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To Conclude






     The State of Data Storage in the



     Aftermath of the Pandemic


                                                                                     Subodh Anchan
                                                                                     Vice President –
     The  data  storage  landscape  is      Public Cloud Altering the                Alliance, iValue InfoSolutions
                                            Storage Market
     constantly  changing  to  meet  the
                                            In  recent  years,  the  adoption  of
     needs  of  commercial  businesses
                                            cloud computing has had a huge
     all  around  the  world.  The  term
                                            i m p a c t   o n   t h e   s t o r a g e
     ' s t o r a g e '   h a s   c h a n g e d
                                            environment.  By  providing  highly
     dramatically  in  recent  years.
                                            scalable  architectures,  public
     Storage  used  to  be  synonymous
                                            cloud  providers  have  altered  the
     w i t h   s e r v e r s   a n d   s t o r a g e
                                            storage  market,  and  are  quickly
     products/equipment.  Apart  from
                                            becoming a key part of enterprises'
     traditional  storage  formats,  the
                                            overall  storage  plans.  Common
     word  storage  is  now  associated
                                            enterprise  programmes  such  as
     with DC and Cloud. While this was
                                            CRM, collaboration tools, and email
     the tendency a few years ago, with     are now hosted on cloud platforms,
     the advent of digitalization, it is no   and this trend has had an impact     multi-cloud  storage  is  the  way

     longer  the  case.  This  leads  us  to   on  how  firms  store  and  process   f o r w a r d   f o r   t h e   f u t u r e ,

     consider  what  might  be  the  next   information.                           organizations  will  continue  to
     big  thing  in  the  storage  solution                                        employ local storage systems for a
                                            Multi-Cloud Storage is the
     field, not just from the standpoint of   Way Forward                           variety  of  file-handling,  backup,
                                                                                   and archive strategies. Fortunately,
     enterprises  and  developers,  but     F u r t h e r m o r e ,   l a r g e r   I T
     also  from  the  standpoint  of        developments  such  as  artificial      storage  suppliers  continue  to
                                                                                   produce  devices  to  fulfill  local
     customer demand and growth.            intelligence  (AI),  the  Internet  of
                                                                                   storage  requirements  —  and  the
                                            Things  (IoT),  and  big  data  have
                                                                                   competition is fierce.
                                            resulted  in  an  increase  in  both

                                            organized and unstructured data.
                                            While many people believe that -




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