The tiered storage system is certainly not a new concept as it’s been in use for quite some time. It was created for the purpose of offering protection to enterprise information. The only problem with the standard or traditional storage systems was that they were prohibitively expensive and quite complex. Hence, most of the organizations today are looking up to hybrid cloud that offers a much cheaper means of storage. Setting up a tiered storage system Tiered storage is nothing but a system where two or more systems work in tandem. More often, the first tier serves as the main storage system and proves to be the best performer. Of course, the first tier is quite expensive as well, and is closest to the application. The secondary storage system or tier two is a bit lower on performance and costs less comparatively, and its main function is to serve as a backup for the tier one, and also serves as a repository for data that is infrequently used. This data may have earlier been...