NetApp Cloud Tiering is a service that automatically identifies and moves infrequently accessed data from on-premises ONTAP clusters to cost-effective object storage in the cloud. By leveraging NetApp's FabricPool technology, Cloud Tiering seamlessly extends your data center to the cloud, optimizing storage utilization without compromising performance or manageability. This approach enables organizations to free up high-performance storage capacity, reduce costs, and efficiently manage their data lifecycle. Key Features and Functionality: - Automated Data Tiering: Identifies cold data and automatically moves it to cloud object storage, freeing up primary storage capacity. - Seamless Integration: Operates without requiring changes to existing workflows or applications, ensuring continuous data availability. - Flexible Tiering Policies: Allows customization of tiering policies, including defining which volumes to tier, types of data to tier, and setting time intervals for data movement. - Robust Security: Ensures data security with end-to-end encryption and compliance with enterprise security standards. - Comprehensive Monitoring and Reporting: Provides automation, monitoring, reports, and a common management interface to efficiently manage data tiering. Primary Value and Problem Solved: NetApp Cloud Tiering addresses the challenge of managing growing data volumes by optimizing storage resources. By automatically tiering cold data to lower-cost cloud storage, it reduces the need for additional high-performance storage investments, leading to significant cost savings. This solution ensures that active data remains readily accessible on-premises, while inactive data is securely stored in the cloud, thereby enhancing overall storage efficiency and scalability.