Storage-Hungry Consumers Turn To Online Services

Storage-Hungry Consumers Turn To Online Services

The use of online storage services is set to explode as people store a growing amount of information from a huge variety of sources, according to recent survey commissioned by Hitachi Data Services.

As well as creating a storage headache, this proliferation of data makes home and remote workers susceptible to a number of issues around security and controlling multiple versions of the same file.



According to HDS, the amount of digital storage used by the average British household has resulted in what it calls the "terabyte home", in which the combined capacity of this myriad of storage devices totals over 1,000GB.