The Storage Discovery Tool is useful both before and after you begin using CRC DataProtection offsite backup. This cost-saving tool can be used to analyze the entire concentration of data on your organization's LAN. The Storage Discovery Tool generates reports that help identify possible storage inefficiencies, such as stale or redundant data. The results help IT managers estimate the size of the
backup solution necessary. Once a customer is using CRC DataProtection, the Storage Discovery Tool can improve IT data storage design. Optimizing an organization's LAN makes the backup procedures both more efficient and more cost-effective.
The Storage Discovery Tool provides useful information by identifying redundancies (duplicate files), determining the number of files that change over time, and calculating the amount of data growth. The LAN Discovery reports present this information in a clear and usable manner.
How The Storage Discovery Tool Helps Your Organization
The use of CRC's Storage Discovery Tool helps businesses:
- Increase server availability and performance
- Isolate storage issues before conducting a costly backup
- Reduce backup window time
- Optimize network disk space
- Determine which files to back up
Storage Discovery reports are provided as a feature of the tool, providing valuable network data information such as:
- Access reports which indicate largest files accessed within specified intervals
- Duplicate file reports for specified filenames
- Exchange® Server size reports for .edb and .pst files
- Extensions used, including size and/or percentage graphs
- File sorting by growth over time
- File size reports displaying top n files
- Total storage for each owner of each share, as well as overall totals
- Share usage for total files and size
- SQL Server size reports for total, free, and used space per machine
CRC's Storage Discovery Tool focuses on areas of data growth and ways to help optimize data to reduce the cost of backup and recovery protection.
