Cross-end cloud accelerates cloud storage or wins prosperity

China's cloud computing services market will reach $1.1 billion trillion in 2014 and will grow at a compound rate of nearly 40% a year, according to the latest figures released by IDC, the US market research firm.

Of these, more than 60% of the market is from the application software that is the service (AaaS) market contribution, mainly including the software vendors through the cloud way to provide SMEs with online finance, enterprise management and collaboration applications.

Technology advances to cloud and cloud applications

In short, "cloud" is a pool of computing resources that is formed after the unified management and dispatch of computing resources connected to the network. In the "Cloud" world, a powerful computer will no longer be important, because the mission of your terminal is only to send instructions and accept data through the network, other things such as cumbersome computing, huge storage and other troublesome matters to the remote network of the powerful power-"cloud" to achieve it! In Mr Jobs's words: "Personal computers are simplistic, In the future it will be only a machine, and cloud services will be the core of digital life, the end of the PC computing as the core of the era!

Indeed, cloud applications bring us a whole new digital lifestyle. In addition to what has been said before, it frees up terminal devices, allowing lightweight tablets and even smartphones to do a lot of complex work with the help of "cloud" power. It also greatly improves the security of data storage. Before the advent of cloud technology, if the computer is lost or hardware damage will let your data leak or lost, think of the "Yan Zhao Door" sad lesson. and using cloud technology, your data will be properly kept in the "cloud", not only to avoid inadvertent loss, but also to easily at any time through multiple devices to find your stored information. As a result, the cloud application market has spawned the development of personal cloud storage.

Personal cloud storage development encounters bottlenecks

Personal cloud storage business mainly includes cloud notes and network disk, cloud notes pay attention to the real-time updating of text information preservation, network disk is inclined to the data cloud transmission and storage. Google, which released its personal cloud storage products last month, Keep a bit of a ripple in the country's cloud-storage market, which has been mired in long periods of silence. This is after 2009 close "Google Notebook" service, Google back to the personal cloud notebook market. But compared to the previous domestic personal cloud storage enterprises, Google Keep is not an independent product, and another cloud storage products Google Drive and Google Mail products such as integration more highlighted its existence value.

Google keep belong to the former, in addition to the Evernote, as well as the domestic followers Youdao Cloud notes, Grand Marcum, Dropbox, Google Drive is a network of representatives, its domestic followers include Baidu network disk, Jinshan fast, 115 network disk, cool plate and so on.

Eric Consulting believes that the maturity of cloud computing technology, the development of mobile Internet, the popularity of smartphones has brought personal cloud storage business prosperity, the 2013 China's personal cloud storage users are expected to reach 2.2.3 billion, the penetration rate of Internet users reached 36.7%. A report by Gartner, a market research institute, shows that 36% of digital content is expected to be stored in the cloud by 2016, compared with 7% in 2011.

The personal cloud storage market has been widely favored by the industry, since 2010, venture companies and the internet giants competed in the field, especially in the mobile Internet tide driven by the proliferation of personal cloud storage services across the platform. But as emerging markets, especially at a moment when users ' Internet product-paying habits have not yet formed, individual cloud-storage start-ups are still far from profitable.

But it is undeniable that cloud storage services are a low entry threshold but need high-tech and high financial support industries. As the number of users grows, the amount of network bandwidth and maintenance costs required by cloud storage services increases geometrically, and the pay-for-user ratio is not significantly increased, and the genes that burn money are too much for small startups. Personal cloud storage gradually abandoned small start-up companies, become a giant to play the game.

On the other hand, when using cloud storage services, individual users are more often storing large volumes of files. Existing networked storage products without exception to upload or download large-capacity files when the embarrassment: slow! I used to use Baidu Network disk client three average capacity of 1.2G of home video files synchronized to the local encounter countless times failure.

The reason is that China's network environment is complex, from the server to transfer files to the local, and the server is very far from the local, and the synchronization of the files on the server can provide the transmission speed is not high, even if we use the access bandwidth is very large, the speed is still very slow.

Cross-end cloud acceleration service will promote cloud application prosperity again

In view of the current situation of file transmission in China's Internet environment, the application of cloud accelerator in the transmission of large volume files by users will solve the problem of file transmission bottleneck.

Thunderbolt currently has a global leader in cloud acceleration technology for individual users. Thunderbolt's user-provided cloud-acceleration service includes both offline caching and high-speed channel functionality. These two functions basically meet the speed problem that the user encounters when transferring files.

Offline caching is the slow speed of the file resources to use the Thunder Cloud Accelerator high-speed service bandwidth, the file cache on the thunder of the server, and then transferred to the user Local.

The high Speed Channel caches the file resources transmitted by the users to the nearest server node in the Thunder Cloud Acceleration Network, and then transmits them to the user. As a result, the transmission rate of the file is basically the same as the local broadband transmission speed.

At present, the Thunder Cloud Accelerator service has covered the PC end and mobile terminals, if the personal cloud storage vendors and thunder cooperation in the data synchronization using the Thunder Cloud Accelerator, then the current user in the synchronization of large-capacity data in the face of the embarrassment will be solved.

Looking to the future, the personal cloud storage integrated Cloud Accelerator service will be the best solution for data file transmission in China Internet environment. The combination of the end-to-end nature of personal cloud storage and the end-to-end nature of the Cloud Accelerator service is bound to bring new potential to the dormant personal cloud storage market.