VSI’s File Analysis Reports are designed to help you track the unstructured data within your organization. That’s a fancy way of referring to the files stored on the infrastructure exposed as file shares. There will only be data in these reports if your organization has set up file data collection.
VSI’s file analysis reporting is designed to help you pinpoint trends in how your storage is leveraged by departments and users in your organization. We offer breakdowns that show you point-in-time data at the enterprise level by share which are further broken down by metrics like file types and last access date.
It’s worth mentioning there is also a very useful set of data we don’t show you in VSI. If you’re looking at the Enterprise File Analysis, you can see your shares with a breakdown of the types of files stored on that share. You can drill down to view just that share. As you review the various reports you’ll find some actionable intelligence here, but what you’ll never see is a listing of the actual files themselves. We NEVER transmit that level of detail to our cloud application. We do this for two reasons. Firstly, we think transmitting file names or contents is too invasive and presents serious data risks that no sane company would tolerate. Second, the data storage requirements for that level of detail would be pretty big. We have our own storage environment to manage. We’re working on a way to get you that data in a way where it never leaves your infrastructure. If this is something you need, let us know so we can accelerate the feature and tell you about any workarounds that already exist.