{"id":3506,"date":"2022-11-22T17:22:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T17:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kindgeek.com\/?post_type=faq&#038;p=3506"},"modified":"2022-11-22T17:33:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T17:33:16","slug":"why-is-cloud-computing-popular-for-data-storage","status":"publish","type":"faq","link":"https:\/\/kindgeek.com\/blog\/post\/faq\/why-is-cloud-computing-popular-for-data-storage","title":{"rendered":"Why is cloud computing popular for data storage?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is estimated that a single patient accumulates up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fict.2018.00030\/full#B37\">80 megabytes<\/a> yearly in imaging and EMR data. Thus, running a hospital can result in a resource-intensive amount of healthcare data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With cloud capabilities to store petabytes of data, lots of companies migrate to the cloud. 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