Today’s digital world creates data and content at record speeds with individuals creating files of all types – from email attachments and documents, to personal files as diverse as photos, videos and music.
Traditionally, this has challenged ICT departments as they look for cost-effective ways to manage, protect and archive what is often non-critical but nevertheless sensitive data.
Traditionally buying or expanding existing NAS/SAN filers is not a viable solution to managing explosive unstructured content growth as one ends up with dozens of expensive Tier 1 filers or clusters, hundreds of file systems, thousands of snaps, complicated backup regimes, growing demands on power, cooling, space, and above all high operational management costs.
