10. The future of Cloud Storage

The major theme underlying this document is that the economic world of the future will not be a simple progression from the past, but will include real upheavals. We will have to learn to live with them and master them. Cloud Storage, like Cloud Computing, is an innovative storage mode in our information environment.

What changes are in store for Cloud Storage? We've listed thirteen important points:

• the basic problems – exponential growth in data volumes, desire to reduce costs, compliance with ecological constraints – will remain valid in the future;

• a new storage ecosystem will be put in place in companies and individuals – for example, datacenters will gradually carry out a transformation aimed at converging their current data storage silos towards a Cloud Storage infrastructure;...