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DataIQ is a data indexing and analysis tool that runs as an external virtual machine and maintains an index of mounted file systems. DataIQ’s file system crawler is efficient, fast, and lightweight: it can be kept up to date with little impact on the storage devices it is indexing.
Two features of DataIQ will be used here for metadata-based data tiering: DataIQ tags and the DataIQ API.