NetApp Approach to Data Classification

From MIKE2 Methodology

NetApp Information Management Systems

Organizations today face a number of information-management challenges, with storage growth one of the biggest. A company´s storage typically grows from 30% to 70% annually, driven by increases in digitized content plus regulatory and access-time requirements. Unstructured information–the billions of files and e-mail not stored in databases–often represents 70% to 80% of data stored online.

The NetApp Information Server 1200 family provides the basis for more intelligent data-management policies by offering a clearer understanding of the data stored across the enterprise. Once this data is understood, then applications such as data migration, data search and restore, and data privacy and compliance can be more easily addressed.

Improve Storage Efficiencies

Reduce costs associated with data storage and backup by migrating data with a lower value to a more cost-effective storage platform and freeing up more expensive primary storage

Reduce storage costs while reducing the backup window and the cost associated with the backup media.

Identify and eliminate duplicate files to help ensure cost effective storage use.

Reduce Time and Cost to Search Data across the Enterprise

Ensure that the search and identification of needed documents is quick, with the ability to easily locate individual files on storage systems throughout the network.

Mitigate the risk of expensive fines and associated bad press.

Reduce the Risk Associated with Your Data

Identify private information located in files stored across the enterprise -- critical to mitigating the associated risk. Once identified, data can be dealt with correctly through encryption, by being moved to a private share, or by being moved to write once, read many (WORM) storage.