Cloud storage is a good phenomenon for storage manufacturers that traditionally provide solutions to enterprise accounts. Cloud storage consolidates smaller customers for which their solutions might be overkill into a single, larger customer. Scalability will require either densely packing drives, which also will require power management, or clustered storage that allows for a Lego block build-out capability. The ability to effectively manage and secure that storage will be critical as the client base of cloud storage providers grows. Losing a user’s files could be sure death for the company, sort of a live by the Internet, die by the internet karma.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/database-security/behind-the-storage-cloud