Reduce primary storage

Unstructured files represent in excess of 50% of all held data (Meta Group). In excess of 80% of that data is Fixed Content and/or Inactive.  

Most of this data resides on primary storage within production systems. It is the fastest growing element of corporate datasets. 

The solution to this storage challenge cannot be to buy more primary storage. Continually upgrading the storage capacity of primary systems may appear to address the problem, but for each additional gigabyte of primary storage deployed, more capacity is required in the network, the servers, the backup.  

The capacity of primary storage systems cannot be increased without creating an additional capacity demand of all supporting systems. 

Moonwalk™ automates and intelligently manages the migration of data from primary storage to cheaper storage tiers within the network.  

Storage consumption is immediately reduced on the primary systems resulting in better performing servers, faster backups and a capping of primary disk expenditure. 

The primary storage volumes are liberated of older, lesser used files and store only the data which is of most importance to the organisation.

Should any legacy data be required, Moonwalk™ transparently restores it on request. This immediate restoration of primary storage capacity coupled with a reduction in hardware expenditure promises to deliver a significant benefit to the bottom line.