Application-aware storage promises intelligence and automation
You wouldn’t buy a Porsche just to go grocery shopping, and you wouldn’t top off the gas tank just for a spin across town. However, storage professionals overbuy both performance and capacity in an effort to forestall potential storage problems. Tiered storage is one way to address this problem — matching storage resources and costs with the value of data. Today, storage is poised to build on this notion with application-aware storage, using business policies to bring autonomy and intelligence to enterprise storage. Still, there is a great deal of confusion surrounding this technology, its capabilities and its deployment. This article considers the main ideas of application-aware storage, its benefits and limitations, and examines typical deployments as it looks ahead to the future. …more
Source: Stephen Bigelow - 8/7/07 - SearchStorage
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