Cloud computing is the new ‘in’ thing, and everyone is talking about it. While some say it is just a fad, others are willing to swear and bet that cloud is here to stay, forever and ever. Both the sides of the argument have strong and valid points. It is not possible to know which is correct and which is not at this point in time. Whatever that may be, there are 10 facts about cloud storage which are truly fascinating:
1. On an average, a single organization uses at least 545 different types of cloud services at present, knowingly or unknowingly
2. While back in 2008, the cloud industry was worth about $46 billion in total, it has been predicted by multiple sources that by the end of the year 2014, the total worth of the industry will surpass $150 billion
3. Astonishingly enough, few recent studies suggest that almost 50% of all information technology data is going to be stored in the cloud within the next 4 to 5 years, which is huge considering the present size of data stored in the cloud right now
4. By the start of the year 2016, the Asia-Pacific industry is likely of use 1.5 zettabytes of cloud storage, and the North American industry is likely to use about 1.1 zettabytes, which is defined as one billion terabytes
5. At present, the highest percentage of cloud data consists of photographs, the second highest data type is emails, followed by business documents, calendars, address books, music and research notes, in decreasing order of percentage
6. The largest budget for enterprise cloud computing is a massive and impressive 125 million dollars, while mean enterprise budget is also quite surprising at $8,234,438; on the other hand, median enterprise computing budget is $675,000
7. Three commonly known cloud services are used the most at present, which are Google Cloud, Amazon Cloud and Microsoft Cloud
8. More than 82 percent of companies in different sectors report that the transition to cloud storage from regular storage saved them considerable amounts of money
9. At present, more than 1 exabyte of data is estimated to be stored in the cloud, which is equal to a whopping 1,000,000 terabytes
10. More than half of all companies store very confidential and sensitive data in the cloud at the moment, and 56% of companies report to trust cloud’s ability to protect sensitive data
