Have you considered optimizing resources and reducing long-term costs by finding less frequently used data and moving it automatically to another storage tier?

Without the correct tools to assess your data environment, you may be unaware of your exact data usage and have no choice but to invest in more expensive primary storage to meet your growing data needs.

Your goal is to categorize your data, properly manage it, and migrate the appropriate data to a different storage tier to reduce costs, address compliance issues, and perform electronic discovery. NTP Software® addresses these problems by allowing you to move files manually or automatically to the Dell™ DX Object Storage Platform, where they can be combined with e-mail and other data types for a unified corporate archive. With the Dell DX Object Storage Platform and NTP Software, you can archive large amounts of data over long periods of time while potentially reducing long-term storage costs and resources.

Reduce costs and improve efficiency by migrating data

In most cases, a large percentage of your file data can be moved from your primary storage to the DX Object Storage Platform by using NTP Software. The DX Object Storage Platform can empower your organization to add capacity in amounts as small as 1TB, and scale up to petabytes and billions of objects without the set-up, management complexity, and costs of traditional file and block storage.

NTP Software allows for flexibility in your approach to data movement and migration with automated policy-driven movement, manual user- driven movement, or a combination of both. You decide what is best for your organization.

You can empower users to make their own decisions about which files to move or delete with an easy-to-use, self explanatory interface based on the business value of their data. By connecting users to the process, they can add value and understand what’s happening to their data and why.

Optimize storage management

NTP Software’s Precision Tiering product and the Dell DX Object Storage Platform can provide you with a simple way to understand the makeup of your file data environment and how file data is being used.

Once you know what’s being stored and how files are being used, NTP Software Precision Tiering determines what data can be migrated to the DX Object Storage Platform. NTP Software redefines the economics of data movement by being event and policy driven in real time, rather than requiring repeated scans of the entire file system, thus greatly helping to reduce storage-related costs.

Improve Data Management Efficiency with the Dell DX Object Storage Platform and NTP Software

Together, the Dell DX Object Storage Platform and NTP Software can help you realize these benefits:

• A simplified storage assessment to determine the makeup of the entire file data environment

• Automated migration to the efficient and scalable Dell DX Object Storage Platform

• Real-time control and insight across heterogeneous storage environments and multiple locations

• Reduced costs with file data migration and management

Solution Brief

After file data has been moved onto the Dell DX Storage Platform, NTP Software can provide an easy way to manage that data, along with the data on all of your storage resources, by providing real-time file data management, insight, and auditing across your entire file data environment. With NTP Software, manual data management processes are automated and seamlessly managed across locations, storage types, and brands through a single interface, helping you save time and money.

With NTP Software, you are able to enforce appropriate usage policies to help preserve system performance and availability for everyone. NTP Software offers support for NFS and CIFS, so all of your file data can be managed equally. It can also fully integrate with LDAP, Notes, Active Directory, and Exchange so you can manage storage consumption using your existing organizational structure. The metadata-aware DX Object Storage Platform offers you automated policy-based management such as object-level retention, protection, and deletion, eliminating human errors and access and preservation problems that can increase risk and drive up costs. Based on pre-defined policies, you can easily compress objects in-location with the DX Object Storage DX6000G Storage Compression Node functionality. The benefits include optimizing your storage utilization for archived files and reducing the foot print of the dataset.

NTP Software and the Dell DX Object Storage Platform can help you streamline data management

Are you looking for help managing your file data growth? By delivering real-time file data migration and improving control and insight, NTP Software and the Dell DX Object Storage Platform can enable cost-effective storage and management of your file data. When you choose Dell’s Object Storage solutions and services, you can get a clear picture of your data—where it’s coming from, what it is, and how it’s being used by your organizational or business units—so you can implement consistent storage and retention policies without unnecessary costs or sacrificing flexibility, and use the data more effectively for operational and strategic decision-making.

Services to help find the right solution

Dell DX Object Storage is a technology that can be utilized to optimize your storage and meet your business goals. Dell IT Consulting Services* can work collaboratively with you to determine a blueprint that fits within your specific business needs through a catalog of well-defined engagements including best practice data archiving design.

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1. The user stores or manipulates data, triggering a policy.

2. NTP Software QFS notifies the end-user of the policy and the user’s status.

3. The user selects files to move with NTP Software Storage Investigator™

4. NTP Software Storage Investigator™ gives the NTP Software On-Demand Data Movement (ODDM) Engine the list of files to be moved.

5. ODDM translates the list into criteria for specific actions and activates the data movement engine.

6. The specified files are moved to the Dell DX Object Storage Platform.

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