It seems paradoxical to me that we're in the midst of a crazy Moore's Law style escalation in both storage speed (the SSD revolution) and storage density, and a

It seems paradoxical to me that we're in the midst of a crazy Moore's Law style escalation in both storage speed (the SSD revolution) and storage density, and at the same time OS and device makers are rushing to make everything cloud-dependent and trim storage. 'Cloud' seems like it's becoming an end in itself. Put it in the cloud and give it more cloud because cloud.