Storage solutions can allow automated information storage management with business process awareness to facilitate policy-based content storage. This involves automating the placement and movement of content across a storage infrastructure to align information service levels with the changing business value of content as part of the IAM process.

It also enables automation of information classification, workflow management, adherence to compliance policy, policy driven configuration & change analysis, resource optimization, information lifecycle management (ILM) aware back-up and automated rules-based archival, without affecting users.

New content can be automatically placed on the optimal storage platform and then automatically migrated to secondary storage when the value of that content and related business needs change. This ensures that information storage meets information access, retention and compliance requirements, whilst consistently storing information in the most cost effective manner.

Automated storage management also enables detailed reporting and audit trails that allow tracking of content movement between storage tiers.