Automatic Archive Management From Plasmon

October 16, 2007: Plasmon has just released its new Archive File Manager, addressing challenges it perceived growing out of file and backup management issues with an automatic data migration solution.

The company says the Archive File Manager pulls static data off NAS and SAN-based storage and migrates or copies it to a UDO Archive Appliance, or the Enterprise Active Archive. It gathers critical information about storage capacity levels and data usage from file systems, giving businesses a clear understanding of how their primary storage is utilised and the types of data actually stored.

Plasmon claims this gives users the knowledge to ensure they are in compliance with industry regulations as well as providing higher operational efficiencies for the business.

“Unstructured data represents more than 75 percent of all data that needs to be archived, and the majority of this resides in standard unmanaged files in NAS and SAN environments,” said Mike Koclanes, Chief Strategy Officer and senior vice president of sales, Plasmon. “Although more than 50 percent of this type of data will never be accessed, businesses keep it on expensive primary storage, causing unmanageable backup issues, and leaving critical data vulnerable.”

The company says Archive File Manager provides a long-term, compliant WORM archive that can also provide businesses with a second removable copy for disaster recovery purposes. It has a wizard-based interface for first-time system setup, maintenance, monitoring, and administration, plus a web-based, Windows console support for remote management.

The Archive File Manager will be available in November.

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