DataCore Bringing Block-Level Tiering To Sansymphony
Blocks&Files, Wednesday, December 6,2023
DataCore is updating its SANsymphony software with block-level tiering to move cold data to less costly secondary storage.
In an IT Press Tour briefing, Alexander Best, DataCore senior director for product management, said that 90 percent of data in SANsymphony deployments is cold. When users access a LUN, a logical chunk of storage, the cold and hot data blocks are mixed. He noted that traditionally, a LUN could be optimized for either performance or capacity, but not both. SANsymphony v10, currently in preview, will include Adaptive Data Placement to fix this.