Which NetApp solution should the customer use?

A customer wants to lower their TCO using a cloud solution to reduce their expenditure for on-premises third-party storage.

Which NetApp solution should the customer use?
A . BlueXP tiering
B . BlueXP backup and recovery
C . BlueXP copy and sync
D . BlueXP replication

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Answer: A

Explanation:

NetApp BlueXP tiering is the ideal solution for reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) by leveraging cloud storage. It enables automatic tiering of infrequently accessed data (cold data) from expensive on-premises storage to lower-cost object storage in the cloud (such as Azure Blob, AWS S3, or Google Cloud Storage). This reduces the need for high-performance, high-cost local storage for data that isn’t frequently accessed, effectively lowering the overall storage costs.

By migrating cold data to more economical cloud storage tiers, BlueXP tiering helps organizations optimize their storage spend, thus reducing TCO for their on-premises third-party storage infrastructure.

Other solutions like BlueXP backup and recovery, copy and sync, and replication provide different services (such as data protection, data migration, and disaster recovery) but are not focused on cost reduction through tiering, which specifically helps reduce TCO.