NEW - Symantec™ Data Insight for Storage v2.5
Available from 5th July 2011
Symantec is announcing Symantec™ Data Insight for Storage 2.5. This new version will replace Symantec™ Data Insight for Storage 2.0. Data Insight for Storage is an innovative technology that addresses key challenges in managing unstructured data in your customers’ environment. In the face of this growth, gain the trust of your customers with a solution that helps them improve storage utilisation through accountability for storage consumption. Customers need a solution that helps them better utilise their existing storage assets and easily implement chargeback for storage consumed. With Data Insight for Storage, become a trusted advisor by helping your customers:
- Identify inactive/orphan data – Find inactive data, orphan data and understand the age of the data. Target your reclamation, archiving and lifecycle management efforts based on this insight. Help them benefit from improved utilisation of existing assets, and ultimately save on storage costs.
- Improve accountability for storage consumption – The key to ensuring efficient utilisation is to hold users accountable for consumption of their storage. Data Insight enables rule-based inference of data owners. Individual users can be mapped to a department or line of business for business-level consumption report or chargeback. Help your customers promote efficiency and better management of their data.
- Understand consumption patterns – Use Data Insight to understand patterns such as space consumed by non-business data, data usage patterns by location/time etc. to help reclamation, tiering/archiving and capacity planning decisions. Help your customer optimise their storage usage, and increase operational efficiency with automated visibility and reporting.
What's New:
Support for new platforms:
- Sharepoint 2007
- Sharepoint 2010
Key Features:
- Identifies inactive orphan data
- Performs data owner identification and chargeback for storage consumption
- Provides visibility into data usage and consumption
Upgrade Information:
Upgrade: Existing Symantec Data Insight for Storage 2.0 customers with active maintenance are eligible to upgrade to Symantec Data Insight for Storage 2.5
Crossgrade options are available for CommandCentral customers using Data Module.
Marketing Description:
Symantec™ Data Insight for Storage helps you improve data governance through insights into ownership and usage of unstructured data, including files such as documents, spreadsheets and emails. With Data Insight for Storage, you can align your information assets to business goals by identifying and reclaiming irrelevant data, thus optimising your storage environment.
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