Web-Based Storage Analytics by WhatData

Enterprise storage resource management
company WhatData Inc. release
a web-based storage reporting solution.

A paradigm shift in how storage
resources and unstructured data is identified, classified and
analyzed.

Data center managers are often required
to manage 20 to 40% annual increases in unstructured data with the
same available resources and capital expenditures. Storing, locating
and extracting business value from high volumes of data is increasing
in complexity. Managing this avalanche of data is critical to reduce
storage and compliance costs and minimizing corporate risk. A task
that has been complex due to time and the sheer amount of meta-data
needed to collect in order to produce storage analytics.

With WhatData storage analytics,
customers get an overview and analysis of their unstructured data on
file-servers and NAS devices, in order to achieve better storage
utilization. Unlike other storage reporting solutions, It adds an
analytical angle to the data, to highlight and pinpoint problem
areas.

WhatData answers questions like:

• Who owns what data, where and how much
  and of what type?

• Where are the largest, oldest or least
  used data areas and shares located?

• Which applications are consuming the
  most disk space? Which applications are still in use?

• What is the current storage growth
  trend? What is the future forecasted growth?

CEO and co-founder, Thomas Vernersson:
"With a cloud- and web-based approach to storage management,
our mission is to greatly simplify the life of storage managers and
help them reclaim and optimize their storage. Gone are the days of
costly must-install-and-maintain software packages for storage
management."

The company was founded by Vernersson and Philippe Peirano who has more than twenty years of experience in the enterprise storage industry. WhatData is compatible with most file servers, NAS’s and SAN’s, such as EMC, NetApp, Dell and others.