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ILM: Panacea or Proprietary Poison?: Page 10 of 24

NuView

NuView offers two ILM products, but they can be used only with file data in Windows environments.

As its StorageX product reveals, NuView favors a global name space. StorageX virtualizes the physical location of files and presents a consistent directory tree to end users. With a global name space in place, StorageX lets data move behind the scenes without the use of HSM (Hierarchical Storage Management) "stubbing."

To this capability, NuView adds File Lifecycle Manager in Network Appliance (a key NuView partner) environments. This product lets you classify, move, block and delete files based on their age, size, type, location, attributes and volume utilization.

StorageX won't directly assist in identifying data-storage requirements. However, it does let administrators create customized "logical" data groups, organized by department, user, project, location, tier of storage and so on. Access-frequency counting is limited to "last access date," and no facilities are offered for characterizing hardware targets, though the product lets administrators define storage pools based on the parameters they specify.