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There once was a time where file storage meant boxes piled around offices and conference rooms filled with important documents.

The very idea of cloud storage was once inaccessible and even ethereal—I’ll admit thinking that it had something to do with magic satellites when I first heard the term.

The world of big data is expected to reach an astonishing 163 zettabytes, or 163 trillion gigabytes, by 2025. Curious about how large one zettabyte is? It could store roughly 2 billion years' worth of music.

Think of watching a movie or TV series on a streaming platform. When using streaming platforms, global users stream or locally store large multi-gigabyte (GB) media files simultaneously. Object streaming is what happens in the background when doing so. Each TV series or movie is stored either as a splitted object or a mounted range of objects. And the way they are stored is a classic example of object storage.

Anyone of a certain age remember this Palmolive commercial from the early 1970s?

Communication can be difficult even when there isn’t a language barrier.

The concept of cloud computing isn’t new. References to cloud computing have been around since the 1960s, although at the time, “cloud” wasn’t a part of the lexicon. Back then, using remote computing and processing elements was called “network-based.”

The rapid adoption of cloud computing services has given businesses a false sense of security when it comes to protecting their data.

A business restricted to a single geographic location is now a thing of the past.

When a business decides to move its data into the cloud, there is always the underlying question of security.