Rapid growth of personal cloud services, coverage in 2015 will reach 90%

Foreign media said the world's leading research firm Gartner announced on Wednesday, is expected to personal cloud services will be generally covered within three years to consumer devices. By 2015, individual cloud services based on user storage, content synchronization, and sharing of web content will reach 90% of consumer product devices.

Gartner said future technology providers will need to extend their multi-product offerings, including tablets, smartphones, TVs and PCs, to get higher returns. By 2012, the total revenue of the corresponding product content equipment and services will exceed 2.2 trillion U.S. dollars.

Andrew Johnson, an analyst with Gartner Inc., said consumers have come to learn more about the services available in their devices, including cloud services, so the market potential for personal cloud services will be significantly higher this year. As cloud services become a part of people's lives, equipment vendors and platform service providers must integrate their cloud services to win consumer reliance or they will be replaced by other vendors. Branded services like Netflix, Google Apps, Amazon's Amazon Music, Microsoft's SkyDrive and Apple's iCloud have all become market leaders in personal cloud services.

Although online storage and data synchronization services are not new technologies and products, there will be a dramatic shift in usage over the next few years. Research estimates that less than 10% of consumers by 2014 will still regard traditional storage as their primary storage method.