In the never-ending world of tiered storage, it really breaks down into two types of storage; transactional (active) and passive storage. For obvious reasons these two worlds overlap, but it is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Tiered storage predates my introduction to PCs, but by the time I earned my enthusiast badge, I was using the technique to increase my system performance. I would actually go as far to say that it was ...