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Legato Systems, Inc. last week outlined plans to deliver LAN-based data management products that will automate data archiving and migration, and aid in hierarchical storage management (HSM) and disaster recovery.
The products, which will be rolled out within 12 to 18 months, will relieve the administrative headaches of manually controlling stored data and give end users quick and easy access to archived information.
Legato's current NetWorker products let users in Unix and Novell, Inc. NetWare environments back up data from local-area network-based personal computers, workstations and servers to a single backup server. Data on the storage server is stored on hard disk, tape or optical tape. Only network administrators have direct access to archived data, and they must manually locate and retrieve it for end users.
The new HSM and archiving...