Cloud storage entering a run-off period

This is a memorable day, China Telecom Sky Wing Cloud 2 years old. 2012, personal cloud space in China, such as mushrooms, Baidu Cloud, Tencent Micro-cloud, telecommunications sky Wing cloud, mobile Cloud, NetEase Cloud space, 360 cloud disk has been born, the race for two years personal cloud storage is entering a critical decisive period.

Cloud storage is not equal to the cloud album, does not really explode

After the Yahoo Flickr album announced the launch of free 1TB space last year, domestic players have followed suit. Baidu will increase the free space limit to 2TB, Tencent Micro-cloud and telecom Sky Wing Cloud simply upgrade to the free capacity of 10TB, which is enough to install a lifetime of photos.

Cloud storage is not synonymous with cloud albums. The ideal cloud storage is the storage space of all digital content for individuals or families, photos, videos, music, files, notes, contacts, applications, chats, health data, car travel data ... People can actively upload and share photos, videos, files and so on, the device is no time to upload data.

Humans are entering the post-Mobile internet era, when mobile phones and tablets have become standard for personal consumption, more smart devices are coming: Smart TVs, TV boxes, smart stereos, wearable devices, Smart car equipment, smart routers, smart homes, and smart devices that need to be connected, All need to realize the interconnection through the cloud, through the cloud Big Data application realizes the intelligence. At the same time, 4G and WiFi are speeding up popularity. An increasing number of devices and screens, and increasingly convenient networking conditions, bring unprecedented opportunities to the personal cloud storage market.

Personal cloud in the past few years in the steam engine era, now personal cloud into the electrical age. The data that human life will produce is not a TB level but a PB level. As Negroponte said, humans are experiencing the process of moving from "atom" to "bit", a process that will produce a torrent of information that cannot be measured in mathematical units. As cloud applications become richer and communication networks mature enough, people will need more free storage space.

Dispel misunderstanding: cloud storage is the safest place

In the view of some conservatives, it is not reassuring to upload personal or family data to the cloud. Because the data to others means that privacy is exposed, and if the cloud storage service room, server problems, will result in loss of content.

This is a widespread misconception that, in fact, cloud storage is several times more secure than personal private storage.

Pornographic doors tell us that local private storage devices are less secure in extreme situations, such as thieves ' break-ins and cell phones being lost. Another big problem is the potential for storage media to be technically corrupted and aging, and a mobile hard drive failure is nothing new.

Cloud storage has a sophisticated disaster-recovery and backup mechanism, with data being backed up at different physical nodes, and in case there is a technical means to recover. Instead of protecting your data, why not give the data to a professional team to protect it? Choose a brand endorsement of the cloud storage space can be.

Some cloud space itself is a large data carrier, is developing image recognition and large data technology, providing free space for most of the purpose to obtain more data. These data are used to analyze user behavior preferences and are used to exploit economic value. The user must have the right to know whether the data is being exploited or exploited, and can press the abort and delete buttons at any time to prohibit the data from being used by anyone in any way. Google's "delete" button is a response to the need for privacy protection for humans. On the whole, cloud storage is more reliable and trustworthy than personal storage. It is becoming a necessity for mankind.

Operators do cloud storage: Advantages and short Board coexist

Cloud storage has three types of players: Internet companies, telecommunications operators and hardware vendors.

Internet Enterprise Pro-Lai free mode, for large data and increase user stickiness. Some applications developed by internet companies such as cloud music, Cloud notes, and cloud video directly bring users into the cloud's use. Hardware manufacturers are to create software and hardware integration of data space, such as icloud, Millet cloud, mobile phone system built in the cloud services, the advantage is that users do not need to install, the disadvantage is that they do not Baidu, Tencent and other companies of the user base advantage, the Internet experience and free large storage.

Operators with network and computer room resources have several advantages in cloud storage:

1, Pipeline capacity. Users need to synchronize their data via the operator-provided network (3g/4g/broadband WiFi), and cloud services require operators to deploy the computer room and CDN. Operators can speed up processing of their own cloud services.

2. User base. The number is the ID. Chinese netizens are 600 million, but mobile internet users have 800 million, mobile phone users have 1.1 billion;

3. Cost advantage. Operators have IDC, ICT and other key business, in storage resources, server resources, computer room resources operators have centralized procurement advantages;

4. Telecom class safety. The operator's communication service security level is known as the "Telecom class", as evidenced by the security capabilities.

5, the integration of advantages. Operators for internet companies, handset manufacturers and other hardware manufacturers strong appeal, integration capabilities can be personal cloud storage to do more thorough.

Under these innate advantages, the carrier cloud storage service represented by the telecom Sky Wing Cloud has made a lot of achievements. Sky Wing Cloud last year the number of users has exceeded 100 million, to achieve 10 times times the speed up, providing free 10TB space in the forefront of the country. China Telecom sky-wing cloud in the past two years the road is worth learning. First, the sky-wing cloud combines cloud storage with traffic management. Users can use the sky-wing cloud to avoid traffic or get cheaper traffic. Second, for the cloud storage to provide a dedicated channel, intelligent speed. Again, become the data base of all telecommunication internet business. With love music, 189 mailbox, Sky Wing space, Sky Wing application market and other services to the depth of integration. Finally, it realizes the leap of cloud storage to cloud application. The Sky Wing Cloud provides the personal handset data backup and restores the function, solves the user to change the machine the data difficult to synchronize the pain point, this manifests the operator is learning the user-oriented thinking.

Atom bit, data cloud, multi-terminal synchronization is the inevitable trend. As cloud storage becomes more secure, cheaper, and more convenient, more and more users will choose the cloud. Cloud service provider competition will become increasingly fierce, eventually forming an oligopoly. Telecom operators have the advantages of network, scale, security, user base and so on, which is a force that cannot be neglected.