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Features and BenefitsFlexible Storage Management
Quest Storage Manager for Windows provides enterprise reporting tailored to meet the needs of any organization. It provides a wealth of reporting and filtering options that allows you to easily assess your current storage infrastructure. Storage Manager scales well on networks of any size and offers flexibility in the following areas:
- Distributed data collection for remote locations
- Ability to selectively scan specific servers and volumes
- Option to turn off collection of file ownership details
- Ability to schedule data collection during off-peak hours
- Solid database maintenance tools
Enhanced Reporting
Storage Management is one of the most critical aspects of the overall system administration process. Storage reports help companies by identifying potential problems before they impact the business and also assist in predicting future storage capacity requirements. A number of canned reports focus on identifying wasted space in the network—on an enterprise or server-by-server basis. Examples of reports include:
- Storage Overview – This report highlights the amount of potential wasted space in the enterprise and allows administrators to drill down into specific usages. By gathering key information, such as servers close to capacity and volumes containing large amounts of inactive data, administrators can easily build a business case for future IT investments and ensure they do not over-purchase or waste new storage capacity.
- Capacity Planning – Trying to predict when you'll need additional hardware resources can be a painfully challenging task. Capacity reports can help you plan your network growth needs by providing an enterprise view of storage growth and highlighting areas of critical capacity.
- Storage Cleanup – In order to effectively remove junk data from the network, storage administration teams must be able to quickly identify the amount of junk data present and pinpoint its location. Knowing how much disk space is being wasted helps companies better prioritize which types of files and specific servers should be addressed first. Storage Cleanup reports identify unused, duplicate, orphaned, and inappropriate data.
Automated Data Management
Storage Actions allows you to schedule data management tasks that automate the ongoing deletion, movement, and archiving of network data based on criteria you set. These automated tasks simplify storage administration and allow you to proactively manage your storage network and reduce storage costs. Examples of storage actions that can be created out of the box give you the ability to:
- Tombstone data
- Move data
- Change ownership
- Change file attributes
- Delete data
- Run application on data
Other Benefits...- Actionable Reports & Custom Reporting - Storage Manager reports can be easily customized without the need for authoring tools. Storage Manager conveniently ships with a Web Report Wizard that allows administrators to author their own custom reports in minutes. With more than 70 pre-defined reports to choose from, you can quickly analyze data and take actions from report results such as deleting duplicate data, setting ownership on orphaned files, or compressing unused data.
- Data Collection - Data collection is fast, scalable, and performed from a centralized console. Collections can be scheduled to take place at any time and interval, and report results can be viewed from a web browser – no client install required. And to improve performance time when scanning remote servers, you can install the Remote Storage Collector component on a server that is closer to the servers from which you want to gather data.
- Agentless Architecture with Small Footprint – Storage Manager has a non-intrusive architecture that facilitates deployment in even the largest distributed organizations, and does not require any agents. Deployment is easy, so you can reap product benefits immediately!
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