With so much data coming into and flowing out of a company, organizations need a way to manage exponential data growth in a scalable, efficient way that can help them achieve new productivity in the cloud. This is where cloud object storage — the foundational data store for cloud and AI — comes into play. As companies begin to work with larger data workloads, they will see the need for an intelligent data storage layer on the cloud that offers this kind of efficiency and high scalability. Folding cloud object storage into their architectures will allow them to manage and analyze their data economically and securely. We can expect cloud object storage to move from an emerging technology to more of an industry standard as the size of datasets continue to grow.