Microsoft SkyDrive lead: cloud storage into consumer

March 7, according to foreign media reports, market research company Gartner in a study released yesterday predicts that within three years, personal cloud services will appear on 90% of consumer devices. This year, Gartner says, consumer support for content, equipment and services could reach $2.2 trillion trillion. Technology providers should extend their services and products to a wide range of devices, including smartphones, tablets, televisions and PC PCs.

"As consumers learn to use a variety of new personal cloud services on their devices, the use of this service will grow rapidly." "This year, as cloud services have become a part of people's lives, equipment suppliers and platform providers must integrate cloud services to win consumers, or they will be replaced by suppliers who provide these services," said Andrew Johnson, a Gartner analyst. ”

Netflix, Google Apps, Amazon Music, Microsoft SkyDrive and Apple icloud have become market leaders in the field, the report said. Although networked storage and synchronization services are not new technologies or products, the way consumers use these services will change dramatically over the next few years.

However, the study also estimated that, in 2014, traditional storage services still had a fair market, with less than 10% of consumers taking cloud services as their primary storage mode.