Moonwalk is Enterprise HSM

Hierarchical storage management

Hierarchical storage management is a data storage technique which automatically moves data between high-cost and low-cost storage media. HSM systems exist because high-speed storage devices, such as hard disk drive arrays, are more expensive than slower devices, such as optical discs and magnetic...

 data management software developed by Moonwalk Inc.

Overview

The Moonwalk software allows scheduled data copy, move and migration of files. Files to be actioned are can be classified by location, name, size, age, owner and/or attributes.

File migration to archival storage is transparent to network users. Users access the migrated files via stub files

Stub file

A stub file is a computer file which appears to the user to be on disk and immediately available for use but in fact some or all of the data of the file is being held on a different storage medium. When a stub file is accessed device driver software intercepts the access, retrieves the data from...

 which remain at the original file location(s).

Platforms

Moonwalk supports the following platforms:

• NetWare
  Novell NetWare
  NetWare is a network operating system developed by Novell, Inc. It initially used cooperative multitasking to run various services on a personal computer, with network protocols based on the archetypal Xerox Network Systems stack....
  
   6.5
• Windows
  Microsoft Windows
  Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
  
   2000, XP, 2003 Server, 2008 Server
• Linux
  Linux
  Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
  
   (supports SLES10, SLES11
  SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
  SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is a Linux distribution supplied by SUSE and targeted at the business market. It is targeted for servers, mainframes, and workstations but can be installed on desktop computers for testing as well. New major versions are released at an interval of 3-4 years, while...
  
  , RHEL5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux-based operating system developed by Red Hat and targeted toward the commercial market. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is released in server versions for x86, x86-64, Itanium, PowerPC and IBM System z, and desktop versions for x86 and x86-64...
  
  , Novell OES2
  Novell Open Enterprise Server
  Novell Open Enterprise Server is the successor product to Novell, Inc.'s NetWare operating system, based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server . Originally released in March 2005, the current release is OES 2 SP3...
  
  )
• NetApp filer
  NetApp filer
  In computer storage, NetApp filer, known also as NetApp Fabric-Attached Storage , or NetApp's network attached storage device are NetApp's offering in the area of Storage Systems. A FAS functions in an enterprise-class Storage area network as well as a networked storage appliance...
  
  

Moonwalk also supports the following as archival storage locations only:

• EMC Centera
  EMC Corporation
  EMC Corporation , a Financial Times Global 500, Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company, develops, delivers and supports information infrastructure and virtual infrastructure hardware, software, and services. EMC is headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA.Former Intel executive Richard Egan and his...
  
  
• Caringo CAStor
• Hitachi Content Archive Platform (HCAP)
• Amazon S3
  Amazon S3
  Amazon S3 is an online storage web service offered by Amazon Web Services. Amazon S3 provides storage through web services interfaces...
  
   online cloud storage
• NFS devices.

Components

Moonwalk requires an agent installed on each server. Data transfer is managed between these agents.

Scheduled jobs are managed by a web interface on a separate computer.