On-Prem vs Cloud Storage: Four Decisions About Data Location
ComputerWeekly, Tuesday, December 19,2023
Hybrid cloud is now a reality. But how to decide what data goes where? We highlight four key decision points to evaluate whether data should be stored on-premise or in the cloud
Nearly all enterprise IT projects involve decisions about where to store data.
The public cloud holds perhaps more than half of all business data. That volume of data held on cloud-based systems, especially by the hyperscalers - Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure - has grown steadily over the past few years.
But traffic is not all one way. Increasingly, firms are now looking at hybrid cloud storage, where some data is stored on-premise and some in the cloud. Research by Aptum, a managed services and consulting firm, found that 77% of firms use the public cloud and 86% expect to use hybrid or multicloud services.