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Long tailed workloads and the return of hierarchical storage management

Long tailed workloads and the return of hierarchical storage management

Hierarchical storage management (HSM) also called tiered storage management is back but in a different form. HSM exploits the access pattern skew across data sets by placing cold, seldom accessed data on slow cheap media and frequently accessed data on fast near media. In old days, HSM typically referred to system mixing robotically managed tape…

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