turn file system chaos into organised efficiency
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Multimedia, documents, presentations, and spreadsheets are the fastest-growing data types within organisations, consuming more storage space at faster rates for longer periods of time. This proliferation of data creates storage management challenges that significantly increase administrative and infrastructure overheads.TRANSCRIPT
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Customer Challenges
• Explosive growth of unstructured data (files)
• Security and Regulatory compliance
• Staff turnover
• Storage admin tasks highly manual and redundant
• Costs in hardware, power, cooling, administration
•More electronic collaboration = more files
Buy more hardware?
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Where Has All My Space Gone?
Has therebeen a
significantincreasein users?
In whatgroup?
Are there lots of
redundantfiles?
Where?
Who hasthem?
Are wekeeping old filestoo long?
What are
typical usagepatterns?
When werethese fileslast used?
Who owns
them?
Are theyrelevant to
our business?
Is spacebeing
abused?
By whom?Are weat risk?
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Duplicate File Report
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File Extension Report
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File Extension Report - Filtered
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Modification Date Age Report
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Owner Report
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Introducing...
Novell File Management Suite
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Identity Driven File Management
Policy Based File Relocation
Automated File Reporting
Novell File Management Suite
Novell Storage Manager
Novell Dynamic File Services
Novell File Reporter
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File SystemsFile SystemsIdentity-Driven Data Management
Identity-Driven Data Management
IdentityIdentity
Novell eDirectory
MicrosoftActive Directory
Identity-driven and Policy-based File Management
• Provisioning• De-provisioning• Role-based management
• Provisioning• De-provisioning• Lifecycle File Storage
Management• Automate manual processes• Business alignment based
on policies
• Storage Hardware Platforms• Storage Area Networks•Windows Server 2008•Windows Server 2003• Open Enterprise Server
(Linux) & NetWare
Novell Storage Manager
EventEvent
EventEvent
PolicyPolicy
PolicyPolicy
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NSM Policy-Driven Automation
Server65
EDI-Policy
LDN-Policy
Server21
Server37
• Provisioning/Placement
• Load-Balancing
• Restructuring
• Migration
• De-Provisioning/Vaulting
VaultServer
• Renaming Server4
• Tiering
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Create Policy and Bring Storage into Compliance
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Enforce Policy Path – Migrate Storage
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Novell Dynamic File Services
BEFORE AFTER
H Drive
H Drive
Merged View
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Benefits
• Automate thousands of hours of manual work on mundane and redundant tasks. Reduce error criteria for consistency and audit
• Assure that users have the space they need whenever and wherever they need it
• Enable user productivity from Day 1. Remove rights to data upon termination
• Attach data to the user based on role and group
• Have the confidence that data is secure and available should an organisation need to prove compliance with government or industry regulations
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“Novell's Storage Manager and Dynamic Storage Technology are well positioned to address emerging challenges.”
“The world must know about this technology....”
Noemi Greyzdorf, IDC“Novell Delivers a Way of Intelligently Managing Organisations' File-based Information”
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