“The hyper-growth in the use of cloud storage over the past decade has been driven by low-cost object-based repositories, mainly due to the popularity of AWS S3. Business-critical workloads, however, remain stubbornly on premises where the most resilient block storage arrays reside. Earlier this year, our firm, the Taneja Group, conducted research on how cloud block storage use has evolved beyond caching for web-tier applications and test/dev.” – Read more at TechTarget!