Optimizing Tiered Storage

Storage vendors and integrators are now recommending that enterprises build tiered storage environments which deliver varying cost performance and availability characteristics. However, maximizing the utilization of the different tiers of storage requires sophisticated, business policy based decisions on when and what types of data should be on different tiers. IT managers use Abrevity to optimize their storage utilization by capturing the business scenarios on when to migrate, lock and/or delete files from different tiers then automating the enforcement of these file management policies.

Optimizing storage usage based upon business value properly aligns business data with the correct performance storage level, eliminating or relegating lesser valued data to the lower performance media. In the same manner, retention policies for non current but high valued data are also properly aligned with inexpensive disc storage for effective search and recovery purposes. Abrevity FileData Classifier is a software solution that empowers data center and business managers to gain control over massive amounts of distributed files spread across dozens of heterogeneous storage silos. In particular, IT managers can utilize Abrevity’s FileData Classifier to optimize their storage utilization by recovering valuable tier one storage resources to reduce storage expenditures. Data grooming, file migration and intelligent archiving based on business policies are all enabled by FileData Classifier.

Key capabilities of Abrevity FileData Classifier include:

  • support for heterogeneous storage environments—any CIFS or NFS file system can be classified and managed
  • transparent data migration/file movement
  • data and file classification capabilities based on file metadata and file content
  • automated policy enforcement
  • federated, global enforcement of storage tiering policies
  • federated, global reporting and trending on storage utilization