Symantec Data Insight for Storage for data management

Symantec Data Insight for Storage can be used to better understand and manage the sharp growth of unstructured data, including files such as documents, spreadsheets and emails.

The product promotes accountability for storage consumption through a new chargeback process and offers the management tools to improve storage reclamation, archiving and data life cycle management initiatives and policies.

Its effective consumption/chargeback allows IT managers to see who created, who utilises and who is responsible for data. Individual users can be mapped to a department or line of business for consumption reports or chargeback.

By creating a simplified data owner identification process, orphan and dormant data can easily be located and organised and it creates candidates for reclamation, archiving or deletion processes.

It allows IT managers to make more strategic reclamation, migration, tiering and capacity planning decisions as well as help reduce capital expenditure with its storage consumption analysis reports and visualisation of consumption patterns. It can also help organisations better understand these patterns to improve reclamation, migration planning and capacity planning decisions.