Entering the age of mobile commerce

With the development of globalization, people's time is becoming more and more fragmented, the limitation of traditional internet is more and more difficult to deal with business needs. With the development of hardware technology and mobile Internet, a new business way is emerging--mobile commerce. IDC forecasts that global shipments of mobile terminals, including smartphones and tablets, will continue to grow, and according to Cnnic's report, as of June 2011, China's mobile phone users in the scale of 318 million, business applications in the past 2009-2010 years after the rapid growth, ushered in a relatively stable period of development, a flat upward trend. There are signs that we are beginning to move into the era of mobile commerce.

Mobile commerce is not far away, with the continuous development of hardware technology, smartphones can be comparable to the PC, and cloud computing concepts such as the proposed, accelerated the process of mobile commerce. Most importantly, the overall bandwidth of the mobile Internet and the downward adjustment in tariffs make it possible to use mobile devices that integrate computer technology, communication technologies and Internet technologies to become available office terminals. And, for business managers, business intelligence applications more and more highlight its important role, become an important means of enterprise-assisted decision-making, but enterprise management staff can not be sitting at any time next to the computer, and mobile devices become the control of enterprise dynamic, timely decision-making important tool. It can be said that mobile commerce is the inevitable trend of both internal and external promotion.

Because mobile commerce breaks through the limitation of time and space, as long as you are willing, can connect to intranet or external Internet to visit anytime and anywhere, then this has brought the big challenge to the important component of enterprise IT Infrastructure storage system, it puts forward higher demand to the performance of storage device.

Whether the Internet or mobile Internet, the response on the storage system is to read or write data, mobile commerce to the storage system to bring new problems, the main reason is the portability of mobile terminal equipment and the wide spread of mobile Internet, users can use mobile terminals for data access anytime, anywhere, There is no time or place limit, which puts new demands on the business continuity of the enterprise, and responds to the storage system's reliability, scalability, and stability requirements.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)