Mainstream application scenarios and considerations for cloud technology

The word "cloud" in the recent security industry repeatedly appeared, cloud computing, cloud storage, cloud services and other words become popular, this should be attributed to the development of Internet mobile technology. Cloud technology in the monitoring, access control, intelligent transportation, Intelligent City, smart home and other applications is also the formal current mainstream.

How cloud storage monitors data in cloud storage

Security monitoring technology development experienced a simulation, digitization, networking three stages. The birth of network monitoring has solved the traditional problem of monitoring the effect of remote transmission, and changed the traditional connection way, making it simpler and more convenient, but at the same time deriving a larger storage demand and higher bandwidth requirements. To adapt to this, monitoring data storage has undergone several stages: analog data storage, digital storage, centralized networked storage, currently evolving into cloud storage.

Monitoring the emergence of cloud storage, breaking through the traditional storage mode of performance and capacity bottlenecks, so that cloud storage providers can connect a large number of different types of storage devices in the network to form an unusually powerful storage capabilities, to achieve a linear expansion of performance and capacity, so that the storage of massive data is possible. Cloud storage technology is an important means to break through the bottleneck of IP HD monitoring storage. Cloud storage technology has great application prospect in the development of security monitoring industry.

According to Liu Tingyong, general manager of Huawei Video surveillance product line, the traditional security industry believes that video loss is a device problem, but in fact more is the system solution and storage technology problem. He further pointed out that the cloud storage can provide high reliability, high-performance, low-cost security systems, on-demand deployment, flexible expansion. In the network age, the biggest advantage of cloud storage is the openness, but to solve the security problem, encryption, system reinforcement and authentication access can enhance the protection of data. In view of the current domestic efforts to promote the safe city, as well as the security needs of the financial applications, the need for more reliable, more secure data storage solutions, now security equipment suppliers should actively develop advanced storage programs.

Intelligent transportation is still plagued by cloud computing

"Cloud computing" originated in the It field, in the intelligent traffic it increasingly obvious today, the Intelligent transportation field of "cloud computing" applications are generally expected both inside and outside the industry. "Cloud computing" is defined as a network service delivery and use of the model, people through the network on demand, easy to expand the way to obtain the services required, which can be Internet-related software services, but also can be other services, and the provision of resources network is called "cloud."

Cloud computing as the core power of smart home

With the improvement of living standard, the sales of intelligent home more and more, how to connect more than 10 smart home devices in the family or the new smart home in tandem is a new problem. And the cloud technology for the support of computing infrastructure to bring more massive data to solve these problems laid a foundation, it will be to promote intelligent home applications more intelligent core power.

In recent years, the development trend of intelligent home field, in addition to some of the original lighting control, infrared control, curtain control, remote control and other related technologies, especially with RFID as the representative of more things networking induction technology, recognition technology, the wide application of the creation of the necessary intelligent means. The basic of smart home is to facilitate people's lives, all of which require people to control, but also to improve the intelligence, reduce the inconvenience of people to control.

So in the age of intelligent home, cloud computing technology will become an important support. The background service of technology network system needs a lot of computing, storage resources, such as video website, picture class website and more portal website. With the high development and application of the Internet of things, every item in the future may have its own identification mark, it needs to be transferred to the backstage system for logic processing, different level of data, all kinds of industry data need strong support of the system, intelligent through the cloud computing to achieve. Integrate all the computing resources and storage resources through cloud computing to jointly handle the requests of the global intelligent home business, and flexibly expand the corresponding computing and storage resources by using on-demand, and combine the resources of Internet, as an important support platform in the field of intelligent home.

Smart city Building Cloud services refueling

2014-2018 China entered the second round of Intelligent City project implementation cycle, industry prosperity is still expected to maintain high. In the industry to a good premise, the security industry presents High-definition, intelligent, network these three trends, under the influence of the network, cloud storage, cloud computing emerged, cloud services will also become the next industry hotspot.

Cloud computing to the security of the impetus is enormous, with the recent years of cloud computing, large data development, video surveillance business storage and intelligent analysis of the problem has been resolved, which the role of the promotion of technology is very obvious. This is because video surveillance in the security, transportation, medical, logistics and other fields of application more and more widely, and a large amount of video image processing, the need for a corresponding storage and computing platform.

The three levels of the internet of things are sensor monitoring, network and application, in the future video surveillance is the most important core node of IoT, and the video information is huge. With the expansion of the global eye scale and high-definition development, a large number of transmission and storage requirements, need to use more cloud storage, cloud computing, cloud search technology, and large-scale networking applications.

