"Exclusive" personal cloud store into fragrant pastry who laughs last?

The appearance of industrial society is a great abundance of material, and the image of information society is a mass explosion of the message. In the huge amount of information faced, personal storage devices and systems have been unable to meet our needs, so personal cloud storage emerged.

What is personal cloud storage? Cloud storage is a new concept that extends and develops in the concept of cloud computing, refers to the use of cluster applications, grid technology or Distributed file system functions, the network of a large number of different types of storage devices through the application software together to work together to provide data storage and business access functions of a system. Personal cloud storage is an important part of the entire cloud storage system, and is also the most popular part of the market today.

Cloud Storage Architecture Diagram

In layman's terms, personal cloud storage is the storage of data in the background of the cloud, not the local hard disk, and can be synchronized in real time. In this way, not only can play a good backup role, and you can use different terminals to access their own data at any time, to achieve data in the individual types of storage devices, personal and other storage devices to share, convenient, safe, economic. Therefore, it is said that personal cloud storage is not a storage, but a service, users use cloud storage, not using a single storage device, but using the entire cloud storage system to bring a data access service.

Personal cloud storage market into fragrant pastry and the same taste

On September 16, cloud storage service provider Box.net rejected a bid for more than 550 million dollars, sending Apple as a behind-the-scenes pretender; Earlier, Apple was intent on bidding for a 800 million dollar bid for cloud storage provider Dropbox. Obviously, the previously acquired icloud still can't satisfy Apple's big appetite in cloud storage. The Apple is eyeing the mouth, hunting for food.

As a cloud storage service provider and investors are optimistic about the personal cloud storage this piece of fat. This summer, Dropbox completed the latest round of financing, making co-founder Duru Houston (Drew Houston) carrying more than 1 billion dollars and a company valued at $4 billion trillion; Box.net received $35 million trillion in capital injections, raising the company's valuations to $550 million trillion, while corporate finance totaled more than $100 million trillion. Box.net CEO Allen Levi Aaron Levie and CFO Dalan Smith (Dylan Smith) refused to face a 550 million premium takeover. "The current traditional corporate software is moving to cloud computing, which is much larger than anyone expects," Levy said Box.net's bright future. We are at the forefront of the current period of transition, "he said."

In the domestic cloud storage market, the major enterprises are also popular, cloud trend clouds, Jinshan fast disk, networking network disk, Tencent Network storage services, and even the hardware products millet mobile phones and Aliyun mobile phones, are not a "cloud storage" as an important selling point. A closer look at our lives will find that, from online music to online video, cloud storage has crept into our lives, but we have never been aware of that change; and more and more cloud storage products will drive more individual users to embrace cloud storage. Personal cloud storage applications are becoming all users, both business and personal. The cloud-storage market is still a tempting big cake that has yet to be eaten, and the vendors are trying to get a slice of it.

Who will laugh till the end?

At present, although the market has a large number of enterprises in the personal cloud storage market: The old enterprise to the personal cloud storage market as an important strategy, the start-up enterprise directly personal cloud storage as the main business. But the rule of the market is survival of the fittest. A river, who will laugh to the end?

Perhaps it is too early to predict the future giants of the personal cloud storage market, but we can see some clues from the current situation.

1. Apple icloud

Tiny ipod, lightweight ipad, slim MacBook Air

All of Apple's gadgets are small and stunning, with three features of a large closed empire, a huge iOS user base and a wonderful user experience that no other vendor can compete with.

icloud, the head of the cloud storage sector in the Apple Empire, has no doubt that it is a leader in personal cloud storage, relying on Apple's strong overall strength and brand influence.

2. Jinshan Fast Disk

If the Golden Hill compared to the first domestic software company, then the face of cloud computing he is not a faltering elderly. Instead, she is glowing with cloud computing. Jinshan Cloud Computing Strategy transformation shows its foresight, stable layout of excellent corporate quality. As early as this May, Jinshan has officially launched a personal cloud storage services-Jinshan fast, and quickly gained a large number of personal users of all ages. Ginger or old spicy, Jinshan and in the interpretation of the slogan of the lake, "Jinshan production, will be fine."

Jinshan fast disk as a local enterprise, do not rigidly adhere to Apple's iOS system, you can take all the Android, Window, Web, and no foreign enterprises in the "acclimatized" response, so the domestic personal cloud storage market will occupy a jiangshan.

3. Sky Cloud Trend-securesync

"Securesync" also known as "cloud", is the trend of the first half of this year launched the products, its target users for enterprise employees, for the group to provide personal cloud storage services, and ultimately want to get operators and large enterprises recognized. Although personal cloud storage applications are a gold mine in the individual user market, the cloud trend uses the business of paying for the cloud to travel freely among the clouds.

Sky Cloud trend belongs to the whole industrial chain of Beijing Cloud base, regardless of the technology, software and hardware environment has occupied a unique advantage. The cloud will also become a beautiful scenery in the cloud!

Sit to see the surging tide, watch the tide rise and fall. Cloud storage in the end who spend the home, still awaiting the market test.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)