In 2015 Panzura chief executive Randy Chou listed eight requirements for cloud storage to replace NAS filers, from local caching to locking; here is the list.
How Seagate and Hikvision worked together from 2005 on a hard drive built for surveillance, leading to the 2006 SV35 and later SkyHawk drives, as described in 2015.
In 2018 CommScope argued that 5G and IoT, with Gartner’s forecast of 20 billion connected devices by 2020, would need far more fibre, edge sites and converged networks.
IDG’s 2018 cloud computing survey of 550 organisations found 73% already had cloud in place, security worries easing and SaaS set to grow. How later studies compare.