Cloud Storage Trends for 2014

Grazed from Midsize Insider. Author: Robert Lawson.

Cloud storage will be changing in a number of ways in the coming year, with various features and capabilities evolving as more businesses adopt the technology to store their small and midsize businesses’ data. Storage trends in 2014 will be driven by strong consumer and business demand for improvements in flexibility and scalability. Changes to both will include revisions in infrastructure, cost, performance, features, capacity, security and reliability.

A Demand For Flexible Storage

Cloud computing technology has been around for longer than its coined phrase has been, but with its increasing application by both business and consumer users, storage is becoming a concern for IT providers and departments in small and midsize companies. This might mean taking a look at the storage capability infrastructure…

According to EE Times, the traditional storage architecture is not designed to facilitate users’ strong demand to shift size on demand. A building-block approach seems preferable to the top-down method. A common trend is to build out using intelligent software solutions. Storage configuration will likely grow in myriad ways with various features, sizes, performance levels and prices. Those that are most flexible will be most valuable to midsize firms…

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