Cloud storage will become a new growth point of enterprise value

Storage as an important function of the computer age, constantly evolving, the advent of the cloud computing era, and the emergence of a new storage technology: cloud storage. Cloud storage, as the extension and development of cloud computing concept, refers to the function of cluster application, network technology or Distributed File system, which brings together a large number of different types of storage devices in network to work together through application software, and provides data storage and business access function.

Advantages of mining value

In traditional storage, most businesses are constantly adding disks, arrays, and servers to meet the storage needs of the business. However, over time, not only increase the cost of storage systems, increase the difficulty of management, and the data center of these enterprises will face the problem of storage decentralization, data storage in the data center of the disk and system, across the enterprise, the integration and analysis of data brings many obstacles.

At the same time, the uncontrolled increase of data and the rise of Web2.0 application force people to rethink the realization of storage. As one of the solutions, cloud storage has its own advantages.

For the time being, the cost of deploying enterprise data storage systems is high, and these costs are increasing as the volume of data increases. With cloud storage, most of the data can be transferred to the cloud storage, which can significantly reduce the cost of deployment of the storage system. Cloud storage is a provider of storage services through the Internet, users in accordance with the cost of delivery, although in the long run the cost may not be the same as the cost of purchase, but in the short term can ease the cost of the enterprise pressure.

Another benefit of cloud storage is the management advantage. Cloud storage systems not only provide traditional file access similar to POSIX, but also support massive data management and provide public service support to facilitate the maintenance of cloud storage system background data. This is similar to traditional storage, but the fundamental difference is that storage media has changed. Traditional storage media is a variety of physical hard disks, but the storage medium of cloud storage is a virtual network cloud.

Cloud storage can also be customized. This advantage is primarily focused on the private cloud model. Cloud service providers specialize in providing a tailored cloud storage service for a single enterprise customer, or it can be an enterprise's own IT organization to deploy a private cloud service architecture. Private cloud not only can provide the highest quality personal service for enterprise users, but also can reduce the security risk to some extent.

At the same time, cloud storage makes sharing easier, and cloud storage enables fast backups of information to the cloud, and then accesses the information through a variety of terminals. For example, access to some video information, so that users can use the cloud storage to share more content. You can also easily achieve teamwork.

Overcoming obstacles and helping to grow

For now, cloud storage has great potential, although a large number of companies are examining the viability of cloud storage or preparing to mount a cloud storage solution. But the development of cloud storage will be affected by many factors.

First, bandwidth issues are the biggest obstacle to cloud storage development. In terms of dominance costs, the cost of cloud storage services is much lower than the enterprise's own storage. But some companies do not choose cloud storage services, the key is because heavy traffic will increase the cost of bandwidth. Without the development of broadband network, large-capacity data transmission is impossible to achieve, cloud storage can not be achieved.

Second, security and availability are among the common obstacles to cloud storage. Migrating enterprise data and information to the cloud can put the security and availability of enterprise user data at the mercy of cloud storage service providers. Therefore, to ensure that the data in cloud storage can not be obtained by unauthorized users through CDN content publishing system and data encryption technology.

However, as a new storage technology, cloud storage has great advantages over general storage devices.

Enterprises that use traditional storage devices need to continuously acquire storage equipment according to business development, and need to build a platform to effectively implement enterprise informatization management. Such enterprises waste a lot of time and money, so that enterprises can not focus on their own business. If you use cloud storage services, businesses will be much less invested in these areas. Enterprises that use cloud storage services only need to configure the necessary terminal equipment to receive storage services, so that the enterprise can save costs.

In addition, the use of cloud storage enterprises can be based on their own business needs to provide their own requirements to vendors, with strong technical support cloud storage service providers can quickly according to business needs to change the system, timely meet the needs of business development. and the maintenance and upgrade of cloud storage is provided by the cloud storage service, the enterprise itself only needs to pay. In this way, the enterprise saves the manpower cost, also saves the expense.

Professional storage vendors such as HDS, EMC, NetApp, Dell, and so on have made cloud storage the key to future corporate strategy adjustments. HDS's upcoming Unified Computing Architecture solution includes blade servers, storage, networks, and software, where Hitachi is capable of providing blades, storage, and software. In addition to the Atmos platform, EMC recently announced a high-profile injection of Fortis, with the goal of virtualization and private cloud building. NetApp also focuses on developing systems integrators and cloud storage businesses. Start with channels and focus on the sales, deployment, and services of cloud storage solutions. Dell has also demonstrated its powerful cloud storage strategy through a variety of measures. Amazon S3, Google Drive, and other Internet companies cloud storage products have also developed in full swing.

Change the status quo to achieve integration

Cloud computing is seen as the next revolution in the technology industry, which will bring about a fundamental change in the business model, and cloud storage as an extension of cloud computing has gradually become a key point for enterprises in the new economic environment. Now people talk about a variety of clouds, whether it is public cloud, private cloud, or mixed cloud, or a variety of industry clouds, the cloud has come into people's eyes, caught people's attention. Cloud-based services are also emerging. When it comes to cloud storage, people are already talking about how to simplify management and how to make business applications from islands to fusions.

Cloud storage through the cluster application, grid technology or distributed file system and other means, the network of different types of storage devices through the application of software together to work together to provide data storage and business access functions of a system. For corporate CIOs, cloud storage means a more efficient, secure, and flexible storage architecture. The many advantages of cloud storage can help organizations reduce storage management overhead, reduce energy consumption, and increase storage space utilization.

The main problem with deploying cloud storage is how to consolidate the data that was originally stored in the cloud storage and how to ensure the data security, access rights, and manageability of the data invocation of the cloud storage. Cloud storage brings better integration effect to enterprise IT architecture, especially the integration of network infrastructure.

Cloud storage drives the integration of the underlying infrastructure, to a large extent also promote the unification of business systems, enterprises want to be targeted to do some user data analysis, so as to better understand user preferences and market demand, the hope that cloud storage for data analysis to lay a good foundation, but also to promote business innovation.

Cloud storage is changing it architectures as a new way of storage. Future cloud storage will be managed by professional IT staff and vendors, and cloud storage will be as convenient as the electricity we use now. As a revolutionary technology to change it architecture, it will be accepted by more and more enterprises and will drive the development of the storage industry.