File and Object Analyzer

See your unstructured data clearly.

Understand what you have, where it lives, who owns it, what’s consuming capacity, and how it’s changing through one continuously updated metadata intelligence solution for file and object storage.

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The Problem
Billions of files and objects. No single place to understand them.

Enterprise file and object environments can contain billions of files and objects across NAS and S3 platforms, yet storage teams often lack a unified way to understand what data exists, where capacity is being consumed, who owns it, and how quickly it is growing.

Native platform tools provide basic infrastructure statistics, but answering real questions about data age, duplication, ownership, top consumers, path issues, and future capacity requirements still requires separate reporting products, custom scripts, spreadsheets, and manual investigations.

Platform dashboards don’t answer questions about what the data actually is
Scripts and spreadsheets produce stale, fragmented views at enterprise scale
Content-based scanning is slow, invasive, and expensive to repeat
Outcomes

Answer the questions that drive storage decisions.

Know what to protect
first

Identify frequently accessed, business-critical data across your environment so you can prioritize what belongs in a cyber vault rather than protecting everything equally.

Connect data to the people who own it

Surface ownership patterns, top consumers, and growth by user, team, share, and bucket so storage conversations can become business conversations.
  

Make room
deliberately

Identify cold, duplicate, and aging data so you can archive, tier, or remove it with confidence, before capacity forces the decision for you.
  

Capabilities

Put your metadata to work

Key capabilities built around a continuously maintained metadata index, covering visibility, search, capacity intelligence, and action.

Unified File and Object Dashboards

File-specific, object-specific, and cross-platform views of capacity, counts, activity, and growth across NAS and S3 environments.

Metadata-Only Indexing

Builds the analytics index from storage metadata rather than reading file contents, reducing the performance and privacy impact associated with broad content scans.

Hot and Cold Data Analysis

Groups data by last-accessed or last-modified age using configurable thresholds to identify inactive data and prioritize candidates for archive, tiering, or review.

Continous Index Updates

Audit change feeds keep the index current between full metadata walks where the underlying platform supports them, so your analytics stay relevant.

Duplicate Sets

Indentifies likely duplicate data using metadata attrributes for files and S3 E Tags for objects, ranked by potential reclaimable capacity, without content hashing.

Enterprise Search

Search indexed metadata by name, path, extension, date, source, share, or bucket across all supported platforms without building scripts or mounting every source separately.

Data Growth Projection

Tracks daily capacity growth and projects future consumption so infrastructure planning can begin before available capacity becomes urgent.

Path Analysis

Surfaces long paths, illegal paths, dead-end paths and scan-completeness gaps that can disrupt clients, migrations, backups, and storage administrators.

Workflow Automation

License-dependent, dry-run-first workflows for copy, move, delete, rename, and tier actions with explicit confirmation and per-item audit ledger at every step.

How it Works

From storage to insight in four steps.

File and Object Analyzer builds a continuously maintained metadata intelligence layer across your supported file and object environments.

01
Connect your storage

Guided source discovery connects to supported platforms, discovers available shares and buckets, and lets administrators choose what to index and at what scope.

02
Build the metadata index

File and Object Analyzer walks the selected scope and indexes metadata for analytics and search. Checkpoints preserve progress so an interrupted walk can resume rather than start over.

03
Keep it updated

Audit change feeds update the index between metadata walks, keeping analytics current without repeated full scans.

04
Explore your data

Dashboards, search, hot and cold analysis, duplicate sets, path analysis, ownership views, and growth projections across the environment from one continuously updated console.

Supported Platforms

One view across NAS and S3 Storage

Dell PowerScale

Dell ObjectScale

NetApp ONTAP

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