Hybrid Storage: ‘Rarely Used’

Chris Rechtsteiner, vice president at ServerCentral Turing Group:

Hybrid storage. Not all data is equally important. Certain data sets need to be highly performant and accessible on a continuous basis. Others are rarely needed. Placing the right data in the right locations will have a material impact on business performance, the perceived performance of the cloud, and most importantly, cloud costs.

While hybrid storage is well-known and well-understood, it is rarely used because it takes time and effort to plan. The connection to the business is critical, and this is something that too often takes time and effort organizations don’t want to invest. The outcomes, however, are tangible:

·         Reduced costs (via appropriate storage utilization and optimized egress fees).

·         Increased performance (via storage platforms specifically architected to meet always-on or archival-level data use cases).

·         Improved usability (as the right data will be in the right place and be easily accessible when needed).