A typical storage device contains 30-40% unwanted data...

On average a storage device that is left unmanaged will include over 30% non-business related data. These files are users’ photo albums, music collections, movie collections – a lot of these files are copyright protected. On top of this you can expect to find a great deal of duplicate, obsolete files and other types of unwanted data.

The effects of this is that the average organization is investing more than a third of its storage budget in maintaining and protecting unwanted and unnecessary data, and an average backup is more than a third longer than it needs to be. Excessive restore times cost billions each year.

Northern Storage Suite offers a way to reclaim this wasted capacity. Its comprehensive reporting functionality shows you just what is being stored in your environment, where it is being stored and who is storing it. Northern Storage Suite can then be used to automatically delete or move these files.

As a final measure, Northern Storage Suite can reveal users who are attempting to abuse your storage policies; by hiding the type of content they are saving or by saving files inside other files.