A leading telecom company had major challenges in managing its storage growth and backup. Data was growing at an uncontrollable pace. The cost of storage had already overshot the budget.
We introduced a new tiered storage strategy by storing only the most current and business-critical data on new high-performance storage and moving the mediocre data to the older low-performance storage. We then implemented an archival solution to move the older data onto tapes.
The result was that