Many organizations have large amounts of data that are critical to their businesses and are growing rapidly. Often these organizations store all data, active and inactive, on an expensive Primary Tier of storage intended for active data. But upwards of 80 percent of data is typically inactive, and therefore, being stored on the wrong tier, costing millions of dollars a year. A lower cost storage tier is readily available, but existing solutions to migrate the data to a lower cost tier are complex and costly, inadequately protect migrated data, and don’t address all of the migration workflows needed by organizations.
