The traditional model of tiered storage is broken. “Fast and expensive vs. slow and cheap” doesn’t match how people actually use storage. But there is a better way: service classifications. A number ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. For more than two decades, the IT storage business has ...

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 ...

Enterprises have long struggled with the storage conundrum of high capacity vs. high performance. Hard disk and solid state drives (SSDs) each offer advantages the other cannot match. Hard drives are ...

Traditionally, discussions about enterprise storage economics revolved around the concept of a multi-tiered model. In reality, this often had more to do with vendor ...

Enterprises are challenged to keep pace with mounting unstructured file data. While NAS represents the optimal choice for storing such data, the strain to scale NAS economically while preserving ...

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Storage in the ever-expanding HPC space has traditionally been based on temperature. The tiering architecture that has arisen has had “hot” data that is frequently accessed is placed in faster storage ...

Archiving is where old data and content lives out the rest of its life. This used to be a term for pretty cold, infrequently accessed storage. But with the size of archived content increasing and with ...