Greek mythology grabs your attention as a hero follows a complicated path to his final destination. Today, IT departments in life sciences organizations have their own attention grabber: Understanding the path and the best way to move data from its creation through its lifecycle.

While the story about the hero usually has a moral and philosophical implication, the path data and how it moves has significant consequences on the performance and economics of storage solutions.

The questions that need to be answered are: What’s the most suitable and economi­cal place to store data at various times in its lifetime? And how can data be moved in a manner that eliminates any user disruptions and minimizes the time to conduct the migration?