DATA MOBILITY

Move the right files to the right tier, on demand or by policy.

Data mobility for unstructured data starts from the metadata catalog. Find the files that qualify by any metadata, such as age, owner, or project, then tier, archive, copy, or move them to the storage that fits their value. The files stay searchable after they move, so nothing gets lost along the way.

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Data mobility in Diskover: a policy that moves files not modified in 12 months from Tier 1 flash to object storage, after each scan, with a dry run of 3,412 files and 18.6 TB

WHY IT MATTERS

Cold data on fast storage costs you twice.

CTERA scanned 856 file shares and found that 88.3% of files had not been accessed in more than a year. Those files still sit on the most expensive storage you own, and every backup pays for them again.

Data mobility puts each file on the tier that matches its value. Active work stays on fast storage, finished projects move to object storage or archive, and the catalog keeps track of every file. It’s one of the fastest ways to cut storage spend, because you pay premium prices only for the data that earns them.

88.3%

of files not accessed in more than a year

CTERA, September 2026

Pay less for every terabyte.

Cold files move from premium flash to object storage, cloud, or archive, at a fraction of the cost per terabyte.

Shrink your backups.

Fewer files on primary storage: smaller backups, shorter backup windows, and less storage to buy.

Delay your next storage purchase.

Space freed on fast tiers goes back to active work, so the next hardware purchase can wait.

8 PB

reclaimed by a global media and entertainment company across 6 data centers

Diskover Customer

30–50%

of storage reclaimed by tiering and removing ROT; top performers cut footprint by 50%

Diskover Customers

80%

rise in enterprise solid-state contract prices in the first quarter of 2026

Source: TrendForce, 2026

HOW IT WORKS

How a move works.

How data mobility works in Diskover in four steps: find and prepare, review, move, and verify

HOW DATA MOVES

Three ways to move data.

By policy.

Policies select files with a catalog query on any metadata field, including tags, then move, copy, rename, or delete them. They run after each scan or on a schedule, with a dry run first and a log of every action.
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On demand.

Users with the right permissions select files in Diskover and copy or move them to another system through file actions such as Rclone: Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, SFTP, a network share, and dozens of other destinations. Admins decide who can run each action and which destinations they can use, and each job shows its progress on the job status page.
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Through the movers you run.

Diskover starts the movers you already use, such as Dell SmartSync and CloudSoda, from the file action menu. Diskover decides what moves, and the mover carries it out.
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GOVERNANCE

Move sensitive data on purpose.

A file that was compliant where it sat can land under different permissions or retention rules after a move. Before anything moves, the catalog shows each file’s metadata, such as owner, permissions, and tags, so restricted files stay out of a bulk move and legal holds stay where they are. Between file systems, Rclone transfers keep each file’s owner, permissions, and timestamps.

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$11.5M

average cost of a data breach in the US

IBM, 2026

~36%

of stored data is considered dark or unclassified

Ponemon, 2025

AFTER THE MOVE

Files stay findable after they move.

Every tier in one catalog.

The new tier is indexed with the rest of your storage, so moved files appear in the same searches and reports.

Archives stay searchable.

Tapes and offline drives are indexed one volume at a time, and each result shows the volume to load, so archived files are easy to bring back.

Every move can be checked.

Index Differential compares two scans and lists every file that was added, removed, or changed, for migration and backup checks.

FAQ

Questions about data mobility.

Data mobility is the movement of files between storage tiers, systems, and clouds based on their value, age, and use. As data mobility software, Diskover drives it from the metadata catalog, so every move starts from what the catalog knows, and the files stay searchable after they move.
Storage tiering keeps each file on the storage that matches its value: fast storage for active work, and lower-cost object storage, cloud, or archive for files that have gone cold. Diskover finds the files that qualify in the catalog and moves them on demand or by policy.
A policy selects files with a catalog query on any metadata field, such as files not modified in 12 months in a project folder, or files with a given tag. Destructive actions can require an approval tag, such as approved_delete.
Yes. Policies have a dry run that lists the matching files and logs what would happen, without moving or changing anything.
Diskover moves and copies files through its own policies and file actions, such as Rclone, and it starts the movers you already run, including Dell SmartSync and CloudSoda.
Yes. Diskover can index the destination too, and it indexes offline archives such as tape, so every file stays in the catalog wherever it lives.

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We’ll index a sample of your environment and show you
what’s recoverable against your current storage spend.

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