01 / SPEED
Petabyte-scale speed
Scan and analyze data at up to 1 PB per hour, delivering complete storage visibility across NAS, object, archive, and cloud environments in hours — not weeks.
Data Center Refresh · Lightning IQ 2.0
Stop migrating
useless data.
Lightning IQ scans petabytes per hour, without moving data, so storage teams can reduce footprint, eliminate risk, and retire infrastructure faster.
Scan everything. Assess instantly. Know exactly what to do.
1 PB
scanned per hour
70%
storage volume reduction
$1M+ / PB
saved on retired ROT
Minutes
to deploy — no agents
The problem
Every refresh cycle starts with a guess.
Capacity is sized on last year's growth curve. Migration waves are planned on folder names. Nobody can say which petabyte is duplicated, which is a decade stale, and which holds regulated data — so you buy for all of it and move all of it.
Hardware costs are skyrocketing. Your storage footprint shouldn't be.
From blind migration
to intelligence-led modernization.
Refresh blind
- ✕Buy capacity for data you don't need
- ✕Duplicates and ROT migrated intact
- ✕Sensitive data found after cutover
- ✕Legacy arrays kept alive just in case
- ✕Assessment measured in weeks
Refresh with Lightning IQ
- ✓Size new storage against real data
- ✓ROT eliminated before you buy
- ✓Risk surfaced before the first byte moves
- ✓Retire infrastructure on a defensible record
- ✓Complete visibility in hours
Shrink before you spend
Refresh a 10 PB estate. Buy for 3.
Identify redundant, obsolete, and trivial data — indexed 100+ folders deep across your entire SAN — and leave it behind. Reduce volumes at the source and dramatically lower the hardware you need to buy.
Footprint before refresh
SCAN COMPLETE · 9h 41m
Raw estate scanned10.0 PB
Retain — migrate to new platform3.0 PB
Re-tier — archive or cold object2.6 PB
Retire — ROT eliminated4.4 PB
−70%
hardware to purchase
$4.8M
ROT cost removed from the plan
Before you migrate
See everything in your storage — before you move anything.
Process and analyze terabytes of unstructured data in place at blistering speed. Apply your own governance policies to uncover redundant data, sensitive information, and unused files long before infrastructure refresh or migration begins.
02 / VISIBILITY
See what you're actually storing
Understand file types, ownership, age, usage patterns, and storage consumption instantly, so refresh decisions are driven by facts, not estimates.
OwnershipAge & usageDeepest trees
03 / ROT
Root out unnecessary data
Identify redundant, obsolete, and trivial data across petabyte-scale environments and eliminate it before buying new storage or migrating workloads.
DuplicatesPriced in dollars
04 / RISK
Surface risk before infrastructure changes
Locate sensitive data, stale permissions, and exposed files before refresh projects begin, reducing compliance and security risk during migrations.
PII · PHI · IPHIPAA · GDPR · SOX
05 / DEPLOYMENT
Deploy in minutes
Automated infrastructure-as-code deployment. No agents. No data movement. No heavy indexing pipelines. No impact on production workloads. Start scanning immediately and see results within hours.
AgentlessOn-prem or cloud
06 / ACT
Retain, re-tier, retire
Lightning IQ 2.0 moves, copies, and deletes straight from scan results — in place, hash-verified, with a full record of what happened. Decisions in days, not months.
✓ /san/vol04/archive/2017 RETIRED
✓ /san/vol09/projects/cad RE-TIERED
! /san/vol02/legal/hold RETAINED
Velocity
Terabytes per minute. Petabytes per hour.
Speed changes the refresh equation. When a full-estate assessment takes hours instead of quarters, it fits inside the procurement window — and the decisions it drives are made on facts.
45+ PB
indexed in 24 hours
100B
records scanned per day
100+
folders deep, indexed
Zero
data moved to scan
SCAN CONSOLE / THROUGHPUT
LIVE
1.04 TB / min
NAS · SMB / NFS4.2 PB
Object · S3 / Blob / GCS3.1 PB
Archive · tape / cold tier1.8 PB
Legacy SAN · to be retired0.9 PB
NFS / SMBOn-prem SANAWS S3Azure BlobGoogle Cloud Storage
Real-time data intelligence
Transform storage planning with facts, in real time.
Immediate visibility into file types, usage patterns, sensitive data, and storage consumption. Take precise control of what to retain, tier, archive, or retire before any migration or upgrade begins.
LIGHTNING IQ 2.0 / SCAN CONSOLE — REFRESH ASSESSMENT
Free guide · 2026 edition
The Definitive Guide to Data Center Refresh
Everything our storage teams learned running intelligence-led refreshes: how to scope a data-first assessment, what to measure before you size new capacity, how to build the ROT business case in dollars, and how to retire arrays defensibly.
Read the guide
Full guide on the site!
The bottom line
Buy less. Move less. Retire sooner.
01
Right-size the purchase
Size new arrays against the data you're actually keeping — not a growth curve inflated by duplicates and decade-old files.
02
Migrate compliant by design
Sensitive data, stale permissions, and exposed shares are found and governed before the first migration wave, not audited after it.
03
Decommission with evidence
Hash-verified action logs give you the defensible record needed to retire legacy infrastructure — and stop paying maintenance on it.
Fast changes everything
Know your estate before you refresh it.
Twenty minutes is all it takes to see a petabyte scan turn into a refresh plan. Scan. Classify. Act.