HAIL #1: Customers have More Options from Which to Choose

The year started with Amazon and Rackspace as the lone frontrunners in the cloud space. But as the days passed, more new service providers joined the race, making the cloud arena more and more interesting. At present, the cloud space is so wide that customers have handful of options to choose from.

For instance take the case of SoftLayer Technologies. The company recently added 30,000 servers to its already 70,000 for providing better IaaS offering. Smaller companies have now added their arsenal with smarter technologies because of their strong ties with bigger companies. Companies like Hosting.com, Bluelock and Peak 10 are just some of the major players that need to be mentioned from the broader list.

HAIL #2: Price Wars Bring Down Cloud Storage Costs

This truly was one of the best news of 2012. The funny part was that it took over 9 months for companies to cut down their cloud costs. The trend all started when Amazon suddenly announced that they have bought down their Simple Storage (S3) prices by 24 percent to 27 percent. The very next things got heated up as Google popped out of nowhere, announcing a cut on their storage price by 20 percent. This was the biggest drop in cloud storage services since the services were created.

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