Frost Radar: Hybrid Cloud Storage, 2025

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Business requires modern data storage solutions that manage costs, ensure consistent performance, and support corporate sustainability goals. To unify, manage, and secure voluminous enterprise data for use in data-heavy applications, such as AI, savvy businesses are turning to hybrid cloud storage solutions.

The hybrid cloud storage market is in the emerging stages: it is dynamic and rapidly evolving based on the urgent need to efficiently unify and manage growing enterprise data stores. Today, few vendors provide a complete solution that supports unified data and multiple storage formats (file and object) and data types (structured and unstructured). Frost & Sullivan believes that a full solution is necessary to support multimodal AI solutions, which draw from a combination of public and private datasets of a variety of formats and types. Ideally, a service offering a global namespace to unify data offers the best performance and scalability for workloads requiring large-scale datasets.

Despite being nascent, the market opportunity is immense. Frost & Sullivan estimates that the market generated about $100 billion in 2024, with a projected compound annual growth rate of about 16% over the next 6 years. Some providers noted that these estimates could increase more rapidly if business adoption of AI and creation of large language models (LLMs) accelerate.

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