Firms to focus on Innovation in Cloud Storage in 2014, says Acronis
VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE
Acronis Technologies has announced a few predictions for 2014 which is related to the security demands needed to drive innovation in Cloud storage. According to the Director of Product Management at Acronis, Sergey Kandaurov, first and foremost, customers will increasingly change how they choose what to store and where to store it. Additionally, smaller service providers will emphasize their proximity and personal service to woo customers and differentiate themselves from larger, more dominant Cloud service providers.
Despite Dropbox's high prospects and valuation, companies will start to block access to services like Dropbox and shift from public clouds toward private, more secure clouds hosted on their premises, allowing data to remain under their own control.
As more and more people choose to store their business-critical workload in the Cloud, issues of business continuity will become front and center. With larger volumes of data being stored, the likelihood of a significant disaster or failure increases. Due to increased risks, organizations will see a demand in the market for new, innovative solutions to combat downtime and data loss in the cloud. Companies will utilize different ways to back up cloud-based data, and migrate machines to other clouds quickly and seamlessly.
Customers will opt to use Cloud providers who store data in a geographically proximate location-most importantly within their own country. This “data nationalism” will provide perceived protection from foreign governments.
At the same time, it will give smaller, local Cloud service providers an edge over giants like Amazon......See More
Despite Dropbox's high prospects and valuation, companies will start to block access to services like Dropbox and shift from public clouds toward private, more secure clouds hosted on their premises, allowing data to remain under their own control.
As more and more people choose to store their business-critical workload in the Cloud, issues of business continuity will become front and center. With larger volumes of data being stored, the likelihood of a significant disaster or failure increases. Due to increased risks, organizations will see a demand in the market for new, innovative solutions to combat downtime and data loss in the cloud. Companies will utilize different ways to back up cloud-based data, and migrate machines to other clouds quickly and seamlessly.
Customers will opt to use Cloud providers who store data in a geographically proximate location-most importantly within their own country. This “data nationalism” will provide perceived protection from foreign governments.
At the same time, it will give smaller, local Cloud service providers an edge over giants like Amazon......See More