Storage

Choosing your next enterprise storage is no easy task. Data has
never been more important to business, and its exponential growth (expected to
continue to 2020 and beyond) makes it difficult to project future requirements.
Additionally, the growing number of service providers and storage technologies
further complicates the decision-making process.

It’s a complex task. You must choose a solution that gives your
business a competitive edge, whether that’s in supporting the analysis of data
and the creation of real-time insights, providing your customers with great
service, or simply storing and managing data quicker and better. But you also
need to meet your compliance requirements, defend against increasingly
sophisticated and varied cyberthreats, and meet budget requirements.

With so many things to consider,

In the not too distant future, gone will be the days when the best options for data storage are on-site servers or external local hard drives. In recent years due to lowering hardware costs, lower bandwidth costs, and the vast amount of data in the world, a newer option became available: cloud storage. Cloud storage is currently the most expensive data storage option primarily due to providers' egress charges'; however, as with most technology, the price is coming down.

Google
Drive, Dropbox, Apple iCloud are some cloud storage solutions for the home and
small business. We'll discuss enterprise-level solutions in a future post but
first, let me talk about what cloud storage really is.

Cloud
storage is essentially storing data in remote data centers. There are numerous
advantages