There are a lot of differing opinions floating around these days about “Storage Tiering” and the different methods of achieving it. Before we get into some of the popular approaches you’ll read about, let’s talk about why tiering is important.
The “need” for storage tiering stems from the fact that different types of drives have different performance metrics associated with them. When we talk about random IOPS, the following table indicates some rough sizing guidelines that architects can use to ballpark a solution.
Robert High, Director, Professional Services has recently completed several healthcare projects helping hospitals solve their technology challenges. In this podcast, he describes how rapid changes in technology are affecting healthcare organizations today.
DLP (Data Loss Prevention) has been one of the dirtiest words over the last ten years. It may be even considered worse than cloud, at least in security circles. What made this term so unpalatable is the fact that it somewhat implies that without these solutions branded Data Loss/Leakage Prevention that we are losing and leaking data. It implies that these solutions are the silver bullet. The end all to be all. Obviously marketing gone wild. There is definitely some merit in this though. And applied correctly with other technologies can actually provide a fantastic last line of defense, which used to be endpoint anti-virus.
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