StorageX works well if your environment is primarily Windows. There is some support for Unix, but it is still maturing. NeoPath would be a better solution for migration if the data is both NFS (Unix) and CIFS (Windows) data. A separate product, Kazeon, can also be used to help determine the content of the data that is out there. It will crawl NFS and CIFS shares and build a full index based on the content. It has strong policies then for migration, deletion or compliance. These products are complementary to one another.

-----Original Message----- From: Julio Calderon [mailto:jcalderon@agami.com] Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 1:00 PM To: netster; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: Data Classification

Personally,

I like what StorageX (now part of Brocade) has to offer.

It will help you make sence of what you have as far of types of files, their ages and with a policy based strategy, you will be able to off load some of the files you are targeting into a lower tier of storage.

I have used it at multiple clients and it's an awesome solution to keep close to your tool box.

Julio Calderon West Region - Systems Engineer

agami Mobile: 408.394.5638 Email: jcalderon@agami.com IM: juliocus (Yahoo)

-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of netster Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 6:20 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Data Classification

Hi! I have several NetApp filers with close to 25TBs of user data stored on them (Best guess is that there is some 50 million files, but we aren't sure as our backup software only backups the current data set, not the snapshots). We are looking to consolidate down the environment given the latest storage capacities and thought I would ask the community here what tools that they used to understand what data needed to be migrate, what data needed to be destroyed, and what the data costs in terms of per user and department? We have the costing for the storage down to a per $ fee per MB/GB.

Any thoughts? We have tried some freeware and shareware programs, but they require weeks, if not months of personnel time to make sense out of the data that they collect. We are looking for a packaged solution.

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