Stop Drowning in Data.
Start Swimming with Starfish!
Is your unstructured data turning into a monster? You know the signs – storage sprawling across different systems, mysterious files multiplying like rabbits, and costs climbing faster than you can approve new budget requests.
But here’s the thing – you don’t need to drown in data. Starfish throws you a lifeline. It’s a uniquely powerful framework that actually makes sense of your file and object chaos. Starfish combines discovery with execution – first, you learn what you’ve got, then you do something about it. Simple yet powerful.
The Starfish Advantage:
See it, Move it, Master it
Starfish works its magic through three core components that make even petabyte-scale environments manageable:
- Starfish Storage Unstructured Data Catalog (UDC)
- Starfish Storage Automation Engine
- Starfish Storage Zones
Unparalleled Discovery:
The Unstructured Data Catalog (UDC)
Think of the UDC as a living map of your entire data universe. It works with anything – HPC clusters, regular NAS boxes, all those obscure file systems, Windows servers, you name it.
Storage Cost Control. Finally.
Armed with real intelligence about your data, you can make smart decisions about what to keep, what to archive, and what to toss – your first concrete step toward bringing those storage costs back to Earth.
Analytics That Matter
Who’s hogging all the storage, which directories are churning like butter, what data’s been sitting untouched for years, and what it’s all costing you. Regardless of how large the file system is, you can run extensive analytics to help you understand every aspect of your data.Different Views for Different Crews
View, email, and alert on dozens of reports covering everyone from storage and backup administrators to content creators and management. Starfish reports on billing and tracking too.Smart Actions
Tag and classify data for action or custom workflows. Detect duplicate files. Reveal encrypted versus unencrypted files and take remedial actions. Fix weird permissions, identify foreign characters that break things,clean up remnants of ransomware attacks.
Powerful Metadata Extraction
Dive deep into file content and extract metadata from over 80 different file types for reporting, auditing, compliance and actions. Custom metadata extraction can be added in. Understand your unstructured data like never before.Master Any Scale
Starfish’s parallel scanning makes quick work of even the most ridiculous environments – billions of files, hundreds of petabytes, data scattered across continents all while maintaining a time machine of your file history. Files moved or deleted? The Starfish catalog provides powerful search capabilities and knows where your files went and when.
Effortless Execution:
The Starfish Automation Engine
Manual data management at scale is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge with a toothbrush. The automation engine is your industrial-strength solution – simpler than you’d expect, yet powerful enough for the toughest jobs.
File Movement and Migration
Migrate PB of files to new storage devices, volumes and locations with speed that’ll make your head spin – complete with true-ups, hash verification, ACL support, and all that good stuff. Regularly consolidate data sets or share across geodistances.
File Replication
Copy and sync your entire NAS file system to a different device, building, or even country without depending on built-in snapshot or replication utilities.Data Protection That Scales
Set up disaster recovery or implement file-based backup and restore with proper versioning, and break free from vendor-specific tools and NDMP limitations. Backup to whatever makes sense – disk, cloud, tape, your choice.
Build Custom Archive Solutions
Copy files directly to your chosen archive target. Retrieve files easily. Completely customizable. Can be driven by users or admins.
Supercharge Your Scripts
Got programs that work fine on small data but choke on the big stuff? Our engine runs them in parallel across petabytes and billions of files, even if they weren’t built for that kind of scale.
Automate Workflows
Automate data-driven workflows for files coming from data acquisition devices and laboratory instruments. Implement lifecycle policies and automate archival, deletion, and replication workflows.Empowered Users:
Starfish Storage Zones
Single Project View
Researchers and teams see all their project data in one place, even when it’s scattered across multiple systems, volumes, or locations. Give users powerful search capabilities to find their data no matter where it is stored. No more hunting for files across a dozen mount points.
User-Driven Curation
Delegate capabilities to power users that can manage and deploy tagging. Let users tag their own data for specific operations – archiving, deletion, classification. They get convenience, you get better-managed storage. Everybody wins.
Show Me the Money
Give clear visibility into what projects are really costing in storage. When departments and labs see their actual usage and growth patterns, magic happens – suddenly everyone’s motivated to clean house.
Ready to Take Control?
Stop guessing, start knowing. Stop struggling, start automating. Starfish delivers the insight, automation, and user buy-in you need to finally get your arms around unstructured data chaos.
Seeing is believing:
Let us show you how Starfish transforms storage management in your actual environment – no made-up demos, just your real data.