Capacity Planning
Plan for storage needs. Capacity planning is the process of determining what type of storage you will need in your environment in the future, once the network has been cleaned up. FileCensus analyzes trends in stored information, using a collection of statistical and modeling techniques.
There is a finite capacity to a company’s existing storage and employees keep filling up that space. Once that capacity fills up it can actually stop people from doing their job. The IT administrator then has to manually expand storage and may also have to establish policies for saving files to the network. This complex process can be avoided with a capacity planning report that shows a more accurate determination of when an organization is going to run out of space on its servers. IT administrators can plan for the future more easily if they can see how storage is growing.
With this advance planning, companies can reduce or eliminate server over-provisioning, identify and repurpose underutilized servers, reduce IT operational and capital expenditures, reduce server downtime, improve server performance and availability, improve IT budget accuracy and leverage future technologies.