Hybrid Cloud Storage Buying Guide, Part II

Grazed from EnterpriseStorageForum. Author: Christine Taylor.

Cloud computing is a maturing technology but cloud storage is lagging behind – with hybrid cloud storage as the most forward looking technology. The lag in cloud storage reflects the same situation between on-premise servers, networks and storage: servers and networks have outstripped storage performance many times over.

There are a number of reasons for this, many of them based on the physical limitations of magnetic disk. Flash and optimizing data are helping to close the gap. Yet there is still a gulf between on-premise and cloud-based storage due to latency and low bandwidth. Sending backup and archive to the cloud relieves some of the pressure of storing massive data. However, on-premise production data can rarely take advantage of the cloud and its scalability…

Hybrid Cloud Storage to the Rescue?

Hybrid cloud storage is a way to extend on-premise production storage to the cloud. Note that is “extend” and not “replace.” Cloud-based storage cannot yet replace high-performance local storage systems, but it can act as a semi-active tier where application servers can restore data from the cloud without using backup catalogs or archival restore procedures…

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