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NTP Software QFS® Family of Products - The heart of the NTP Software Storage Firewall™ Architecture

Extend the life of your existing storage investment while lowering storage TCO
The mission-critical, innovative technology of NTP Software QFS® allows you to set and enforce policies that control how much storage users can consume, what types of data they can store, and how long they can keep that data. NTP Software® solutions are designed to work with users - not against them - to improve the overall user experience, while extending the life of your existing hardware and lowering your total cost of storage management.
 
Address everyday storage needs
  • Prevent unwanted storage consumption: Specify file types to block, making exceptions as needed. For example, set a policy that prevents anyone other than your marketing department from saving or creating MP3s or other media files.
  • Eliminate service denial: You can easily set up your system to ensure that everyone has access to system resources as needed.
  • Make storage policies rigid or flexible: Implement and enforce policies for storage consumption with a hard stop or simply a warning. Create exceptions as needed. Change a policy on one server, and that change is replicated automatically to all your servers.
  • Know what's going on: Extensive reporting capabilities give you specific details about file and storage usage throughout your environment.
Reward the CIO/CTO

Quotas and content filtering are necessary, but return on investment comes from the infrastructure that surrounds them. Nobody deploys a technology with the intent of denying service, or creating issues faster than support staff can handle them. Let your storage technology help you!
  • Empower users to manage their own storage: NTP Software Storage Investigator™ enables users to maintain and optimize their designated storage reasonably. Only the user really understands what kind of unique data is appropriate to the job. Storage Investigator™ helps users to consume and control their storage space as needed, without jeopardizing your storage investment.
  • Reduce Help Desk calls: NTP Software HelpSite™ provides a centralized location to inform users of corporate storage policies. Customizable pages allow you to send unique messages specific to your organization's needs. Informed users need less assistance from the Help Desk.
  • Improve service levels: Customizable NTP Software QFS® Email Templates let you automate personalized user-storage notifications. Warn users before storage becomes a problem - they'll appreciate it.
  • Reduce stress by automating everything: The command-line interface (NTP Software CLI™) makes routine storage administration fully automatable. Quickly script features that you want to run regularly. Pull out the specific data you need to report to your CIO.
Gain secure, enterprise-wide administration

The NTP Software QFS® solution works on every major storage platform. No more juggling different management systems. Manage your entire environment with one interface, one set of policies.

Control users no matter where they move: NTP Software Smart Policy Manager™ ensures that quota policies apply to all of your servers, regardless of type - Windows servers, Network Appliance Filers, EMC SANs - the quota has the same effect on all of your devices. Administrative costs drop when you can virtualize storage across platforms without having to establish and maintain parallel management infrastructures.

Make an enterprise-wide change with one click: Gain control over your multi-system, multi-site applications. The NTP Software Smart Policy Manager™ infrastructure automatically replicates policies and other information between systems. It provides a secure environment for delegated administration. Any application you set up to use Smart Policy Manager™ can communicate with other applications and systems on or off the network.
 
 
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