Storage Analyser helps with capacity planning and cutting primary storage costs

With the simple swipe of a slider, organisations find out what proportion of their data has remained unmodified for a month, a year . . . however long they specify in the last two years.

By adjusting the time frame, the user is able to compare likely savings, set an automated archival policy and capacity plan with confidence.

This offers big savings, particularly to organisations dealing with 10 Terabytes or more, as they can migrate large volumes of data to a lower-cost platform and keep existing storage productive for longer.

Redstor’s archiving service is automated and policy-driven, minimising management time and effort, thus enabling IT staff to focus on more strategic business initiatives.

Organisations are able to:

·        Cut primary storage costs by 50 per cent +

·        Sweat assets for longer

·        Automate long-term data retention and reduce IT management overheads

·        Assess various savings to be made with different data management policies

·        Strengthen data protection and management processes

With Redstor, the user experience remains the same and the data is always available. Files archived to a private or public cloud still appear to be on local drives in their original locations and open as normal.

This self-service retrieval puts power in the hand of the user. No IT involvement is required, leaving staff free to concentrate on business-driven objectives.

High-speed access to archived data enables organisations to restore emails, databases, files and folders in seconds rather than having to hold on for hours.

Very large files can be accessed instantly as if they were stored locally. Alternatively a user can download a 2MB file from a 200GB VM file stored in the cloud - without having to wait for anything else to be retrieved. Basic internet connection is adequate as users only restore files that they need.

With General Data Protection Regulation coming into effect on May 25 - organisations have an extra reason to want their archived data to be easily accessible and searchable.

Redstor’s solution improves compliance by making data more secure and easier to locate.

Paul Evans, Redstor CEO, said: “Organisations can see for themselves how much disk space can be saved by archiving files that have not been accessed for a selected period of time.”