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.
Multiple flavors of cloud storage will become standard, making storing all types of data in the cloud much more economically viable. Expect more activity around data tiering in the cloud, with cloud tiers ranging from enterprise-class to archive. Companies who are currently satisfied with one tier of service (either archive or standard) will look for ways to simultaneously support multiple tiers in the cloud as they push more and different data to the cloud. As the first set of cloud data ages, these companies will also demand automatic tiering based on age.