POLICY-BASED COMPUTER FILE MANAGEMENT BASED ON CONTENT-BASED ANALYTICS

Embodiments of this disclosure managing storage of files, stored in a computer storage system having policy-based file storage management, using information derived from content of the files. Embodiments execute content analytics logic module(s) on a primary file stored in a base storage system, creating one or more Features derived from the primary file content. Based on the Feature(s), embodiments automatically determine an electronic storage policy for the primary file and, in certain embodiments, also for the Feature(s). The Features, and accordingly the storage policy, can be updated particularly readily in exemplary embodiments having pluggable content analytics logic modules. This may be occur in light of, for example, new content analytics algorithms (e.g., new image analysis algorithms), new external factors (e.g., new rules governing certain content), and/or new storage equipment (e.g., new storage farms for which it may be more useful or cost effective to store certain types of data).