Almost since their inception, storage systems have been keeping log files that track everything that is going on with that storage system. Over the years the type and granularity of data that is captured has increased, and today these systems are essentially a big data generator in their own right. The problem is that most of these storage systems don’t provide any meaningful analysis of the data being captured, and the analysis that is reported on is isolated to a single system.
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