Cloud storage will be the future direction of data storage

Under the wave of cloud computing, the new storage technology-cloud storage-is increasingly becoming the future direction of data storage. With the development of society and the progress of science and technology, especially the rapid development of computers and networks, people's access to information and data Large capacity, convenience, reliability requirements are higher and higher. Some analysts believe that although the development of cloud storage is still subject to certain limitations, but the next one to two years, cloud storage market will be enlarged.

Cloud storage is an important application of cloud computing. It refers to the technology of centrally storing files or data of a team or an individual in a data center rather than onsite, and pays for the actual usage. Broadly speaking also includes storage based on the provision of document management services, namely storage + "operating system." At present, cloud storage can be divided into public cloud storage and private cloud storage according to different classification standards; personal cloud storage and enterprise cloud storage.

IResearch released a report shows that China's online file storage market is divided into two types of backup sharing and collaboration, the current online file storage market is in development. The cloud storage industry chain includes the upstream base storage service providers, telecom IDC service providers, mid-range file storage service providers, agents and downstream end users. Among them, for collaborative online file storage team, the operating costs of upstream storage service providers and telecom IDC providers make up the major operating costs of collaborative online file storage (the cloud storage service leased by some collaborative online file storage teams further reduces Operating costs). Since collaborative online file storage is mostly paid service, storage and bandwidth costs can be effectively covered.

Some analysts pointed out that with the popularity of smart phones, tablet PCs and other smart terminals, the amount of data owned by individual users is growing at a geometric multiples, both from the storage security, or with the convenience of taking advantage of It is the trend of the times to upload data to the cloud rather than to collect it locally. From the social effect point of view, the core of cloud storage and cloud computing is the enhancement of management capability, which is intensive and facilitates centralized management and reduces the social costs. For small and medium-sized enterprises, cloud computing or cloud storage can stand on the same starting line with large enterprises in the field of informationization. By using centralized management, cloud computing can greatly reduce the information cost of a single small and medium-sized enterprise.

At present, security is still the biggest obstacle to the development of cloud storage. Most users still have some psychological concerns about the security of cloud storage. In this regard, in addition to continuous improvement in technology, the government-sponsored certification will also help to increase the acceptance and market space for cloud storage. Recently, at the 2014 Trusted Cloud Service Conference held in Beijing, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the first list of cloud services that passed Trusted Cloud Certification in China. Among them, three cloud service-cloud server-server ecs, cloud database rds and cloud Store oss first certified. This is the first time in the domestic authority to carry out cloud computing certification. According to a survey conducted by the Telecommunications Research Institute, more than 50% of users previously did not trust cloud services due to lack of standards. Trusted cloud service certification initially established a trust system, industry experts also said that this will further promote government procurement of cloud services.

The future direction of cloud storage development, any data generated by the system can be unified management, maintenance; continue to strengthen the mobile terminal function; and gradually strengthen the safety of data distribution; big data analysis and processing. He judged that in the next one to two years, the market space for cloud storage would be enlarged based on the fact that user habits will gradually be cultivated. In the context of slowing economy, enterprises need to increase revenue and reduce expenditure, which is a golden opportunity to promote cloud storage. Traditional Mode providers continue to languish, causing users to change storage systems in the future.