eBook 13 Cloud Storage Challenges and How to Solve Them Introduction With the explosion of applications and devices that are generating huge volumes of data, it is not surprising that data storage costs play a significant role in corporate IT budgets. The Osterman Research white paper Data Center Transformation Requires Software-Based Cloud Storage, sponsored by HubStor and Microsoft from December 2018, found that two out of three organizations spend in excess of 10% of their yearly IT budget on storage, while one in six spend more than 25%. Currently 54% of the organizations surveyed for the Osterman Research white paper have more than 500 terabytes of data in storage, with the top 13% managing more than 10 petabytes. The anticipated growth in data will only continue to drive up data storage requirements and costs. By 2025, IDC predicts that there will be 175 zettabytes (175 ZB) of data in use worldwide, up from 32 ZB at the end of 2018—at a truly remarkable Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 61%. In order to meet their rising data storage needs, many enterprises saw the benefits of the cloud’s usage-based price model as well as the other cloud storage benefits such as agility, scalability, global geographic distribution, and enhanced security. The IDC 2025 forecast noted above expects that half of the 175 ZB of data in use will be stored on the public cloud. This guide explores the challenges that might be encountered when shifting to cloud storage, and how to address those challenges. 13 Cloud Storage Challenges and How to Solve Them 

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