When Data Storage Technologies No Longer Fit Your Needs
ITProToday, Friday, August 11,2023
As companies change, they may consider switching to new technologies. Here's advice on how to select your next storage system.
About seven years ago, Simon Bacher and his wife came up with an idea for an interactive language learning app called Ling. They were fairly confident they could do everything on their own since Bacher had a background in software development and IT consulting.
When it came time to decide how to store the app's sound files and images, Bacher and his small team decided to upload the data to its own server, managing it themselves. But as Ling grew to 35 employees and more than five million users, the company needed to revamp the way they stored and managed that data. The homegrown storage system required custom code for any changes, suffered from reliability issues, and struggled with file updates.