{"id":63551,"date":"2016-07-28T07:13:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T14:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/?p=63551"},"modified":"2021-07-23T12:57:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T19:57:05","slug":"the-future-of-cloud-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/the-future-of-cloud-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Cloud Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63631\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/blog-future-header.jpg\" alt=\"blog-future-header\" width=\"1440\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/blog-future-header.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/blog-future-header-300x88.jpg 300w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/blog-future-header-1024x299.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/blog-future-header-768x224.jpg 768w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/blog-future-header-560x163.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"bzdropcap\">With over 250 <a href=\"\/blog\/petabytes-on-a-budget-10-years-and-counting\/\">petabytes<\/a> of data under management, Backblaze has grown to be one of the largest clouds around. But with over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data being created daily, it seems we&#8217;ll need to keep on growing to keep up. With all that data in mind, the infographic below is full of facts, figures, and trends on what we saw as we stared into our cloud backup crystal ball. Now it&#8217;s your turn to scroll down the page and ponder the future of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/cloud-storage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cloud storage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Backblaze_Future-Cloud-Backup_600px.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-fMHmTFhT\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63801\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Backblaze_Future-Cloud-Backup_600px.jpg\" alt=\"Big Data and the Future of Cloud Storage\" width=\"600\" height=\"4239\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong>Share This Image on Your Site<\/strong><textarea style=\"width: 540px; height: 100px;\">&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please include attribution to Backblaze.com with this graphic.&lt;\/strong&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#8217;https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/the-future-of-cloud-backup\/&#8217;&gt;&lt;img src=&#8217;https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Backblaze_Future-Cloud-Backup_600px.jpg&#8217; alt=&#8217;Big Data and the Future of Cloud Storage&#8217; width=&#8217;600px&#8217; border=&#8217;0&#8242; \/&gt;&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;p&gt;<\/textarea><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you have any questions or thoughts on the infographic, let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With over 250 petabytes of data under management, Backblaze has grown to be one of the largest clouds around. But with over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data being created daily, it seems we&#8217;ll need to keep on growing to keep up. With all that data in mind, the infographic below is full of facts, figures,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/the-future-of-cloud-backup\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Future of Cloud Storage<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":63581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[468],"class_list":["post-63551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-storage","tag-b2cloud","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Future of Cloud Storage: Big Data and Cloud Backup<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"(Infographic) With over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data being created daily what does the future of cloud storage hold? 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