Reduce the Cost of File Storage

The current approach to the retention of data no longer scales with the growth in data volume, the wide range of value of the data and the change in compliance requirements. 

The cost of managing and storing data has to start decreasing after years of increasing as a percent of IT budgets. SmApper reverses the trend in cost of storage. The SmApper Storage Management Application Platform pays for itself upon installation and saves customers over 40% of their storage cost.   

SmApper applies a layer of data intelligence to standard file structures and enables policy driven automatic action by the systems infrastructure. Data is automatically moved and then stored and secured in the appropriate manner. This is done in a manner that is completely transparent to applications, users, and management utilities, even for the largest and most complex data environments. Customers can use SmApper for their own storage management or use SmApper-enabled storage services from our partners. Both ways save money and improve storage management, compliance and security.

Keeping too much data on primary storage or retaining too many copies is no longer affordable. Implementing policies for data protection, retention and compliance using a wide range of applications, scripts and human action is time consuming and error prone. It is time for the data itself to interact with the infrastructure and reduce the need for human action and the cost of file storage.