Posted on Fri, Apr 03, 2009
IT Directors and CIOs of small to mid-sized businesses face the difficulty of accurately assessing the data count across their network, and are typically less aware of potential data storage issues at each of their business locations. LAN Discovery is a unique and powerful resource offered by online backup services that give IT managers of complex business environments the ability to reduce waste through providing a real-time trending of data storage at each operational facility. The LAN Discovery tool not only reduces total cost of ownership (TCO), but also ensures better recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO) for business data. LAN Discovery is a valuable instrument that can be used to analyze the entire concentration of data on the LAN by generating reports that will reveal idiosyncrasies and characteristics of data behavior within the storage architecture and at remote sites. Through implementing a LAN Discovery tool at each location, the business manager can have their information assessed to differentiate mission-critical data to less frequently used important data. Most importantly, a comprehensive backup strategy tailored to a customer’s particular offsite data backup and storage needs can be effectively planned.
LAN Discovery gives your business the capacity to:
- Identify dormant data and duplicate files
- Accurately count each file type
- Set policies to back up information based on its relevancy, frequency of use and value
- Isolate storage issues before conducting a costly backup
- Increase server availability and performance
- Reduce backup window time
- Determine which files are critical, important and stagnant
- Optimize network disk space
- Save money through the ability to count and categorize company data
LAN Discovery will allow a business to thoroughly analyze the storage network before investing in a backup management solution. Policies and procedures that will help manage corporate data while controlling costs and optimizing storage resources can be implemented. With LAN Discovery tools you obtain the information you need to make strategic decisions regarding your production data storage, as well as your backups.