Personal cloud storage is getting into people's lives

When we use a separate storage device, we have to be very clear about what type of storage device, what interfaces and transport protocols you have, how many disks there are in the storage system, what type, what size, and what kind of connection cable to use between the storage device and the server. In order to ensure data security and business continuity, we also need to establish corresponding data backup system and disaster tolerance system. In addition, regular state monitoring, maintenance, software and hardware updates and upgrades are necessary for storage devices. If you are using cloud storage, everything mentioned above will not be needed for users. All devices in a cloud-like storage system are completely transparent to the user, and any authorized user anywhere can access the cloud storage via a single access cable to the cloud storage.

The so-called personal cloud storage products are well-known earlier on the various "Network hard disk", "Network u disk" in the era of cloud computing an extension. Although many personal cloud storage products are still called "network Disk", their connotations have changed a lot. Today's personal cloud storage offerings include Windows, iOS and Android clients, and some even OS X and Linux, in addition to Web pages. In other words, you can use your network on a variety of terminal devices. More importantly, these disks have started to appear in the "Sync directory" of these operating systems, they look like a normal directory, but the content is in real-time with your network automatically synchronized. Once you have all your devices installed on a personal cloud storage product, as long as you modify the Sync directory in one of the files, then the network disk and all of your other devices on the file will follow the update.

The maturity of cloud computing technology, the development of mobile Internet, the popularity of smartphone brings the prosperity of personal cloud storage business, it is expected that China's personal cloud storage users will reach 2 in 2013.2.3 billion, the penetration rate of Internet users reaches 36.7%. A report published by Gartner, a market research institute, shows that 36% of digital content is expected to be stored in the cloud by 2016.

As an important application of cloud computing, personal cloud storage has gradually come into people's life and received wide attention. Whether it is the network disk class cloud storage or the note class cloud storage, its splendid all far exceeds the storage boundary. The big development of cloud storage has been driven by large data explosion, and also benefited from the rapid development of mobile terminals and mobile internet and the maturity of cloud computing technology. As more and more software and data are migrating to the cloud, the trend of personal cloud storage to replace computer-local storage is becoming clearer.

Personal cloud storage can be shared, randomly accessed, and extensible. Personal information not only for their own use, but also for friends and relatives, public use, thereby realizing the social value of personal information. Any form of networking terminals, such as personal computers, tablets, smartphones, internet TVs, etc., can access personal information at any time, any place. Personal cloud storage can be expanded flexibly without altering the infrastructure to support more personal information and processing. But personal information is private and requires high security. The individual has a large number of pictures, video and other multimedia information, requires a large amount of storage, and can be expanded. Most individuals are not professionals, do not have complex information processing, do not need too strong computational power, but value ease of use. Therefore, personal cloud storage has a "fool", high-capacity, High security features.

As the size of the cloud storage market grows, almost all industries in the field of technology are beginning to dabble in the business, from mobile operators with rich spectrum resources to technology oligarchs such as Google, Microsoft and Apple, and to companies that provide only cloud services to make unremitting efforts to scramble for the big cake. In the domestic market, the competition for this area is also very fierce. In addition to Baidu and Tencent two big internet giants, China Telecom's "E Cloud", Lenovo, Alibaba, Millet and other manufacturers of cloud phone and cloud supporting services are also on the scene.

Whether the Internet companies or telecom operators are involved in the cloud wave of contention, this shows that the cloud market business opportunities. And, from the current market competition, although there are large enterprises in the advance, but there is no absolute leading enterprises, for small and medium enterprises entrepreneurs and investors, innovative services and patience is more important.

Although the problem is heavy, but a new thing to be accepted by people must experience the process of denial, in any case, the future of personal cloud storage market development is still worth looking forward to.

As for its development model, insiders said that personal cloud storage products are often the user's personal data, private information, once the user selected personal cloud storage products, it will not be easy to change or give up, which will greatly provide product users stickiness and social attributes, to form a better business model.