Data Tiering
Use policy‑driven automation to keep active data on high‑performance storage and move infrequently accessed data to lower‑cost tiers—freeing premium capacity and reducing costs without disrupting applications.
Why NetApp for data tiering?
With data tiering, you can:
- Reclaim high performance capacity by moving cold data to lower cost storage
- Reduce storage costs without refactoring applications
- Automate data placement using policies
- Maintain continuous access to all data
Automatically tier data according to your defined policies
Data tiering continuously monitors access patterns and automatically moves infrequently accessed data to cost efficient storage tiers. Applications continue to access data transparently, without changes or disruption.
Flexibility of tiers and locations
Data tiering works across on premises and cloud environments, allowing organizations to choose the right cost and performance profile for each tier as needs evolve.
Tiering locations:
- NetApp StorageGRID
- NetApp FAS systems running ONTAP S3
- NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP running ONTAP
- Cloud Object Stores in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
See for yourself
The IEO team uses NetApp’s FabricPool to archive and tier Electronic Health Record data, while still providing physicians fast access to imaging from years’ past.
Connecting the on-prem device to object storage on AWS allows us to not only save money but also scale our on-prem environments.
Marcus Masching, Head of IT Computing Services, Festo
We have over 130 scientists doing ongoing research on missions that impact everything from climate change to solar physics and all sorts of amazing things. The NetApp solution allows them to more easily collaborate and be much, much more effective.
Alex Green, IT Systems Architect, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, CU Boulder
Object storage is a viable option for many use cases and worth going for it. All you need is talking to your personal contact at SVA.
Andreas Müller, Product Manager, Managed Cloud Services, SVA
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