Hierarchical storage management (HSM) is policy-based management of data files that uses storage media economically and without the user being aware of when files are retrieved from storage. HSM ...

He began with a quick overview of the use case for HSM and how his project fits in. A file that is stored in the cloud, say, can appear to be local to the system. When the file is accessed, an ...

What would you do if data at your company was growing 100% to 150% annually? At the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, the answer was a two-tier – and soon-to-be three-tier – storage ...

Back in the '90s, Broomhead, now director of new business ventures for network storage at Sun Microsystems, saw what was coming. Computer systems were evolving from monolithic towers to more ...

One thing we can all agree on regarding hard times: They make you appreciate what you have. Take last month’s Storage Management Conference 2002 in Chicago. Gone was the expansionist mentality of ...

HSM allows you to store data in a secure, cost-efficient manner. Here’s what you need to know about it. If you’re responsible for managing enterprise data, you know that storage can be both a blessing ...

In the filesystem track of the 2023 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management and BPF Summit, Amir Goldstein led a session on using fanotify for hierarchical storage management (HSM). Linux had ...

As videotape gradually disappears from the broadcast plant, digital storage becomes more important. In most cases, this is a combination of spinning disk and removable media, either data tape or DVD.