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Storage Tiering Solutions
Free up expensive disk space and reduce storage and backup costs
Storage tiering is the process of moving data to different types of storage based on the value of the data. In response to rapid data growth and rising storage management costs, many enterprises are using storage tiering to drive down costs, simplify storage administration, and better utilize resources.
F5's storage tiering solutions can help you automatically move non-critical data from expensive storage resources to lower cost alternatives, creating significant savings in capital expenditures. F5 devices also lower backup costs and shrink backup and recovery windows by reducing the amount of redundant data backed up on a regular basis.
Why do I need storage tiering?
Business benefits of using F5 for storage tiering include:
- Lower spending on disk capacity by 50 to 80%.
Storage tiering lets you augment high-end storage with cost-effective alternatives like serial ATA. - Reduced backup infrastructure costs and achieve 50 to 80% faster backup times.
Moving non-critical data to a secondary tier reduces the amount of unchanged data that is backed up regularly. - Better use of your most expensive storage tier.
By matching the business value of data to the cost of storage, you can get more out of your high-end storage and reduce costs by adding more lower-end storage. - More flexibility to deal with massive storage growth.
You can free up IT resources by automating data movement based on file age, access dates, type, or other categories.
Top Case Studies
- RHWL Gains 5000+ Hours of User Productivity with Automated Storage Tiering from F5
- Lulu.com Takes Control of Storage Environment and Improves Vendor Management with File Virtualization
- SIGNAL IDUNA Improves its Online Storage Performance with F5 Networks
- File virtualization yields big gains in efficiency for major financial firm
- John Wiley & Sons optimizes backup, effectively manages rapid data growth
- Colonial Williamsburg Foundation implements information lifecycle management
- Leading web conferencing firm reclaims Tier 1 capacity, reduces storage costs
- Messe Düsseldorf advances tiered storage strategy
- Financial institution profits with policy-based data management
- Foster and Partners reduces costs and improves operational efficiencies
- Global rental company speeds major NAS upgrade, enhances disaster recovery
- F5 Networks reins in storage growth with intelligent file virtualization
- Archive Systems improves service delivery and reduces costs
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Tier storage automatically to free up expensive disk and reduce backup and storage costs
How do I implement storage tiering?
When you use intelligent file virtualization to implement a storage tiering plan, you virtualize your file storage environment. This eliminates the rigid mapping between clients and physical file location, and creates a logical representation of file content. This virtualized environment allows IT managers to establish policies that place files on the appropriate storage tier according to business need.
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What F5 offerings do I need for a storage tiering solution?
F5 ARX® intelligent file virtualization devices automate the placement and movement of data between tiers, without downtime or impacting user access to data. A rich set of non-disruptive data management policies automate file movement and adapt in real-time to changing dynamics like client demand, resource capacity and network conditions. F5 solutions also eliminate "vendor lock-in," giving enterprises the freedom to choose storage technology based on business and IT requirements.
