SPACEWatch facts and features: the Storage Treemap

SPACEWatch Storage Suite has a range of powerful and integrated capabilities. One of these is the Storage Treemap.

Storage Treemap uses a clever mathematical algorithm1 to display directory trees from across your network - showing lots of data, but visually revealing interesting facts in a simple way.

Have you got folders and trees hidden away somewhere, consuming lots of space? Are their files little used and worthy of archiving or deletion? With a SPACEWatch Storage Treemap you can visually answer these questions on even the largest networks, with terabytes of storage in use.



In the example above each rectangle represents a significant directory folder - the size is in proportion to the amount of storage in each folder's tree. Rectangles contained within others are folders withiin the same directory tree. Here servers or storage systems are shown green. The storage within them is shown in blue.

Even when a folder is well down the server's directory structure, the size of its storage consumption is clearly revealed. With one click you can open up a new treemap focussed just on that tree and learn more. Or look at folder and file level detail using other inter-linked SPACEWatch tools. Found something of interest? Another click and you can email it to a co-worker, or save it as a web page, Microsoft Word or PDF document to use later.

Noticed the different colors of rectangles? The darker red they are, the older and more unused are the files within that directory tree. Combine dark red with a large rectangle and you have really found something worth investigating further - lots of storage consumed in files that are little used.

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1 Bruls, D.M., C. Huizing, J.J. van Wijk.“Squarified Treemaps”. In: W. de Leeuw, R. van Liere (eds.), Data Visualization 2000, Proceedings of the joint Eurographics and IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization, 2000, pp. 33-42.