US Patent 9430368 System and method for caching data

A method, computer program product, and computing system for processing a read request for a piece of content stored within a storage system. If it is determined that the piece of content is not present within a front end cache system of the storage system, requesting the piece of content from a multi-tiered data array, thus defining requested content. The requested content is received from the multi-tiered data array. A tier designator, concerning the requested content, is received that identifies a specific data tier within the multi-tiered data array from which the requested content was obtained.