Introduction Overview of Archival and Tiered Storage Challenges As data growth accelerates, organizations increasingly rely on archival and tiered storage to manage capacity, cost, performance and compliance efficiently. These storage models aim to balance frequently accessed “hot” data with rarely used “cold” data by placing them on appropriate storage tiers. …
The integration and use of different storage classes (e.g. disk and tape) in the infrastructure offers economic as well as technical and ecological advantages. Inactive data, i.e. data that is only used very rarely, should not be stored on hard disk-based storage systems, but should instead be automatically transferred to …
Storage tiering is a proven storage management method that moves data between different storage classes and storage tiers. The goal is to make optimal use of the storage systems. Most companies have a large stock of so-called cold data: This cold data is rarely (or never) accessed anymore. Nevertheless, this …
