A new Gartner study predicts that by 2016, consumers will store a third of their digital content in the cloud. This compares with only 7 percent in 2011.
“Gartner believes consumers’ affinity for mobile devices such as smartphones and cameras — particularly those with high-end camera apertures — will help drive this increasing need for digital storage,” reports Slashdot.
The average amount of data stored by households will increase from 464GB last year to 3.3TB by 2016.
Consumer cloud services are now available from Google, Microsoft and Apple. Business services are also proliferating such as Google Apps, Microsoft Office 365, Salesforce and Oracle.
“As we enter the post-PC era, consumers are using multiple connected devices, the majority of which are equipped with cameras. With the emergence of the personal cloud, this fast-growing consumer digital content will quickly get disaggregated from connected devices,” writes Shalini Verma, principal research analyst at Gartner. “Cloud storage will grow with the emergence of the personal cloud, which in turn will simplify the direct-to-cloud model, allowing users to directly store user-generated content in the cloud.”
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