The growth in file system data over the past few years has become a manageability problem for the storage administrators and a hurdle to end-user productivity. It reduces the backup efficiency, impacts company's ability to support critical business activities and has becomes a manageability nightmare from compliance standards.
To deal with these challenges it is imperative for IT organizations to understand and classify their data types. This allows data administrators to manage their data efficiently, helps them meet scheduled backup windows and the compliance regulations.We at Eastern believe that intelligent data helps you improve operational efficiency and saves time and money.
At Eastern we provide various assessment services directed towards intelligent data management. These assessment services encompass both open systems and mainframe data.

File System Assessment provides vital information about server volumes and files in heterogeneous storage networks without requiring installation of server agents. Using EMC standard tools we can identify capacity utilization, file age distribution, space consumption, last access time, last modification time, duplicate file types and perform a file type classification. Once the analysis is complete we present you with reports, findings and recommendations in easy to understand format.
This analysis can take time as little as an hour without impact to your production environment and minimal input from your IT administrators.

Benefits:
• Helps in determining the aging of files and how much content is not being accessed or modified.
• Realize how much capacity can be reclaimed if this data were to be moved to an archiving tier like EMC Centera.
• Understand what type of data resides on the servers.
• Single assessment that tells you all you need to know about data residing on your file servers.

Email System Assessment helps you understand where and what is stored on your Exchange server environment. Our analysis tool goes through your email data stores on the Exchange servers and provides vital information about storage consumed by .PST files, mailbox by content and sizes, ageing data for attachments, duplicate files, email store growth rates etc.

Benefits:
• Documents current state of your Exchange servers.
• Determine impact of emails on backup windows.
• Single assessment to gather in depth information about the email data stores.
• Understand benefits of active archive and free up critical storage data on Email servers.

Mainframe Tape Assessment is designed to provide intelligent data about your tapes environment. We help you determine you tape types, application data residing on tapes, tape utilization, risk and exposure on loosing tapes.

Benefits:
• We help you project future capacity requirements.
• Our reports to help your enterprise meet complicace regulations - by filling the gaps.
• We provide TCO's justifying cost savings that you can leverage by going to disk based solutions.
• We can help you implement or improve Backup and Disaster Recovery solutions.

Backup Assessment equips you with backup analysis and reporting tool that helps you identify why backups are failing and helps optimize your backup infrastructure. Our services saves you from wasting time in analyzing backup results and detecting problems. These engagements are non-intrusive to your existing backup methodology and our backup analysis tool collects data for a period of two to three weeks producing reports and analysis of your existing backup environment.

Benefits:
• Gain full visibility into your existing backup process - from Tape drives to Network to Server Utilization.
• Identifies potential risks in your backup environment.
• Reduces time to troubleshoot backup problems.
• Helps you plan and justify growth of your backup infrastructure.
• Optimizes your backup environment.
• Address future backup capacity requirements.