The quantity of data that IT organizations must manage, continues to grow with increasing velocity. To help control this data explosion, growing numbers of enterprises have adopted tiered data storage, an Efficient Enterprise approach that matches storage media with specific performance and cost profiles to the workloads they most effectively serve.
Dell Data Tiering Solutions provide advanced capabilities, such as Fluid Data architecture, to optimize performance while driving down costs. Engineered from the ground up to maximize the potential benefits of tiered storage, Fluid Data offers:
- Save time and money with patented data tiering technology — keep your storage in tune with application needs and decrease overall cost per GB as your data grows
- Simplified deployment and pay-as-you-grow scalability
- Flexibility to handle any environment — migrate and manage data between devices, storage pools, drives or as highly granular as 512KB blocks
- Hands-free management through policy-based automation
- Integration with other enterprise functionality to further maximize tiering benefits
Discuss your data tiering strategy with a Dell representative today.
Data Tiering Services
Storage Simplification Workshop
Take control of your growing data capacity, provisioning, management and protection challenges.
Data Management & Storage Technology Assessment
Our data center backup management services can help you refine service-level agreement (SLA) requirements, provide monitoring to improve process efficiency or assume full management of your backup environment.
IT Consulting for Tiered Storage
Expert guidance and a proven process to help align the value of data with the appropriate storage.
Storage Implementation
Eliminate the hassle and complexity of installing new storage systems. Dell engineers will get your storage products installed right the first time and help maximize performance and scalability.
Data Tiering Systems
Dell EqualLogic PS6000XVS iSCSI Storage Array
The PS6000XVS virtualized iSCSI arrays are ideal for optimizing responsiveness of applications through intelligent tiering of data, within the array, across low-latency SSD and performance sensitive 15K RPM SAS hard disk.
Dell EqualLogic PS6010XVS iSCSI Storage Array
The PS6010XVS virtualized iSCSI arrays are ideal for optimizing responsiveness of applications through high bandwidth and intelligent tiering of data, within the array, across low-latency SSD and performance sensitive 15K RPM SAS hard disk.
Dell Compellent Storage Center
Dell Compellent Storage Center with Automated Tiered Storage technology delivers an all-in-one storage array that always puts data in the right place at the right time for the right cost — and dynamically adapts to meet changing business needs.
Data Tiering Software
Dell EqualLogic Array Software
EqualLogic Array Software automatically virtualizes and optimizes resources within the storage area network (SAN) to deliver consistent application performance. It also features the tools required for developing a sound data protection strategy.
Dell Compellent Software Suite Spec Sheet
Data has become the fuel that drives business acceleration, making organizations today extremely reliant on data storage. And that makes the storage decision strategic, far-reaching and full of risk. Limited-point products, dead-end growth paths and bolt-on software applications create rigid boundaries around data storage.
Data Tiering Case Studies
Boston Medical Center
Boston Medical Center cuts data center power bill by 50 percent and saves up to $3.2 million with virtualized storage, server and desktop solutions.
Pacific Sunwear of California, Inc.
Pacific Sunwear eliminates 100 servers and reduces storage administration time by 20 percent with a virtualized Dell infrastructure.
First National Bank
First National Bank saves more than U.S. $5 million by restructuring storage with Dell IT Consulting Services.
Learn More About Data Tiering
Storage Tiering Solutions
Achieve high storage efficiency and performance with data tiering solutions from Dell.
Cost-effective tiering for virtualized iSCSI SANs
Tiering in a Dell EqualLogic PS Series SAN helps organizations boost resource utilization and enhance service levels by deploying storage on the most cost-effective tiers based on performance, accessibility, and criticality requirements.
Using multitiered arrays to optimize application performance
IT organizations have long been challenged to make sure “hot” data is served to applications quickly and cost-effectively. They can meet both these challenges with Dell EqualLogic hybrid storage arrays that use multiple tiers in a single enclosure.
Application Tiering and Tiered Storage
Tiering applications and the storage they consume can help you manage service levels and storage costs better, while retaining the benefits of storage consolidation.
Solid-State Disks and Storage Tiering
For known tierable workloads, solid-state disks (SSDs) are a great advancement. This popular and growing technology is more widely applicable with automated storage tiering.
The Dell Difference
InfoWorld Review: Dell iSCSI SAN Sizzles with SSD, dynamic storage tiering
The Dell EqualLogic PS6010XVS with automated storage tiering leverages fast SAS or faster SSD storage depending on workload.
The Architectural Advantages of Dell Compellent Automated Tiered Storage White Paper
With its Fluid Data architecture, Dell Compellent brings proven efficiency, automation and scalability to sub-LUN tiering.
Automate Storage Tiering Simply and Efficiently With Dell EqualLogic PS Series Virtualized iSCSI SANs
A growing number of enterprises have adopted storage tiering, a Best Practices approach that directs application workloads to the storage media with the most suitable performance and cost characteristics.
Optimize storage for multi-tiered workloads with Dell EqualLogic PS6000XVS & PS6010XVS iSCSI SAN arrays
Dell EqualLogic virtualized iSCSI SANs provide a number of features for automating tiered storage. The PS6000XVS/PS6010XVS arrays advance these features further, by allowing tiering across SSD and SAS media within a single enclosure.
Using Tiered Storage in a PS Series Storage Area Network (SAN)
This Technical Report describes the concepts and benefits of tiered storage, and describes how to take advantage of storage pools and other features of EqualLogic PS Series firmware to implement tiered storage in a PS Series storage area network (SAN).