Cloud storage: Storage is not a destination service

Cloud storage is much easier to understand than cloud computing, is in the application of the time is also relatively easy, but this is a cloud of the era, the development of storage, there should be a cloud of labels, cloud storage so dressed in a cloud outfit appearance, the entire storage market, cloud storage is emerging as a growth point.

Mention cloud storage Now we're more familiar with Apple icloud, the apple in the cloud storage this aspect is predecessor, said is the predecessor actually is the mobile terminal domain cloud storage predecessor, based on the Apple cloud storage, many domestic manufacturers started to propose "the cloud handset" the concept, actually from beginning to end, I felt the cloud handset , is a cloud storage services, said the cloud mobile phone I feel a little grandstanding feeling. Back to the cloud storage, buying music through Icoud, you need to store them on icloud, and you can put them on iOS based devices to achieve a long distance storage, but there is a limit to the storage space, if you continue to expand, you need to pay on demand, The connection to cloud computing should be quite tight, and it should be easier to understand.

Say cloud storage We can't forget that a qualified enterprise is, Amazon Cloud Drive, Amazon should be the ancestor of cloud storage, Amazon flexible computing Cloud (EC2) service has been running for many years, the cloud drive has been in existence for several months. This seems to be a higher qualification for Amazon. Amazon is more affordable in this respect, the most important thing is that the user groups are different.

In terms of device integration, Apple has a degree of advantage because icloud can be preloaded into iOS5 devices, which means that you synchronize your data with a iphone,ipad,ipod or Mac notebook computer. On Amazon, a truly fully integrated cloud drive is Kindle. Although you can access the cloud drive from any computer by using the Web. So it seems that the two families have their own advantages, we can see the purpose of these two families, cloud storage in spite of the emergence, but still in an exploratory phase, many services are immature, this aspect with the user's concern degree also has a great relationship, Apple users really care about the small cloud storage, the application is also rare. So the space for development is still very large.

Richard Willas Richardvillars, vice president of IDC's Storage systems and implementation strategy, said that by 2015, global public and private cloud storage spending would reach $22.6 billion trillion. The market outlook is still very broad. , according to a study published by market research firm IDC in Friday, public cloud service providers ' spending on storage hardware, software and professional services will grow at an average rate of 23.6% per year from 2010 to 2015. The emergence of these data, to some extent, also depends on the growth of cloud computing, the real growth of cloud storage should have its own domain core technology.

Cloud-era background, cloud storage is the future of storage development in the new direction of integration with many applications should be its final destination, storage is not an end, service is the real purpose.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)