A brief analysis of several modes of carrier developing cloud storage

Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission revealed that the "national strategic emerging Industries" Twelve-Five "plan" is being formulated, will soon be released. Cloud computing, as an important part of the strategic emerging industries, is highly concerned by the information and communication industry. Experts predict that the next 5 years, cloud computing will be in the social security, health care, education, employment and other fields are widely used, the income of more than 10 billion yuan backbone enterprises are expected to stand out. In fact, 5 cities in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Jiangsu and Wuxi have already started the pilot demonstration work of cloud computing service innovation and development. Telecom operators, such as China Telecom, Unicom and Chinese mobile, and some heavyweight internet companies have also begun to explore actively, especially in the basic cloud storage level, has entered the commercial stage. In the process of advancing cloud storage platform construction and service business, which industry chain can telecom operators cooperate with to reduce risk? What problems should we pay attention to in the process of cooperation?





Cloud storage services are promising





cloud storage business is mainly for enterprise customers, high-end business and family customer service. Enterprise customers focus on medium-sized enterprises, followed by small and large enterprises. Key enterprise customers including transportation, manufacturing and public utilities industries such as enterprises, to provide corporate space leasing services, enterprise-class remote data backup and disaster-tolerant services, video surveillance systems and other services; the public market focuses on online disk storage services for business people, young people and home users.





currently in the country, many internet companies have launched the characteristics of the cloud storage business, such as Jinshan fast, Sina micro-disk, Thunderbolt portable, etc., attracted a large number of users. Users can use these services to the Internet files online or offline download to the storage space, and dynamic sharing to friends, friends can be indirectly shared, this way compared to the original single-threaded download to the PC way, greatly improve the speed of the file propagation, unlimited expansion of the chain of communication.





Currently, Shanghai Telecom launched the "E Cloud storage" business. The business for the country's first commercial cloud storage business, focusing on services in Shanghai Telecom 20M and above the bandwidth of urban optical network users. Shanghai Telecom "E-Cloud storage" business, to provide customers with security, high-speed, convenient, super large capacity of data storage, backup and recovery services. The business provides file upload downloads, offline downloads, file sharing, synchronous backup, online browsing, telecom-grade security services, etc., to meet the needs of enterprises and individuals more.





In the industrial chain, because of the government's strong support in the development policy, so there are more and more manufacturers to join the cloud storage business industry chain. Mainly including operators, technology vendors and Third-party IDC manufacturers, such as China Telecom, Unicom, EMC, IBM, Microsoft, Net App, Symantec, Century interconnection.





according to the authoritative consulting firm's reliable data and forecasts, in the next few years, the domestic cloud storage business market growth rate will reach 103%. The domestic cloud storage business market will grow rapidly from $6.05 million trillion in 2009 to $210 million in 2014, as shown in the following figure.

With the advent of more networked storage-enabled electronic terminals, the cloud storage business will gradually adapt to these new terminal types, such as mobile phones, PCs, tablets, home gateways, ipads, e-books, etc. Different terminals can use the cloud storage business, and support the same account in different types of terminals between the file synchronization backup and different types of terminal interaction.

At the same time, with the increasingly mature industry chain, more and more manufacturers will join the cloud storage business research, cloud storage business will increasingly become user habits and rest assured that the use of hot business, in the near future, usher in the number of users of the explosion of growth.

At present, the world's leading operators are familiar with the nature of cloud computing services, fully integrate their traditional advantages, especially the strong network base, rich bandwidth capabilities, sophisticated service model and a large user resources, rapid deployment of cloud computing, the introduction of cloud services. Comprehensive analysis, operators to develop cloud storage business model has three main types: self-built, with equipment providers to build, and Internet enterprises to operate. Each of these three modes has advantages and disadvantages, as shown in table 1, table 2.

In the author's opinion, for self-built proprietary mode, the operator's construction scale is large, capital investment is high, investment return period is long and the risk is greater. In addition, operators on the Internet product operation experience is not enough, the market response speed is slow. If operators want to do their own proprietary mode, they need to change to the Internet product from the resources and operation mechanism, adapt to the fast response of the users ' demand of Internet products and the features of fast product function update.

for models that are built in partnership with device providers, operators need to further define the way in which they can collaborate with device providers in the context of product expansion and new sites. If the equipment provider has carried out similar business, it may be the operator's platform as its own business development and development of reference objects, in order to develop their own business, to seize the market share of operators.

for the mode of operating with the Internet enterprise, the operator needs to define the division and operation mechanism between the operator management team and Internet company, to ensure the security of the user's information resources, and to avoid the contract company to develop its own users and business by using the telecommunication platform.

Internet giant push cloud storage services

Recently, Alibaba announced the launch of the mobile phone with OS operating system cloud smart phone, the announcement for each handset users 100G free cloud storage space, so that users of pictures, text messages and other applications for the cloud storage and backup.

Apple also recently officially launched its icloud service, which is open to global Apple developers, but requires a developer account to use. In this respect, industry analysts pointed out that the current data show that the Apple icloud service with the cloud services of Ali Cloud basically the same content, Aliyun one-time provide 100G of cloud storage space, and completely free, with considerable competitiveness.

According to Apple's official website information, icloud is based on the original MobileMe features of a new rewrite, but the Apple icloud service has a free and fee-based services, free services to provide 5GB storage space, such as users need large storage space applications, the need for a different amount of cash to purchase, 50G space needs 100 dollars a year. By contrast, Aliyun directly opens free capacity to 100G.

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What is cloud storage?

Cloud Storage is an extension and development of cloud computing conceptsA new concept, it refers to the network through the cluster application, grid technology, or Distributed file system functions, a large number of different types of storage devices in networks through the application software together to work together to provide data storage and business access functions of a system. In essence, cloud storage is a utility service that provides a shared storage pool for many users to access through the network. From a business delivery perspective, cloud storage is somewhat similar to SaaS services, and the difference is that cloud storage provides storage management and services. Cloud storage pools are flexible and can be easily scaled or tailored to customer needs.

Depending on how the user connects to the cloud storage, cloud storage can be divided into public and private cloud storage. If a user connects to a cloud storage pool over the Internet, it is the concept of a public cloud store. Such as Amazon's simple Storage service (S3, easy storage services), EMC's mozy, China Telecom's e-Cloud and so on. At present, the public cloud storage business can also be subdivided into the public cloud storage business for enterprise users and users according to the different customer-oriented. If a user connects to a cloud storage pool through an intranet, it is the concept of a private cloud store. Private cloud storage is typically built behind a company's firewall, where all enterprise data is kept within the company and controlled entirely by internal IT staff.