An Overview Of The Auto-Stor Information Lifecycle Management Solution

With today's explosive growth in the volume of ATA (IDC estimates data growth at 79% per year), there is an increasing challenge of matching the right data to ths most appropriate storage resource over its lifecycle. Meeting compliance and retention requirements is especially complex when trying to balance storage utilization across different tiers of storage.

The auto-stor ILM solution incorporates primary and nearline storage and simplifies this data management challenge by integrating data and storage discovery, classification and automated management into one comprehensive solution for Information Lifecycle Management. The software collects and analyzes detailed information about the utilization of storage and the criticality of data within its lifecycle in order to classify and prioritize data and storage resources. Additionally, the auto-stor solution enables administrators to create policies which automate data management (migration, copy, retention, and clean-up) to consolidate and optimize resources across a heterogeneous storage environment.