Analysis: Cloud storage opportunities and challenges in how to survive?

Today, the industry standards for cloud storage are not uniform, and some standards have been used, such as FC, ISCSI, Nas, and SCSI,SCSI because the limitations are outdated. iSCSI, based on the Internet architecture, is gaining visibility. But at the same time, in the process of implementing cloud storage, there are some difficulties and problems, although the advantages of cloud storage is still obvious, but also bring new market opportunities and challenges to storage vendors.

Security as a primary challenge

At present, about 80% of the enterprises are unwilling to put the business data on the public cloud, mainly from the point of view of data security, many enterprise customers and even personal users believe that network-based security, for the massive provision of core business data is a certain risk.

how storage security resolves

Any new concept in the beginning of the promotion will face challenges, cloud storage is no exception, to users of cloud storage applications in the data security problem resolution is a trust process, which is one of the challenges. In addition, storage vendors are constantly upgrading their business levels and services, giving users enough trust that cloud storage services are safe. In addition, the long-term nature of cloud storage services can provide users with trust, which requires the storage vendor to achieve service security.

Fees for services

The domestic corporate mindset is more accustomed to spending money on hardware products than services. At present, about 85% of small and medium-sized enterprises in storage procurement only 12% level, which inferred that the market prospects for the purchase of cloud storage business is limited.

Internet services, users are more accustomed to the free form, the operating mode is basically mainly advertising support. But for the cloud storage model application, the information is absolutely trustworthy is the core. But the core of Internet advertising is the depth of data mining, make users or manufacturers will be concerned about the ads, visible, not only to tap the user's information, but also promise not to look at the user's information, the user's information will be encrypted. Obviously, the two models are a little out of the way.

Bandwidth Impact Deployment

At the same time, the concept of allowing customers to accept charges on the Internet is also a challenge. In addition to security and billing issues, how cloud storage addresses the availability of existing businesses and how to integrate into existing IT architectures remains a problem. In addition, insufficient bandwidth is another challenge for cloud storage deployments.