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Healthcare Object Storage Supports Growing Unstructured Data

Healthcare object storage is emerging as organizations seek denser on-premises datacenters for analytics initiatives.

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By Elizabeth O'Dowd

- Entities are looking into object storage as a way to store massive amounts of data on-premises, according to Gartner’s latest Magic Quadrant report. For healthcare specifically, organizations are seeking healthcare object storage to help them sort through the growing amount of unstructured data.

“With data growth exceeding 50 percent year over year, infrastructure and operations leaders are looking for extensible on-premises storage products that can address an increasing number of digital business use cases with lower acquisition and operational costs,” Gartner report authors explained.

Organizations need scalability and automation to accommodate the influx of data so it can be made actionable in the future. Gartner said that new and established storage vendors are working to develop scalable storage clustered file systems that aren’t as expensive to deploy and don’t limit organizations when they’re trying to scale up their storage infrastructure.