Anyshare 3.5: Network disk or document cloud?

Can the IPO be available on the Internet? The box company, which is considered a representative of the global cloud-storage industry, has recently submitted a listing and plans to raise 250 million of billions of dollars in public, the online storage service that is thought to be the "network Disk", the most anticipated IPO company of the year.

Box was able to become the 2014 IPO star, the first to benefit from its rising income level, the 2011-year box company revenue only 21 million U.S. dollars, a year later this number doubled to 59 million U.S. dollars, just the last fiscal year, Box's annual business revenue reached 124 million dollars.

But the industry's focus on box is more because it represents the future of enterprise-class cloud storage services, a platform for collaborative work, content management, shared editing, and the ability to get cloud storage services on demand anytime, anywhere.

Enterprise Document Cloud: Urgent need to boost market growth

In an era of information, business opportunities, all businesses have a huge demand for file storage and sharing services. Whether it is economic recession or economic change, employees and employees, employees and enterprises and even enterprises and enterprises can smoothly share, access to documents, or synchronization of documents, at any time to call files, are affecting the business efficiency of the first priority.

For a long time, e-Mail has become the main way for many enterprises to solve this problem. In addition, a simple local NAS storage, FTP server, burning CD-ROM, or Save and transfer u disk, like e-mail, is used for enterprise document sharing and collaborative editing, although further, especially in the application of ECM, OA or primary document management system,

But these document-sharing, protection, and collaborative editing approaches, without exception, face tremendous efficiency and security risks, and are unable to meet the pressing need for more and more corporate employees to access and share documents through mobile devices under the trend of mobile BYOD.

For IT managers, based on these traditional methods of document sharing and collaborative editing platform, is out of control or even ineffective, they need to face mobile office, desktop virtualization, BYOD and other business trends, to build a document sharing, collaborative editing, on-demand, real-time preview based on the document Cloud center, to achieve a unified, Integration and reliable, unified document management, access, and utilization.

This is why the box feature can be preceded by an IPO with its main competitor, Dropbox, which, unlike the latter, has seen the market opportunities for corporate cloud storage, document-sharing cloud platforms, and as a major revenue and development direction for the company, And Dropbox is still pinning his hopes on online cloud storage revenues for individual users.

"The management of enterprise's document data is bound to move, service, center and virtualization development, enterprise needs for desktop terminal, virtual desktop, mobile device, build secure and reliable document center." "Love Number product vice President Li Kiliang believes that enterprises want to have a set of solutions to provide access to documents, use and sharing, document-based content collaboration, and improve access, use, and sharing efficiency, but for enterprises, not all" to this functional requirements for the service objectives of the products are suitable for enterprise-class applications. "

Li Kiliang: Network Disk Experience Enterprise-class security

Li Kiliang said that although the need for document sharing and content collaboration in the enterprise more intense, but also can not "disease desperately", for enterprise-level application document sharing platform, the concept of document cloud just emerging, in product selection and application experience, must recognize product characteristics.

In his view, there is no shortage of "consumer nets" such as Dropbox in the market, while the providers of these online storage services are gradually starting to sell products and services to enterprise users, these services, which are intended to facilitate personal sharing and document sharing, cannot provide effective security control and organizational management and flexibility for the enterprise, Especially in the medium and large use scenario, "expensive".

But even a handful of enterprise-class cloud storage providers focused on document sharing and content collaboration, and providing security controls, do not fully meet the needs.

In the case of box company, which is the beginning of the article, the service provided is entirely based on the public cloud, for enterprises, education and government industry, this must exist in the document (real) storage, public cloud security and confidentiality requirements, it is difficult to be widely used by enterprises and depth.

"The habit of domestic enterprise users is not willing to put business data in the public cloud, and put in the public cloud, autonomy is not in their own hands, vulnerable to cloud service providers control." In addition, there is indeed some market for enterprise-class users of the network, but not in the security, control, efficiency to meet the needs of enterprise-class users, these nets are now more suitable for a number of small-scale teams to adopt. "Li Kiliang on Justin Fast disk, Lenovo network disk, Baidu Cloud disk in the enterprise-class cloud storage field of development, not optimistic."

