Neopath file director

There are other file management systems out there, of course, but NeoPath's big differentiation is that its system can move files at any time - during both read and write activity - according to Rajeev Chawla, president and CEO.

Early adopters include Stanford University, which is planning that File Director will help reduce storage costs by freeing up more expensive Tier 1 storage and automatically migrating little-used information to less costly storage media.

Another early customer is Ubicom, which develops communications hardware and software. NeoPath is targeting large corporations and their proliferation of file servers, naturally enough, but also claims that File Director makes sense for medium-sized firms with even a few NAS devices to consolidate. This story, "Network-based file management" was originally published by ITworld. With File Director, administrators get great flexibility for reconfiguring data services with no impact to users, even while moving files.

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