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CaminoSoft "The conventional solution of deploying more and more storage capacity actually compounds the very problem that it was enlisted to solve." Overview Companies today are faced with managing an ever-increasing amount of data. The traditional solution to this problem was to increase the amount of space on a server by adding more hard drives. This strategy would be similar to a person continually building additional rooms onto a house in order to have more space in which to store all his or her belongings, but without any thought as to where items were being stored. CaminoSoft's Managed Server HSMT software enables companies to store and manage all of their data intelligently without having to continually "build more rooms" in their systems. By classifying data according to a set of defined rules, Managed Server HSM enables files to be stored and accessed based on their current relevance. This solution saves significant time and sharply reduces costs associated with data backup and recovery, labor, and downtime. The benefits of CaminoSoft's solution are already being leveraged by organizations worldwide. © 2003 CaminoSoft Corporation. CaminoSoft, the CaminoSoft logo and Managed Server HSM are trademarks of CaminoSoft Corporation. All other trademarks and trade names referenced herein are the property of their respective owners. The software discussed in this paper is protected by one or more patents and/or is the subject of pending U.S. and/or foreign patent applications. CaminoSoft Corporation 600 Hampshire Road, Suite 105 Westlake Village, CA 91361 USA www.caminosoft.com Phone 800-889-8248 . 805-370-3100 Fax 805-370-3200
1Historic Intelligent Data Migration The concept of data migration is not a new one. Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) originated decades ago in the mainframe world, where it was used as a method to reduce storage costs. When the incremental cost of fast storage was astronomical, the industry clamored for methods to avoid expanding costly hard disk devices. Software was developed to move files along a hierarchy of storage devices that were ranked in terms of cost per megabyte of storage, speed of storage retrieval, and overall capacity limits. Files were migrated along the hierarchy to less expensive forms of media such as relatively slow, mechanical auto-changer devices, based upon rules tied to the frequency of data accessed. But this solution had its flaws. By adopting the storage hierarchy as the solution to swelling storage needs, data center managers were forced to sacrifice speed, reliability and fault tolerance?.and often the ability to recover from total system failures (disaster recovery) ?.as data migrated across the storage hierarchy. Today's Intelligent Data Migration Modern-day data centers have long since shed the mainframe paradigm. More commonly found today are systems of smaller computers interconnected within local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), and now, storage area networks (SANs) and the internet. Mainframes have been replaced by a series of smaller, powerful workstation and server computers. "Dumb terminals" that depended upon the mainframe for their processing power have been replaced by intelligent workstations. The workstations connect, via the networks, to "general purpose" and/or "specialized servers". Some servers focus on file and print tasks while others focus on applications like maintaining complex databases. But, with all of these strides in technology, optimizing computing resources to increase efficiency and effectiveness, one problem persists, even more daunting than before: THE STORAGE EXPLOSION. Industry estimates indicate that data storage requirements often increase by 75% or more per year, every year. In a study by analyst Michael Peterson of Peripheral Strategies, it is estimated that the cost of administering one gigabyte of data is over $8,000 per year. The Problem Disk drives have been getting larger, faster and... [download for more]
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