Cloud Storage Infographic

Wikibon recently published a very interesting cloud storage infographic based on the EMC Digital Universe study.  This trend is being accelerated by personal cloud management services like Apple iCloud. 

Storage-as-a-Service: Cloud Storage Providers

Cloud Storage has been increasing in popularity recently due to many of the same reasons as Cloud Computing.

Cloud Storage delivers virtualized storage on demand, over a network based on a request for a given quality of service (QoS). There is no need to purchase storage or in some cases even provision it before storing data. You only pay for the amount of storage your data is actually consuming.