I hope you had great Weekend..
Today i am going to talk about unstructured data.. I know most of you are already aware of what kind of Data i am talking about...
Well i am talking about Data which is not stored in rows and column format (Typically Database format) - Well you can find 100 different definition for the same , but in summary this is what
it is.
i am talking about following types of files
- Text Documents
- Media files
- Flash Files
- JPEG/JPG images and several other files which you can think of
Typically such files are hosted on either file servers or Share Points (Microsoft Encourage Share Point based file sharing), I don't understand the reason but let's not get into that :).
There are plenty of solutions available to store such information but this discussion is around file servers.
Any Business vertical you talk about , You are going to see file server footprint with huge Data.
let me summarize some of the challenges that customers would typically face if they have large file server infrastructure.
- Access & Right Management :- This is one of the pain area, There is no built in intelligence in Windows , rather NTFS which can help you to correctly define Access/Delegation/Rights Model for distributed organizations. Windows Admins would typically work with 100 different consoles to Manage permission/rights.
- Search & Report :- How many times you have tried to write PowerShell/VisualBasic script to find who has what permission on which folder ? I am sure we all have done that :)
- Backup & Restore Permissions :- What if you are just asked to restore permission not just complete data ? ,
- Migration of Data :- Robocopy & FSMTs and there are many more not a big challenge right ? , but yes it is a challenge when we working on large File Server Migration/Consolidation projects.
Having said all above, Let me propose you some Enterprise class solutions which can help you to great extent if you are managing large File server infrastructure.
I am sure some of you might be using it already or may be having some other solution in place.
- VaronisDatavantage:-http://www.varonis.com/products/datadvantage/windows/index.html
- Quest Security Explorer :- http://www.quest.com/security-explorer/
I hope this post was informative.
Cheers!!
Pankaj
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