DMF creates and automatically manages a tiered virtual storage environment that can significantly reduce equipment and operating costs, improve service levels and lower risks. Based on user criteria DMF continuously monitors and automatically migrates data among storage assets with different cost and performance characteristics. Only the most critical or timely data resides on higher performance, more expensive storage media, while less critical or timely data is automatically migrated to less expensive, lower performance storage media. Data always appears to be online to end users and applications regardless of its actual storage location.

Unlike many other virtual storage managers, DMF can integrate "green" storage technologies, such as automated tape libraries, into its virtual storage pool. According to The Clipper Group, a Boston-based analyst firm, tape can be up to 23 times less expensive than SATA disk and use up to 290 times less energy.

DMF's industry leading features include automatic data migration, automatic data recall, file and volume level migration policies, custom migration policies through user-defined plug-ins, accelerated data access, partial file migration and recall, Active Backup, GUI-based administration, tape library management and many more.

DMF can manage Petabytes of data, hundreds of millions of files and run storage devices at their maximum rated speed. DMF operates in the background so there is no interruption or degradation of service to end users and applications.

DMF delivers significant storage management benefits including:

  • Significantly reduce storage and storage management costs today
  • Avoid future costs spiraling out of control
  • Lower risks and improve service levels through reduced operator intervention
  • Lower risk of data loss through DMF's Active Backup feature

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