text: **11.3.1 Considerations for using Transparent Cloud Tiering**
  
  Transparent Cloud Tiering can help to address certain business needs. When considering 
  whether to use Transparent Cloud Tiering, adopt a combination of business and technical 
  views of the challenges and determine whether Transparent Cloud Tiering can solve both of 
  those needs. 
  
  The use of Transparent Cloud Tiering can help businesses to manipulate data as shown in 
  the following examples: 
  
  (cid:2) Creating a consistent snapshot of dynamically changing data 
  
  (cid:2) Creating a consistent snapshot of production data to facilitate data movement or migration 
  between systems running at different locations 
  
  (cid:2) Creating a snapshot of production data sets for application development and testing 
  
  (cid:2) Creating a snapshot of production data sets for quality assurance 
  
  (cid:2) Using secure data tiering to off-premises cloud providers 
  
  From a technical standpoint, ensure that you evaluate the network capacity and bandwidth 
  requirements to support your data migration to off-premises infrastructure. To maximize 
  productivity, you must match your amount of data that needs to be transmitted off cloud plus 
  your network capacity. 
  
  From a security standpoint, ensure that your on-premises or off-premises cloud infrastructure 
  supports your requirements in terms of methods and level of encryption. 