Why enterprises are repatriating their data

About this episode

This episode discusses the trend of data repatriation among various industries and the challenges they face with cloud storage.

In this episode, we’re talking about data repatriation—why media, healthcare, and financial services organizations are pulling petabytes out of the cloud and landing them on on‑prem S3 object storage to power their next wave of AI. You’ll meet a global media company that got blindsided by egress fees and latency, a healthcare provider squeezed by compliance and data sovereignty, and a financial services firm that hit an AI cost wall the moment “cheap” cloud storage became “read constantly” AI...

People in this episode

Host: Vanimal

Topics covered

• data repatriation
• cloud storage
• AI
• media
• healthcare
• financial services

Keywords

• data repatriation
• cloud
• AI
• egress fees
• latency
• compliance
• data sovereignty

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: global media company, healthcare provider, financial services firm

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