As the year nears a close, it’s a good time for reflection on the changes seen in 2013 and look ahead at what to expect in cloud storage in 2014.
Cloud backup will be relegated to cave dwellers. Businesses solely relying on cloud backup to recover their data in the case of a disaster already know that data restore times do not meet business needs (much less application restore times), but have resorted to living with that compromise.
Rather than continue in their prehistoric ways, 2014 will be the year where mainstream businesses (especially in the midmarket, where affordable disaster recovery options are few and far between) begin to expand cloud backup to disaster recovery – recovering data, applications and infrastructure – in the cloud, shrinking their recovery times from days to hours while leveraging the on-demand economics of the cloud.