Tiered Storage – Balance Performance & Costs

With the inexorable rise in the amount of data each business needs to store, simply buying more of the largest, fastest storage devices does not make economic sense.

Tiered storage architectures are an increasingly popular method of helping to minimise storage costs, while driving performance gains. Typically, a tiered storage architecture will comprise three or more tiers:

Tier One - for data that your business needs to have available for rapid access – high performance storage with a high level of fault tolerance
Tier Two - for data that your business needs to access reasonably quickly, but not as rapidly as for tier one
Tier Three - for data that is only likely to be accessed infrequently

The Bell Microsystems team includes data storage specialists that can help to assess your business’s data storage needs and design a tiered storage solution that balances performance with your budget and is capable of adapting to meet new requirements in the future.

As Tier One storage has to deliver rapid accessibility and high availability, it requires the use of relatively high performance storage products. However, as Tiers Two and Three are tasked with providing increasingly lower levels of performance, the Bell Microsystems team can configure these tiers using lower cost devices. Tiering your storage infrastructure to suit the different storage and accessibility requirements across your organisation can play a major role in helping to ensure that you meet specific performance requirements, whilst minimising your capital acquisition and running costs.

Optimise data accessibility
Reduce storage capital acquisition costs and running costs
Boost performance for business-critical applications
Help meet data retrieval compliance obligations
Establish a ‘tamper-proof’ archive