UTILIZING HIERARCHICAL STORAGE MANAGEMENT.The rapid expansion of business into e-commerce has created a new model in data management. IT shops must now cope with a steady stream of mission critical data. Hierarchical Storage Management See HSM. (HSM (1) (Hierarchical Storage Management) The automatic movement of files from hard disk to slower, less-expensive storage media. The typical hierarchy is from magnetic disk to optical disc to tape. ) is a solution to data management. HSM classifies data for dynamic migration/demigration according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a three-tier architecture. Level one is data that must be rapidly accessible 24X7. In hardware terms, level one data is kept on the network server, level two data is migrated to a storage device such as a magneto-optical disk (hardware, storage) magneto-optical disk - (MO) A plastic or glass disk coated with a compound (often TbFeCo) with special optical, magnetic and thermal properties. The disk is read by bouncing a low-intensity laser off the disk. (MO) jukebox, and level three data is archived in a tape storage library or removed and stored in a vault. Camino Software Corp.'s HSM software, Highway Server, is one product designed to leverage Novell's NetWare NDS See eDirectory. NDS - Netware Directory Services service to provide optimized HSM smart dynamic data migration/demigration. The HSM solution manages the data on the server according to the rule sets defined by the administrator. For more information on HSM see the Web site at 222. Caminosoft.com. |
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