Well now is the time to do something about it …
Fiona Mulvaney – Waterford Technologies
It’s that time of year and we are all trying to look after our health & keep our new year’s resolutions. From recent conversations with IT personnel it’s also the “health” of our servers that we need to look after…
So what are my options??
- Buy a new server or add more storage
- Do some internal tidy ups
- Cross my fingers & hope problem will go away
- Take control & put a data management plan in place.
Waterford Technologies 5 point exercise plan for your file server:
1.Understand Usage: Who, What, Where, When, How much?
Old files – too busy to clean up?
Unused files – who really needs them anyway?
Unneeded files – ex-employees, old projects, old software?
Duplicate files – how many copies waste space?
Revisions of files – how many are on disk or on backup tapes?
Use Waterford Technologies File Analyzer Lite tool to get a snapshot of your data.
- Clean up – space savings – Manual and automated delete & Quick restores for user mishaps
- Archive – automated policies (Copy, Move, or Stub)
- Automated Retention / Destruction (Backup critical files from remote locations)
- Consolidate – 80% of all data is redundant, Can we consolidate data down to less servers to help reduce management costs