Cloud storage user number next year or 25% personal cloud services usher in Gold rush

In the great business opportunities of attracting, the current major manufacturers compete for Cloud wave, the market melee constantly upgraded, personal cloud storage or become a trend. But the personal cloud storage market still has a lot of bottleneck to break through, especially the current cloud service is still in the concept of import period, security problems can not be neglected.

Increase the number of users or up to 25%, cloud storage scale continues to expand

A revolution is taking place in the computer field, and the internet has made people's work and life more and more free, and this kind of freedom is gradually embodied in storage. Specifically, it is cloud storage, which is stored from a U disk to networked storage.

Personal cloud storage A very intimate application is the contact person synchronization, you can sync all the contact information to the personal cloud space, backup to the cloud space of the contact can be very easy to sync to a variety of terminals, whether the phone is damaged, mobile phones, and even the phone is stolen, do not worry about the loss of contact. At present, this trend has matured, the user of personal cloud storage has already formed the scale.

The growing size of the cloud storage market has not slowed the growth of new registered users. Isuppli analysts predict that 2017 years ago, the number of new registered users of cloud storage will maintain a double-digit growth trend. If this is expected to be accurate, the number of registered users of global cloud storage services will reach an astonishing 1.3 billion by 2017.

At the end of the 2012 China Internet Conference, the Internet big guys are also in the "cloud" concept of a fuss. Million Network CEO Zhang said, personal cloud storage into the general trend, netizens future or enjoy free cloud services.

and Zhou Feng, senior vice president of NetEase Company, proposed two reasons for the development of personal cloud. The first is the popularity of smart phones so that a large number of ordinary users began to have more than one computing equipment, the different devices generated, including video, pictures and other multimedia content, such as the rapid growth of data, greatly enhance the user's shared synchronization needs. Second, the system hardware and software technology gradually mature, so that any start-up companies can provide high-quality cloud services.

Manufacturers compete for Cloud wave, market melee escalation

Facing another blue sea market to be developed, although some start-up companies have achieved a strong first-hair advantage, but the internet giants with more powerful capital and a richer synchronized resource platform, it is likely to be not yet stable and mature personal cloud storage set off the bloodshed. As the size of the cloud storage market grows, almost all industries in the field of technology are beginning to dabble in the business, from mobile operators with rich spectrum resources to technology oligarchs such as Google, Microsoft and Apple, and to companies that provide only cloud services to make unremitting efforts to scramble for the big cake. In the domestic market, the competition for this area is also very fierce.

At the recent Baidu World Congress, Baidu announced a huge investment to create personal cloud services. Baidu Mobile Cloud product related responsible person said, Baidu Cloud service platform's launch, for users, developers to bring a one-stop cloud experience, is "personal cloud" to mature turning point. Sina Cloud Store has also begun to carry out a survey, which provides the point that the use of personal cloud services can help individuals build blogs, open shop, the use of Project Synergy tools.

In mid-July, Tencent acquired "micro-Cloud" domain name weiyun.com, officially issued a "micro-cloud" personal cloud service platform, integrated the original QQ network disk products, to provide micro-cloud network disk, micro-cloud album, micro-cloud transmission of the three major functional services.

In addition to Baidu and Tencent two big internet giants, China Telecom's "E Cloud", Lenovo, Alibaba, Millet and other manufacturers of cloud phone and cloud supporting services are also on the scene.

Whether the Internet companies or telecom operators are involved in the cloud wave of contention, this shows that the cloud market business opportunities. And, from the current market competition, although there are large enterprises in the advance, but there is no absolute leading enterprises, for small and medium enterprises entrepreneurs and investors, innovative services and patience is more important.

Personal cloud storage faces many challenges

Although personal cloud storage is the general trend, and has already formed a certain scale, but have to say, personal cloud storage there are still several major problems to be solved.

First, the personal cloud service is still in concept import period. At present, the price of PC terminal is getting cheaper, but the demand of computing and storage ability is increasing, and the requirement of system security is more and more rigorous. And cloud computing seems to be seen as a new way to liberate the traditional PC user experience.

Second, personal cloud storage data security deserves vigilance. As the U disk has the risk of loss, put the data on the server provided by the service provider also brings the risk: the platform user information leakage occurs repeatedly, the loss of data after the helpless; Privacy data will cause great harm to you. In particular, the 2011 outbreak of a variety of large-scale network information leaks is a concern for cloud services data security.

Third, there is no unified profit model. Xie, an Internet analyst, said that, relatively speaking, the majority of domestic companies to provide services from specific terminals, is a "local + cloud" service, does not form a cloud-based business model, which makes cloud storage services is unlikely to significantly increase revenue, become the company's core competitiveness.

Although the problem is heavy, but a new thing to be accepted by people must experience the process of denial, in any case, the future of personal cloud storage market development is still worth looking forward to. As for its development model, insiders said that personal cloud storage products are often the user's personal data, private information, once the user selected personal cloud storage products, it will not be easy to change or give up, which will greatly provide product users stickiness and social attributes, to form a better business model.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)