Contests: Six of the finest cloud storage vendors to choose from

Apple icloud and Amazon Cloud Drive

With the development of cloud computing, cloud storage has become a familiar service, Amazon's Cloud drive, Apple's icloud, Microsoft's SkyDrive and so on have received more and more user support. As a new concept of cloud computing extension and development, cloud storage refers to a system in which a large number of different types of storage devices are assembled together through application software to work together to provide data storage and business access function through the functions of cluster application, grid technology or Distributed File system.

The market for cloud storage is very competitive, and it can be said to be a strong confrontation between the major IT giants, because in the future who occupy the cloud, will likely in the fierce competition with more advantages, it is likely to determine the fate of the enterprise choice. Let's look at the following six of the most outstanding manufacturers of cloud storage, can be said to be the industry leader. Specifically as follows:

1. Amazon Cloud Drive

Amazon can be said to have been very advanced in cloud computing, and the introduction of Cloud Drive has enriched its cloud storage products, Amazon Cloud Drive relatively more value. Spend money to buy more space, you can put all the content in the same place.

The inconvenient is that you need an extra desktop client, and if you want to play music, you need to carve out a separate space. In addition, Amazon has a music library of the same size as itunes, but you need to upload all the music manually instead of having the server automatically match your existing songs. So uploading a music library takes a long time and takes up a lot of bandwidth.

2. Apple icloud

As the hottest it vendor in recent years, Apple has already taken an important step in cloud storage, as early as June 7, 2011, when Apple hosted the Global Developers Conference (WWDC2011) at the San Francisco Mosconewest Convention and Exhibition Center, officially released icloud Cloud services, This service enables seamless docking of existing Apple devices.

It may have taken a long time for Apple to develop a content synchronization system for iOS and Mac devices, but icloud has done a minimalist. All files are placed in the same place, no need to manage, no need to understand their storage space.

April Google Drive will launch

3. Free Storage Dropbox

Dropbox is a very useful free network file Synchronization tool, is the Dropbox company run the online storage service, through cloud computing to achieve the Internet file synchronization, users can store and share files and folders. Dropbox offers free and fee-based services, client-side software under different operating systems, and Web clients.

The Drobox is slightly more complex and requires some manual management, but it is synchronized seamlessly. Just drag and drop the file to keep it synchronized on a variety of devices.

4.google Drive will launch

Sources say Google Drive free storage space will reach 5GB. If Google Drive provides free space for this capacity, it will be consistent with box.net and SugarSync, and the slogan of over Dropbox 2gbdropbox is: "Your life is work, no matter where you are." "and Google Drive's slogan is:" All your files-everywhere. ”

The problem with Google is that different files need to be placed in different places, and it's harder to manage.

Microsoft SkyDrive performance is stronger

5. Microsoft SkyDrive

Microsoft, now the most popular operating system company, has also launched its own cloud storage skydrive,2011 the beginning of August, Microsoft has a new facelift for SkyDrive. The new SkyDrive all use HTML5 to replace the Silverlight plug-ins that Microsoft used to use in Windows Live Web pages to get a better experience and compatibility. In addition to updating the standards on the web, the SkyDrive photo browsing uses Microsoft's highly acclaimed Metro style interface to provide a dynamic cover for the album. In addition, the new SkyDrive has a significant boost in support, viewing, and synchronization of Windows Phone 7 handsets.

Microsoft SkyDrive also has a speed problem, but it's easier to accept. If you manage your space through the site, the interface is more beautiful, dragging is very convenient.

6.ubuntuone Launch

Don't just think that Ubuntuone has Ubuntu Linux users to use it, but the Windows operating platform is also fully compatible.

Ubuntu One[1] is a network service launched by the company canonical behind Ubuntu. The service can store your files, allow you to sync on multiple computers, and share these files with friends. You simply specify that you want to share the user's email address, the user will be invited to email, and the file will automatically appear in the shared with Me folder when you accept the validation.

Today, cloud storage can be a time of contention, whether Amazon or Apple or Microsoft, and so on, although they have launched their own cloud storage, but there is no real occupation of the market, and they can not be said to achieve perfection, but over time and people's ideas change, I believe that cloud storage will have a vast space.