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What is document storage? Document storage is the act of placing digital documents into a type of management system for the purposes of effectively and securely storing, managing, and/or organizing the information. Examples of digital documents are word documents, PDFs, presentations, invoices, scanned images of paper documents, and other business documents.

I sell, therefore I am...

Some things are easier to measure than others. Measuring improvement is not one of those things.

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.

We’ve all searched the app store to quickly find a specific mobile application. Searching for an app is the first step, whether it’s a game, a productivity tool, or a way to listen to music. But if you yourself have developed an app, how do you make sure people can find it in the app store? 

How much data storage do businesses need for storage and backup? Four of the biggest online storage internet companies (Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook) store at least 1,200 petabytes (PB), which is 1.2 million terabytes (TB). Even for smaller companies, it is remarkable how much data it manages. 

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.

Is sensitive customer data an asset or a liability? When we think about the most successful companies in recent years that have leveraged customer data to build competitive advantages—such as the FAANG companies (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google)—we think of customer data as an asset. 

It’s safe to say there are more app stores than I realized...