Classifying and Prioritizing Data and Content

Edward Mann Sr. Storage Architect edward.mann@vion.com

ViON File Services

File Discovery

File Migration

File Management

Data Are Not Information

Unstructured Data Structured Data Content Management Intelligent information Management Big Data
Unstructured Data Structured Data

Its not about just being data informed, but being data aware and data intelligent Om Malik

Challenges in a Distributed World

Disparate islands of information and infrastructure Unruly OPEX and CAPEX costs for management and backup Lack of content control

The Importance of Being Data

Evaluating Data Importance

The Needs Assessment provides a methodology for:

Assessing data via

Importance (weighting the data) Stakeholders, Business &. IT Constraints

Getting Started

Use of questionnaires to determine feelings, frustrations, and likes of stakeholders Directed studies on the data itself Define the Actual Environment Define an Optimal Environment

Consolidate? The Gap Analysis

Value of analyzing your file environment
Discover where your data is being stored (by file type, size, etc.). Determine how much dormant data you have. Discover orphaned files of ex-employees. Discover duplicate files taking up storage space.

Establish baseline of existing infrastructure for comparison

What consolidation strategy is right for you? Will you benefit from tiered storage? Should a Content Platform be employed?

Move Forward Based on Optimal vs. Actual

What do constraints prevent IT from doing? After file analysis, scrub the useless data Establish policies to prevent a re-occurrence of clutter

Post-Assessment Process
Provide an analysis report for implementing a new storage design
Review the raw findings of the assessment Interpret the findings and apply understanding to the results

Recommendations for infrastructure changes and migration

Review the possible impacts of consolidation, both financial & technical. Explore the cost savings of storage tiering and virtualization. Discuss implementing a content repository for large static data.

Propose a plan for infrastructure change with an associated migration plan

An Idealized Environment
Integrated
Convergence of file, content and block services Dynamic data movement across tiers End-to-end Virtualization

Intelligent Tiering
Policy-based, content aware management in heterogeneous environment

Intelligent Migration
High Performance, Highly Available, Grid Design Scale to fit your needs Migration Validation

Reduce Backup Search

Data Dedupe and content-aware compression Replication and inactive data archiving reduces backup bloat

Federated search across NAS, SAN and Archive Enable eDiscovery for Regulatory Compliance
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QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION