An elastic cloud storage architecture to harness the myriad cloud requirements

For a large enterprise, small and medium-sized enterprises, or individual users, what is the consensus that can not afford it? There are a number of answers, but one answer is shared by most people, and it is data loss. When the importance of information is more and more related to the survival of enterprises, data protection is more and more important. So, a variety of disaster-tolerant systems, backup, archiving programs have taken the stage, trying to make everyone's information security impregnable. However, in the implementation process, whether the implementation of costs or technology, so many enterprises to shrink. Now, a large number of enterprises, especially individual users in the data protection is in a "vacuum" state, some enterprises and individual users by moving the hard disk and CD-ROM way to save data, but can not do timely backup. Is there an innovative solution?

Today's society, High-definition Pictures, video, community network and other Internet applications in full swing, people's communication, work and lifestyle are changing, everything becomes digitized, we are not engraved with audio, video, pictures, e-mail, all kinds of electronic documents, statements, bills and other information surrounded. According to IDC, humans could produce information on 1.2 ZB in the 2010 (1ZB=1000EB=1000000PB=1000000000TB), and by the year 2020, that number would be ZB, leaving us completely lost in the ocean of information. As a result, companies have to use more disk arrays to increase storage capacity, but it seems that data growth is always causing trouble, cost increases, storage systems become more and more complex, the security of data more challenging, the mass of information is drowning us. Is there an innovative solution?

The answer is the same, it is the cloud storage.

The pervasive confusion of cloud storage

There is no doubt that the full range of propaganda from various media has given us a sense that we have entered the era of cloud computing. This new business model, combining the characteristics of a variety of computing models, using the concept of virtual resources, can use the advantages of the Internet to provide users with on-demand billing services.

Cloud storage has developed in recent years as a form of cloud service in the process of cloud computing. Cloud storage is a cloud service with data storage as its core, in the use of the process, the user does not need to understand the type of storage equipment and data storage path, do not have to manage and maintain the equipment, but also do not need to consider data backup disaster and so on, just through the application software, you can easily enjoy the convenience of cloud storage and fast. Word, cloud storage can be said to be the highest state of data storage and management.

As its name says, "cloud storage" this highest realm, for most enterprises and individual users, can only be seen from afar, as the horizon that a touch of white clouds, looks very beautiful. Why is that? For cloud storage, from the current storage industry, many vendors will focus more attention on large enterprises, the current market of cloud storage products are "large capacity" aesthetic! For the vast number of SMEs and individual users, they are ignored.

In fact, in many cases, technology innovation is not the only, more important is the enterprise understanding of users, the user's grasp of the needs, as well as the following actions, so that the threshold of cloud storage can be reduced, more than 80% by large international suppliers ignored enterprises and individual users to enjoy the benefits of cloud storage, Cloud storage applications have also entered the same.

In general, cloud storage can be broadly divided into three categories: end users who use cloud storage, operators that provide cloud storage services, and enterprise users with both characteristics. The cloud storage system must be able to meet the specific needs of different users to play its due role. For end users, cloud storage should provide services such as desktop data protection, data archiving, business continuity protection, data online storage and delivery, and users can purchase storage space and services on demand and on a per-time basis. For the operators that provide cloud storage service, the cloud storage system should have high stability and security, perfect service monitoring tool, and the solution provider should have strong support ability. For the general enterprise, you can use the cloud storage service provided by the carrier like the end user. Large enterprises and companies that require higher data security and confidentiality can build a hybrid cloud of public and private clouds that store data in a public or private cloud, depending on confidentiality and sensitivity, and migrate data and applications between them. At the same time, the hybrid cloud can meet the demand of centralized storage in a short time, and expand the storage scale arbitrarily with the expansion of the business scale, so as to fully realize the backup and archive of massive data.

As in the blue sky, the clouds are shaped in myriad shapes. Similarly, for different types of users, the cloud storage system should have the corresponding characteristics. Instead of providing the same pattern of products and services. This is the real reason why cloud storage can be widely used. Today's cloud storage services to obtain a small number of ways, and the client is relatively narrow, resulting in a cloud storage threshold too high, so that a large number of SMEs and individual users can not be exceeded.

An elastic cloud storage system architecture to meet the needs of thousands of personalities

Cloud storage requirements are variable, but ça, then, there is no unified cloud storage architecture, can easily meet the thousands of personalized needs? From this point of view, UIT (Innovation Division Storage Technology Co., Ltd.) gives its own answer, and that enterprises only apply innovative flexible system architecture to meet the dynamic growth of storage requirements. The flexible architecture based on cloud storage concepts and technologies will be the foundation of future development of cloud storage.

In this flexible cloud storage architecture, thousands of personalized requirements can be met. From a client perspective, the innovative cloud storage System architecture provides a more flexible way to service access, through client-side software, enterprise users can conveniently connect the server-side module in the cloud Storage data center via client-side system, D2D2C (disk-disk-Cloud), and backup the data to IDC's data node. For large enterprises that build private cloud, the system can support private cloud access, realize data exchange between private cloud and public cloud to improve data security and system scalability. From the data center, the innovative cloud storage System architecture uses a large distributed file system for file management and enables disaster tolerance across data centers.

The innovative resilient cloud storage System architecture first meets the characteristics of the dynamic growth of the cloud storage age, allow all types of customers to easily meet their needs, and secondly, this architecture is high performance and high availability, this is the root of cloud storage services, and easy to integrate, flexible customer access, and make this architecture easier to popularize and promote.

Based on the flexible cloud storage architecture, uit as the "Monkey King" 72 change, according to industry demand characteristics, the formation of the industry a wide range of cloud storage solutions, a full range of popular cloud storage applications, to help different users fully into the cloud storage era. Whether it is enterprise customers, small and medium enterprises and individual users of data protection, file sharing requirements, or emerging Web 2.0 enterprise's massive storage requirements, video surveillance requirements, etc., can be met from this architecture.

In the Data protection challenge mentioned at the beginning of this article, through cloud storage, enterprises can utilize cloud storage client systems to implement D2D2C (disk to disk to cloud) data protection without altering their original backup habits. Individual and SME users can use cloud storage client software to enable them to achieve efficient online data storage, backup, and sharing in a variety of usage modes, such as PCs, personal storage devices, mobile devices, and so on.

For a large amount of information management needs, and for the emerging storage needs of the multimedia Web 2.0 enterprises, can consider through the standard NAS and dedicated API two access to cloud storage, cloud storage services and IPTV, streaming media on demand, podcasts, High-definition image sharing, such as Web2.0 applications integration, to achieve online storage and replication of data, and through the LAN and WAN, intelligently distributed in multiple sites to help enterprises better provide Internet services for end-users.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)