Ever since time immemorial, information has played a major role in people's lives in every sphere. The necessity for innovation arose when it became challenging to store the vast volume of information being continuously generated by businesses, industries, institutions, and homes. Valuable information stored manually on paper made retrieving them very difficult. Albert Einstein quoted, “Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it!” In this tech-savvy world, it would be apt to say, “Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to retrieve it from!”

This paved the way for the usage of hard drives and servers for storing, processing and retrieving a considerable volume of data quickly. In this ever-changing, fast-paced world, hard drives and servers too became redundant. A strong internet presence and web dominance dominate today’s world. This led to inevitable innovations in the field of storage solutions. Cloud computing took over the IT and business worlds like a twirling tornado, though for good! 

To put it in simple terms, a cloud computing solution is a virtual space where data can be stored, managed, processed and accessed globally over the internet. Clouds facilitate cloud computing, which is the process of running workloads within a cloud environment. The high cost of setting up the traditional storage devices, the team needed to maintain them, and limited space for storage were some of the concerns that have been addressed efficiently by this technology. The leading cloud providers (for example, Microsoft Azure or Amazon web services) provide cloud management services that include providing the platform to store data and retrieve and manage them through portals.