And with ECM to provide users with private cloud and mixed cloud Syncplicity file sharing and collaboration solutions, in the use, deployment, management and other aspects of a certain degree of difficulty, for it strength is not strong schools, the government, has not a small threshold, but also in China has not more mature products to market.

For the current situation of enterprise-level document sharing platform market, Li Kiliang that enterprise users need "enterprise-level document sharing platform based on network disk Experience", based on private cloud storage, can support BYOD, mobile office, desktop virtualization and other business scenarios, enterprises, schools, government can be based on this " Create an organization's unified document management platform.

"For consumers, it has a simple and efficient mobile document usage experience, and IT administrators can provide trustworthy document data asset security." "Li Kiliang emphasizes that, in addition to the web-based experience, this solution should also be able to integrate existing or future ECM in the enterprise, as opposed to traditional document management, building and delivering services in the form of a private cloud."

Anyshare 3.5 Innovative Document Cloud

For users, simple and efficient, anytime access, close to the application experience of the network disk; for IT managers, data security, access control, open service high availability-This is Love number Anyshare 3.5 design purposes, with the release of this product, love the number of "web-based experience of the document Cloud" strategy, also surfaced.

Anyshare 3.5, in addition to the basic document sharing, content collaboration capabilities, for the specific needs of the document cloud users, provides a secure chain sharing, discovery sharing, super Large file Send/share features such as technology, but its biggest advantage in the market is that This is the current domestic market for a very small number of support for Full-text search Enterprise Cloud Storage Products: "This can provide users with the ability to quickly locate based on Full-text search, quickly find the required documents." ”

Li Kiliang said that the Anyshare 3.5 currently supports mobile clients, PC clients and web-side access, providing reliable and secure document encryption access mechanisms, while a complete set of rights mechanisms to achieve "permissions that are shared, permission is collaboration" document-level collaboration platform. In addition, he said, love the company's research and development team has begun to anyshare 3.5 and love the number of anybackup of the combination of research and development, and is expected to support the future Love number Anystorage storage products.

In particular, Anyshare is not a simple software product, in the strategy of Love number, "based on the network disk Experience" is not the single end user's UI and UE experience, from the deployment of online, operational management to the user application of a series of experience combination.

Therefore, the Anyshare 3.5 solution to the integration of hardware and software, solutions integrated into the market, in view of the current enterprise data volume, high reliability requirements, hot data access frequency and other features, with the help of hardware level updates, improve the system's performance and reliability.

According to Li Kiliang, the new hardware is initially configured with 2 nodes, up to 25 nodes, maximum concurrency of 800 accesses per node, and a 128GB SSD in each node to expedite document access in the form of caching (it is important to note that in order to ensure the reliability of the document, Anyshare 3.5 with "Three replicas redundancy" as the basis for data protection, not traditional hardware-level RAID technology. The sales model for the entire solution is based on the node, in terms of the number of nodes-rather than the hardware and software separation-to charge uniformly.

For different application environments and industries, the number of love for Anyshare 3.5 has designed five typical solutions:

Private cloud disk solution, Desktop Virtualization Security document Cloud Solution, BYOD Security Document Cloud solution, University cloud sharing solution, regional education cloud sharing solution. In these typical solutions, the Desktop Virtualization Security Document Cloud solution is not much mentioned in the marketplace, Li Kiliang says, as the popularity of the organization's desktop virtualization application deepens, this will be the fastest growing market opportunity for Anyshare 3.5.

"In a desktop virtualization environment, you must take into account the centralized storage and management of your desktop documents, although many vendors already have their own document management product solutions, but comparing their products, a professional document sharing platform will certainly have a greater advantage in terms of management, security, efficiency, and ease of use." Li Kiliang said Anyshare 3.5 will provide independent, reliable, secure "document storage and Management Center" for modern enterprises and organizations that practice desktop virtualization, and provide border security to ensure document security.

In addition to the enterprise market, whether it is general, higher education, or VTE, regional educational information sharing platform, there is an urgent need for document sharing platform, and government agencies under the trend of administration informatization need to use efficient document sharing platform in the fields of dispatch report, administrative office and so on, for love number Anyshare 3.5 of this product, although the market has yet to be tested, but its positioning of the market, has revealed its hidden immeasurable high value.