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.
Two clouds are rarely better than one. Despite the Nirvanix scare and the continued cacophony of cloud choices driving down prices, very few customers in 2014 will choose to have fully redundant cloud providers due to costs. Truth is, it’s hard to warm up to double the costs and bandwidth, especially when many cloud providers already offer triple data center redundancy. (The one exception to this rule? See the next prediction.) On the other hand, having the infrastructure and the migration path to move data between providers and the option to use one or many providers will become even more essential.