What is tiered storage?
Tiered storage is a strategy for managing the cost of retaining and accessing data. A tiered storage solution enables organizations to move older, less important and infrequently accessed data to less expensive storage solutions, while maintaining active and important data on high-performing storage media.
Why is tiered storage necessary?
As data volumes continue to rise at an increasing pace, organizations are faced with increasing costs for storage media and the expense of managing it, including the costs of staff time, power, cooling, and technology to effectively manage data. Maintaining data on high-performing, tier 1 network attached storage media is highly expensive and unsustainable.
How does tiered storage reduce costs?
Tiered storage solutions can reduce storage costs by enabling organizations to use cheaper storage media for data that does not need to be accessed as frequently or as quickly. Dell EMC ECS enables further cost savings by automating data retention and backup and enabling organizations to use an on-premise private cloud for data storage, eliminating the cost and complexity of moving data in and out of a public cloud solution.