Unstructured data management and metadata for files and objects

Starfish is a unique and versatile application for managing files and objects at any scale, ranging from departmental file shares to the world’s largest supercomputing file systems.

Well over an Exabyte under management!

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Billions of Files – 100s of Petabytes
Metadata-driven Reporting & Workflows
Multi-server Parallelized Data Movement
Storage Agnostic

User Friendly

User Friendly

Enables users to participate in storage management and content classification

Expert Friendly

Expert Friendly

Power tools for DevOps and sys admins; designed for scale and automation

A simple but powerful paradigm

Discovery & Execution
Data Catalogue

Data Catalogue

Data Mover

Data Mover

Automation Engine

Automation Engine

21 Surprising things you can do with Starfish!

We take the rage out of Storage

Leave frustrations with unstructured data management behind.

Turn petabytes and billions of files into a unified, manageable environment.

HPC

HPC

Cloud

Cloud

Institutional

Institutional

Logically federate all your storage devices with vendor-agnostic capabilities.

If you can mount it, Starfish can manage it, including ...

BeeGFS
Dell-EMC PowerScale
IBM Spectrum Scale
Lustre
OpenZFS
Vdura
Pure Storage
Qumulo
Quobyte
VAST Data
Weka

Leverage the power of metadata, rules, and analytics for managing every file and object across billions of assets.

Choose the capabilities you need—and watch the benefits add up.

Higher Productivity

  • Content classification and tagging
  • File system analytics and dashboards
  • Metadata extraction
  • Automated Data Movement

Cost Control

  • Chargeback – showback – shameback
  • Duplicate file detection and cleanup

Regulatory and FAIR compliance

  • PII/GDPR Discovery and Remediation
  • Scientific research data management
  • Data integrity (fixity) checking

The Starfish Advantage

Because files don’t manage themselves

Unleash metadata-enabled discovery

Unleash metadata-enabled discovery

Query and analyze your file systems with unprecedented speed and specificity.

Act intelligently

Act intelligently

Execute tailored scripts and parallelize operations across any number of agents, turning queries into powerful, environment-specific actions.

Interact and empower

Interact and empower

Involve users directly in data classification and lifecycle management.

The Starfish Community

Trusted by leading research centers, academic institutions, and enterprises with the largest filesystems.

Seeing is believing: get a custom demo and then try Starfish at your scale

See for yourself how Starfish transforms storage possibilities in large-scale environments.