At its optimum, autonomic tiering actually prevents problems from happening in the first place through a combination of business and operational intelligence, gained by a constant collection of data.
– 3PARr, which has established much of its identity around the idea of thin
provisioning for data center storage, has brought to reality another concept:
autonomic storage tiering. The company introduced its newest software
feature, Adaptive Optimization, which does this tiering, on March 8.

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