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Data Sheet 
 
BrightStor
®
 Hierarchical Storage 
Manager r11.5  
Storage administrators are faced with the conflicting requirements of continuously 
delivering cores services and meeting regulatory requirements while simultaneously 
controlling the cost of operations. BrightStor
®
 Hierarchical Storage Manager (HSM) 
provides transparent migration of files between tiers of storage hardware allowing them 
to maintain user access to files while limiting the volume of files kept on production 
servers. Simple configuration through the Administrator GUI results in an automated 
process to move files to the most cost effective storage throughout their lifecycle.
  
Top Three Key Features  
• 
Transparent file migration across tiers 
of storage 
• 
Policy based rules to match business 
needs 
• 
Simple administration through a remote 
Administrator GUI 
 
Supporting Environments 
• 
Windows 2003 Server 
• 
Windows 2000 Server 
• 
Windows XP for Administrator GUI 
 
Exponential Storage 
Growth  
Disk drives have been getting larger, 
faster and less expensive.  No longer is 
the high cost of storage hardware 
creating resistance to the expansion of 
storage capacity.  It’s now the cost of 
resources to deploy, manage and protect 
storage that concerns today’s IT 
management. As a result, the storage 
explosion has spawned an entire industry.  
In recent years, we have seen the advent 
of the SAN, where multiple servers share 
common storage resources via a fast 
fiber-channel interface, and network 
attached storage (NAS) appliances, 
where additional networked storage 
resources can be deployed quickly and 
painlessly on a company’s existing 
network infrastructure without disturbing 
ongoing processing.  
SANs and specialized NAS servers go a 
long way toward meeting the short-term 
need for simpler deployment of additional 
storage. It should be noted, however, as 
the total storage resources increase in 
size, so does the effort and cost (as much 
as seven times the hardware cost 
according to some industry experts) 
required to manage and protect them.  
The conventional solution of deploying 
more storage capacity actually 
compounds the very problem that it was 
enlisted to solve. The only solution to the 
storage explosion problem is to first, 
reduce the number of files to manage and 
second, automate the management 
process to prevent storage from getting 
out of control in the future.