It seems like such a 90’s thing to talk about, but “files” still account for a lot of the data on a corporate network. All those documents that your users create: Word, Excel, Visio, whatever…they’re all over the place. In their personal directories, in department shares, or even in ad-hoc folders that they’ve asked you to create so they can collaborate with some of their peers.
By all accounts, this “unstructured data” keeps growing. Despite the SharePoint servers, the document management systems, or other solutions, those pesky user files are still everywhere.
So how do you get a clear picture of what’s out there? How do you manage it? (Actually, most organizations tell us they don’t – they’ve lost control and it’s just too tedious to manage!)
There is help: Novell File Management Suite.
Novell FMS provides a complete Find-Govern-Relocate approach to automating file management.
 Novell File Reporter lets you know exactly what’s out there, who owns it, how old it is and who has access to it. Centralized, aggregated reporting from all of your network file systems. Use this information to then initiate measures to retain, restrict access to, move, archive, or delete the data. |
 Novell Storage Manager provides policy-based management of user and group home folder provisioning, rights settings, disk quota settings, home folder renames and more. Keep data growth under control and save money on storage by automatically moving, deleting or distributing data. |
 Novell Dynamic File Services allows organizations to tier their storage across multiple locations while still giving users access to all their files through one merged view. Automated, policy-based rules ensure that your expensive primary storage is not filled with stale data. |
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