Are Consumers Better Off Putting Everything in the Cloud?
May 12, 2014
Grazed from Wall Street Journal. Author: Editorial Staff.
The cloud offers people the chance to unload their data-storage and computing chores onto somebody else’s machines. But is doing all of that unloading a good idea? In recent years, more people have been taking advantage of systems that let them store and share files online, or run common software applications over the Web instead of on their local computer.
For an idea of the size of the cloud market, and how much it has expanded over the past few years, consider some numbers from a recent survey by comScore Inc…
From July 2011 to February of this year, the online music service Spotify leaped to 14.7 million unique visitors a month from U.S. desktop users, up from 1.1 million. Another big name, the file-storage provider Dropbox, jumped to 11.4 million from 1.6 million over the same stretch…
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