When cloud computing is mentioned, many people immediately think of public cloud software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) offerings available from major vendors like Microsoft and Amazon. These large providers offer any company a wide variety of computing solutions including the ability to obtain virtually limitless storage capacity. The popularity of these products is evident in the number of companies that are migrating systems to the cloud and taking advantage of new services rolled out by providers.

IPR Secure, a proven and trusted hybrid cloud service provider, today announced the availability of IPR Cloud Object Storage. This low-cost object storage solution is designed for highly regulated organizations seeking to store or archive large amounts of data while still meeting immutability requirements. IPR Cloud Object Storage connects to any device through a unique, secure URL so it can be used for backing up files, archiving data and for file-sharing.

Organizations that take advantage of public cloud resources have a range of options available when designing their storage architectures. One perfectly viable choice is to keep their resources in-house by using on-premises storage appliances and applications. At the other end of the spectrum, an enterprise can decide to store all of its data using the storage capabilities of a public cloud provider. Between these extremes is the hybrid option that leverages both cloud and on-premises equipment and methods to create a holistic storage environment. 

The cloud may seem to be an ephemeral concept, and is marketed as a way to eliminate concerns over storage capacity. But all that data needs to actually be stored somewhere, and that means large data centers are required to serve the storage needs of cloud customers. While cloud customers enjoy the flexibility of storage on demand, their cloud providers do not share that luxury. They need to provide real storage to handle the needs of their clients.