Storage Tiering History and the Value of TCT
This chapter introduces storage tiering and Transparent Cloud Tiering (TCT) with the DS8000 and its potential benefits for data storage needs.
Traditional management of data across tiers is available across several devices at your site. We included this topic to review what might already be in place in your environment and why you might want to use cloud object storage as a tiering option based on TCT.
This chapter includes the following topics: