Tier your storage to cut waste

How much is it costing your IT department to provide instant availability to all data regardless of value? Traditionally, all data has been treated equally, causing overspending on relatively low-value data assets and allowing it to hog the same costly storage space as high-value business data. It is possible to make a big dent in storage expenses with a tiered-storage approach; this requires the matching of relative data value against its associated storage cost. Simply by classifying data according to business worth and safeguarding each type of dataset at a level appropriate to its business importance, a lower-cost storage infrastructure can be engineered that also improves administration and functionality.