Differentiate between cloud storage, storage cloud, and storage cloud services

With the application of Web2.0, the individual is no longer a simple internet content consumer is also the direct creator of the Internet content: electric business "such as Taobao", SNS (such as Weibo, film (such as Youku) is the best example. This concept of self service combined with the latest cloud computing concept, 3G and other broadband technology to lead people into a new era of service.

In this new era of service, the use of data, information, processing from the traditional buyout mode to the rental model, resulting in a vast number of cloud services supply "Amazon's basic Resources cloud services, Salesforce Enterprise CRM cloud services, Google Personal cloud services, etc."

There are so many cloud services, because individuals and small and medium-sized enterprises in the creation of Internet value, the existence of inherent funds, venues, experience and other disadvantages of these cloud services are very good for individuals and small and medium-sized enterprises to play the role of information leverage to provide a solution.

This is a huge market, is a new wave of it. It's very similar to surfing. When the tide comes, early or late are very dangerous, early waste of resources wasted energy, late, market competition status has lost even if struggling to catch up is thankless. The most successful way, is homeopathy, the leading wave on a step, so that you can Dance with the tide, become a new era of the wave-goers.

IDC has a unique advantage in providing cloud services centrally, as there are many cloud services available in IDC, from the most basic resource cloud services to the application cloud services at the business level. The so-called high-rise building from the ground data is the root of all information, this article focuses on the resource cloud in the storage cloud services.

Only by using appropriate cloud storage to build the right storage cloud services can lay a solid foundation for future higher-level cloud services.

Here we first need to analyze several concepts of cloud storage, storage cloud, and storage cloud services that are often confusing in the industry:

Cloud storage is a device-level storage device that meets the cloud storage characteristics, known as cloud storage.

The storage cloud is a source of resources, one to several "flowers" built using a cloud storage device to store access to the cloud sometimes the clouds may be isolated because of the difference between the evil and the applied purpose.

The storage cloud service serves as a service to provide the tenant with a dynamic, flexible, and on-demand service to provide high-quality storage access. Modern storage because of the emergence of tiered storage concept, the cloud storage itself to support the transparent archiving of data so essentially called "storage archived cloud services" will be more appropriate, but to avoid ambiguity, this article is referred to as the storage cloud services.