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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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 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.

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 ...

Brien puts the new tiered storage feature through the ringer to see what hidden hardware requirements are needed to run smoothly. One of the most anticipated new features in Windows Server 2012 R2 is ...

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 ...

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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