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• Data management policies based on data classication
• Automated data management policy
An effective tiered storage environment will incorporate storage tiers with varying cost and performance
proles, data movement software that automatically moves information to the correct tier of storage
in accordance with policy and service level agreements, and storage management software that
provides a holistic view of the tiered storage environment. It may also include services to help with the
discovery, proling and alignment of information with business requirements. Further, it will require
an understanding that data retrieval is as important to application users as data storage -- perhaps even
more important. When data sets are migrated to lower performance, lower cost, higher capacity tiers,
provision must be made such that, if a data set needs to be promoted back to a higher level tier, it can be
done so transparently and expeditiously.
Finally, a well implemented tiered storage solution also allows businesses to evolve their infrastructure
with changing business requirements – while supporting the level of data accessibility needed now and
in the future.
(Footnotes)
1
For example, all FC arrays as tier 1 vs. all SATA arrays as tier 2
2
The latest release generation is tier 1 vs. next previous release generation which could then be allocated to tier 2
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