No. Many data management solutions sit in front of your primary storage and divert requests for the cold
data to another location. In general, these solutions promise some form of data virtualization or metadata offloading. But being in front of your network attached storage (NAS) impacts the performance of the hot data since it introduces a middleman. A “traffic cop” now directs data access, which is a tremendous risk for all your company’s data. A failure in this system creates an access nightmare. Just as if the traffic cop took a break, you’d have a major logjam—and when access to all of your data is lost, you’ll hear far worse than honking horns.
This approach also requires that scaling be based on hot rather than cold data access rates. Since hot data is 99.999% of your data access, this means that the “man-in-the-middle” device must be able to handle the massive hot data traffic requests. As this traffic increases with your data growth, the “man in the middle” must scale accordingly and still handle access spikes. If you don’t plan accordingly, you’ll decrease performance on your new flash storage. These types of solutions—and their issues—have been around for years losing customers due to high cost, decreased performance, and risk.
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