However, there are a number of cloud storage management services available, to allow you to manage each different part of your cloud data as a whole, and in the ways required. Additionally, there will be different types of data that needs to be used in different ways, from customer data that simply needs to be recorded to disaster recovery (DR) solutions that need the ability to swap in data from cloud backups in the event of a major IT failure or major malware infection such as from ransomware.

This is particularly for enterprises with legacy on-premises applications, and that can create a challenge, especially in terms of in managing the storage, flow, and use of data, even with cloud management software in place for hybrid clouds.

While there are cloud storage solutions available to consumers, and while businesses can take advantage of cloud databases to store structured data, and even data lakes to store unstructured data, these solutions won't work for every business. While businesses increasingly move their IT infrastructure into cloud computing services, the issue of how to best store data inevitably comes up.

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