We’ve finally passed the inflection point. Funds budgeted for cloud storage edged out hard disk drive expenditures for the first time, according to the Storage Trends 2018 survey by Enterprise Storage Forum.
This isn’t an accident. As this summary of TechTarget’s 2018 IT Priorities Survey notes, companies are shifting to cloud to deal with surging data growth. Early concerns about cloud storage security have been erased thanks to cloud file services technology that encrypts data at the edge.
