Data Management Glossary
Hybrid Tiering
Hybrid Tiering, or Hybrid File Tiering, is a storage-agnostic approach to data tiering that all organizations to establish fine-grained data management policies beyond the built-in cold data tiering limits often provided by data storage vendors. In addition to greater flexibility, hybrid tiering approaches offer the benefits of data portability without rehydration and no limits to innovation and cost savings by easily moving specific cold data sets to lower cost, deeper data storage solutions from other vendors (e.g. AWS Glacier, Wasabi, etc.).