Administrate your data intelligently
Intelligent solution to manage your data storage load. With the dg file module you can store, migrate or archive your data and information according to its value to your company.
Along with the benefits of hierarchical storage management, take advantage of the capacity management and data assessment capabilities of the dg product range.
Typical use cases and their benefits
 There are plenty of possibilities to optimize the enterprise-wide database. Three typical use cases are distinguished.
1. Migration
Files, which not necessarily have to be stored in the Primary Storage due to their value for the enterprise or access frequency, are automatically moved to cheaper storage locations. As storage location all low-cost storage systems come into consideration. Additionally, there is the possibility to connect Storage-on-Demand solutions in the cloud.
2. Archiving
dg file supports a broad range of archiving approaches in order to fulfill legal or internal compliance requirements. In addition to the concentration on secure storage of information the unique dataglobal approach Unified Archiving also offers high transparency in the information base. The enterprise-wide archiving of all data in one central infrastructure offers numerous advantages:
- revision safe and compliance proof archive
- automated management of file life cycles
- extended search and indexing functions
- Single-Instancing on file level reduces the total capacity
- optimization of Backup and Recovery
3. Classification
The automated classification and therefore the possibility to distinguish files, enables the implementation of several innovative approaches in practice. E.g. files can be marked and identified as confidential. In order to minimize risks these files can be automatically encoded and stored into a certain index. The automated structuring of your data increases the effectiveness of your information management. Classification turns your unstructured data into valuable information.
dg file as an universal hub of data
dg file supports a broad range of target systems for different use cases and can use several target systems at the same time. dg file supports in addition to NetApp Filer also classical file server on the basis of Windows Server so that comprehensive concepts can be realized.
An overview of the benefits
- increase in efficiency due to automated classification, archiving and intelligent migration
- optimal utilizations of resources
- centrally and rule-based information lifecycle management (ILM)
- permanent availability of all relevant data
- achieve substantial savings by intelligently storing data
- high automation means low administrative workload
- high performance HSM functionality without any operational effects
- scalability to preference
- clear reduction of backup volume
- a quick and smooth implementation process for dg file
- a ROI can normally be achieved within one year
A quick look at the dg file functions
- efficient and detailed analysis and classification of the data base
- automatic migration of data to the most suitable storage location
- right data, right tier
- verification and simulation of complex rules and policies
- time and event controlled rule execution
- migration to several storage locations
- HSM benchmarking and monitoring
- all data remain available and accessible to users
- interfaces for most common storage, archiving and backup systems
- seamless integration with all other dg modules
- in addition to Windows data servers NetApp Filer are fully supported for migration and archiving
- HSM can be implemented more intelligent due to the optional classification
- considerable rise in performance and archiving
| Use case |
Solution with dg file
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Benefits
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Create a simple compliance store |
Enablement of SnapLock on NetApp filer due to rule-based setting of retention times (classification optional) |
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| Better use of existing archive infrastructure |
Rule-based migration of files from NetApp filer to an archive such as IBM-TSM |
- Savings
- Operational benefits
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| Creating a full-fledged archive for complex compliance requirements and more transparency |
Archiving and classification of files on NetApp filer to dg hyparchive on the same NetApp filer |
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| Creating a High-Security-Store on NetApp filern |
Identification of relevant information due to classification and migration to corresponding locations on the NetApp filer |
- Performance
- Operational benefits
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| Creating aof High-Availability-Store on NetApp filern |
Identification of relevant information due to classification and initiating of automated encryption |
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| Offloading of NetApp-Filer and optimization of usage |
Migration from NetApp Filer to Secondary Storage (e.g. Windows Server or Tape Libraries) |
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