Transparent Move Technology™
Cut 70% of costs by tiering with zero rehydration penalty.
Cut Cold Data Storage, Backup & Ransomware Costs
Tier 80% of data and offload it from your primary storage, backup and ransomware footprint. No rehydration when switching vendors.
- File tiering moves cold data to low-cost storage but preserves access via the original path
- Never in the hot data path – no impact on performance or active workloads
- Cuts storage + backup + DR costs by 70% or more
Cut NAS Refresh Costs
Free up premium NAS capacity, delay storage purchases, and optimize spend with file tiering.
- Identify and mobilize cold data with deep insights into usage, aging, and access patterns
- Transparently tier to object/cloud without stubs, agents, or proprietary formats
- Optimize costs across vendors with no rehydration penalty if you switch storage
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Preserve Native Data Access Across All Tiers
Maintain full file/object duality so applications, workflows and users operate exactly as before – no retraining, no broken links.
- Users open tiered files exactly as they always have via symbolic links
- Applications continue to see directory structures, permissions, metadata and paths
- Open standards (NFS/SMB/S3) ensure long-term portability with no lock-in
Protect Data & Reduce Ransomware Exposure
Shrink your attack surface by moving dormant files out of harm’s way while strengthening resilience with immutable storage tiers.
- Tier cold data to immutable object storage and remove it from the active attack plane
- Reduce backup scope and accelerate recovery time after incidents
- Support sensitive data protection by isolating or archiving at-risk files
Tier Across Any NAS, Cloud Transparently Without Lock-In
Patented Komprise TMT tiers with no changes to users or applications. Get native access at every tier without the rehydration expense of proprietary storage tiering.
Core Features of Tiering
Transparent, Continuous Tiering
Flexible Tiering Policies
Tiering Across Multi-Vendor Storage Arrays
Prevent Rehydrating Tiered Data on First Access
Avoid Performance Impact on Hot Data
Fast Access to Tiered Data
Bulk Recall of Tiered Data
Native Cloud Access to Tiered Data
(NO DATA LOCK-IN)
Showback or Chargeback
Decommissioning without Rehydration
(NO VENDOR LOCK-IN)
Storage Array Block Tiering (NetApp FabricPool, Dell CloudPools)
Generally, can only specify an age. But that too can be limited where cold data is specified as anything 6 months or older.
Each storage array only supports tiering from its storage devices, and you must manage each cluster independently. There is no single page of glass to manage tiering across the clusters.
Tiered data that is accessed is immediately rehydrated. Requires that extra storage be kept reserved for such rehydration there by reducing cost advantages.
Since the core tiering engine is used to tier data, high latency to the target can impact performance.
Furthermore, the block tiering approach requires a constant traffic to the cloud to defragment blocks stored in objects. This constant traffic drives up cloud costs and impacts performance. For this reason, storage arrays clearly indicate that if more than 300TB is to be tiered, local object storage should be used.
Blocks are read back instead of the entire file. The blocks are stored back on the array to ensure future requests are fast. However, this approach request that some amount of storage be left unused to house accessed data. This reduces cost savings.
Data is brought back as it is accessed.
The data is in proprietary form and the entire file may not be on the target. The tiered data can only be read from the source.
It is very difficult to switch vendors once you start tiering with a storage array’s tiering solution.
Komprise TMT File Tiering
Komprise provides a range of ages as well as exclusions based on size, file type, directory. Komprise also allows users to granularly specify what to tier based on custom queries.
Komprise is vendor agnostic. Komprise can be deployed across most common storage arrays, allowing one, consistent, global way to tier data.
Komprise provides a single pane of glass across multi-vendor storage systems.
Komprise allows you to configure just when an access data is rehydrated.
Komprise is involved only when cold data is accessed.
Komprise streams the data and does not wait for the entire file to be read. Komprise caches the data locally to ensure future requests are fast.
Komprise provides a bulk recall feature. In many cases it may be necessary to bring back a large set of data.
Komprise writes tiered data in the format used by the target. For instance, if tiered to S3, it will write the data in S3 format. The data can be accessed from the source or, in this case, the cloud using a standard S3 browser. This enables processing of tiered data without burdening the source storage array.
Today, in the UI Komprise provides percentage of a share’s total storage that is local, and which has been tiered. Customizable showback reporting improves collaboration and alignment across teams.
With Komprise you can migrate from one vendor’s storage array to another without re-hydrating the huge quantity of tiered data. The tiered data will be transparently accessible from the new storage array.
Dig Deeper
PODCAST
Komprise CTO Talks Architecture, TMT and the Global File Index
Mike Peercy sits down with Philippe Nicolas to discuss TMT and the Komprise architecture.
Blog
Komprise Transparent Move Technology: Digging Deeper with Kumar Goswami
Interview with Komprise CEO Kumar Goswami reviews TMT and the benefits of a storage-agnostic approach.
Video
Komprise Transparent Move Technology Chalk Talk
Storage Field Day Chalk Talk reviews the power of Komprise Transparent Move Technology (TMT).
Frequently Asked Questions
How is Komprise data tiering different from storage-based tiering?
Komprise file-based data tiering operates independently of storage vendors and never sits in the hot data path, meaning active workloads stay unaffected. It works across heterogeneous storage (NAS, object, cloud) using open standards (NFS/SMB/S3), preserving native file access while moving cold data based on data management policies or custom queries. In contrast, storage-based tiering typically locks data into that vendor’s system and can degrade performance or complicate data access.
How much storage cost savings can Komprise Transparent Move Technology deliver?
By automatically identifying cold or rarely-accessed files and moving them to lower-cost object or cloud storage, Komprise can reduce primary storage, backup, cloud, ransomware and disaster-recovery costs by up to ~70%. Since tiering is transparent, users and applications continue to access data via Dynamics Links – no disruption, no rehydration delays, and no vendor-lock-in.
Can I still use native file access and analytics after moving data with Komprise?
Yes. Komprise maintains native access via industry protocols even after data is moved. That means you can open, edit, and run analytics on tiered or archived files as if they remained on primary storage. Because Komprise operates outside the hot data path and uses open standards, you avoid vendor-specific constraints while enabling scalable data management and AI-ready workflows.
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