Hybrid Cloud Storage

Hybrid Cloud Storage is the term for storage architectures that connect local infrastructures with public cloud resources. Data and workloads run where cost, performance, compliance and availability fit together best.

Typical patterns are automatic tiering, in which rarely used data moves to inexpensive cloud storage, the cloud as a target for Cloud Backup and archiving, and keeping latency-critical data in the organization's own data center. In addition to the technology, planning factors include egress costs for data returning from the cloud, data sovereignty and regulatory requirements for the storage location – points that decide the cost-effectiveness of the model.

Since modern IT landscapes can hardly be conceived as purely local or purely cloud-based anymore, concepts are needed that connect both worlds without new silos: uniform policies, data mobility and end-to-end transparency. Set up correctly, hybrid cloud storage achieves exactly that – flexibility without giving up control over business-critical data – and is thus a core building block of modern Data Management.