"Company ABC" is a successful enterprise with an annual storage growth rate of 70%, and a series of data management challenges. To better understand its file storage environment and clearly identify the problem areas, the company used F5 Data Manager software to conduct a thorough file system inventory.

This report is an excerpt of the information Company ABC uncovered with Data Manager. It also explains how the company used its new insight to implement a file virtualization solution that resolved its most pressing concerns, including:

• Reducing backup time and backup media costs
• Dynamically migrating files anytime, even in the middle of the business day, without downtime
• Provisioning new storage seamlessly, without impacting user or application access
• Automatically distributing storage capacity across many systems
• Making more efficient use of assets already in place to postpone the purchase of additional high-performance disk capacity

Check out this report to see what exactly the company uncovered and how it used that information to reduce costs and improve data management.