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The Importance of File Ownership

Though varying significantly in its description from vendor to vendor, ILM is basically a strategy for policy-based management of information that provides a single view into all information assets. It spans all types of platforms and aligns storage resources with the value of that data to the business at any point in time.

Much of this management will involve departmental and cost center based decisions relating to access, security, compliance and longevity needs that are custom to your corporation. Only once you have established a data profile and broken the usage patterns down to cost centers and departmental policy will you fully cater for your organizational needs.

With these issues at stake, organizations need to understand their corporate data has become one of its most important assets. Meanwhile there are many potential processes and contaminants within an IT infrastructure that can change the attributes or meta-data of your file systems. Examples include: server rebuilds, infrastructure consolidation, bulk copying and certain applications such as anti-virus and content management systems. These contaminants can cause the data can be incorrectly allocated, stored or relegated based on incorrect policy.

By utilizing FileCensus, organizations can:

Establish original meta-data insurance by collecting file attributes before any infrastructure project changes.
Monitor path locations for unusual access patterns by applications or users.
Assist with contaminant tracking and pin-pointing problem locations.
Restore true ownership details back to your file systems to ensure accuracy.
Log these ownership and usage details over time to help with your regulatory and SLA system needs.

Use FileCensus visibility to introduce Chargeback (User Pay System) to create IT budgets needed to offer customized departmental policy and improved service.

FileCensus has a unique approach to storing this meta-data over time to minimize the impact on your capacity growth. FileCensus gives you piece of mind.