Introducing Keystone Standard Hybrid

September 29, 2026

Customers are under pressure to support growing data volumes, AI initiatives, and infrastructure modernization, all while controlling storage costs. Many workloads simply need a smart balance of performance and economics, not premium all-flash infrastructure. Customers shouldn't have to choose between flexibility, scale, and simplicity.

Keystone Standard Hybrid extends the Keystone experience with a new performance service level, combining flash and HDD media within the Keystone Storage-as-a-Service model. It offers additional flexibility within Keystone and an alternative to the industry's all-or-nothing storage choice, delivering performance that rivals flash for the workloads that matter most, at a meaningfully lower cost.

Standard Hybrid is purpose-built and engineered without compromise: customers receive the same availability and multi-protocol commitments they already expect from Keystone, built in from day one.

Standard Hybrid lives inside the same Keystone platform customers already use; no new contract, no new console, no new operational model. It's proof that smart economics and modern consumption aren't mutually exclusive.

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