As businesses shift to a highly distributed and data-driven landscape, their storage infrastructure requirements often change. They must continuously assess when to migrate workloads to the cloud and when running those workloads in their on-premises data centers is the best approach. High performance, reliability and scalability are key considerations for storage solutions, along with addressing expanding data needs for compliance, privacy, security, cost and location. Relying only on public cloud storage presents challenges like high data transfer fees, storage costs, and potential egress charges, requiring optimization strategies such as minimizing data movement, using cost-effective storage classes, and negotiating with providers. Cloud…

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