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secondary storage
Secondary storage is storage for noncritical data that will not be frequently accessed. Continue Reading
primary storage (main storage)
Primary storage is the collective methods and technologies used to capture and retain digital information that is in active use and critical for an organization’s operations. Continue Reading
tiered storage
Tiered storage is a way to assign different categories of data to various types of storage media with the objective of reducing the total cost of storage. Continue Reading
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volume manager
A volume manager is software within an operating system (OS) that controls capacity allocation for storage arrays. Continue Reading
cloud storage provider
A cloud storage provider, also known as a managed service provider (MSP), is a company that offers organizations and individuals the ability to place and retain data in an off-site storage system. Continue Reading
data migration
Data migration is the process of transferring data between data storage systems, data formats or computer systems.Continue Reading
Be mindful when working with public cloud storage
Some enterprises are using public cloud storage as a tier for secondary storage or archived data, but Scott Sinclair advises caution before taking the leap.Continue Reading
Conquer unstructured data: Scale-out NAS vs. object storage
Learn how scale-out NAS and object storage systems work, their pros and cons, manageability and how they integrate with your storage infrastructure.Continue Reading
clustered file system (CFS)
Clustered file systems are file systems that run on multiple storage servers and can be accessed and managed as a single system.Continue Reading
FLAPE
FLAPE (flash plus tape) is an approach to tiered storage that allows administrators to archive data as soon as it is written.Continue Reading
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cloud computing maturity model (CCMM)
A Cloud Computing Maturity Model (CCMM) is a model that defines and analyzes the progress of an organization’s ability to deliver cloud services in key areas such as capabilities, domains, maturity and adoption.Continue Reading
Common Assurance Maturity Model (CAMM)
The Common Assurance Maturity Model (CAMM) is a global project to list the information assurance maturity of suppliers offering provisioning services (for example, cloud providers).Continue Reading
A tiered storage model is different from caching
In this podcast, Evaluator Group strategist Randy Kerns looks in-depth at today's tiered storage model, including how it differs from flash caching.Continue Reading
Is there a difference between traditional tiering and sub-LUN tiering?
Sub-LUN tiering can help with performance in some environments, but according to analyst Jon Toigo, it can also get complicated with growing capacity.Continue Reading
Tier 1 storage
Tier 1 storage is a reference to the higher performing systems in a tiered storage environment.Continue Reading
auxiliary storage
Auxiliary storage is all addressable data storage that is not currently in a computer's main storage or memory.Continue Reading
Tiered storage model becomes more sophisticated
Explore some of our popular content on the tiered storage model and tiered storage technologies such as automated storage and sub-LUN tiering.Continue Reading
cloud washing
Cloud washing is the purposeful and sometimes deceptive attempt by a vendor to rebrand an old service by associating the word "cloud" with it. Continue Reading
automated storage tiering (AST)
Automated storage tiering (AST) is a storage software management feature that dynamically moves information between different disk types and RAID levels to meet space, performance and cost requirements.Continue Reading
Tiering storage primer: Data classification, archiving key
Ashish Nadkarni discusses strategies and tools when tiering storage, and how data migration tools and dynamic storage tiering products tier storage.Continue Reading
automated data tiering
Automated data tiering is a type of software program that moves data files, volumes or blocks between tiered storage according to company-defined policy.Continue Reading
Auto tiering crucial to storage efficiency
Auto tiering is a key technology for today’s storage professionals to understand, especially if you have SSDs. Find out what auto tiering does and why it’s important.Continue Reading
data at rest
Data at rest is a term that is sometimes used to refer to all data in computer storage while excluding data that is traversing a network or temporarily residing in computer memory to be read or updated.Continue Reading
The expanding tiered storage model
The tiered storage model is growing, with solid-state drives (SSDs) at the top and cloud backup at the bottom. Find out how these two storage tiers can fit into your storage infrastructure, and learn about changes within the other tiers of storage.Continue Reading
Maximizing your enterprise data storage capacity: Improve efficiency and utilization
Learn how to maximize your enterprise data storage capacity by improving efficiency and increasing utilization of storage systems using a tiered storage approach; storage resource management (SRM), data classification and data migration tools; and ...Continue Reading
Data classification fueled by e-discovery, storage tiering
Today's data classification products allow storage professionals more automation and the ability to take action on the information they tag and index.Continue Reading
Tiered storage tutorial
Find out what tiered storage is, the key technologies behind it, and how tiered storage can lower operational costs while improving application performance.Continue Reading
How to create Tier 0 storage by leveraging solid-state drive technology
With prices of solid-state drive (SSD) technology dropping, companies are starting to use SSD technology in a high-performance tier of storage called Tier 0.Continue Reading
nano-storage
Nano-storage is a nanotechnology approach to storage that seeks to radically increase storage capacities through a variety of technologies, and, ultimately, to replace current storage media with extremely high-density media and devices.Continue Reading
thin provisioning (TP)
Thin provisioning (TP) is a method of optimizing the efficiency with which the available space is utilized in storage area networks... (Continued)Continue Reading
column address strobe
In computer memory technology, CAS (column address strobe) is a signal sent to a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) that tells it that an associated address is a column address. A data bit in DRAM is stored in a cell located by the intersection of...Continue Reading
information life cycle management (ILM)
Information life cycle management (ILM) is a comprehensive approach to managing the flow of an information system's data and associated metadata from creation and initial storage to the time when it becomes obsolete and is deleted.Continue Reading
storage utilization
Storage utilization is a measure of how well the available data storage space in an enterprise is used.Continue Reading
pixie dust or antiferromagnetically-coupled (AFC) media
Pixie dust is the informal name that IBM is using for its antiferromagnetically-coupled (AFC) media technology, which can increase the data capacity of hard drives to up to four times the density possible with current drives.Continue Reading
capacity optimization (CO)
Capacity optimization (CO) is a technique for getting more data on a storage medium by analyzing the data for unique repetitive patterns that can be stored as and reassembled from shorter symbols.Continue Reading
HSM (Hierarchical Storage Management)
HSM (Hierarchical Storage Management) is policy-based management of file backup and archiving in a way that uses storage devices economically and without the user needing to be aware of when files are being retrieved from backup storage media.Continue Reading