Which of the following best describes your biggest challenge with object storage?

Performance23%

High cost48%

Rate of Data Growth23%

Other (none of the above)3%

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CTO in Software2 years ago

Security management is usually the biggest problem. Too often the configuration of access policies isn't well done and results in sensitive data leaks

Chief Technology Officer in Software2 years ago

Object Storage is fantastic, but egress costs should be a crime. Ingress is free, but egress is can hurt you. It's strategic capture to help keep workloads in the cloud provider.

Director of IT in Software3 years ago

For those that chose: Price. There are more cost effective alternatives to mainstream object storage (aws s3 and azure blob) like wasabi

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