Policy managers take your business rules about the information being managed, then implement those rules to move, store and delete information in the enterprise. Trying to find a policy manager can be tricky because they are not necessarily discrete hardware or software products. It's really a feature that is built into numerous solutions. Generally speaking, policy managers will run in software on host servers or on appliances within the network or on storage subsystems.
Typically, a file archiving package will have some policy manager, but some policy managers can also talk externally with other policy managers or data mover (file migration) products to ensure a uniform execution of business rules across storage systems.
Go back to the beginning of the File Archiving FAQ Guide.
This was first published in April 2007