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EMC Delivers On FAST 1.0 - Call Me When v2 Is Ready: Page 2 of 2

This week EMC made a big splash, announcing that they're actually delivering the first version of the FAST (Fully Automated Storage Tiering). Now owners of the latest EMC kit can automatically migrate LUNs from one tier of storage to another. While that's a lot better than rocks for Christmas, it's really just a down payment on the best present ever. EMC is promising more later, and I don't even think they're keeping track of who's naughty or nice.
Howard Marks
December 11, 2009

FAST v1 puts EMC in the small pack leading the race for effective automated tiering.  Compellent leads the way, since Storage Center is the only product that tracks access frequency and relocates data at the block level.  EMC is now collecting the data and will do sub-LUN relocations in the next version of FAST due next year.  I expect that's when we'll start seeing automatic tiering making a big impact on real users.

On the file front, Symantec's VxFS file system for Unix/Linux, part of the storage foundation bundle, can locate files based on access temperature and has just been updated to recognize flash volumes.  Since VxFS is host based the high speed and low speed tiers can be on different arrays.

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