Northwestern cuts storage costs in half with Komprise
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Chicago-based Northwestern University has deployed Komprise storage management, which has allowed it to classify large amounts of research data and migrate it off to less costly media. In the process, it has cut annual spending on its central storage pool from $1.1m to $680,000 by moving data from Isilon scale-out NAS to media that is up to 66% cheaper to buy and run. “We needed to stay ahead of capacity demands and to be compliant – with HIPAA, for example.” Turner said Northwestern’s central storage repository was getting bigger. Eventually, it deployed Komprise, which is a storage analytics tool that can index content and migrate it according to user policy. “It interrogates file metadata with very efficient distributed computing techniques to give a very low overhead, and builds its results into a nontraditional database.”
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