The EMC division at Workgroup has heightened its focus on file system archiving solutions
to address growing demand in the industry for an archiving solution that reduces the burden and assists in alleviating the issues brought about by rapid data growth.
Roshan Narshi, EMC technical product manager at Workgroup says that companies can start by conducting a thorough assessment of their storage environments by using EMC’s VisualSRM, which is a powerful visualisation tool that helps increase capacity utilisation and availability in multi-vendor storage environments.
“This process will provide companies with an understanding of the various data types, origin of files by department, and dates that file were last accessed and modified,” he says. “Additionally,
VisualSRM can provide insight on personal files such as MP3 files, photographs, etc., that can be moved to the archive tier.
“This step will give companies insight into how many files they can safely move, which can be used as a basis to determine cost savings and improvements in operational efficiencies.”
VisualSRM is an automated tool that enables users to see how resources are being used and proactively manage these resources. With VisualSRM you can set and support file-level policies and generate utilisation reports for trend analysis.
“Many of our mid-sized customers are using VisualSRM’s comprehensive toolset for active data management, reporting and trending as it provides live analysis of resource usage right down to
the file level. VisualSRM enables administrators to efficiently manage heterogeneous storage and server resources,” says Narshi
