HYBRID STORAGE APPLIANCE

computer hardware; storage appliance hardware comprised of computer operating system controllers, RAID redundant array of independent disk cache arrays, and modular libraries, all connected to a local area network; storage appliance hardware, namely, computer hardware that combines two or more storage technologies to deliver both performance and economy; computer software to virtualize, manage, store, and access large collections of data across two or more storage technologies; optical media library hardware, namely, computer hardware to catalog, store, and access optical media