Storage Management Technologies for Optimization

Optimization, deduplication, and compression are a few of the storage management technologies that will be key to squeezing a few extra terabytes from that petabyte storage solution and saving the cost of an upgrade. This Processor.com article offers a look at how organizations that deal in large volumes of data can meet the challenge of how to organize and store information in a manner that is cost-effective and yet allows for timely access when needed.

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"LDiscovery’s storage architecture uses BlueArc Titan NAS storage with data distributed over two data centers. The BlueArc NAS handles the load from some 150 servers that do the work of indexing customer data and hosting the data for customers who access it through a BlueArc file system. Wolfinger was satisfied with the storage system but needed a way to slow the rapid growth in demand for storage. At the time, the company’s online storage was at 150TB but was increasing quickly.

"To keep costs down, LDiscovery moved data that wasn’t accessed often onto tapes for long-term storage, which was cheaper than maintaining the data on servers and disks but wasn’t always convenient to the customers if one of them suddenly required fast access to that data. It could take a few hours for the LDiscovery staff to retrieve the tape and load the data onto the servers where the client could access it."

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