Today’s data-hungry organizations face a growing range of management and migration challenges as their use of on-prem storage evolves and their consumption of cloud services continues to climb. Public cloud providers are rapidly increasing the capabilities of their file storage options in addition to their object storage offerings. The file storage options include a mixture of cloud-hosted traditional vendor options as well as native file services offered by the provider themselves. Organizations that are looking to re-platform legacy applications at a cloud provider have to consider how they will migrate their data.
