The rapid adoption by enterprises of hybrid cloud and multicloud environments along with the rise of the Internet of Things, a much more remote workforce and other trends that have contributed to the increasingly distributed nature of modern IT has put the vast amounts of data that is being generated in a precarious position. No longer created, collected and store in central datacenters sitting behind corporate firewalls, workloads and data are now bouncing between public clouds, between clouds and on-premises datacenters, from the edge through the cloud to the datacenter and back again.

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