The least expensive protection for your data-centric applications These are the lowest tiers and are for your non-critical systems. A simple test: Are you more concerned about protecting the data or making sure the application never goes down? Nearly every business has several systems that they can afford to live without for a day or

The Super Simple Basics:  Smart Tiering is cost-effective and easy to implement  If you are like most IT professionals, you know what application tiering means, but have probably not defined things like RTO/RPO/Tiers, or do not have agreement on definitions with your business leaders. You may think doing so requires a six figure project with