Storage fees in general (for example, API calls, operations, and data access) constitute 49 % of the intermediate user service bill, compared to the actual stored capacity, according to a study by Vanson Bourne.
Almost all institutions in the world have witnessed benefits related to security data from public cloud storage. The highest security benefits are:
Security potential for improved data compared to the previous environment. The easiest to prevent/reduce unplanned data loss events.
Cloud storage costs continue to rise
Storage fees against the division of bills (49 % of the fees, 51 % of the capacity) remains consistent with the results of the past two years, unfortunately indicating a little improvement in this billing mix in general. More than half (56 %) of institutions say they suffer from delaying or delaying business due to exit or other data access to data transferred from their organization from a public cloud environment. The cloud storage budget excesses are exacerbated, as 62 % of the respondents said that they exceeded the spending in the budget in 2024, compared to 53 % in 2023. Difficulty predicting the actual use of the storage and application deportation, along with high fees for operations, are higher reasons than the budget, where 42 % of the organizations had deported more than the available fees available For expected data.
“Unfortunately, cloud storage is still an unpredictable expenses for many institutions, fees related to transferring and accessing data stored and accessing them only lead to the exacerbation of the nature of this inability to predict, ultimately stop business initiatives and slow innovation,” said Andrew Smith, the market hospital manager in the valley technologies. “It is necessary for organizations to spend and reduce these fees wheels whenever possible. The storage of cloud organisms only grows in capacity and use, as institutions require more and do more with their data, and often driven by new initiatives based on artificial intelligence to explore use cases such as Genai or Agentic AI. Control of costs associated with new work burdens will be overwhelming The importance of business success in the long term, and the old fees and bills models will only slow up progress and punish creators.
Design a review of the cloud storage decision to store the cloud
Decision makers in cloud storage pays special attention to the basics of safety such as quality/duration of encryption (32 %), ransom program protection capabilities (29 %), data durability and SLAS availability (28 %) when choosing a service/provider. Almost all participants (99 %) indicate that their use of public cloud storage has led to data safety benefits for their institution-with improving data safety capabilities compared to their previous environment, and improving their ability to prevent data loss and alleviate the benefits mentioned as the best benefits. Almost all participants (99 %) say they are preparing data from an environment (environment). However, it is surprising that only 47 % of the respondents say they use the object lock (stability) as part of the procedures for the public cloud storage today. Although the current rate of use is low, the majority of organizations that are not currently used (49 %) plans to insert the next 1+ years lock. More than half (53 %) of institutions restore data from the public cloud storage environment on a weekly basis (every 1-2 weeks) for backup purposes, including the test. This is a great indication of the activity of active secondary storage, such as data/recovery backup.
Access to cold storage is still a major challenge for many organizations
Unfortunately, 98 % of respondents who use low -cost “cold” storage levels say they deal with data performance deterioration and data access penalties. Ultimately, this leads to one in five organizations that their commercial operations are negatively affected by the delay in performance or access to data at cold storage levels.
Although many institutions believe that they will never reach the data stored in deep -cost archive levels, the reality is that most Orgs (84 %) say that it ultimately ends in accessing data stored at cold levels with the deterioration/penalties for performance on a weekly or monthly basis.
Why such repeated rates to reach? The respondents asked about the “most active” archive use in the public cloud, and 51 % of the institutions say they benefit from storing the active archive of analyzes and data processing, while 49 % say they use the storage of active archive for safety and forensic analyzes.
Finally, the analysis sheds light on very important details: the requests for archive data are not always under the direct control of the institution itself, making unplanned access rates. The most important reasons that were martyred to reach cold storage data were organizational needs and compliance, and to respond to safety events such as Ransomwari/malware. These are the underestimated or even planned factors, and part of the reason for estimating the patterns of access to cold storage data, and the costs ultimately, may be difficult.
