.
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Key Issues in Storage Resource Reporting
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The Storage resources on your network are one of its most costly components and a critical service for your clients. Preserving its performance and contents is critical to the survival of your business. In spite of this, many institutions do little more to maintain their investments than write backup tapes by role. The general perception that storage costs little is false. A management strategy of benign neglect is unnecessarily risky and not cost effective.
This paper discusses the key issues that underlie Storage Resource Management and provides a framework for addressing them.
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Understanding the User Aspect of Storage Management
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The storage hosted on your network is a service you provide to your end users. The right way to think about it and its management is not as hardware, but as a consumer service offering. Once you think about it this way, you manage it differently. The keys to success in running this service offering are to see things from the client's perspective, and keep the client informed and engaged throughout the process.
This paper will help you understand how to do this.
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