Hierarchical storage management (HSM) allows you to store data in a secure, cost-efficient manner. Here's what you need to know about it.

It leverages hierarchical storage management (HSM) to govern data storage – a term that has somewhat gone by the wayside, even though the concept remains.

In most cases, this is a combination of spinning disk and removable media, either data tape or DVD. With that comes the management of material as it moves from video server, to nearline, to archive ...

There is always different levels of importance assigned to various data files in a computer system, specifically a very large system that is storing petabytes of data. In order to maximize the use of ...

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Application-aware storage solutions give managers greater control over the lifecycle of their data ...

A new tier in the storage hierarchy has firmly taken root. It’s called secondary storage and is defined as disk storage that is less expensive and lower performing than primary disk storage.

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Moonwalk, based in Milton, Australia, dispenses with tiered or hierarchical storage approaches and SRM (storage resource management) applications that merely provide visibility into storage usage.

Like hierarchical storage management before it, information life-cycle management uses a tiered approach. But HSM moves data based on age alone while ILM determines tier based on business value.

BlueArc has launched a multi-tiered storage system that analysts say brings traditional hierarchical storage management up to date Written by Munir Kotadia, Contributor April 8, 2003 at 7:04 a.m. PT ...

Terms like storage-capacity reporting, storage allocation, provisioning and hierarchical storage management already existed in the mainframe world, and those same tools could be used to solve the ...