Therefore, for the enterprise to provide a system of cloud services or will open another door to the enterprise.

In the "cloud era" of the development tide, the company's various data through the cloud storage is the solution, but in the data center to establish and use the process before the advanced learning, ready to work.

Through the network, it can automatically break up the huge computing process into countless smaller subroutines, and then send the processing results back to the users after the calculation and analysis. With cloud computing technology, Web service providers can handle tens of millions of billions of dollars of information in a matter of seconds to achieve the same powerful network services as supercomputers.

These characteristics coincide with the function demand of the intelligent Transportation Service of "road number, high definition and intellectualization". First, the Intelligent Transportation Service should provide the comprehensive road condition, realizes the comprehensive monitoring to the city road traffic situation, the traffic flow information, the traffic illegal behavior and so on, especially in the traffic peak needs to collect, the processing and the analysis massive real-time monitoring data. Second, the Intelligent Transportation Service information dissemination timeliness request is very high, needs the accurate information to send to the different demand main body in time. In addition, the Intelligent Transportation Service system needs to have the high reliability and the stability.

About Cloud storage usage considerations

The enterprise has some preparatory work to do before deciding to adopt cloud storage data:

1. Ensure that the cloud manufacturer's data center is updated in real time with industry certification

The cloud vendor selected by the enterprise should comply with industry privacy and security compliance requirements, such as HIPAA and PCI. Make sure that the cloud vendor follows the latest rules, such as SSAE16.

2. Choose a cloud provider that understands your industry

Sometimes, enterprises inevitably choose some big manufacturers as the preferred object, just because they have a good reputation, a long history, but your choice of suppliers to understand your business or industry, this is one of the factors to consider. That's why vendors can tailor a storage solution that matches your business.

3. Understanding Bandwidth Limits

If you select the cloud as part of your storage strategy, the enterprise must understand the bandwidth limitations of the initial mass data backup and the recovery of a large number of data stores. Does the vendor provide bulk transfer capabilities? What is the bandwidth limit for the vendor location?

Cloud storage requires the transfer of data from an enterprise local network to a wider network, resulting in significant costs and high bandwidth for cloud storage. Bandwidth and transmission speed determine the expected time of data migration. So bandwidth, time is an important factor to consider.

4. Ensure the encryption of data

Protect your sensitive data with encryption before migrating to the cloud. Some storage vendors provide server-side encryption, but it may be wiser to encrypt them yourself. Keep in mind that the supplier can encrypt your data, but it can also decrypt it. If the data is encrypted before it is transmitted, then only you can decrypt the data. So before data is transferred to the cloud, make sure that the data is encrypted or stored locally.

5. Read the supplier SLA carefully before signing the contract

Each vendor provides a level of storage service, and storage services should include on-demand scalability to ensure application running, local or offline backup conflict snapshots, offline backup or data recovery capabilities, and high availability during maintenance or update without interrupting storage.

The vendor's SLA should also include security for applications and data hosting. At the very least, it should overwrite the availability of data and systems, the response time of the normal problem severity level, and the response time to address specific security issues.

6. Understand the real cost of the cloud

When determining the price for a cloud service, identify what your monthly service contains and what additional services are. Cloud storage often has some additional functionality costs, such as put and get (sending data and retrieving data to the cloud), Dr Tests related to your service, and bandwidth beyond the specified limit. It is advisable to make some cost models, compare with existing solutions and the entire cloud service costs, and avoid blindly taking all of your possessions to jump clouds pools.

7. Do not excessively purchase storage capacity

Correctly determine the storage capacity that the organization needs today and in the future. According to an IDC survey, most companies have data growth of around 40% to 60% a year. So the enterprise can buy more and more storage with Ethernet byte, otherwise you have to have each user's pricing scheme. In addition, when choosing each user plan, this program will not limit your storage consumption, then your annual spending will be more and more, this is predictable. You always know how many users you have, but you don't know how much storage capacity you will use.

Be sure to avoid buying too much storage easier than you need.

8. Ensure that the enterprise can recover data

When the enterprise chooses the backup vendor, do not forget to consider the recovery factor. When you store data in a vendor, think about how long it will take to recover the data if it is lost or destroyed, and what kind of support you can get if you encounter a similar problem. These issues can help you set business expectations and reduce downtime.

Many services simplify the backup process, but fast and efficient data recovery is the hardest and most expensive. Before signing a contract, check to see if the vendor has a simple data recovery solution.

9. Develop a backup plan

When you decide to leave a "cloud" to another one, or the cloud supplier abandons you, make sure you have a plan in place to deal with this problem, or put in a new cloud to reduce losses.