Blame the advanced need for speed, the reality of our 24/7 always-on news cycle or simply escalating costs, and the industry finds itself at a crossroads: stick with stalwart storage legacy technologies of the past? Or invest in something new. But which road to take? While the "hybrid" technology moniker has been stamped on everything from cars to refrigerators (built-in TV with your snack, anyone?), the hybrid technology signature has found its way to the storage realm, and with good reason.
In the face of an ever-growing volume of unstructured data files and objects, finding and accessing a file – let alone all the information you need for a project, to support a critical business workflow such as analytics reports, or to simply support the right business decision – has become an incredibly daunting task. Organizations are looking for an effective way to overcome the storage sprawl and the data silos that have cropped up around proprietary vendor technologies. Businesses want to streamline access to the right data at the right time with the right workflow, regardless of the location of the data itself.
