Cloud storage is beginning to become segmented into specific cases. Explore this article to find out how you can make better sense of the cloud

As cloud storage continues to become more pervasive, we are starting to see some maturing in the market place and some settling in on use cases. There are four common use cases: backup, archive, distribution and collaboration.

The backup use case is moving beyond the consumer model and even the prosumer model from companies like Mozy or Carbonite and into more of the SMB market. The most common approach here is to use a hybrid deployment where your most frequent data sets are local and then are replicated to the cloud. Companies like Axcient and DS3 are well down the road of providing this sort of functionality.

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