Today, the volume of data on most company networks is greater than anyone could imagine just a few years ago. Many organizations’ storage infrastructures have grown rapidly and chaotically. This process, coupled with the compliance laws of the last several years, has resulted in massive amounts of poorly organized file data that is used and grows in ways that are often hard to understand.

In an organization of any size, it is simply not possible to figure out what is important and what your storage management priorities should be by manually analyzing the environment. A terabyte of data contains tens of thousands of directories and millions of files. Multiple terabytes spread across a number of systems that grow and change every day is something that defies human analysis. Only a computer program designed specifically for this purpose can give you the information you need.

This While Paper assumes you have an application available that can show you what exists in your storage environment and how the data stored there grows and changes over time. With access to this kind of information, the purpose of this White Paper is to show you what to look for and to help you understand the risks and opportunities that the information about your storage environment can expose.