CaminoSoft Enhanced File System Archiving Software

CaminoSoft Technologies, Inc., provider of File System Archiving solutions for Microsoft Windows 200X, NetApp and Novell NetWare environments, announced the availability of new Managed Server HSM for OES-Linux.

CaminoSoft’s Managed Server HSM OES-Linux software delivers key file archiving advantages for organizations by:

• Managing data storage in an automated, intelligent manner based on administrator-defined policies, reducing IT management overhead, manual intervention, and costly mistakes.
• Optimizing primary storage (e.g. expensive SAN storage) utilization by continually differentiating active production files from infrequently accessed reference files and migrating the latter to less-expensive storage, such as SATA disk storage and/or purpose-built archival platforms.
• Enabling backup solutions to focus on protecting production files and a significantly smaller amount of reference information for migrated files, reducing the time required for backup.
• Shortening the time required to perform full server (disaster) recovery by restoring only production files and relevant reference information for migrated files.
• Providing end-users with transparent access to all of their stored files, including original attributes and directory structures-without administrator involvement.

According to Neil Murvin, Chief Technology Officer at CaminoSoft, "Managed Server HSM for OES-Linux version 5.2x eases the transition to OES-Linux for our existing customers and offers new file system archiving alternatives to anyone utilizing OES-Linux to serve files to their users. For many of our existing customers, the benefits are two-fold: (1) NetWare volumes containing already-migrated files can be converted ‘in-place’ allowing all previously archived files to remain archived during the transition and accessible from their OES-Linux servers after the transition; (2) middle-tier storage previously required by some archival storage platforms can be eliminated during the conversion by linking the file system directly to the archived files."

Murvin continued: "For any organization utilizing OES-Linux as a file server, this product offers new options for file system archiving by providing policy-based file archival to storage platforms including EMC Centera, IBM Tivoli (TSM), HP IAP, tape libraries and a host of others."