Today, organizations of all sizes across the full spectrum of the business arena are facing a similar problem: An explosion in the sheer quantity of file-based data they are generating and, by virtue, are forced to manage. This proliferation of unstructured data, often called “big data,” has left traditional storage architectures unable to satisfy the demands of this growth and has necessitated the development of a new generation of storage technologies. Also, broader data retention requirements, regulatory compliance, tighter availability service level agreements (SLAs) with internal or external customers, and cloud and virtualization initiatives are only serving to compound this issue.