NEC Information Assessment System (NIAS)

NIAS, Benefits

Cost Reduction

Easy and time-saving procedures with only a few steps to reduce and organize unnecessary files after analysis by NIAS.

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Risk Reduction

Appropriate access right settings including Active Directory editing etc., leading to large risk reduction of information leakage.

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Efficient Operation

Maximizing the utilization of folders and files in shared file server, while simplifying operations related to file servers.

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NIAS, Collaterals

Presentation Documents

NIAS, System Requirements

System requirements

*1 Highly reliant on file numbers in insection path. 
     Followings are rough indication of required memories.

*2 Some function might not work on file system other than NTFS.
     Operation is confirmed with following storages.

*3 Isilon storage requires SmartQuotas (Isilon option) which is paid-for license.
*4 Owner change, authorization confirmation and operation are not supported under NEC Storage HS WORKGROUUP environment.
*5 WORM file system is not supported in NEC Storage M Series NAS Gateway.

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NIAS, Cost Reduction

Visualization of the server

View to easily know the capacity utilization status

• Access through web browser to know the status from NIAS intuitive dashboard
• Data increase trend helps consider timing of file organization and hardware expansion

Unique memory DB technology for high speed analysis

• Easy setting of organization condition to create lists of organization target files

• NIAS recommends organization condition after finalizing automated analysis of the server

• File search can be done in a few seconds even in case of large-scale file server of 2 billion files (equivalent to 1PB)

• Search function linked to Active Directory is available for general users. Unauthorized files to the user are automatically excluded from result if it is done by this person

• Filtered search using folder directory, file name, etc.

File organization / capacity reduction

Efficient operation by linkage of users and administrators

• Administrator can send general users the list of files which is thought to be unnecessary in order to request actual organization
• User can put additional conditions so as to narrow down the files in the list
• NIAS helps total file organization operation including administrator's decision making and user's file check

Scheduled deletion / archiving of unused files etc.

• By setting operation rule, NIAS automates the process of finding specific files based on the conditions (duplicated files, large files, unused files, etc.), and automatically organizes these files
• Without any effort of administrators or users, file server organization can be automated
• Flexible setting can be applied (e.g. duplicated files and files not accessed 3 years or longer are automatically moved to inexpensive secondary storage every month)

• 2. Risk Reduction
• 3. Efficient Operation

NIAS, Risk Reduction

Access rights management

Detect and modify inappropriate access rights setting from huge amount of files

• Inappropriate access rights settings of the folders are visualized in tree-view

• Just a single click in tree-view enables to confirm access rights setting of the specific folder, and it can be modified instantly from the NIAS view
• Access rights setting confirming the update content prevents the misoperation in the update process

• Setting schedule and expiration date of access rights make the total management easier

• 1. Cost Reduction
• 3. Efficient Operation

NIAS, Efficient Operation

Resource management (option product)

Granting setting authority (Active Directory, access setting, quota) to group administrator enables efficient and proper management

• NIAS provides integrated management such as resource allocation (quota) and access rights setting, etc. to efficiently support organization change and project activity

• Setting operation can be granted to each division and/or person in charge of the project
• Workflow function streamlines application / approval operation

• By setting execution schedule and Active Directory information beforehand, time and effort for the management process is reduced, leading to preventing misoperation

Strong support for data migration of "on-premise to cloud" and "on-premise to on-premise"

• Migrate data from your on-premises file server to another CIFS file server. It is also possible to migrate data to another model of storage or a file server on an IaaS environment such as AWS or Azure.
• Also, data migration to cloud storage "Box" is possible.

• Equipped with an easy-to-understand management UI, even those who are unfamiliar with data migration can perform migration work. All operations such as narrowing down the conditions in advance, grasping the status during migration, checking the migration result, and retrying the difference of the files that could not be migrated can be performed from the UI.
• You can perform data migration on multiple machines side by side. As a result, data division efficiency and parallel migration can be realized, and data migration can be accelerated.

• 1. Cost Reduction
• 2. Risk Reduction