How Implementing VNX File System Features Can Save Your Life

Storage administrators are very aware that data is predicted to grow by 50 times by 2020 while the number of storage administrators will only grow by 1.5 in that same time span.

What if you could control the growth of data that users store on their home drives, monitor the usage, and block certain files from being saved? What if you could deduplicate your file system and save up to 72% of original data size? How about leveraging file system checkpoints to control point-in-time backup capabilities and file systems replication to address disaster recovery (DR) concerns?

In this Knowledge Sharing article, Piotr Bizior discusses how EMC VNX and its features not only save money and improve RPO/RTO, but also make a storage administrator’s life easier.

Piotr describes how to implement file storage features such as quotas, deduplication, replication, and checkpoints to provide a solid and unified solution for file storage. The article addresses the key aspects of the file storage lifecycle, from finding a more efficient way to store the data, to backing it up, planning DR activities, and improving efficiency of a storage administrator’s day-to-day activities.

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