The growth of the volume of ESI is explosive and unprecedented. The impact of ESI upon corporate networks, file servers and email servers is burdening already strapped IT staff, impacting user productivity and driving up costs. Laws, regulations and company policies establishing the legal status, mandatory retention periods and discoverability of ESI have real consequences for organizations and virtually assure its rapid growth rates for the foreseeable future.

File servers are the most common repositories for ESI. Organizations allow users to centrally store files so that they are off user desktops and can be backed up and managed properly. Reality is often different as the volume of files on front line file servers grows unabated with old and infrequently accessed data consuming more and more primary storage and IT administration overhead. As a result, the backup window is often insufficient. Furthermore, without the ability to effectively manage the quantity of files, the lack of centralized indexes, poor search capabilities if any, and lack of retention management have made the situation critical for many organizations.

Managing ESI in separate silos is no longer cost-effective or feasible given the sheer volume of ESI. Datosphere for File System Archiving allows organizations to archive ESI stored on Windows File Shares, manage its growth, provide fast user search, access and retrieval and lower total costs.

• Ensures that business content is properly captured, secured and retained
• Control the growth of file storage through powerful deduplication capabilities and store more information at lower costs
• Lower the costs and risks associated with E-Discovery
• Ensure that business information is properly retained and secured
• Improve IT and user productivity by providing seamless user access, search and recovery of files
• Supports archiving and stubbing of files on Windows File Shares (Windows 2000, 2003 & 2008)

File Archiving

Archiving policies can be deployed to Windows File Shares to automatically and consistently capture, archive and secure files based on attributes such as type, size, age, last access date and last modified date. Files can be replaced with stubs to ensure seamless user access while at the same time keeping front end file servers optimized.

E-Discovery

Datosphere provides organizations with powerful privileged user federated search and case management functionality. Organizations can then have the ability to make informed decisions regarding the merits of a legal case or investigation and further demonstrate compliance and chain of custody thus can significantly mitigating compliance and legal risk

Storage Management

Datosphere helps organizations optimize their File servers by offloading storage from primary to lower cost secondary storage without impacting user productivity. Through compression and powerful de-duplication organizations can realize substantial savings in the amount of total storage. Retention policies can then be applied to archived files to ensure their long term access and availability. Front end file servers are optimized, the backup window is reduced significantly and most importantly users can search, access and retrieve files without IT involvement.

Compliance

Datosphere provides a tamper resistant archive, native encryption, granular role definition and a comprehensive audit trail to ensure that ESI remains secure and can only be accessed by those with the proper authorization.