Cloud storage: Hard to sneak into the big data age

Today, as we focus on cloud computing, the storage sector also launches discussions on cloud storage. Cloud storage is an online storage mode that stores data in a virtualized storage pool provided by a third party. By 2014, according to IDC, the cloud storage market would be more than $7 billion trillion a year, compared with about $1.5 billion in 2009.

Cloud storage and cloud computing in agility, scalability and multi-tenant have the same characteristics, and the advantages of this model are obvious: The cost is simple, users only need to pay for the capacity they actually use; the enterprise no longer relies on the physical devices in its own data center to avoid the purchase of additional storage equipment; Reduce maintenance burdens and costs such as backup and replication.

However, there are many potential problems with cloud storage. First, keeping sensitive data at the cloud storage provider's security and reliability makes many businesses still skeptical about cloud storage. Moreover, many companies are traditionally still accustomed to buying hardware rather than services, and many large corporations and government agencies have their own data centers.

Second, because the customer spends on WAN bandwidth is different, the potential cloud storage performance is lower than local storage, coupled with the current domestic not advanced network construction, and so on these factors are restricting the development of cloud storage.

At the same time, as data content increases, large enterprises have begun to consider the issue of PB-level data. The problem is that all this data is not only expensive to save, it is increasingly difficult to quickly transfer data from storage to the server in a timely manner. As a result, businesses have been investing in technologies such as virtualization and cloud storage that can help them simplify the overall it architecture, reduce costs, and effectively use storage.

Organizations that want to save petabytes of data will need to use cloud solutions to meet their needs because they are faced with the potential limitations of traditional physical storage.

The first thing to assess is whether cloud storage is right for your business, and if so, which vendor's products should be selected, and that it is a critical process to properly review providers, and that cloud storage is now being used on a large scale for commercial use, but to be safely and effectively applied to small and medium enterprises, and even Vendors must provide enterprise-class services.

Cloud storage has become a trend of future storage development, although many mainstream manufacturers have also launched their own cloud storage products, but how can this model really fall in the country? Is it suitable for all enterprises? Can cloud storage cope with challenges when big data hits? We believe that cloud storage: reliable! But there is still a long way to go.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)