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.
Tape is back from the dead! What? Sure, cloud storage is devouring tape sales in the low to mid-market and slowly creeping into the enterprise, but across all markets, there is still strong demand for storing petabytes, even exabytes of data – at a very attractive price-point. In order to achieve "hyper-competitive" price points, cloud strategies are evolving to encompass, you guessed it, tape. Like an actor turned movie director, tape will have a role behind the scenes that will be prominent, albeit not always visible.