Storage Acceleration, Driven by Autonomic Software

Data intensive applications are growing in number; a telltale sign of an increasingly complex business environment. The widening gap in client initiator and disk-based storage performance has created an overall inefficiency in the data center. Compounding the need for performance is the explosive growth of data. In this session we will discuss the advent of “performance tiering,” and how it is used to better service the demands of high I/O requests. Learn how new autonomic software aligns the value of data with the value of storage to improve performance/throughput and cost-effectively manage data between tiers. We will also discuss in detail the benefits of a purely autonomic system that dynamically adjusts to changing workloads and data access patterns, in real-time.

Learning Objectives

Performance Tiering: the blending of SSD (Tier 0) and HDD (Tier 1) technology
Next-Generation Autonomics: dynamic data movement and self-management software
Performance Benchmarks: essential checklist for autonomic tiering functions