Storage Pooling and Cloud Computing

Storage pooling is a key requirement for the cloud computing model to consolidate and manage all of a company's physical storage resources in one place. This Computer Technology Review article looks at cloud storage and how storage pooling works.

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"Although it has been used successfully in primary storage environments for many years, it is a new capability in capacity-optimized (deduplicated) secondary storage. Storage pooling is a way to consolidate and manage all of a company’s physical storage resources in one place and to track and allocate those resources as needed.

"With it, IT managers have the flexibility to separate data into independent pools and to allocate resources to those pools of data as needed. Storage pooling enables them to meet a variety of essential data protection requirements– from data tiering to policy management, to classes of service. For example they can provision each pool with its own disk type, deduplication configuration, replication priority, backup policies, and/or backup application. Data in the pools is kept completely separate, but managed from a single, unified management console."

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