Last week, storage gorilla EMC launched an automatic storage tiering system that it reckons will move data to the most appropriate storage medium based on criteria including cost and performance, a ...

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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 ...

For many enterprises these days, managing data has the feel of a three-ring circus. Data can be created and housed in a growing number of places, from central datacenters to the cloud and, ...

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.

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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 ...

Amazon on Monday unveiled a new automated cloud storage tiering capability for handling files that have not been accessed for 30 days. Termed S3 Intelligent-Tiering, it allows users to get the benefit ...

EMC announced delivery of its fully automated storage tiering (FAST) technology across its Symmetrix, Clariion and Celerra line of storage arrays. The technology will allow data volumes to be ...

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 ...