Using external cloud offerings can yield even more pronounced savings.
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But this approach comes with a great deal of trust on the part of the external or public cloud provider.
As IT budgets continue to face pressure in 2012, enterprises will focus more on leveraging external service providers and cloud computing to save capital expenditure.
Thus the battle between local and on-line storage continues to drive a new generation of enterprise storage for the cloud as well as external local storage for mobile devices.
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Evernote acts like an online personal organiser, with users able to save data such as video clips, images, web pages, notes and itineraries in an external storage system commonly known as the cloud.
For some, they take the form of external hard drives or a slice of the amorphous cloud.
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These issues, plus the fact that mobile devices are sometimes not able to connect and access content in the cloud, is feeding the already fast growing external storage device market.
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Exponential growth in digital information and greater adoption of newer technologies like cloud computing, big data and virtualization have contributed to growth in external storage systems, and EMC will be the biggest beneficiary with its stronghold in SAN and NAS markets as well as continued growth in unified storage.
Network connected external storage devices in the home will act as caches for internet content as local cloud storage plays a more coordinated role with remote clouds.
The functionality of saving MP3s to Cloud Drive is the same as if a customer were to save their music to an external hard drive or even iTunes.
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