Cloud technology has become more popular with many organizations relying on cloud applications, phones, and storage for better connectivity and reliability. The main reason for this is that it is much easier to store data in the cloud than on an organization’s network.
Storing data in the cloud allows you to retain more data without having to keep it on your devices enabling you to back up data when your devices fail or break down.
AI is a form of technology that has become popular with many organizations. Therefore, it is important to understand how AI technology can help with cloud storage.
Coeo knows how important cloud storage is and has delivered thousands of cloud solutions to organizations to help them improve connectivity, cloud storage, and security.
By the end of this article, you will understand how AI technology can help with cloud storage and whether integrating AI into your cloud storage could be beneficial for your organization.
The ways AI can improve cloud storage
Using AI technology with cloud storage can help automate your storage and allows you to manage and configure the data without having to do so manually making it less time-consuming. Some of the ways that AI can improve cloud storage include:
Automated data management
If your organization does not have an IT team or has an IT team that is focused on other key initiatives, you may not have the resources to manage this data internally.
However, integrating AI technology into your cloud storage service to automate data management enables you to automatically assess cloud performance, resource consumption, and storage capacity needs.
AI technology will automatically alert your team when cloud performance decreases or when your data or nearly has reached maximum capacity so you can determine whether more cloud storage is needed.
Failure prevention
A system failure in the cloud can cause major consequences which might include data leakage and data breaches. Integrating AI technology into your cloud storage can help prevent system failure.
AI technology constantly analyzes large volumes of data and reports on performance metrics and power usage and uses this information to identify potential data bottlenecks and potential system failures.
When AI technology identifies these potential issues, it automatically distributes these workloads to prevent bottlenecks and system failures.
Upgrade alerts
Like other hardware or software services, cloud storage services require periodic upgrades.
When it is time for a cloud service upgrade, AI will alert your team or your cloud service provider that the upgrade is available so these upgrades may be installed.
Additionally, some AI technology can be set up to upgrade your cloud storage service automatically at a specific time set by your team. It is typically advised that these upgrades are installed in the middle of the night or at a time when the cloud is least accessed.
Automatic data classification
Cloud storage services typically group data into different tiers based on importance and how frequently the data is accessed.
These tiers provide varying security policies based on the same criteria with more important data having security policies that are stricter than data that can be frequently accessed by anyone in the organization that is less important.
AI technology will automatically classify this data when it is uploaded to the cloud-based on the policies and criteria set by your team.
Additionally, AI will automatically move data to lower tiers or delete the data altogether based on predefined criteria such as the time it was last accessed enabling you to save data space by deleting old data that is obsolete and no longer being accessed.
Improve cloud security
While the cloud is much simpler to use and store data, the cloud is also a public platform that any user can access.
For this reason, it is important for your organization to prioritize reliable cloud security to prevent cyberattacks, data breaches, and malicious actors from accessing your data in the cloud.
AI technology will help improve the security in your cloud storage service by analyzing network traffic, user behavior, and access logs in real time.
By doing this, AI technology will identify potential breaches and attacks and close these vulnerabilities when they are discovered to avoid any damage to the data and your network.
If you would like to speak with our team to learn more about AI technology and cloud storage or ask any questions you may have you can schedule an appointment.
Is implementing AI in your cloud storage service beneficial for your organization
Now you understand the ways AI can improve your cloud storage service. However, it is important that you understand whether implementing AI into your cloud storage service would be specifically beneficial for your organization.
If your organization does not have an IT team to manage your cloud storage service or, for a host of reasons has an IT team that is not able to reliably manage your cloud storage, implementing AI into your cloud storage may be beneficial.
Organizations that can’t afford to monitor cloud storage manually will benefit from implementing AI technology to automate data management and classification, failure prevention, and cloud storage service upgrades.
Further, organizations with poor cloud security will benefit from implementing AI technology into their cloud storage service because it will help prevent cyberattacks and data breaches.
However, if your organization has an IT team that can fully manage your cloud storage service efficiently and reliably, implementing AI into your cloud storage service may not be necessary.
Determining whether your organization should implement AI technology into your cloud storage service
Now you understand the ways AI can improve your cloud storage service and whether implementing it into your cloud storage service would be beneficial for your organization.
This information will enable you to determine whether your organization should invest in AI technology to improve your cloud storage service.
No organization can operate effectively with poor cloud storage service. It is important to understand how AI can improve cloud storage service so you can determine whether implementing AI into your service would be beneficial for your organization.
Coeo understands how important reliable cloud storage service is and has delivered thousands of cloud solutions to organizations to improve their connectivity and security.
If you would like to speak with our team to learn more about AI technology and cloud storage or ask any questions you may have you can schedule an appointment.
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