Northern Storage Suite offers the following features and benefits within a single, easy-to-manage framework:

• Real-time Usage Control storage policies are implemented and enforced using Northern Quota Server technology. This eliminates waste, maximizes capacity, and blocks file types to remove the risk of legal exposure and ensure that storage usage is always under control.
• End User Interaction end users are provided with the knowledge and tools needed to manage their own storage use, reducing help desk calls and freeing up valuable IT resources.
• Full Reporting Functionality comprehensive reports and trend analysis, providing you with the insight needed to design, evaluate and tune your storage policies.
• Automation and Optimization scheduled/automated operations include, delete, move, copy files, replicate directories or execute programs. This ensures that all storage-related processes are running optimally.
• Spreading Cost Awareness chargeback technology automates billing based on actual storage use and specific hardware costs. This holds users accountable for their storage use and provides financial incentives for economical use of storage resources.

• NAS Support: All components of Northern Storage Suite are now fully functional on NAS devices through the CIFS standard.
• Cluster Aware: All components of Northern Storage Suite are now cluster aware.
• Microsoft Excel Report Templates: Customizable Microsoft Excel report templates enhance reporting, cost projection and billing functionality.
• Extended End User Interaction: Two additional report types and enhanced reporting options enhance end user self-management. Reports now include duplicate files and media files, based on true binary file type.
• Optimized Multi-Server Management: One time configuration for multiple server reports and charge-back jobs.
  

Northern Storage Suite 2005 is the culmination of over tens years of providing innovative, real-world storage solutions to companies of all sizes around the world. It offers the three ingredients companies want most: comprehensive storage resource management that increases efficiencies while lowering administrative overhead, a solution that makes storage less expensive to manage, and a solution that affords policy-based storage management that can be aligned with objectives on a departmental or organizational level. Ultimately, Northern Storage Suite 2005 is more than a robust tool for storage management it is a critical business tool that emphasizes the correlation between efficient storage management, high availability and uninterrupted business processes -- all of which goes to increased productivity and competitiveness.

The New SRM Standard
Northern Storage Suite 2005 consolidates our entire family of storage software products into one universal SRM solution. Now you can implement disk quotas, reporting, charge-back, automation and end-user interaction...all in one easy-to-administer, centralized framework.

Northern Storage Suite addresses all aspects of storage management, simplifies administration, lowers associated costs and is completely in tune with your business objectives. Everything you've wanted in one package.