Another cloud: The cloud storage industry veterans have been invested by Ding FAI 50 million

"Another Cloud" is in Hangzhou, and its team has been involved in cloud storage and cloud computing as early as 2005 years. But at the time, they were just trying to solve their own product needs. 2005, and the founder of the Cloud, COO Shen Zhihua and Liu Pingyang set up a picture sharing site "and pat the net." Soon, they found a tricky problem: the server in Hangzhou, local users to share the pictures offsite, transmission data will be very slow. This is because, "a computer room is unable to cover all over the country's netizens." "Shen Zhihua said," In addition to cross-regional, but also across the operator, and so on, and so on issues are affecting the speed of file sharing and user experience. "From the solution of their own cloud storage, deal with the plight of the transformation for the start-up company Services" and beat the net in the product to failure. "Shen Zhihua said. These problems, so that do and beat the net of Liu Pingyang, Shen Zhihua and other technical origins of the main founding team members after the next 5 years, will focus on the company's own underlying problems of the solution-that is, storage systems, picture processing systems, such as the Tangle, dilemma. "We are in the net market, product input, and eventually forced to put in to solve the bottom of the technical things and pinned down." "And the failure of the net in the product, brought them a complete transformation: from picture sharing to the positioning of the enterprise cloud services. Last August, the net will be taken to split into an independent company. Not long ago, they won a round of investment of 50 million yuan from Ding Hui venture. Prior to that, but also to shoot the cloud as a net inside a project in 2010 years, began to all users open to use. The reason for this action is that many startups have been repeatedly forced to put the cart before the horse because they have no cloud service. "Many startups, like us, are taking detours and wasting time, and we feel the need to open up our systems to serve them," he said. After this idea appeared, and then took the cloud to position itself as, for the site to provide static files (pictures, apps, audio, video, small files, etc.) storage +CDN accelerated service areas. According to its public data, currently they have 100,000 enterprise users, the daily increase of documents 10 million and 25 billion day requests. They claim "is the largest static file distribution, storage and processing platform in China." "What are the services for startups to solve?" Shen Zhihua said, since 2013, Amazon in the image, video processing "really do very well", after Aliyun interventional processing services, made the corresponding seed products. And what they do differently with these giants is that the distribution is the core of the cloud, which is the storage, the processing, "we integrate these three functions, not like Amazon, Aliyun and other large companies, a separate product." "Another cloud of the existing 93 rooms, and a monthly increase of 3 room speed expansion." Its machine room cloth Point basically covers the whole country and three big operators. "Now, any one of our rooms can assume the task of distributing, processing and storing." Shen said that their products were born inIts practical application dilemma, in the user's degree of closeness, experience, and in the distribution, storage, processing technology have their own advantages. In the cloud processing, according to the user's bandwidth, they will make some adaptation, the purpose is to ensure the stability and speed of the service, such as image processing, video, audio stream processing, "these are our first." "For the startups that are being serviced, Shen Zhihua says that they don't need to invest a lot of energy in the development of the underlying technology, and they don't have to buy servers to enjoy the services of a large cloud of servers." At present, the largest CDN, about 300 compute nodes, and shoot the cloud is now more than 120. Shen Zhihua said one of the problems is that CDN service providers with more than 300 nodes have divided them into several systems, each with a few 10 or more 60 nodes. "In other words, they are not hundred open to users, a larger customer to give him 30 room service, the smaller may be 10." "The fundamental difference between them and these CDN service providers is that all the rooms are open to all customers," because we're building a standardised network, and we're providing users with more nodes and computing power than any other CDN company, "says Shen Zhihua. "In its protective stability this piece, the practice is to shoot the cloud, first, users do not need a transnational national backbone network to another province to visit, which makes its access to the shortest path, faster, and more importantly because users can directly through the location of the computer room access, interference factors for this lower, meaning stability can be promoted. One of the ideas he recently presented at an industry forum is that the CDN has hundreds of rooms where users do not need to centralize files in a particular place, "which can be digested locally, so that they can be calculated from the nearest user." "Secondly, users will not be affected by the failure of several computer rooms in product stability," we have components that can disable them and they will be separated into the surrounding room. "In addition, in the storage stability of this piece, and the cloud will make three copies of the file," you can understand that a server is broken, I have another two to back up the server. ”