According to the Cisco Global Cloud Index, while today 73% of data is still mostly stored on PCs, by 2019 51%, or the major share of data storage, will shift to mobile devices, including phones, tablets and machine-to-machine (M2M) modules. As the amount of data inevitably escalates, the demand for cloud storage will rise. In fact, it won’t even take until 2019, as Cisco estimates that smartphone traffic will reach 201 exabytes a year by 2017, more than the 179 exabytes that can be stored on the phones, a major inducement to adding cloud storage.....READ MORE