Larry Dignan wrote a great article about the current situation of traditional data center storage systems and the likely future in the cloud.
The storage industry already feels, that there is a change ongoing and the customers starting to be hesitant moving forward the tradtional way:
"We saw customers become more conservative around refreshing their traditional infrastructures as they plan their IT transformations," said EMC CEO Joe Tucci.
You can read the whole article including some great statistics around today’s storage technology and offerings used: