Network integration: On a cloud watch

NEW DELHI, INDIA: In the past five years, the telecom industry has seen an explosion in file-based storage. This growth has come from an increasing subscriber base and launch of database services.

The growth in file based storage has fueled the need for better management approaches, including the use of migration tools to drive better placement of data. In concert with the growth in file-based storage is the need for data custodians and legal and compliance professionals to more quickly retrieve and move data. However, the lack of content-aware file services has made content based search and migration of corporate data challenging.

At a simplistic level, file services can be viewed as the storage infrastructure serving unstructured or file based data. However, a more comprehensive look at file services includes more advanced functions performed on file data, including virtualization, archiving, and migration to help manage unstructured file data.

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