Cloud Computing (and Storage) Growing in the Mainstream

The Pew Research Center released a report late last year that confirms many of the trends that we’ve been seen regarding overall adoption of cloud computing services. The most interesting element from the perspective of cloud storage was the finding that users are very concerned about cloud service providers using data they store or provide to target advertising (see the section “Cloud users to providers: let’s keep the data between us.”)

This bodes well for cloud storage providers with subscription (and presumably ad-free) models.

We’ll see…