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Bank Dumps Quantum Gear: Page 5 of 5

“For instance, large numbers of our users have large personal files stored on our network,” Mixer says. “We don’t need to back them up. We’re already storing those files permanently somewhere else for compliance reasons.”

Mixer's group is using software from Zantaz Inc. to archive and monitor all email correspondence in order to comply with securities regulations. As such, the investment bank has set its Veritas Software Corp. (Nasdaq: VRTS) NetBackup software to skip individual users' personal mail files completely for daily and weekly backups. The company will still back up all the files once a month, though, Mixer says.

As Bank of America moves forward with the cleanup of its storage environment, it also plans to purchase StorageTek disk array systems, according to Mixer. [Waller contends that Bank of America has "made no decisions to purchase StorageTek disk array systems."] In addition, the company is looking at buying hierarchical storage management software providing space allocation and chargeback options, and is currently looking at different vendors.

“Everything’s supposed to be running fine by next summer. We’re being pretty aggressive... We’re trying to finish this off as quickly as possible.”

— Eugénie Larson, Senior Editor, Byte and Switch