The often-mentioned HSM for Windows is Legato DiskXtender.
But I think your PHB is missing the big picture, which is that your
company needs a data strategy in general. A file system approach to a
much larger issue is really missing the, um, point. Information
technology and business magazines are full of articles about companies
struggling with data growth, and offer many examples of how they have
found solutions. The overly general "Storage Manager" portion of the
TSM product name is unfortunate in today's data storage milieu in that
it gives managers the false impression that the product is far more
encompassing than it is intended to be, leading them to ask TSM
administrators to apply the costly product to solve issues it cannot.
Few companies have data architects, though most desperately need them.
I would encourage your company to step back and take in the larger
view, and work toward an overall approach to the storage, management,
and use of its valuable, growing data.

   Richard Sims

On Apr 14, 2005, at 4:18 PM, Egon Blouder wrote:

Hi,

due to our huge volume of data/files to backup (and restore) my PHB is
looking for a "new" storage architecture.
He wants to offload or archive files off Windows file servers which
are rarely accessed. Those files should be stored on cheap storage
media like SATA drivers and when files aren't used for about half a
year a migration to tapes should be done (Is that HSM?).
Always our users should access their files without a differnet tool
than just run windows explorer/word/excel and open that file off our
windows servers. The storage tool should care about where the location
of the file is and retrieve it asap. If it's on tape delay must be
accepted.

I don't know whether that the mailing list that can point me into a
"new" direction but I thought that TSM client offers such a feature.
Unfortunately I cannot find how to setup it.

Which do people cut down the increase of data/files which must be kept
online on our Windows file servers?