Conclusion

Once Hammerspace owns the NAS namespace, data can be freely orchestrated in a manner that is invisible to the clients. Examples include tiering cold data to the cloud, migrating to new data storage locations, or implementing highly customized tiering that precisely places data on the most appropriate storage class.

The Hammerspace assimilation process enables customers to migrate their existing NAS namespace with minimal downtime and effort. By decoupling the file metadata migration from the physical file migration, Hammerspace is able to greatly reduce the pain commonly associated with current and future data migrations.