The explosive growth in file system data over the past several years has become a manageability problem for storage administrators, cost containment dilemma for CFO/CIO/CTO leaders, and a hurdle to end-user productivity.  The perpetual business data growth syndrome significantly reduces backup efficiency, impacts a company's ability to support critical business activities, and has become a manageability nightmare from a compliance standards perspective.

To directly address these challenges, it is imperative for IT organizations to understand and classify their data types.  This allows data administrators to manage their data efficiently and helps them meet committed scheduled backup windows while satisfying compliance regulations.  We at Eastern believe that intelligent data information helps you improve your operational efficiency and saves you valuable 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 and are designed to address the ever growing internal and external industry compliance standards for your business.

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 as little time as an hour without impact to your production environment with 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 the 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, aging data for attachments, duplicate files, email store growth rates, etc..

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

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

Benefits:
• We help you project future capacity requirements.
• Our reports to help your enterprise meet compliance 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.
• Addresses future backup capacity requirements.

We, at Eastern, have the training, knowledge, and first-hand experience to help customers make the right File and Email storage decisions.  We can help you extract the most value out of your existing backup hardware and software that you count on everyday - while reducing the amount of time you and your staff spends everyday in managing this important function.  Our designs and solutions are custom tailored to suit your everyday needs. These solutions are yielded from none other than your own enterprise data -- assuring for a proper optimized environment.