Point of view
At home, we store things based on how often we use them: cutlery and crockery we need every day goes in the prime kitchen cupboards where they’re easily got at. The vacuum cleaner, which we may use once a week, goes in the under-stairs cupboard – not prime storage space but still easily accessible. Big suitcases, which we use a couple of times a year, go in the attic, where getting them out involves a bit more effort and time.
The data in your business should be treated in exactly the same way.
There’s little point in keeping information you rarely need on expensive, high-performance flash storage. However, if your only other option is to archive onto tape, access is too cumbersome. This is why a multi-tiered storage architecture is so valuable, because it gives you a greater number of options, enabling you to select the most appropriate, based on cost and performance requirements.
Broadly speaking, enterprise data storage architecture can be divided into four tiers:
- Your prime real estate
- Less cost, more capacity
- Big Data
- Archives
“Multi-tiered storage architecture is so valuable, because it gives you a greater number of options, enabling you to select the most appropriate, based on cost and performance requirements.”
