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Personal cloud has proved to be a platform of choice over the last few years for users to store their data. ABI Research expects aggregated data storage utilized by personal cloud services to increase from 685 petabytes in 2013 to 3,520 petabytes in 2018.
While personal cloud has already been embraced by digital ecosystems, including the likes of Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Alibaba which they leverage to boost relationship with their consumers, all these cloud services throw a challenge to the dedicated, platform-agnostic cloud services, but ABI Research expects the latter service category to co-exist with the ecosystem clouds.
As per the ABI Research’s “Personal Cloud Storage and Synchronization” study, consumerization of IT among other things is what is swelling up the increasing usage of personal cloud. Here is what the ABI analysts say.
“Various factors are contributing to the rapidly increasing personal cloud uptake, including the consumerization of enterprise IT and multiple device ownership, says senior analyst Aapo Markkanen. For storage needs, the most far-reaching driver is the expansion and improvement of camera technologies. In particular, cameras embedded in smartphones have generated large amounts of high-resolution image and video content. This trend toward ubiquitous cameras is only set to intensify, as camera capabilities gain traction in wearable computing and the Internet of Things.”
According to practice director Dan Shey of ABI Research, “Of the standalone providers, we expect the early leader, Dropbox, to double down on the enterprise, as a way to attract more premium accounts. Meanwhile, it is also interesting to see start-ups with new and arguably more innovative technology propositions entering the market. Players like Bitcasa and Space Monkey are out to test the premise that the cloud could ultimately replace the native device as the primary storage for users’ data.”
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