Tiered storage

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How tiering can improve your backup strategies
Learn how tiering your data can improve your backup regime, by making it obvious which data deserves to have the shortest recovery time and recovery points so you don't waste resources on data you can safely wait a little longer to restore.
Automated storage tiering: vendors find different routes to the same destination.
Compellent, EMC and Avere all have different approaches to automated tiering, but all assert their methods are superior. We assess ther competing offerings in this story.
Tiered storage 101
Learn about tiered storage, technologies that enable it and how it can help to control costs.
Has MAID got it made?
Massive Arrays of Idle Disks (MAID) are a green archive alternative that supporters say boosts tiered storage and information lifecycle management. So why isn't everyone using it?
Quantum boosts SAN virtualization
Quantum has enhanced its SAN file system to aid virtualization.
No more crying over tiered storage
Is tiered storage bringing you to tiers? This feature should help put a smile on your dial!
Mr. iSCSI ... meet Mr. Fibre Channel
The second part of our feature on integrating Fibre Channel and iSCSI explains the different levels of integration possible between the two technologies.
Tiered storage tool purchases demand careful consideration
The practice of tiered storage has emerged as a way to mitigate this expense by keeping mission-critical data on the fastest disk platforms, while relegating less valuable data to slower and less expensive storage, such as SATA disk or even tape.
Compellent users try tiered storage automation
Compellent's new feature uses its SAN's block-level virtualization to automatically move data between tiers of storage -- which could be a boon for admins struggling to manage ILM.
Data classification is end users' job
Without a proper data classification scheme, ILM is putting the cart before the horse, and some shops are pushing the job of classifying files down to users.
Tiered storage shifts focus away from disk
At Storage Decisions, users and analysts discussed creative ways to tier storage according to levels of data protection and storage services, rather than disk costs.
Buyer's Guide: Data classification tools
Automated tools play an important role in the data classification process. Many tools allow administrators to discover the data resources that are available, apply uniform classification rules to data across the entire enterprise, create and manage a searchable index of detailed metadata, move data to the corresponding tier, and later comb the metadata to conduct detailed searches. This article explains the essential concepts of data classification tools and their role in the enterprise, highlights the leading vendors in the marketplace, and offers some advice to help ease purchase and implementation issues.
EMC unveils do-it-yourself Clariion
EMC's eighth-generation Clariion offers complete 4 Gbps support, but more importantly, provides self-installation and self-service features addressing a common user complaint.

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