Automated Tiered Storage

Free up expensive disk and reduce storage and backup costs

Looking for an easy way to take advantage of technologies like serial ATA to lower costs? Are your backup and recovery windows unacceptably long? Is non-business critical data consuming a disproportionate amount of your most expensive storage assets?

F5 Acopia storage tiering solutions allow enterprises to realize significant capital expenditure savings by automatically moving non-critical business data off of expensive storage resources to lower cost storage alternatives. Acopia devices also reduce backup and recovery windows and backup infrastructure costs by reducing the amount of redundant data backed up on a regular basis.

"Instead of purchasing expensive Tier 1 storage, we used the Acopia systems to easily and non-disruptively implement SATA storage that costs half as much. Moreover, we streamlined our backup policies, nearly eliminating our backup windows."

- Reinhard Frumm, Team Manager IT-Technology, Messe Duesseldorf

Acopia's automated storage tiering solutions provide many unique benefits:

• Automated tiering of data without interrupting user or application access
• Tiering of CIFS, NFS and multi-protocol data
• Tiering between multiple vendors' NAS or file server devices or between different platforms from the same vendor
• Tiering of files based on flexible criteria such as age, type, name, location, etc.
• Tiering without the use of stubs, pointers or log files which pose an availability risk and add complexity to backup and restore workflow
• Real-time policy enforcement, e.g. automatic promotion of active content back to a primary storage tier, or the dynamic placement of data on the appropriate storage tier at creation (e.g. place *.mp3 on tier 2 rather than tier 1)
• The ability to schedule the movement of data between tiers based on user-defined intervals
• Support for very large-scale enterprise-class storage environments

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