File-based data is growing faster, consuming more space and being retained longer than ever before. Attend this session to find out how you can tame the file storage beast! You'll be introduced to the unique new offering from Novell, Novell File Management Suite, and how it can help you reduce storage infrastructure costs, save man hours, enhance existing investments in storage hardware and software, and improve compliance.

1. Novell File Management Suite
®
Intelligently Manage File Storage for
Maximum Business Benefit
David Condrey
dcondrey@novell.com

2. Agenda
• Customer Challenges
• Novell Storage Management Suite
®
– Novell Storage Manager
– Novell Dynamic File Services
– Novell File Reporter
• Summary
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3. The Iceberg in the Data Center
Could it sink you?
structured data
unstructured 80% of all digital
data data is unstructured
Unstructured data
is growing by 60%
CAGR
Unstructured data
resists utilization
and reuse
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4. Customer Challenges
• Explosive growth of unstructured data (files)
• Regulatory compliance
• Storage admin tasks highly manual and redundant
• Costs in hardware, power, cooling, administration
• More electronic collaboration = more files
• Hidden value deep in file systems
• Where to start?
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5. File-based Data Growth
“The fastest-growing data type is the file.
Unstructured, file-based data is growing faster, is
consuming more space, and is being retained longer.
This is a challenge that touches every tier of storage,
from primary to data protection to archiving.”
IDC, January 2009
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6. Just Adding Storage is Unsustainable
“Simply continuing to add more storage through
traditional methods is unsustainable because many
datacenters will be unable to provide the necessary
power, space, or cooling. As a result, companies
need to be more effective and efficient in the way
they provide storage resources.”
IDC, December 2007
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7. Do you know...
How many orphaned folders are on the network?
How many TB of MP3s?
How many documents haven't been accessed in the six
months? The last year?
How many redundant files are stored?
Do you know how much space the files above take up on
your network?
How much does it cost to power and cool?
How much time are you spending backing up?
Understanding your data better is the first step to
rationalizing it
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8. Two Approaches to Efficiency
•Before more
Buy disk Now
• Assess your current state
• Manage blocks • Customize policies for your
• Manage LUNs business requirements
• Hierarchical Storage
• Control data based on its
Management relevance
• Storage Virtualization
• Automate mundane tasks
• Others
• Optimize your file storage
• Reduce back-up windows
• Maintain streamlined
storage environment
Why not control data at the source? Start with the user.
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9. Novell File Management Suite
®

10. Enhance and Complement
Novell File Management Suite
®
Universal Solution – Works With Any Incumbent Solution
Automated and Identity-Driven
File System Management
Novell File
File
®
Directory Services / Policy
Management Suite
File System
Operating System / Driver
Storage Resource Management
Traditional “Storage
Virtual Device Management
Block
Resource Management”
Volume / LUN domain populated by
Storage Vendors
Physical Device Management
SAN / NAS / DAS
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11. Novell File Management Suite
®
Identity-Driven Data
Management
Policy-Based Data
Relocation
Automated Data
Reporting
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12. The Common Thread: Identity
Data Cost Regulatory
Productivity
Security Reduction Compliance
• Consistent • Eliminate • Fast employee • HIPAA
storage redundant ramp-up
policies administration • Sarbanes-
tasks • Do more with Oxley
• Deprovision less
access to • Reduce • Privacy Act
critical data helpdesk • Team
• Audit
burden Collaboration
• File Rights Requirements
Analysis • Trend Analysis • NCLB / AYP
• Intellectual • Reduce
Property Complexity
Identity-driven Storage Management
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13. Novell Storage Manager
®

14. Benefits
• Automate thousands of hours of manual work on
mundane and redundant tasks, and reduce errors
criteria for consistency and audit
• Assure that users have the space they need
whenever and wherever they need it
• Enable user productivity from Day 1, and cut rights
to data upon termination
• Attach data to the user based on role and group
• Have the confidence that data is secure and
available should an organization need to prove
compliance with government or industry regulations
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15. Identity-driven and Policy-based
File Management
Identity-driven File
Identity Data Management Systems
Microsoft
Active Directory Event Policy
Novell Storage Manager
Novell
eDirectory Event Policy
• Provisioning / De-Provisioning • Provisioning / De-Provisioning • Storage Hardware Platforms
• Role Based Management • Lifecycle Storage Management • Storage Area Networks
• Automate manual processes • Windows Server 2008
• Business alignment based on • Windows Server 2003
policies • Open Enterprise Server
(Linux) and NetWare®
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16. NSM Policy-Driven Automation
SFO-VaultServer Acme BOS-2K3
BOS-Policy
SFO-Policy
San
Boston
Fransisco
SFO-2K8
X BOS-2K8
• Provisioning/Placement • Tiering
• Load-balancing • Migration
• Restructuring • Renaming
• Deprovisioning/Vaulting
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17. Lifecycle Storage Management
Based on Identity and Policy
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18. Novell Dynamic File Services
®

19. Benefits
• Transparent Tiered Storage
• Reduce back-up windows and associated
administration costs
• Not all users' data is created equal; why treat it
that way?
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20. Agenda
• Tiered File Storage - Automated policies to relocate
unstructured files to a lower cost storage devices
• Policies based on:
– Age of File
– Size of File
– File Type
– Access/Modification Times
• User Experience: Merged view of information automatically
provided for the end user.
• No agents on the desktop
• Administrators can maintain different backup/restore policies
for their primary and secondary storage locations
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21. Novell Dynamic File Services
BEFORE AFTER
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22. Novell File Reporter
®

23. Benefits
• File Assessment Practice
• Discovery
• Easily turn reports into automated policies
• Don't react to storage needs; Plan for them
• Rationalized storage infrastructure saves money
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24. Where Has All My Space Gone?
When were
Are there
Has there Are we these files
a lot of Is space
been a keeping last used?
redundant being
significant old files
files? abused?
increase too long? Who owns
in users? them?
Where? By whom?
What are
Are we
In what typical usage Are they
Who has at risk?
group? patterns? relevant to
them?
our business?
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25. Novell File Reporter ®
• Agents for fast,
immensely
scalable reporting
• Report on
volumes, or on
policies you
create
• Built-in cost
reporting
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26. Intelligent File Management
User creates, accesses,
saves data to disk
Policy-Based Data
Relocation
Stale data can be
relocated to cheaper
Identity-Driven Data Automated Data storage devices
Management Reporting
Automated policies attach
data to users and groups,
IT assesses data usage
while keeping costs low for IT
patterns and makes or adjust
policies to optimize fixed
resources
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27. Summary

28. Why This is Different?
Only the Novell solution does all this...
• Drives efficiency with folder- and file-level management
• Manages collaborative files with no end-user impact
• Uses customized policies to automate manual tasks
• Connects data to users throughout the file lifecycle
• Manages data based on relevance to the business
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29. Heard on the Street
“NSM is a great product both in terms of its functionality
and its simplicity of use. ...NSM is powerful on its own,
but comes into full fruition when deployed in conjunction
with Dynamic Storage technology, also from Novell .” ®
Jon Toigo, Enterprise Systems Journal
“Novell Storage Manager Strikes Data Management Gold”
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30. Enhance and Complement
Novell File Management Suite
®
Universal Solution – Works With Any Incumbent Solution
Automated and Identity-Driven
File System Management
Novell File
File
®
Directory Services / Policy
Management Suite
File System
Operating System / Driver
Storage Resource Management
Traditional “Storage
Virtual Device Management
Block
Resource Management”
Volume / LUN domain populated by
Storage Vendors
Physical Device Management
SAN / NAS / DAS
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