As befits a project overseen by bureaucrats in Brussels, the search for an overarching Grid standard for many different science projects has become a leitmotif.
Other factors that will increase storage capacity growth are the creation and sharing of user generated content and the growth of machine to machine communication (and thus information storage) such as smart grid networks, video surveillance, big science in astronomy and physics and other emerging automated users of storage capacity.
The White House also released a new report, A Policy Framework for a 21stCentury Grid, produced by the Cabinet-level National Science and technology Council.