Tiered storage often means the development of a storage strategy that moves data from fast, expensive storage to slower SATA based storage. Tiered storage can also refer to the quality of the storage.

It is sometimes difficult to determine if new technologies drive new applications or if the need for these applications drives technology development. In truth, major changes in the way we do business ...

Automated tiered storage has become a nearly ubiquitous feature in the industry thanks to its perceived benefit of being able to move a company's data to different types of storage media based on the ...

When tiered storage first appeared, understanding which storage array belonged to which storage tier was pretty straight forward. Not so anymore. As storage arrays mix and match RAID levels, disk ...

Storage administrators understand that most corporate data is only accessed infrequently. Yet storage volumes are escalating each year as corporations generate more electronic content and struggle to ...

As popular as tiered storage is today as both a set of technologies and an architecture methodology, most deployments produce new storage islands because of the lack of viable data classification and ...

Tiered storage no longer has the hype surrounding it that it did a few years ago. The concept was simple -- move data from expensive Fibre drives to inexpensive SATA drives. SATA drive technology was ...

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