Network disk, cloud storage, Cloud notes, who can laugh to the last

Modern computer more than 50 years, but follow the basic structure is still the structure of the Neumann machine, that is: the operator, controller, memory, input equipment, output equipment 5 large functional components, using binary, and the use of program storage principle of automatic running computer. The recent 10 years of revolution in the computer industry, the rise of wireless internet, it is from these five major functional changes began.

The input mode has been changing, from the PC keyboard and mouse to the tablet smart touchscreen mobile phone multi-touch, Wii and Kinect action recognition, these are input parts of the revolution, and each technological revolution behind is a huge industry; the output aspect, Samsung's colorful screen, The retina screens used on iphones and ipads are also revolutions in the display of output devices.

And cloud computing, virtualization technology makes supercomputing resources as accessible as tap water, on demand. Another key data storage technology has changed--cloud storage is in the ascendant.

In the mobile internet age, people often have more than one Internet device: Home computers, working computers, laptops, smartphones and tablets. When processing documents in more and more devices, the synchronization of copies between each other becomes extremely cumbersome, which makes it necessary to manage the data uniformly.

Memory is the container of data, it is the computer's real brain. It's just like everyone has both hands and eyes, but only one brain. People may want multiple screens, multiple processors, and multiple terminals, but are unwilling to have more than one memory. Therefore, people need to be able to jointly manage important and common documents on all devices, people also need to access a data center whenever and wherever, rather than multiple, network disk came into being.

The rise of the network disk industry

Network disk, such as cloud storage solution is undoubtedly the solution of many devices, involved in the network disk more and more enterprises, not only Microsoft SkyDrive, Google (Google Drive) and Apple icloud, there are some start-up mobile internet companies, such as foreign Evernote got nearly billion dollars of investment, network disk, cloud note-type services became investors chasing projects.

Internet companies in China have long started to layout the field of network. Tencent and NetEase's network disk has QQ client and mailbox service drive, the use rate is very high, but the free space is too small, some services only for the toll users, free capacity or even only to 2G, not thirst at all, and vertical focus do network disk such as Jinshan, 360 cloud disk, cool disk, NetEase Youdao, capacity is not low, But the form of copy Evernote and foreign network disk products, the domestic network disk industry is a vassal state.

Baidu Wading cloud storage launched Baidu network disk

Baidu recently also launched the Baidu Network, and a breath of the launch of the Web, PC clients and Android mobile clients. Baidu Network Disk initial capacity is 15G space, providing free expansion, users can invite friends to add capacity, invite friends to join, both sides can get 300M space. In addition, Baidu Network disk web side also support 1G oversized single file upload, and no traffic restrictions.

Baidu Network disk and the domestic cloud storage and cloud notebook products are significantly different from the appearance to feature a lot of features. For example, Baidu Network disk can be retrieved in two ways, one is the traditional file directory, and the computer is similar to the resource manager, the other is based on the file format category, the document, video, audio and application specialized classification. This design is similar to most smartphone and tablet design ideas, making it easier for users to find documents. Multi-mode retrieval is clearly designed to accommodate both PC and mobile users.

Baidu Network disk Support in accordance with the directory and file format to retrieve two ways, taking into account the PC and mobile phone user habits

Baidu Network disk is worth mentioning the function also: Support Online preview. If you have MP3 and other music documents in the user's network, you can listen to your favorite songs online anytime and anywhere, and if you have picture files in the network, you can preview the photos online without downloading photos. Baidu Network disk also for the application of a special classification, which is also a major feature of Baidu Network.

In the file transfer, Baidu Network disk support multiple files at the same time upload, download support offline download. Many users are impressed by the speed with which they upload and download offline, and many experienced media editors use "instant downloads" to describe their speed. Network disk files also support the sharing of friends, support MD5 encryption sharing, as well as through the Sina microblogging to share.

Summary：

The author thinks, the network disk, cloud storage, cloud note industry is still in the initial stage, the domestic and foreign internet big guys have layout cloud storage, it is the princes cloud up, but the pattern is undecided. Evernote recently made a high-profile entry to China, they have built a large area of data center, I do not deny their technology and products, but as a data storage services, they are very likely to encounter Google in China's embarrassment, and may even repeat the same.

With the development of cloud storage, a variety of network disk to provide greater capacity or even free space services, search engine network disk Advantage will be revealed. Imagine that in the hundreds of G of cloud data to find a document, if not fast search and retrieval speed, the user's patience will be long waiting time to break down. Therefore, I think Baidu and Google search Enterprise network disk will be the future of cloud storage winners.

Some people say that rubbish is a source of random resources, and in my opinion, reverse thinking is also tenable. The data resources in the cloud storage service, even if it is excellent data, if you do not find when you need, what is the difference between the garbage?

(Responsible editor: Duqing first)