Cloud storage Top Ten benefits of no one

Every time I meet a client, the first thing they ask me is: What's the benefit of using cloud storage? We know that for people who manage storage, they often deal with problems

Unexpected hardware corruption-a number of reasons for hardware corruption can cause service to stop, for example, hard drives, motherboards, power supplies, network adapters, and so on, where managers can find alternatives, such as creating a fully redundant environment (power, network, disk array, and so on), but the cost is too high and the work is very complex.

Cloud storage solves this potential hardware corruption problem by replicating files and having different servers. The cloud store knows where the files are stored, and when the hardware is corrupted, the system will automatically guide the read and write instructions to the files stored on the other storage server, keeping the service going. This is the 2 benefits of cloud storage: hardware redundancy, automatic failover

Downtime caused by storage-system upgrades-when traditional storage system upgrades are needed, the old storage device files need to be backed up, shut down, and replaced with new storage devices, which can cause the service to stop.

Cloud storage does not rely on one storage server alone, so updates and upgrades to storage server hardware do not affect the delivery of storage services, and the system migrates files from old storage servers to other storage servers, and files are migrated back when the new storage server is online. This is the third benefit: storage device upgrades do not cause service disruption

Data growth judgment error-When a new service item is added, sometimes the growth of the data is judged incorrectly, which leads to a waste of advance purchasing.

The expansion of cloud storage is very simple, and the storage capacity allocated to each project can exceed the actual storage capacity, such as the total capacity of the hard disk is only 100TB, the system can set 200TB or even 300TB capacity for the project, wait until 100TB run out, then purchase the server. This is particularly beneficial for storage service providers. There are three benefits to this: capacity allocation is not limited by physical hard drives, saves power, and provides capacity expansion in a timely manner

Capacity limits-traditional storage uses serial expansion, and there is always a limit to how many expansion boxes it can take. The architecture of cloud storage is parallel expansion, capacity is not enough, as long as the purchase of new storage servers, capacity immediately increased, almost unlimited. This is another benefit: massive parallel expansion

Traditional storage is based on physical volumes, and if the application side needs to simultaneously read several stores, it must mount each storage to the application, which is difficult for applications that need to be able to see all of the data at the same time and index them. Cloud storage provides a uniform name that allows the application to access the entire storage pool's data with this name, which is convenient for application-side development. Benefits: Uniform External name

Excessive concentration-when there are several storage devices, there will inevitably be uneven workload allocation, some storage is not in use, some are overloaded, which can lead to overall storage performance bottlenecks. Cloud storage distributes the workload evenly across different storage servers, avoiding bottlenecks in the workload of individual storage servers to maximize the performance of the storage system. Benefits: Load Balancing

Management-storage management is very complex, different storage vendors have different management interfaces, data center personnel often need to face different storage products, in this case, understand the use of each storage (capacity, load, etc.), become very complex. For the cloud storage, more storage server, in the eyes of managers, just a storage, managers as long as the overall hard disk capacity quickly run out, the procurement server can, each storage server usage status, can be seen on a management interface. Benefits: Easy to manage

These are 10 reasons to be popular with cloud storage, and Parascale cloud storage software PCs has more features than any of these, and is the best choice for you to face today's explosive growth of data.