Data Management
Organizations face an on-going challenge of managing and storing data that is being generated at an alarming rate. Regulatory and business requirements are driving IT organizations to come up with creative ways to meet these challenges. More often than not managing data is about managing the total cost of the infrastructure such as; hardware, software and ongoing maintenance costs; the cost that organizations occur when data is not available due to planned or unplanned downtime; or the cost an organization occurs in delays when data can not be found in a timely manner.
Most data management solutions manage devises, Adaptive take a slightly different approach and offers solutions that manage the data and enables an organization to define how the data will be used and stored. The business should define the policies and the infrastructure should enforce them.
File Systems Virtualization
Allows organizations to manage the unstructured data through comprehensive reporting and monitoring tools in addition to moving the data from various tiers of the infrastructure while the data is available to the end users. Often times unstructured data has a faster growth rate than structured data. Unstructured data can be found in file systems that are scatted across the enterprise on file servers, desktops or expensive Fiber Channel SANs. This data can be migrated to an archive vault (moved out of the backup process) or to less expensive tiers of the infrastructure as the data reaches the end of its lifecycle. The migration process can be automated based on business policies such as file type, file name, last accessed, etc. Some of the benefits that organizations realize are as follows:
- Reduced backup and restore windows
- Increase in storage utilization
- Consolidation of all file systems across the enterprise
- Non-disruptive data migrations
- Automated Storage Tiering and Archiving
- Dynamic Load Balancing
Backup, Recovery and Archiving
Can have the largest impact to an organization because this is the last line of defense to manage and protect their data. Typically a lot of time is wasted verifying that backup jobs have run and completed and if they have not diagnosing the network, server or storage problems can disrupt an entire IT organization. Trying to get a handle on what can be archived an opposed to being purged can also cause disruption and waste valuable time and resources. Our solutions provide advanced retry and failover resume capabilities that are not offered by anyone else in the industry. Now that the data has been backed up our solution offers the customer granular object level recovery capabilities with point and click browse and selection functionality. The solution tracks the data location for you so managing backup infrastructure is handled by the applications and not by the administrator. This functionality coupled with superior reporting and monitoring capabilities allow our customers to focus on managing the data and not the infrastructure and associated cost.