Everyone Assumes Storage Is Infinite - What 11 Nines Durability Actually Means

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Why teams keep hoarding data until it becomes a liability Most engineering teams treat cloud storage like a limitless bin: dump every log, snapshot, telemetry stream, and unstructured blob "just in case