Harness metadata and rules for seamless end-to-end data lifecycle management
Orchestrating massive file collections doesn’t need to be a massive headache. Starfish is a unique software application that enables users and applications to tag and assign key-value pairs to files and directories. This not only simplifies content classification but also powers batch processes and policy enforcement while giving you strategic insights into your global file assets..
Starfish excels in R&D, HPC, and AI/ML environments, addressing your most pressing file-management challenges with one comprehensive solution.
User friendly
Enables users to participate in storage management and content classification
Expert friendly
Power tools for DevOps and sys admins; designed for scale and automation
Your environment, your choice
Only pay for features you activate and use
File knowledge is power. Timely action pays.
Starfish combines DISCOVERY with EXECUTION
Discover
Fix on the Starfish metadata catalog for unstructured data.
Discover and organize every file and directory across your environment, complete with their version histories, using the File Catalog. Enhance your files with extensible metadata, such as tags and key-value pairs, enriching them for easier discovery, detailed reporting, and insightful analytics.
Execute
Unleash the power of our scale-out data mover and batch processor.
Do anything you can do with one file to billions. Easily use file catalog query results to instruct Starfish’s parallel data movers and batch processors. Copy, move, delete, or perform another operation on your files at very large scale with ease.
Unearth every pertinent detail about files. Knowledge isn’t just power—it’s savings, efficiency and foresight.
When you’re dealing with billions of files, what you don’t know in storage systems can escalate costs rapidly. Starfish gives you clarity and control.
- Comprehensive reporting & analytics
- Deep metadata insights
- Accurate cost Accounting
- Intuitive user portal
Act smartly and save.
Optimize, streamline, and reclaim your storage.
Make better use of your existing resources.
- Improve your archiving strategy
- Efficiently tackle ROT
- Move data with ease
- Unleash automation
Metadata and Content Classification
Harness the depth and precision of metadata to streamline your file management processes and enhance search capabilities. Starfish allows users and applications to associate metadata with files and directories.
Features
- Tagging
- Key-value pairs
- Inheritable directory metadata
- Enhanced search/find
- Visual query builder
- Easy automation in CLI, GUI, and API
Benefits
- Efficient organization
- Consistency across directories
- Swift data retrieval
- Intuitive user experience
Reporting and Analytics
Starfish is the industry leader in reporting and file system analytics. Dive deep into unparalleled file system analytics.
Features
- Metadata for greater specificity
- Engineered for massive scale
- Retention and analysis of historical data
- Customizable with SQ
- Support for third-party BI tools such as Tableau
- More than just analytics
- Orphaned file discovery
- Quota management, chargeback, and showback
- Identify candidate files for archive and deletion
Benefits
- Gain actionable insights with precision and depth
- Ensure consistent performance at every level
- Empower strategic decisions
- Holistic data oversight for complete control
- Transparent, accountable resource allocation
Data Protection/Preservation
Strengthen your data protection strategies to provide unwavering security and resilience, tailored to your specific needs
Features
- Data replication
- Data mirroring
- Backup/restore
- Hash comparisons
- Content addresses
- DOIs and UUIDs
Benefits
- Fortify data security with comprehensive protection measures
- Achieve instant redundancy
- Ensure quick recovery
- Ensure data integrity
Tiered Storage and Capacity Optimization
Effortlessly reclaim unused space and facilitate proactive user participation in storage management for a rapid ROI
Features
- Data ROT (Redundant, Obsolete and Trivial) cleanup
- Automated storage tiering
- Data disposition policies and workflows
- Duplicate file detection and remediation
- Orphaned file detection and remediation
- Compression/decompression
Benefits
- Optimize cost per byte by recovering significant space
- Easily adapt to storage needs
- Maintain a systematic, organized data lifecycle
- Efficiently manage file sizes for optimal storage utilization
Data Migration
Turn huge data migration challenges into a streamlined process, with the option to license Starfish for this sole purpose
Features
- Parallel data movement
- Support for NFS, SMB, and object
- The ability to detect incremental file-system changes
- Awareness of character encoding issues
- Sensitivity to hard and soft links
- Ability to do dry runs and simulations of complex migrations
Benefits
- Fast, efficient data migration
- Seamless transitions across storage platforms
- Reliable results through continuous awareness
- Preview migration outcomes
Archive and Recovery
Secure your digital assets and ensure swift restoration with the comprehensive, flexible archiving and recovery
Features
- Metadata-driven decisions
- User self-service
- Manager approval workflows
- Support for POSIX, Windows, object, deep archives, and tape
Benefits
- Use metadata to craft retention strategies
- Boost user productivity
- Maintain data integrity and oversight
- Ensure, consistent reliable archiving
Workflow Automation
Harness the synergy of metadata and batch processing with Starfish, turning complex workflows into automated, streamlined processes
Features
- Metadata-driven workflows
- Data movement
- Metadata extraction from file headers
- Hash comparisons
- Content addresses
- DOIs and UUIDs
Benefits
- Customize and automate tasks
- Streamline large-scale data transfers
- Directly leverage embedded file information
- Maintain assured data authenticity
- Optimize data referencing and retrieval
Data Governance
Elevate your data governance strategy by fine tuning detection logic across files; analyzing permissions, file headers, and the content of individual files; and designing remediation strategies
Features
- PII and data anonymization
- File access permissions
- Confidentiality/export controls
Benefits
- Enhanced data security
- Compliance
- Customized data access controls