Cloud storage for six of the finest manufacturers

With the development of cloud computing, cloud storage has become a familiar service, Amazon's Cloud Drive, Apple's icloud, Microsoft's SkyDrive and so on have received more and more user support. As a new concept of cloud computing extension and development, cloud storage refers to a system in which a large number of different types of storage devices are assembled together through application software to work together to provide data storage and business access function through the functions of cluster application, grid technology or Distributed File system.

The market for cloud storage is very competitive, and it can be said to be a strong confrontation between the major IT giants, because in the future who occupy the cloud, will likely in the fierce competition with more advantages, it is likely to determine the fate of the enterprise choice. Let's look at the following six of the most outstanding manufacturers of cloud storage, can be said to be the industry leader. Specifically as follows:

1. Amazon Cloud Drive

Cloud Drive (Pictures from ZDNet)

Amazon can be said to have been very advanced in cloud computing, and the introduction of Cloud Drive has enriched its cloud storage products, Amazon Cloud Drive relatively more value. Spend money to buy more space, you can put all the content in the same place.

The inconvenient is that you need an extra desktop client, and if you want to play music, you need to carve out a separate space. In addition, Amazon has a music library of the same size as itunes, but you need to upload all the music manually instead of having the server automatically match your existing songs. So uploading a music library takes a long time and takes up a lot of bandwidth.

2. Apple icloud

ICloud (Pictures from ZDNet)

As the hottest it vendor in recent years, Apple has already taken an important step in cloud storage, as early as June 7, 2011, when Apple hosted the Global Developers Conference (WWDC2011) at the San Francisco Mosconewest Convention and Exhibition Center, officially released icloud Cloud services, This service enables seamless docking of existing Apple devices.

It may have taken a long time for Apple to develop a content synchronization system for iOS and Mac devices, but icloud has done a minimalist. All files are placed in the same place, no need to manage, no need to understand their storage space.

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