Cloud storage standards who will follow the CDMI specification

The cloud storage Standard--CDMI specification, published by SNIa in April 2010, may have been a thrill for cloud-storage-related vendors, but how much does it do for the security and stability of cloud storage and the scalability of the current user's suspicions? We don't know.





Cloud Storage was originally a concept that came out after cloud computing, but did not expect to be standard before cloud computing. This also fulfilled the phrase Bill Gates once said: "Cloud storage will be faster than cloud computing." Cloud storage has been the industry's favorite since birth, and even the relatively conservative Gartner analyst has been offering compliments. Gartner analysts have made a bold prediction that more storage services will come out of the "cloud" of the current Internet and become a large e-business service.





Despite this, cloud storage in the market has repeatedly been embarrassed. In recent years, some cloud storage services have also withstood the test of power outages, disconnection and so on, which is a heavy blow to the reliability and credibility of cloud storage. Cloud storage hopes to further slow the pace of transition from consumption patterns to production patterns. From domestic and international media surveys, there are very few enterprises considering cloud storage services.





though, there is still a lot of resistance to the current cloud storage application across the enterprise, but for most individual users, from the previous free mailboxes, networked storage, to the current cloud storage, this is a godsend gift, as my personal network hard disk use, it is very happy things. Below, the reporter on the current online more popular cloud storage do a collection, hope to be able to provide you with some convenience.

EMC's Mozy and Carbonite

Mozy and Carbonite are two types of networked storage services that EMC provides, and each time a file is saved, the changes are replicated to the manufacturer's data center. However, these services vary greatly depending on the various types of functionality they provide. For example, some services can encrypt data during a data transfer, while others can adjust the bandwidth required for backup.

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According to EMC, Mozy's services are simple, the first 2GB of storage capacity is free, and if more networked storage capacity is required, users only need to pay 4.95 dollars a month. And the mozy operation is very simple, after the initial installation, you do not have to worry about it. You can choose which files you want to back up, and set the frequency of your backups. Like other services, Mozy services also provide data encryption, but Mozy further provides users with the ability to choose to use public or private keys on their own. Private keys are kept in the user's computer, so if the Mozy data center is hacked, the cyber criminals will not be able to decrypt the user's data. However, if consumers lose their keys, they lose that data.

Carbonite features are also reflected in: module-level automatic backup, not only in the data transmission process for encryption, can also encrypt static data, can choose private or public encryption key, manual bandwidth adjustment, unlimited storage capacity.

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EMC's two cloud storage services are targeted at small businesses with a personal consumer and staff size of 10 to 50 people. At the price, EMC has quoted, Mozy Unlimited storage services for an annual fee of about 60 U.S. dollars, and Carbonite annual fee of 50 U.S. dollars, it is estimated that the adjustment now.

SkyDrive

SkyDrive is a free product. Currently, most services offer 1GB or 2GB of free storage, but SkyDrive provides users with 25GB of online storage capacity for free, and really wants users ' eyeballs. The only limitation is that the size of a single file cannot exceed 50MB. SkyDrive does not provide any sophisticated tools, such as incremental backups or encryption tools. Microsoft also relies on SkyDrive to enter the cloud storage market, at present, Microsoft mainly through the SkyDrive website advertisement to profit.

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SkyDrive is unique in that it can connect to Microsoft Sync, so it not only provides storage services, it can also provide content sharing and collaboration services through beta mesh. Users with Livemesh,skydrive will soon be able to share pictures and files, and can also decide how much to share with other users. For example, users can open access to shared permissions only to primary SkyDrive users, or they can open access to shared permissions to a particular group of friends or to all netizens.

While SkyDrive is evolving toward file sharing and collaboration, other networked storage and backup service providers believe that the only market for providing data protection services to ordinary consumers is huge.
The leading manufacturer in this field is Box.net and Prosoftnet Corp., which has launched the IDrive service.

Amazon

Amazon Simple Storage Services (S3) is a public service that WEB application developers can use to store digital assets, including pictures, videos, music, and documents. S3 provides a RESTful API to programmatically implement interactions with the service. When using S3, it is like a machine on the Internet, with a hard drive that contains digital assets. In fact, it involves a number of machines (located geographically) that contain digital assets (or portions of digital assets). Amazon also handles all the complex service requests that can store data and retrieve data.

