Data Migration Strategy:
Companies today are faced with managing an ever-increasing amount of data, and it becomes more evidently clear that an effective data migration strategy is needed. CaminoSoft's Managed Server HSM software enables companies to store and manage data migration of all of their data intelligently without having to continually "build more rooms" in their systems. By classifying a data migration strategy 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.
Historic Intelligent Data Migration Strategy:
The concept of data migration strategy 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 Strategies:
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 Mainframes have been replaced by a series of smaller, powerful workstation and server computers. "Dumb terminals" that depended upon the mainframe for their processing power have been replaced by intelligent workstations.
Disk drives have been getting larger, faster and less expensive. No longer is the high cost of storage hardware creating the resistance to the expansion of storage capacity. It's now the cost of resources to deploy, manage and protect storage that concerns today's IT management. As a result, the storage explosion has spawned an entire industry, the database migration strategy business.
