From the network disk to diagnose the domestic cloud storage

What is the nature of cloud storage? Understand its nature and the problem to be solved to understand its development direction.

Mentioned cloud storage, many people do not have a clear concept, to understand the nature of cloud storage, we first want to analyze the current market of different types of cloud storage: we first from the most exposed to the cloud storage application-– network disk, the network disk generally has two attributes: the data in the Cloud + share. At present, the domestic network disk may be divided into the following four categories:

1, the current domestic network disk are the first generation of "software download Park" or "Resource Download Station" Deformation upgrade, pay attention to strangers to share (unkown Share) or resource sharing (Sources Share). Typical representative such as: Dbank, 115 network disk

2, the other is to serve the personal "document" seamless links, pay attention to the sharing of personal documents (Friends Share) and business sharing (Business Share), similar: High-speed network Rayfile, QQ Collection, Foreign: Dropbox, Google Docs.

3, based on community sharing (SNS Share) – The sharing of resources between strangers to share and circle of friends to download, such as: micro-disk, QQ collection.

4, based on their own eco-chain environment to provide the optimization of user experience (unified ID, software purchase multiple times multiple device use, personal documents seamless link). For example: Apple's iclould model, Aliyun and Huawei's cloud phone are basically the model. and the millet mobile phone will do similar applications?

The nature of cloud storage and the problems to be solved

From the above some of the cloud storage classification and Status quo, we are not difficult to find that cloud storage has the following three core elements.

1. Sharing of resources

2. Seamless connection of personal data (anytime, anywhere, sync)

3, Data Tracking analysis and mining (shared data, personal data)

Based on the sharing of resources, the above types of network disk are involved; Seamless connection based on personal data, only a few companies to improve their own industry chain user experience and made a trial and effort; but one of the most critical layouts of cloud storage: User behavior analysis and mining, There are not many companies involved (or in their own industrial eco-chain in the analysis of the invisible data). At present, it seems that only Cnzz has a new rdcnzz in China. But don't forget that they do traffic analysis.

What are the optimization directions for cloud storage?

Personal more optimistic, Friend share/business Share, after all, the sharing of resources requires you to have a great source of resources, while the sharing of the community and Apple's cloud, only in a relatively closed industrial chain in the optimization, in the short term can not be too open or completely independent commercial operation.

But the current FS or BS is based on personal service and business applications, in the Data tracking analysis and mining there are more space for optimization, such as: For each click of the download data statistics (download time, click Location, click the source) and the URL of the user behavior mining can provide users with greater value.

A personal data analysis of the network disk using a small example, in order to make up for the existing network disk does not have the data statistics function, I have been using a combination of different tools, similar to: GOO.GL + QQ Favorites mode.

Choose QQ Favorites because, his client directly integrated in the IM tool, no need to reinstall, more importantly, it does not have any ads! I will first store the data need to be shared in QQ favorites (or Midway), then get the download address in the mailbox, and then use Google's URL thumbnail tool: Goo.gl to generate a short link (because GOO.GL will log the link in the case of your Gmail account and statistics). As shown in the following figure there will be simple data statistics and click User Analysis:

A friend share/business Share cloud storage development is necessarily to provide users or enterprises with a system of data analysis solutions, this is a trend, as for its business model can be used:

1, advertising (most of the current resource sharing network mode)

2, the individual user free, enterprise user charges (if additional data analysis and mining value-added services, enterprise users easy to pay)

3. Upgrade capacity charge (no doubt)

(Responsible editor: Duqing first)