In
a bid to enable policy-based automated storage management of
persistent data profiles, Symantec has announced the ability to
leverage its Dynamic Storage Tiering technology to stored data at
the enterprise level.
Dynamic
Storage Tiering is a feature of its Veritas Storage Foundation,
which it claims offers organisations a complete solution for
heterogeneous online storage management. Symantec has joined the
new Persistent Data Storage Architecture (PDSA) alliance, led by
enterprise-class MAID storage solutions provider COPAN Systems, to
address how enterprise customers manage information.
“Establishing a standard storage software infrastructure is
critical today as organisations look to scale storage operations,
maximise the value of tiered storage, and address the need to
manage information effectively,” comments Rob Soderbery, senior
vice-president of Symantec’s Storage Foundation Group.
With the
Dynamic Storage Tiering capabilities of Veritas Storage Foundation,
information can be moved to storage based on the changing value of
the information to the business. Organisations can thus define
policies that move files based on a variety of criteria such as
date created, time and frequency of access, owner, size, or name.
The policies move files dynamically to higher or lower tiers of
storage based on the defined criteria eliminating administrative
overhead.
Since the
system can span multiple volumes and tiers of storage hardware,
file system directory structures are unchanged. Consequently, file
movement is transparent to the users, applications, databases,
backup recovery policies and access to data is never
interrupted.