While the price of storage-related hardware has fallen, managing an organization’s storage infrastructure is complex, time-consuming, and, as a result, costly. A recent study by Data Management Institute shows that administration stands for a staggering 80% of the total storage cost, with just 20% for hardware. With stored data increasing 60% annually (according to an IDC report), efficient storage management is a critical bottom line imperative.

Northern Storage Suite allows you to bridge the gap between how your storage resources are being used and how you want them to be used - saving your organization both time and money while allowing for better investment plans.

• Reclaim wasted capacity by insight into your storage environment, remove old, duplicate and non-work related files and enforce limits. We guarantee that you get 30% of your used capacity back in just the first thirty days. A third less data stored will translate into shorter back-up cycles, faster access times and less administrative time, not to mention decreased legal exposure after removing all those music and movie files.

• Reduce growth rates by changing how your users behave through disk quotas and blocking of certain file types. Even a very small reduction in usage growth rates will have a very significant impact over time. Slowing the data growth, even just slightly, will have impact on administrative costs, energy costs and pure hardware costs in terms of added disk.

This together will allow you to maximize your existing storage investments making them last even longer. At some point though, no matter how efficiently or aggressively you manage user data, you will need to add more capacity. The longer you can hold off while maintaining peak productivity, the more value your organization gains from your existing hardware. Couple this with Northern Storage Suite's advanced forecasting and trend analysis and you will be better prepared once it's time to advance your storage environment in the future.