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Create a Smarter Storage Strategy

How building a smarter storage infrastructure based on the business value of data can enable you to address your data storage requirements efficiently and at the lowest cost.

Once you understand your data, the next step is to execute on that understanding and map business value to different types of storage. This requires flexibility to not only place files on specific storage tiers as they are created, but also to move them as their value changes.

Data Manager is a powerful software tool that gives you the ability to look deep inside your storage environment. It monitors your file data and discovers information you need to proactively manage your storage. Rich data profiling capabilities and powerful reporting tools help you identify trends in your file data so you can improve capacity planning and forecasting, create effective file management policies and uncover optimization opportunities.

As an intelligent file virtualization device, ARX gives you the ability to move file data without disrupting user access to that data. This gives you the flexibility to make changes in your storage environment to respond to changing business needs. ARX devices include “set and forget” data management policies that automate the movement of data between tiers without downtime, and without ever impacting user access to data. ARX is available in four hardware platforms, each with the same virtualization and automation capabilities, for performance and scalability for any storage environment.

To learn more about Data Manager and ARX, please visit www.f5.com/products.

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