Customers Partners Investors Careers
StorageTek
Search
Advanced Search
Products
Tape Storage
Disk Storage
Virtualization
Storage Networking
Management Software
Storage resource management
Automated data movement
Application Storage Manager (ASM) software
Lifecycle Director software
IntelliStore archive
Lifecycle Fixed Content Manager 100 Series solution
Data Protection Software
Home : Products : Management Software : Automated data movement : Application Storage Manager (ASM) software
Printable version
Application Storage Manager (ASM) software

StorageTek’s Application Storage Manager® (ASM) software is an automated data mover for open systems environments. It is designed for large organizations with massive and fast-growing storage needs. User-defined policies allow you to manage your data and its retrieval across a hierarchy of storage systems in a multi-tiered architecture. It provides performance and capacity while concurrently managing growth and access requirements.

ASM mitigates business risk by improving data protection with its automated data management processes. It migrates less active data so backups are faster and more reliable. And it helps lower your total cost of ownership by allowing data to be stored on the most cost-effective media. You can successfully balance cost, performance and capacity.


Business Benefits 
   With ASM software, your historical data is accessible from any location. Data is stored, tracked and retrieved based on your users’ requirements. ASM software is an important tool in managing your archive data.
   Improving operating efficiencies and saving costs is easy with ASM software since it optimizes IT resources. It significantly reduces the need to add more disk storage and reduces management tasks by moving data to the proper device at the right time, in an automated fashion. And your data is automatically deleted when it expires based on user-defined policies.
   ASM software creates virtually limitless capacity. Its scalability allows continual growth throughout all your storage systems and with all data types.

More Information
Features and IT Benefits | Pricing | Specifications
Related Information
Product CollateralTechnical Documents
Implementation Services Application Storage Manager (ASM) UNIX offering collateral (pdf 87K May 2005)
Implementation Services Application Storage Manager (ASM) software on NT systems offering collateral (pdf 87K May 2005)
Application Storage Manager software for Solaris collateral
ASM (Unix Version) Customer Discussion - technical brief
 
 
Ask an expert
Pre-Sales Technical Questions
1-800-275-4785
01-303-673-2800

Product Support
1-800-525-0369

How to Buy
Contact us online
Or call
1-800-275-4785
01-303-673-2800
For tape media purchases:
1-877-STK-TAPE

Case studies
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Novant Health Corp.
Related offerings
BladeStore disk system
Implementation Services
Support
Features and IT BenefitsTop

Enhance data management
ASM software provides scalability so storage capacity can be increased at a low cost. Archival images are separated from archival data to optimize performance. ASM software provides a simple system to make copies of archived data and information available to applications when they are needed.

Support e-mail archiving
ASM software features enhance e-mail systems, providing automatic migration of e-mail messages from servers to tape based on defined data policies and automatic shortcuts to newly archived messages and attachments. With ASM software, e-mail attachments are managed separately from messages to further reduce storage requirements.

Reduce cost
ASM software stores and manages data for compliance and non-compliance archives using a tiered storage approach. Automated management of data placement virtually eliminates human intervention. Information is placed in the most cost-effective location, while enabling you to meet your service level requirements.

Improve primary data performance
ASM software reduces the glut of dormant data in the primary data path, improving performance and reducing daily backup requirements. The software populates all tiers of storage concurrently and removes the data from the primary path. Copies of the data are distributed electronically through disk-to-disk replication and client/server copy management.

Simplify storage management
By integrating disk and tape into a seamless storage solution, ASM software helps simplify storage management. You can store all types of content in one or many file systems and manage it online or offline.

Increase availability
With ASM software, your data is seamlessly and transparently available to users no matter where the data is stored. And if your primary copy fails, the second copy can be read seamlessly.

 
PricingTop

Pricing can vary based on the server quantity, storage capacity or options. Pricing is for software only. Contact the "How to Buy" help desk at 1-800-275-4785 (01-303-673-2800) for more information.

Request More Information
 
 
SpecificationsTop
Operating Environment
 ASM for S/390ASM for Solaris
Minimum software requirements:
Minimum hardware requirements:Standard Sun server configuration with 30 MB disk space (recommended)
Compatibility
 ASM for S/390ASM for Solaris
Supported operating systems:
Solaris operating environment 8 and 9 (SPARC Platform Edition)
Supported storage systems:

All standard disk systems
Tape and optical drives from most major manufacturers
Supported client environments:
IBM MVS
Supported Applications:





Oracle 9i
VERITAS VxVM 3.1.1+
VERITAS NetBackup 3.4+
Legato NetWorker 6.0.2+
Tivoli SANergy
API 2.2.3, 2.3, 3.1
Options:
Application Storage Manager Remote
 
 

 
Disclaimer

StorageTek equipment is manufactured from new parts, or new and used parts. In some cases, StorageTek equipment may not be new and may have been previously installed. Regardless, StorageTek's standard warranty terms apply, unless the equipment is specifically identified by StorageTek as "used" or "refurbished".

StorageTek and the StorageTek logo are registered trademarks of Storage Technology Corporation. Other products or company names mentioned may be trademarks of Storage Technology Corporation or other vendors/manufacturers.


top