NORTHERN - Time to Manage

No more manual digging for information, no more missed issues.
The new NSS:Dashboard in version 8 of Northern Storage Suite offers analytics and actionable recommendations on your current and future storage situation. It's a dynamic interface and emailed analysis that identifies storage issues and provides the tactics needed to resolve those issues - focusing your efforts and streamlining the day-to-day management of your storage environment.

Find out more about Northern Storage Suite version 8:

Visit our website and read more or

Download a 30 day fully-functional trial version today

Managing storage is about managing space, people and time.
Northern invites you to a FREE one hour web seminar - a demonstration of the benefits of pro-active storage management. This is an excellent opportunity to quickly identify the fit between Northern Storage Suite and your storage goals. Or why not find out more about what version 8 of Northern Storage Suite has to offer. Learn how you can benefit from Storage Resource Management made easy!

Sign up now:
Thursday, February 7th
Tuesday, February 12th
Thursday, February 14th
Tuesday, February 19th
Thursday, February 21st
Or contact us for a personlized web seminar.

Intelligently designed SRM Read about how At-Bristol manage their ever increasing amount of artwork and CAD drawings through quotas, reports and automation.
Bill your users for storage. Storage isn't free and infinite. You know it - let your users know it as well by using NSS:chargeback.
Learn smart SRM-strategy in 6 min! You haven't missed the NSS movie have you? Learn how to maximize your SRM strategy in under 6 min.

Top Storage Networking Influences
Like any market, storage has its most valuable players, folk whose input is considered essential when weighing best practices, designing new products, and planning strategies. One might call them top "mindshareholders."

Software is the key to 'green' storage
Energy usage is a real problem because data-center energy costs are skyrocketing. Since less data requires less energy, software can help control the amount of data on the storage devices.

10 ways to increase storage efficiency
However much you expand storage capacity, your users will always fill it, so here are 10 ways to boost storage efficiency.

27 billion gigabytes to be archived by 2010.
Almost every sector will continue the battle with data overload. IT executives clamor for ways to prune and centralize their mushrooming data stores. The article highlights the redoubled interest in storage software from vendors.

What's in store for Storage 2008 according to Jon Toigo.
"I'm betting that vendors won't achieve their revenue goals by pushing tin, but by pushing software and services that enable businesses to do more with less."

2008: The year of the Storage Vendor
Enterprise data will continue to grow exponentially, upwards of 50 percent a year on average. If this doesn’t make storage administrators shake in their boots, the exorbitant number of documents that must find a home on cramped disks due to these regulations will...

To remove yourself from the Time To Manage subscription list, send a mail to:news@northern.net with the following as the mail subject: Unsubscribe Time to Manage. [Please ensure you use the email address specified in the 'To..' field of this email. This is the address you used when subscribing to Time to Manage and therefore the address that appears in our mailing list.]

If you have questions or queries about your subscription, please e-mail news@northern.net.

All rights reserved. Northern, Northern Storage Suite, Northern Storage Portal, Northern Storage Reporter, Northern Quota Server, Northern Storage Chargeback, Northern Storage Assistant, MobiServer, OptiMover, PrintControl, Quota Server Admin+, Northern Site Utilities, RasTracker and Time To Manage are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Northern Parklife, Inc. All other products and company names mentioned in the Time to Manage Newsletter may be trademarks of their respective owners and are acknowledged.

LEGAL NOTICE: Mention of third-party products, companies and Web sites in this Newsletter is for informational purposes only and constitutes neither an endorsement nor a recommendation. NORTHERN assumes no responsibility with regard to the selection, performance or use of these products or vendors. A URL to a non-NORTHERN Web site does not mean that NORTHERN endorses or accepts any responsibility for the content or use of such a Web site. NORTHERN provides this only as a convenience to the reader.