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To date, traditional storage tiering implementations have typically been expensive, technically risky, and administratively complex. More importantly, they have often failed to achieve their primary goal of aligning data value with accessibility, protection, and performance requirements.
The unique integration of SmartPools with OneFS, the PowerScale scale-out NAS architecture, delivers simple storage tiering with significant storage cost savings, without sacrificing performance or data protection.
With its simple, powerful interface, flexible options, and intelligent default settings, SmartPools is easy to configure and manage, and scales from terabytes to petabytes. Scalability to petabytes and the ability to add new capacity and new technologies while retaining older capacity in the same system means strong investment protection. Integration with OneFS core functions eliminates data migration risks and gives the user control over what system resources are allocated to data movement.
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