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Cloud storage is a cloud computing model that allows storing and accessing data and files over the internet through a cloud computing provider. It removes the need to purchase and manage your own storage infrastructure, providing agility, scalability, and durability with anytime, anywhere access to data. Cloud storage delivers cost savings by allowing you to pay only for the storage you use and scale up or down as needed. It provides increased agility by making resources available within minutes and faster deployment by quickly delivering the required storage.

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Cloud

Cloud storage is a cloud computing model that allows storing and accessing data and files over the internet through a cloud computing provider. It removes the need to purchase and manage your own storage infrastructure, providing agility, scalability, and durability with anytime, anywhere access to data. Cloud storage delivers cost savings by allowing you to pay only for the storage you use and scale up or down as needed. It provides increased agility by making resources available within minutes and faster deployment by quickly delivering the required storage.

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What is cloud storage?

Cloud storage is a cloud computing model that enables storing data and files on the internet
through a cloud computing provider that you access either through the public internet or a
dedicated private network connection. The provider securely stores, manages, and maintains the
storage servers, infrastructure, and network to ensure you have access to the data when you
need it at virtually unlimited scale, and with elastic capacity. Cloud storage removes the need to
buy and manage your own data storage infrastructure, giving you agility, scalability, and
durability, with any time, anywhere data access.

Why is cloud storage important?


Cloud storage delivers cost-effective, scalable storage. You no longer need to worry about
running out of capacity, maintaining storage area networks (SANs), replacing failed devices,
adding infrastructure to scale up with demand, or operating underutilized hardware when
demand decreases. Cloud storage is elastic, meaning you scale up and down with demand and
pay only for what you use. It is a way for organizations to save data securely online so that it can
be accessed anytime from any location by those with permission.

Whether you are a small business or a large enterprise, cloud storage can deliver the agility, cost
savings, security, and simplicity to focus on your core business growth. For small businesses,
you no longer have to worry about devoting valuable resources to manage storage yourself, and
cloud storage gives you the ability to scale as the business grows.

For large enterprises with billions of files and petabytes of data, you can rely on the scalability,
durability, and cost savings of cloud storage to create centralized data lakes to make your data
accessible to all who need it.

Cost effectiveness
With cloud storage, there is no hardware to purchase, no storage to provision, and no extra
capital being used for business spikes. You can add or remove storage capacity on demand,
quickly change performance and retention characteristics, and only pay for storage that you
actually use. As data becomes infrequently and rarely accessed, you can even automatically
move it to lower-cost storage, thus creating even more cost savings. By moving storage
workloads from on premises to the cloud, you can reduce total cost of ownership by removing
overprovisioning and the cost of maintaining storage infrastructure.

Increased agility
With cloud storage, resources are only a click away. You reduce the time to make those
resources available to your organization from weeks to just minutes. This results in a dramatic
increase in agility for your organization. Your staff is largely freed from the tasks of procurement,
installation, administration, and maintenance. And because cloud storage integrates with a wide
range of analytics tools, your staff can now extract more insights from your data to fuel
innovation.

Faster deployment
When development teams are ready to begin, infrastructure should never slow them down. Cloud
storage services allow IT to quickly deliver the exact amount of storage needed, whenever and
wherever it's needed. Your developers can focus on solving complex application problems
instead of having to manage storage systems.
Efficient data management
By using cloud storage lifecycle management policies, you can perform powerful information
management tasks including automated tiering or locking down data in support of compliance
requirements. You can also use cloud storage to create multi-region or global storage for your
distributed teams by using tools such as replication. You can organize and manage your data in
ways that support specific use cases, create cost efficiencies, enforce security, and meet
compliance requirements.

Virtually unlimited scalability


Cloud storage delivers virtually unlimited storage capacity, allowing you to scale up as much and
as quickly as you need. This removes the constraints of on-premises storage capacity. You can
efficiently scale cloud storage up and down as required for analytics, data lakes, backups, or
cloud native applications. Users can access storage from anywhere, at any time, without
worrying about complex storage allocation processes, or waiting for new hardware.

Business continuity
Cloud storage providers store your data in highly secure data centers, protecting your data and
ensuring business continuity. Cloud storage services are designed to handle concurrent device
failure by quickly detecting and repairing any lost redundancy. You can further protect your data
by using versioning and replication tools to more easily recover from both unintended user
actions or application failures.

With cloud storage services, you can:

 Cost-effectively protect data in the cloud without sacrificing performance.


 Scale up your backup resources in minutes as data requirements change.
 Protect backups with a data center and network architecture built for security-sensitive
organizatio

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