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Historically, significant savings can be realized from minimizing capacity growth on the gold-standard 
disk arrays by moving data off to higher capacity, lower cost-per-GB storage devices. Today, the 
challenge is to be able to do so in such a way that: 
•  Application performance is not negatively impacted. In fact, performance gains should be 
expected from moving less frequently accessed data off of high-performance disk arrays.
•  Management complexity is not magnified by creating multiple, dis-integrated management 
consoles.
•  Unnecessarily redundant copies of data are not created. Rather, one of the goals of a storage 
tiering project should be to reduce the number of data copies.
•  Data is not left in an unprotected - or perhaps worse - in an unsecured state as may be the case 
with backup tapes stored in remote offices.
•  Retrieval of data that must be promoted back to a higher tier as required by an application or 
application user is not hampered.
Early storage tiering implementations exposed these issues, suggesting the dual need for a data 
classification scheme coupled with some way to move data non-disruptively up and down the physical 
storage tiers over time. This realization created a critical need for unified storage management 
software. It is not enough to partition the storage environment into “buckets” ranging from high- to 
intermediate- to low-performance and availability. One must also have an integrated view of the tiered 
infrastructure as well as some way to classify data and automate the allocation of data over time based 
on classification. 
To do this, storage administrators need centralized data management views and functions layered on 
top of the physical tiered storage architecture. This may require vendors to move some data and content 
management functionality that has traditionally lived at the application level down into the storage 
infrastructure as well as introduce tighter integration between performance monitoring and migration 
so that data sets can be temporarily demoted to a lower physical tier or promoted to a higher tier as 
production processing and recovery needs dictate.