Observing the rampant growth of unstructured data across industries, the Gartner research organization identified and defined the File Analysis market segment in 2014. According to Gartner, “File analysis enables storage managers, legal and security professionals, and business analysts to understand and manage unstructured data stores to reduce costs and risk, increase efficiency of business-critical data, and make better information management decisions for unstructured data.”
When it comes to managing unstructured user and group data stores in Microsoft networks, Micro Focus File Dynamics offers automated policy-based management through directory services enacted events. File Dynamics acts “…to reduce costs and risk, increase efficiency of business-critical data, and make better information management decisions for unstructured data.”
File Dynamics can help you implement policies to ensure that access rights are correct and to archive or dispose of data once they have completed their lifecycle, reducing costs and risks. Epoch Data Protection policies mitigate risk for data corruption and loss.
When combined with Micro Focus File Reporter, you have a means of discovering which files you’re storing, their relevancy, who has access to them, and much more.