Symantec Data Insight for Storage helps organizations better understand and control the sharp growth of unstructured data, including files such as documents, spreadsheets and emails. Data Insight for Storage provides new visibility and control into the ownership and usage of unstructured data to help organizations reduce storage costs and align their information assets to business goals.

1. Data Insight
Visibility and Control Over Your Unstructured Data
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2. Information Management Challenges
Increasingly Unstructured
WHO OWNS THE HOW IS THETHE
HOW IS DATA PROTECTING THE
DATA DATA USED
USED DATA
• Inadequate metadata • Who has accessed the data • Contain leakage
information •over time? information
Lack of audit
when incident occurs • Who should have access?
• What is the data governance • When is the data no longer • Are there gaps in the
structure? •needed? the data no longer
When is
needed? protection or entitlements
• Pre-requisite for other • What is the optimal method scheme?
business initiatives to store data?
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3. Symantec’s Solution: Data Insight Technology
Users • Enables improved data governance
• Infer Data Owners
• User/Data Utilization
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• Access Patterns & History
File System Monitoring Technology
• Permissions
• Data usage context drives:
• Data storage efficiency
• Data security remediation
• Data management policy
Data (File Servers)
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4. Storage is Being Used Inefficiently
“Data is scattered on filers without divisional or owner organization…very difficult to pull
detailed billing or reporting for divisions.”
- Global 500 Insurance Company
Storage teams are unable to:
• recognize old and irrelevant data
• allocate storage to the
appropriate BU or department
• easily understand data usage and
consumption trends
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5. Drive Better Storage Usage and Accountability
Utilize Storage More
Chargeback to Users Eliminate Orphan Data
Effectively
• Learn data consumption by • Identify orphan data • Obtain usage trends for
user • Determine data to reclaim or capacity planning
• Create business level archive • Break out storage usage by
chargeback reports file type
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6. Align Storage with Business and Increase
Organizational Transparency and Accountability
Data Insight Provides …Which Allows IT Teams to
• Reporting that shows •Build in accountability to
consumption by user encourage more efficient
and/or individual storage use
departments or lines of •Find storage inefficiencies and
business
implement changes
•Start providing storage as a
service
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7. Identify Data Owners
Archie Andrews, 15
Mia Ruiz, 161
John Smith, 173
Marilyn Hamilton, 167
George Leong, 187
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8. Show Consumption by User
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9. Track Actual User Consumption and Map User
to BU or Department
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10. Identify Inactive and Orphan Data and Make Better
Use of Your Existing Storage
Data Insight Provides …Which Allows IT Teams to
• Data lifecycle management •Take action to reclaim or
with reporting that shows archive old or unneeded data
data age, inactive to reduce storage mis-use and
subfolders, and orphan re-use existing storage
data
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11. Identify Data Age
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12. Identify Inactive Subfolders
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13. Recognize Orphan Data
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14. Report Inactive Data by User
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15. Understand Consumption and Trends and Make Better
Purchase Decisions
Data Insight Provides …Which Allows IT Teams to
• Reporting that shows data •Make better storage usage
type, utilization and data decisions
trends
• Can we buy less storage this
year?
“Data growth in the next
5 years is 800%... with
80% unstructured data.”
- Gartner, December 2010
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16. Report Inactive Data by Type
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17. Report Consumption by Type
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18. Show Activity by Time
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19. Present Utilization Trend
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20. Key Take-Aways
Utilize Storage More
Chargeback to Users Eliminate Orphan Data
Effectively
• Increase organizational • Save $ by reclaiming orphan • Improve capacity planning
transparency and or seldom accessed data decisions
accountability • Reduce new spending
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21. Thank you!
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