With many predicting a breakout year for cloud computing across businesses in 2012, one company is predicting that the cloud will create a "storage revolution" in the new year.

Symform released its top cloud and storage predictions and said based on industry trends and insights from customers and others in the industry, the year will be all about storing, accessing, securing and managing data.

"Globally, the volume of data is growing at an accelerating, record pace. It is simply not possible for companies or service providers to continue managing and storing data with traditional local or offsite methodologies," said Matthew Schiltz, CEO of Symform. "This massive data growth combined with the high cost and reliability issues surrounding traditional offsite storage will force a revolution in the industry, as companies push to get greater ROI from existing infrastructure and take a more strategic view of their data."

An IDC study from earlier this year predicts that by 2020 data will grow by 50 times the amount it is now, and this surge will be driven by embedding systems. Cloud computing will most likely play a large role in storing much of this data.