Data retention vs. HSM and classical archiving

Contents

• 00:00 - introduction
• 03:10 - The initial situation: file servers overflowing with obsolete data
• 10:24 am - Objectives of archiving / HSM vs. Data retention
• 12:51 - comparison of the way of working
• 18:33 - comparison of user acceptance
• 21:47 - Data Retention OR HSM / Archiving
• 23:58 - conclusion

Hierarchical storage management (HSM) and classic archiving solutions optimize storage costs and ideally remain unnoticed by the user. Data Retention deliberately takes a different approach and purposely removes most of the data and folders from the user's field of view in order to improve the efficiency of handling the file system.

This presentation offers a comparison between HSM archiving and data retention and demonstrates the added value of Data Retention.