Data Profiling & Recovery
Recognize data storage patterns to recover capacity. Data profiling and data recovery help IT administrators gain a better understanding of their organization’s data. Once they know the type of data taking up space in the network, they can see where cleanup is necessary. They learn what type of data is causing their storage issues, can work to remove the storage bottlenecks, organize the data and create a plan that allows for future storage growth.
For example, an organization might have a problem with employees copying music, pictures and movies onto their storage. A data profiling exercise reveals that 30% of the storage consists of non-business related data. The next step is to clean up that data. With this pattern of behavior detected, IT administrators can implement a process that runs a nightly report showing non-business data stored on the network and alerts the end-users who generated this storage that they need to clean that data off the network or it will automatically be deleted by the end of the week. This becomes a standard policy that runs automatically, leaving the administrator free to handle more strategic matters.