What is cloud storage?
Cloud storage is a way of storing data that involves sending it via the Internet to remote servers where it is stored, managed, backed up and made available to users as needed. Data in cloud storage is stored in logical pools across a variety of commodity servers that may be located on an enterprise’s premises or in a remote data center managed by third-party.
What is hybrid cloud storage?
Hybrid cloud storage is a storage architecture that connects on-premises storage systems to cloud storage, treating the entire architecture is a single storage system. Hybrid cloud storage enables IT teams to move data from on-premises systems to the cloud or vice versa in order to reduce costs, improve performance and address security, data sovereignty and latency concerns.
What is cloud object storage?
Cloud object storage is a storage architecture that manages data as objects rather than files. An object contains data, metadata and a unique global identifier. Object storage is considered a better architecture for cloud applications because it is able to scale massively and can be accessed via common APIs.