It’s no exaggeration to say that we’re witnessing the rebirth of object storage. For years, object storage was perceived as a solution best suited to inexpensive backup, long-term archive, and massive data lakes. That was then. These days, unstructured data has moved into the driver’s seat. Organizations deploy fast, flexible, scalable, cost-efficient object storage across myriad use cases throughout the enterprise, including test/dev, analytics, data protection, ML & AI — and even primary storage.
What’s driving this dramatic change? To begin with, a tidal wave of data, and a correspondingly large shift in the way organizations collect, store, and analyze that data. We’ve previously discussed the challenges of explosive data growth and the need for enterprises to rethink IT strategies. With each passing day it only becomes clearer that data is now the fundamental issue that enterprises must get right.
