The digital transformation of businesses continues to reshape the IT industry as businesses deal with a social and mobile workforce as well as big data and analytics that causes exponential data growth. Indeed, organizations are finding it difficult to store, manage, and provide value from ever-increasing data sets. As businesses grapple with their ever-increasing data sets, storage solutions such as
object-based storage (OBS) lend themselves to solving the problems of scale, management, and costs for today and the future. This paper examines the considerations around choosing an OBS solution.