Traditionally, discussions about enterprise storage economics revolved around the concept of a multi-tiered model. In reality, this often had more to do with vendor ...

The concepts of tiering and caching data are as old as computing itself. Both form an effective strategy in achieving the best price/performance ratio for storage in the enterprise. But, with a huge ...

The traditional model of tiered storage is broken. “Fast and expensive vs. slow and cheap” doesn’t match how people actually use storage. But there is a better way: service classifications. A number ...

Amazon on Monday unveiled a new automated cloud storage tiering capability for handling files that have not been accessed for 30 days. Termed S3 Intelligent-Tiering, it allows users to get the benefit ...

It is sometimes difficult to determine if new technologies drive new applications or if the need for these applications drives technology development. In truth, major changes in the way we do business ...

At Storage Networking World, at least one new category in storage is coming to the forefront; Automated Storage Tiering. These are typically devices that can sit in front of your existing storage ...

Data-intense broadcast projects can require petabytes of data with several hundred terabytes often actively in production at any given time. The need for storing content that is “in the can” on ...