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3PAR Utility Data Lifecycle Management

The Challenge: Tiered Storage is Costly and ComplexImplementing a tiered storage environment can be costly and complex. Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) and other "solutions" aimed at optimizing tiers of storage atop legacy storage platforms are plagued with major drawbacks. These drawbacks include:

• Need for multiple platforms since each platform must be dedicated to a single class of service
• Incremental software, services, and processes required for mass classifying, moving, and storing of data
• Wasteful overprovisioning of physical capacity to meet peak requirements for each application and each tier

With these costs and complexities, optimization approaches based on ILM and traditional storage technologies are not capable of delivering acceptable ROI.

Unique Solution Benefits3PAR^® Utility DLM offers a simple and efficient solution for storage cost optimization. Utility DLM consolidates the entire disk-based data lifecycle into a single, cost-effective, massively scalable and fully-tiered array. Tiered storage ROI is realized immediately and automatically through simplified creation and management of tiered storage.

Single Utility Storage Platform with Multiple Tiers of Service	Recognize dramatic management and capacity efficiencies by supporting multiple classes of service (wide variations of cost, performance, and availability) within a single system and a common pool of fine-grained capacity.
Simplified Storage Tier Administration	Simplify and standardize data volume service level definitions (for example, "gold," "silver," and "bronze," service levels) with 3PAR Templates. Automate performance maintenance within a given tier with 3PAR System Tuner.
Common Data Management Services	Easily protect or share data within or across any tier with unified, space-efficient 3PAR Virtual Copy and 3PAR Remote Copy facilities.
Online, Non-Disruptive Data Service Level Optimization	Align application and business requirements with data volume service levels easily, non-disruptively, and on demand with 3PAR Dynamic Optimization. Learn more »