It hasn’t been that long, really, since most companies dealt mostly with data that could be measured in gigabytes. Today, businesses are commonly dealing with terabytes and petabytes – and larger companies are working with much more. Traditional storage architectures often were not designed to deal with these quantities of data, and many businesses are already looking beyond — to the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), in which exabytes of data aren’t uncommon at all. Many companies are looking for an alternative, innovative storage solution that addresses these enormous capacities and meets their cost goals. The answer is object storage.