See What is in Your Storage
Before You Spend Another Dollar
The Data Landscape Report gives you a complete view of your unstructured data so you can reduce storage waste, plan archive strategy, improve governance, and identify AI-ready data - without moving files.
You Cannot Manage What You Cannot See
Storage costs keep climbing but nobody can explain exactly why. Data sprawls across NAS, file servers, and cloud buckets from multiple vendors. Files go unaccessed for years. Orphaned data accumulates silently. Nobody has a single, accurate view of what is actually out there.
What You Get
A concrete set of deliverables that give your team the facts needed to make storage decisions with confidence.
Executive Summary of Findings
A clear top-level view of your storage environment - total capacity, growth rate, cold data percentage, and the headline actions your team should take.
Cold, Orphaned, and Redundant Data Analysis
Identify exactly which data has not been accessed in months or years, who owns it, and what it is costing you in storage, backup, and replication. Includes ROT data identification - redundant, obsolete, and trivial files surfaced at the filesystem level.
Capacity and Growth Breakdown
Capacity and growth broken down by platform, owner, file type, and data age - so capacity planning becomes an engineering exercise, not a guess.
ROI Model for Tiering and Archive Planning
Use your actual storage costs to model savings from tiering and archiving cold data, including the compounding cost reduction from reduced replication and backup spend.
Recommendations for Governance, Migration, and AI Readiness
Actionable next steps for data governance, migration planning, compliance, and identifying which data is clean and ready for AI workflows.
What the Report Includes
The report runs on-site in your data center. No data moves. No egress. A complete, accurate view of your storage landscape - delivered without touching your files.
Harvests Without Opening Files
Captures all POSIX filesystem metadata and object metadata without touching file contents. Fast, safe, and works on any environment at any scale.
MetadataHub Opens Files.
Extracts Everything.
Go beyond the filesystem - MetadataHub actually opens your files and captures the insights, context, and content embedded inside them. Hundreds of file types supported including industry-specific and application-specific formats.
Built to Handle Billions of Files
MetadataHub scales from small environments to the largest enterprise storage deployments - billions of files, petabytes of data, across any number of shares, buckets, and platforms.
Built For Everyone Who Owns the Data Problem
From the C-suite to the storage team - the Data Landscape Report gives each stakeholder exactly what they need.
CxO / Finance
Storage Administrator
Data Engineer / Architect
Data Governance / Compliance
How It Works
MetadataHub connects directly to your existing storage infrastructure and delivers a complete data landscape report - with no agents, no data movement, and no disruption to your environment.
Connect
Deploy the MetadataHub Docker container in your data center. Most environments are up and scanning in under an hour. No agents, no data movement.
Harvest
Metadata harvesters scan your environment in-place, capturing POSIX, object, and optionally embedded metadata from inside your files.
Analyze
The engine maps your entire data landscape - age, size, type, owner, growth - across every share and bucket.
Deliver
You receive a full report with interactive charts, ROI model, PDF and CSV exports, and a clear path to cost reduction.
Secure by Design. Deployed in Your Data Center.
Runs On-Site
Deploys as a Docker container directly in your data center. Nothing touches your public cloud unless you choose it.
No Data Leaves Your Environment
Zero egress. Zero data movement. Your files stay exactly where they are - the report comes to you, not the other way around.
Vendor-Neutral and Scales to Billions of Files
Works across SMB, NFS, and S3 from any vendor. Capable of analyzing billions of files across any number of shares, buckets, and cloud platforms.
Flat Rate Pricing
Simple, predictable pricing. No per-TB fees, no per-file charges. Contact us for a quote tailored to your environment.
Common Questions
Does this require moving or recalling any data?
No. The report runs entirely in-place using filesystem and object metadata. Nothing is moved, recalled, or modified.
Which storage systems does it support?
Any SMB, NFS, or S3-compatible storage - on-premises or cloud, any vendor. NAS, file servers, object stores, and hybrid environments all work.
What is the difference between the Data Landscape Report and MetadataHub?
The Data Landscape Report uses filesystem metadata - fast and safe for any environment with no files opened. MetadataHub goes further, opening files to extract embedded metadata from hundreds of file types, delivering critical insights into the actual content and context of your data - and enabling ongoing AI readiness, classification, and downstream data provisioning.
How is it priced?
Flat rate pricing - no per-TB or per-file charges. Contact us for a quote tailored to your environment and use case.
Can the report help calculate storage ROI?
Yes. The report includes a storage ROI calculator that uses your actual storage costs to model savings from tiering and archiving cold data, including the compounding cost reduction from reduced replication and backup spend.
Get Started Today
See exactly what is in your storage - capacity, cold data, orphaned files, growth trends, and a full ROI model - without moving a single file.