Automated tiering improves storage ROI, particularly for financial firms that are deploying solid-state drives in high-performance environments.  Auto-tiering is a key enabling technology for storage administrators to improve workload performance and user experience by better understanding the value of data.

Storage administrators have generally over-provisioned storage for each new application they rolled out, particularly if it was business-critical.  And in order to assure…

The time has come for evolving storage strategies for a new computing era.  The storage, movement and delivery of data and services to an increasingly remote and mobile user community are challenging the data management and protection systems of most organizations.  CIOs and storage administrators are plagued by disparate systems and incompatible data sets resulting from mergers, outmoded legacy infrastructures, stubbornly maintained departmental and individual data silos, and the explosion…