Northern Storage Suite
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As much as 60% of the unstructured data accumulated, and accumulating, on your storage infrastructure is of no strategic value. Northern Storage Suite provides you with the tools needed to control the user behaviour that leads to this storage misuse; changing user attitudes towards storing private, duplicate, triplicate, obsolete and other low value files.
Disk Quotas
Soft Quotas: use quotas simply to trigger notifications
Hard Quotas: set hard ceilings for users and disk objects
User Quotas: control usage by user in department shares
Directory Quotas: set quotas on individual directories
File Block: prevent specific file types from being saved
File Allow: only allow specific file types to be saved
Interface: information-rich and customizable
End User Interaction
Report to users: show files that could be safely deleted
Interactive reports: allow action directly within reports
Timely reports: send a user her report at quota threshold
Secure reports: run in the user's security context
Reporting
Drill-down interface: from overview to specific bottleneck
Scheduled reporting: regular updates on areas of interest
User reports: list all files owned by a specific account
Binary format reports: list all renamed MP3 files
Exchange reports: report on mailbox size
Duplicate file reports: across the network or share level
Forecasting
Usage history: at all drill-down levels including file types
Projections: project usage for hosts, volumes and users
Near full: list volumes with dangerous growth rates
Analytics
Warning flags: draw attention for immediate action
Warning flags: point to where future problems will lie
Action recommendations: outline viable strategies
Chargeback
Financial reports: spread awareness of the financial costs
Strict billing: spread payable invoice for storage service
Cost centers: charge for usage by user, group, OU, path
Data sources: file system, exchange, quota
Automation
Open process: replace hidden scripts with open process
Scheduled cleanup: nightly removal of MP4 files
Scheduled move: monthly zip and move of old files
Immediate mail: watch for changes in a webpage
Northern Storage Suite is a Windows-based software solution that supports Windows cluster, HP PolyServe, HP StorageWorks, SAN devices when connected to a Windows host, all CIFS compliant NAS devices and has dedicated support for NetApp NAS and EMC Celerra.
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