Symantec Takes On Unstructured Data With Data Insight For Storage

Symantec has announced Symantec Data Insight for Storage to help organisations better understand and manage the sharp growth of unstructured data, including files such as documents, spreadsheets and emails. Data Insight for Storage provides new visibility and control into the ownership and usage of unstructured data to help organisations reduce storage costs and align their information assets to business goals.

The solution was developed leveraging previously announced Data Insight technology and demonstrates innovation and integration across Symantec’s security and storage portfolio. Data Insight for Storage helps organisations promote accountability for storage consumption through a new chargeback process. In addition, Symantec Data Insight for Storage gives organisations the management tools to improve storage reclamation, archiving and data lifecycle management initiatives and policies.
Taking On Unstructured Data

According to IDC, the amount of storage capacity shipped in support of file-based storage is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 60.1 percent from 2008 through 2013.1 Pinpointing ownership, understanding data usage, managing data consumption, and how to protect specific data becomes difficult with the ratio of incoming file data overcoming the ability to maintain it.

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With Symantec Data Insight for Storage, these stumbling blocks are removed and organisations can better control their unstructured data with the following capabilities:

• Effective Consumption/Chargeback: Symantec Data Insight for Storage allows IT managers to see who created, who utilises, and who is responsible for data. Individual users can be mapped to a department or line of business for consumption reports or chargeback. This allows for improved efficiencies of storage consumption by giving IT the ability to hold business units accountable for the storage space they utilise.

• Inactive/Orphan Data Organisation: By creating a simplified data owner identification process, orphan and dormant data can easily be located and organised. It creates candidates for reclamation, archiving or deletion processes thus creating a more efficient storage management practice.

• Data Utilisation: Symantec Data Insight for Storage allows IT managers to make more strategic reclamation, migration, tiering and capacity planning decisions as well as help reduce capital expenditure with its storage consumption analysis reports and rich visualisation of consumption patterns. Data Insight for Storage can also help organisations better understand these patterns to improve reclamation, migration planning and capacity planning decisions.