As small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) become more comfortable with data storage systems, they will look for ways to use that storage more efficiently. Storage tiering is one strategy that allows organizations to use lower performance and inexpensive storage equipment to hold less-frequently used data while high-performance equipment is used for frequently used information.
To organize existing storage into tiers, SMBs can use a myriad of available data migration tools and strategies. While these tools aren't nearly as numerous or sophisticated as enterprise-grade tools, they will move your data without draining your bank account.
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Showing posts with label tiered storage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tiered storage. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Maximizing your enterprise data storage capacity: Improve efficiency and utilization
SearchStorage.com
September 2, 2009
Maximizing your enterprise data storage capacity is more important than ever before. With the majority of storage budgets unable to keep pace with data growth rates, most storage administrators need to find ways to reduce capital and operating expenses to survive the economic downturn. In general, before adding new capacity, you should focus on making better use of your already installed capacity. And while there's no simple checklist to accomplish this, you can improve the efficiency of your storage systems using tiered storage; storage resource management (SRM), data classification and data migration tools; and techniques such as thin provisioning and data reduction. Full Story
September 2, 2009
Maximizing your enterprise data storage capacity is more important than ever before. With the majority of storage budgets unable to keep pace with data growth rates, most storage administrators need to find ways to reduce capital and operating expenses to survive the economic downturn. In general, before adding new capacity, you should focus on making better use of your already installed capacity. And while there's no simple checklist to accomplish this, you can improve the efficiency of your storage systems using tiered storage; storage resource management (SRM), data classification and data migration tools; and techniques such as thin provisioning and data reduction. Full Story
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Tiered storage tutorial
SearchStorage.com
March 17, 2009
Storage administrators are increasingly revisiting tiered storage strategies to lower asset and operational costs, and to improve application performance. This is accomplished by establishing and assigning tiers according to drive cost and performance. In its simplest form, this means assigning non-critical data to higher-capacity and lower-cost drives. Full Story
March 17, 2009
Storage administrators are increasingly revisiting tiered storage strategies to lower asset and operational costs, and to improve application performance. This is accomplished by establishing and assigning tiers according to drive cost and performance. In its simplest form, this means assigning non-critical data to higher-capacity and lower-cost drives. Full Story
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