Posted on Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 at 9:41 am
The idea behind storage tiering is to put the right data in the right place and, in doing so, hopefully save some money by freeing up expensive tier 1 storage. In our latest poll, 50% of respondents said they’re currently using a tiered system in their storage shops, almost exactly the same number as a year ago. Among the half who aren’t currently tiering their storage, nearly two-thirds (63%) say tiering is, indeed, in their future, with almost half of them expecting to implement it within a year. For the most part, storage tierers like to keep things simple: 42% report they have two tiers, 34% have three tiers and only 24% run more complex operations with four or more tiers.
