Cloud storage or into the next Internet gold mine

Closer to the September, Apple, as always, began to take a look from various channels, spy photos of the network, the new generation of the iphone exactly what it looks like, people are waiting.

But without camera suite support, Apple mobile devices that are incompatible with the Wintel (Microsoft Windows operating system plus Intel processors) have been a no-brainer for ordinary users. Most users upload documents such as Word documents and Excel forms to mailboxes, and then use mobile devices to handle them.

Using Gmail to upload files, check through the network, is indeed one of the simplest cloud storage applications. Cool Disc founder Huangmingming said. However, due to network instability, attachment size limitations, operation complexity and other reasons, mail upload can not be applied on a large scale.

With the pattern of cloud storage, the data stored in the terminal, no matter what terminal, mobile or computer terminals, as long as the network can access files anytime, anywhere. Guzhi, founder of the cool disc. For example, a client that downloads a cool disk on the ipad or iphone can access documents, forms, photos, and videos stored on a cool disk from the computer at any time.

Three or four years ago in the armchair cloud computing, cloud storage, through the gradual evolution of technology, is flying into ordinary people's homes.

The network disk is one of the applications of cloud storage, the file exists on the server provided by the enterprise, and it is downloaded and used in each terminal through the network. Now, in the domestic network to provide the application of the company has dozens of, Tencent, Jinshan and so on have launched a network of hard disk services.

Huangmingming introduced that, with the general network hard disk only for uploading and sharing files, cool disk and other online storage has more practical functions. Cool disk is launched in October 2010, the foreign prototype is the network File Synchronization tool Dropbox.

To make cloud storage available to more people, you have to develop multiple terminal versions. Guzhi said that the cool disk has developed a PC-side, Android, IPad, IPhone, Symbian and many other versions, the Mac version will also be launched in the recent. Basically, smart phones and tablets on the market can use cool disk services.

Storage is to disk space, more than 2 million of users constantly upload and sync files, the amount of data imaginable. Huangmingming says a big chunk of the company's cost is buying servers, as well as hard disk storage and network bandwidth. Now the company has more than 600 servers, in the country has 5 rooms, in foreign countries have four rooms.

Upload your own information to a commercial company, who is responsible for security? Security has been a problem since the day cloud storage was born.

"We copied two copies of the uploaded data on separate servers." Even if there are problems such as mass viruses or earthquakes, the user's computer data is damaged and our servers are backed up. Guzhi said, "Any one of our servers is out of the question, and another server cluster will take over and continue to provide services." ”

In addition to the security of data preservation, the Internet age, privacy is also a requirement of users. The computer will burst into a pornographic door, to the data on the network to ensure that it is safe?

Guzhi explained that file upload is cut into pieces, these small slices are individually encrypted, encrypted, start a secure connection, transfer to the server, the server for two times encryption, for different file storage. Even if the network management to copy things out, can not see the specific content.

Want to see the file, must also meet three points: a copy to the data of the person, the second has the decryption program, the third person with the decryption key, the three people together to see the file.

Cool disk Future is to be charged according to the space, Guzhi said, 15G below free, if the user needs more space, must pay the expense according to the size.

If someone offers a bigger free space, won't the user move? Guzhi said that six or seven of users uploaded are documents and photos and other personal files, switching costs are high. Cool disk provides a good friend of the file sharing function will be like SNS to users have a strong stickiness.

In fact, the cool disk provided by the synchronous cloud storage services is only one application in cloud storage, in China, the faltering cloud storage, is a very tempting cake.

This year, the global cloud computing market will scale to $40.7 billion trillion and increase to $241 billion in 2020. IDC data shows that 2010 China's cloud computing services market is 320 million U.S. dollars, the future will be nearly 40% annual growth rate, this year will reach about 430 million U.S. dollars, to 2014 will be more than 1 billion U.S. dollars.

Because of this cloud storage service, many internet companies only need to keep the developers on the front end, as long as the staff will be programmed on the screen. As for backend services such as servers, they are all package to the cloud storage provider. "Many internet companies today don't know what a server looks like, which was unthinkable before." Guzhi says the development of cloud storage has left many small companies out of the bondage of the servers.

However, there are no companies offering cloud storage outsourcing services at home. Perhaps this internet space breeds the next internet giant.

is a cool dish one step ahead? Huangmingming said the company already had Angel investments from investors such as Shire, and had completed its first round of nearly million-dollar funding at the beginning of the year. Collaboration through the development of API platforms will quickly reach 10 million users by the end of the year.

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