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Organizations need to meet data storage and archiving related challenges as they grow. These challenges usually arise from lack of on-premises storage space. Cloud Archiving addresses a lot of these issues with simple plans for long-term data storage with options like scalability, disaster recovery, compliance etc. This article discusses a few data archiving related challenges that organizations face with the context of cloud as a solution. Here are a few challenges: Off-Premises Storage Archive Having on-premises archiving solutions increase the on-premises workloads. This might lead to business disruptions and take up vital resources required for critical business operations. Archiving is a slow process and ‘cold data’ is not treated as critical data and thus resorted to cheaper storage media. The best solution for this type of data is having a cloud repository. Cloud data archiving solutions shift the responsibility of managing, securing and storing archival data from t...

Many companies have successfully saved costs by migrating to cloud for Azure cloud storage and cloud computing services. Organizations save on capital investments with cloud solutions vis-à-vis buying expensive physical storage infrastructure. The question is whether cloud storage solutions actually save you a lot of money or not? In this article, we aim to answer this question – Less maintenance with cloud storage Companies that have physical storage infrastructure in place, have to spend a lot of money on its maintenance regularly. This is a constant worry for organizations dealing with sensitive workloads. With cloud storage solutions organizations can leave their worries behind and rely on the cloud for storage gateway . Companies can focus on their productivity rather than provisioning storage resources as well as maintenance, governance, and security on workloads. Lower electricity costs with cloud storage With cloud storage solutions, organizations sav...