What is Hybrid Archive Storage?

Answer – Hybridization is used across many industries to select the best features and eliminate the weakest. Storage technologies too have good and bad points, so using a combination of storage technologies can allow organizations to get the “best of both worlds”. Gateway software with replication (such as QStar Archive Replicator) allows content to be written synchronously to multiple storage systems, some local and some remote, to protect data but also allow cost savings on the retrieval of that data. Many Cloud Storage vendors charge for data retrieval, so eliminating reads in favor of local storage (using Object Storage, Tape Libraries, NAS disk – or a combination) will reduce overall monthly cost of archive storage while adding additional levels of data protection.