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Intelligent Data Tiering and Automated Lifecycle Management for Enterprise Storage and Scalable Real-Time Analytics

Abstract

Enterprise data platforms need to consider the speed of access to frequently accessed data with the cost, capacity, longevity and latency of storage resources. Fixed placement policies and manually maintained retention schedule may drive up storage costs, introduce processing overhead, as well as postpone the analytical loads as volumes of data and access patterns evolve. In this paper, a conceptual framework of intelligent data tiering and automated lifecycle management that integrates metadata, access telemetry, business criticality, retention requirements and workload service-level objectives will be presented. Responses Data is profiled at the object, table, partition, or dataset level; estimates both access demand and lifecycle-state, chooses the right storage tier, and manages migration, retention, archival and deletion using policy-controlled processes. Caching, hot-tier protection, event-driven policy updates, and active query safeguards ensure a real-time analytics (data wording) journey. The paper evaluates the framework analytically based on decisions quality, latency, costs awareness, scalability, governance and recoverability. It does not purport to achieve measured performance gains; empirical validation on enterprise traces of representative size is yet to be demonstrated

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