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.
Thanks for your support; now how do I get out? Expect customer pressure to extend service-level agreements to include language around data export, data migration and data mobility, not just data security, access and availability. 2014 won’t just be about getting data into the cloud or managing the data once it’s in, it will give rise to more innovation around getting data out of the cloud and getting it into one cloud from another. Expect users to ask more pointed questions about outages and cloud commitment, all while they develop and plan cloud-to-cloud migration exit strategies in case of a cloud emergency.