Cloud storage can bring great benefits to the Internet

Less than a month from September, the forthcoming Apple 6 has been dedicated for a year, and Apple continues to evolve from various sources as usual, with some concept photos constantly emerging, but the concept is not the last Look, so the new generation of iPhone in the end what it looks like, everyone waiting.

However, there are many problems with Apple. For example, the lack of camera kits and the incompatibility of systems with wintel (Microsoft Windows operating system and Intel processor) is a big problem for ordinary users. As a result, most users choose to jailbreak . Other users upload files such as Word documents and Excel spreadsheets to their mailbox and then use mobile devices.

Upload files using Gmail, check through the network, is indeed one of the most simple cloud storage applications. Huang Mingming, founder of Coolpad said. However, there are many limitations of e-mail, network instability, attachment size restrictions, complex operation and other reasons can not send mail success.

With cloud storage model, the data stored in the terminal, no matter what terminal, mobile or computer terminal Ye Hao, as long as the Internet, you can access files anytime, anywhere. Gu Zhicheng, co-founder of Coolpad, said. For example, download a cool disk client on the iPad or iPhone, at any time to access the documents, tables, photos and videos stored on the cool disk from the computer.

Three or four years ago, still on the paper cloud computing, cloud storage, through the gradual evolution of technology, is flying into the homes of ordinary people.

Network disk is one of the use of cloud storage, the file exists on the server provided by the enterprise, through the network in each terminal to download and use. Today, there are dozens of companies that offer network disk applications in China, and Tencent and Kingsoft have all launched network disk services.

Huang Ming-ming said that with the general network drive only upload and share documents, such as online storage Coolpad has more practical features. Cool plate is launched in October 2010, the prototype is a foreign network file synchronization tool DropBox.

To make cloud storage for more people, you have to develop multiple terminal versions. Gu Zhicheng said the development of the cool disk PC-side, Andrews, iPad, iPhone, Symbian and other versions, MAC version will also be introduced in the near future. Basically, smart phones and tablets on the market can use the service of the disk.

Storage is to hard disk space, more than two million users continue to upload and synchronize files, the amount of data can be imagined. Huang Ming-ming said that the company a big part of the cost is to buy the server, as well as hard disk storage and network bandwidth. Now the company has more than 600 servers, five in the country room, four in a foreign country.

To upload their own information to commercial companies, who will be responsible for security? Security issues have come a long way since the cloud was born.

"We copied the data uploaded by users into two separate servers, and even in the case of massive viruses or earthquakes, we destroyed the user's computer data and backed up our servers." Gu Zhicheng said, "Any of our Taiwan server has a problem, another server cluster will take over and continue to provide services. "

In addition to the security of data storage, the Internet era, privacy is also a requirement of users. Repair the computer will burst Pornographic, spread to the network disk data is how to ensure that it is safe?

Gu Zhicheng explained that a file was cut into pieces as soon as it was uploaded, and these pieces were encrypted separately. After being encrypted, they began to be securely connected, transmitted to the server, and the server was re-encrypted for storage of different files. Even if the network management copy out things, do not see the specific content.

Want to see the file, you must also meet three points: one is a copy of the data, the second person who decrypt the program, the third person who decrypt the key, the three together to see the file.

Fukuhara future is to charge according to space, Gu Zhicheng said free below 15G, if the user needs more space, we must pay the size in accordance with the cost.

If someone offers more free space, users will not transfer it? Gu Zhicheng said that users upload the June 7 Chengdu documents and photos and other personal documents, switching costs are high. WinFortal friend file sharing features will be the same as SNS users have a strong stickiness.

In fact, the synchronous cloud storage services provided by Cooper is just an application of cloud storage. The tangled cloud storage in China is an extremely attractive cake.

This year the global cloud computing market size to 40.7 billion US dollars in 2020 will be increased to 241 billion US dollars. IDC data show that in 2010 China's cloud computing services market is 320 million US dollars, the future will grow nearly 40% average annual growth rate this year will reach about 430 million US dollars by 2014 the scale will exceed 1 billion US dollars.

Because of this cloud storage service, many Internet companies only need to keep the front-end developers as long as they use screen programming. As for backend services such as servers, the all-inclusive is given to the cloud storage provider. "Many Internet companies today do not know what a server looks like, which was inconceivable in the past." Gu Zhicheng said that the development of cloud storage has left many smaller companies shackled by the server.

However, there are no companies that provide cloud storage outsourcing services in China. Perhaps, this Internet space breeds the next Internet giant.

Cool disk will be one step ahead? Huang Mingming said that the company already had an angel investment by investors such as Xue Manzi and completed the first round of financing of nearly 10 million U.S. dollars at the beginning of the year. Through the development of API platform cooperation, will rapidly reach 10 million users by the end of the scale.

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