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The hyper-growth in the use of cloud storage over the past decade has been driven by low-cost object-based repositories, mainly due to the popularity of AWS S3. Business-critical workloads, however, remain stubbornly on premises where the most resilient block storage arrays reside. Earlier this year, our firm, the Taneja Group, conducted research on how cloud block storage use has evolved beyond caching for web-tier applications and test/dev. Organizations continue to prefer the object storage approach for global content distribution and archiving in the cloud, and now file storage is available in the cloud to enhance file sync and share, collaboration and other office and productivity applications. But as we learned in two Taneja Group cloud research studies from November 2018 and July 2019, firms are increasing their use of cloud block storage services as more block-based workloads run in the public cloud. Adoption rates of hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure Before assessing public cloud adoption and the effect of block ...