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About Tiered Storage

Tiered Storage is a data storage technique which automatically moves data between high-cost and low-cost storage tiers or classes. Tiered storage systems exist because high-speed storage devices, such as hard disk drive arrays, are more expensive (per byte stored) than slower devices, such as optical discs and magnetic tape drives. While it would be ideal to have all data available on high-speed tiers all the time, this is prohibitively expensive for many organizations. Instead, tiered storage systems store the bulk of the enterprise’s data on slower devices or classes of storage, and then copy data to faster disk tiers when needed.

Related terms: Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM), data migration, storage virtualization

Tiered Storage Research From TechValidate

F5 ARX

F5’s ARX intelligent file virtualization hardware decouples the logical access to data from the physical location of that data through file virtualization, which simplifies file management and enables non-disruptive file migration.

3PAR Utility Storage

3PAR Utility Storage is a highly virtualized, tightly clustered, and dynamically tiered storage platform built for utility computing.

Moonwalk

Moonwalk is an Enterprise Data Management system that classifies and migrates data based centrally configured policies.

Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V or VM

Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V is an enterprise class storage system featuring virtualization, thin provisioning and business continuity services across storage assets from Hitachi Data Systems and other providers.

Hitachi Content Archive Platform

Hitachi Content Archive Platform is an active archive for the long-term preservation, optimization and discovery of business critical digital unstructured content

Pillar Axiom

Pillar Axiom consolidates multiple platforms, applications, and tiers of data on one storage platform, and delivers the appropriate performance to each from a single management GUI.

Powerfile Active Archive Appliance

Powerfile Active Archive Appliance delivers an optimized long-term storage platform in terms of density, performance, and energy efficiency.

Compellent Storage Center

Compellent’s Storage Center is an enterprise class storage area network (SAN) that intelligently optimizes data movement and access at the block-level, maximizing utilization, automating tiered storage, simplifying replication and speeding data