Many organizations are struggling to manage their storage in the face of a massive upsurge in the amount of data that must be stored and made accessible. To save on primary storage costs, it’s imperative to make sure that it is being deployed in the most efficient way possible. As we’ve already been discussing at length on this blog and elsewhere, storage tiering is one key way of approaching this.
A few weeks ago, IDC co-presented a webinar with BlueArc and Ocarina on just this topic. It is now online and available for your viewing/listening pleasure at the link above.
Here are some of the highlights:
Noemi Greyzdorf, Research Manager, Storage Software, IDC discusses the process for putting a successful tiered storage infrastructure in place. She gives information on how significant savings can be gained in both acquisition and operating costs.
Victoria Koepnick, Sr. Manager, Product Management, BlueArc talks about how her company has developed technologies to fulfill these goals. She shows how intelligent tiering that is policy based can save on storage costs and ensure ease of use. Using the example of the recent death of pop star Michael Jackson, she talked about how with dynamic read caching, the many images could have been immediately pulled from the archive so that successive accesses to the files would’ve been immediate under such emergency circumstances. Great example!
Eric Scollard, VP of Sales at Ocarina gets down to brass tacks on the results from storage optimization and tiering. He shows how having a toolbox of data reduction techniques at one’s disposal can make a vast difference when it comes to the amount of money spent on storage.
We hope you enjoy the webinar, and please feel free to comment on it below!