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Amazon's S3 service is not replicated, and it exposes the RESTful API, enabling you to access S3 in any language that supports HTTP communication. The JETS3T project is an open source Java library that abstracts the details of the RESTful API using S3, exposing the APIs as common Java methods and classes.

Currently, Amazon's S3 service reseller Jungle Disk LLC. You only have to pay a small fee (about 15 cents a month GB) to store data on Amazon's servers, and 1 dollars to transfer data over Amazon server.

Norton Online Backup

Symantec's "Norton Online Backup" is a simple backup service, primarily for the consumer products of Norton 360 users, similar to the Mozy,carbonite and redeemed backup services. You can manage up to 5 computers in a home network through a console. This module-level incremental backup product can either back up data in the transfer process or back up static data stored in the Symantec Data Center.

Symantec website 49.99 USD Sales "Norton online storage"

Symantec's new service will have its own pricing model and will be mozy, unlike EMC's Carbonite services. Symantec provides 2GB of online storage for users of the Norton 360 Security suite free of charge, and if users need to increase the storage capacity of 5GB, 10GB or 25GB, it will cost US $29.99, $49.99 and 69.99 USD per year. This service supports Windows Vista, XP (SP2 and later) and Mac OS X, and browsers support Internet Explorer 6.0, Firefox 2, and Safari v3 versions.

If you are a Norton 360 user, you now have 2GB capacity online storage, and your data can be automatically backed up to the cloud (for example, a Symantec data center). If you think 2G is too small, then you have to pay more to get a higher capacity. Of course, few users are willing to do so at a time when cloud storage services are not yet climate-ready.

Ds3datavaulting

Ds3datavaulting focus on larger midsize companies. Similar to Axcient, ds3datavaulting deploys a dedicated device to your facility. This device serves as the initial backup target for the receive backup task.

Datavaulting do not need to deploy agents-all backups are agentless-making deployment easier. Once the initial backup is sent to the service, only the differential changes are replicated to the DS3 Datavault, thus helping to make efficient use of the Internet connection. Platform coverage includes most major operating systems as well as popular e-mail and database applications. If you have an uncommon operating system or database, DS3 may be your best choice.

Ds3datavaulting has changed to terremark.com

DS3 special emphasis on quality. Its data center reaches a professional level, with a 1-tier storage system to save customer backups. This investment gives the service level agreement a sense of reality.

The capacity of a local DS3 dedicated device can save the initial entire backup and daily changes. This ensures a rapid local recovery of the most common type of recovery-the latest copy of the data. The recovery of older data can be seamlessly accessed across the Internet. Once the entire site disaster occurs, you can create a device that saves your latest backup information. The new device can be sent anywhere you plan to rebuild your server. All of these recoveries can be managed or executed by DS3 people through a simple web-based GUI.

Iron Kings Virtual

With the support of Iron kings, the Virtual File Store (VFS) may be the ideal candidate for archiving inactive data (data that you still want to access but do not want to save on the local server) using cloud storage. Moving inactive data away from your server allows you to avoid the need to buy more hard disk capacity and make your backup process small and simple.

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In addition to achieving cost savings, you may also have to maintain specific information based on the laws and regulations applicable to your particular industry. Using a product like VFS allows you to implement these conservation policies and avoid the hassle of managing your data internally.

VFS needs to deploy a device in your facility when working. This device looks like a file server to your users and servers. You can copy or transfer data to this device as easily as you copy and transfer it to a file server. The device then replicates the data to the cloud storage system in the Iron Kings data Center for long-term archiving and management. When storage space is needed on this device, older data is removed from the device, but it seems to your users that the data is still stored on this device. The VFS manages the transparent links that connect Iron Kings clouds.

Nirvanix

Nirvanix is a traditional cloud storage service that enables software companies to leverage their cloud storage backend to provide complete solutions. From an enterprise point of view, the most valuable customer is cloud NAS. Cloud NAS software provides a "virtual" CIFS volume for Windows Servers, Linux NFS, and UNIX environments. When the Nirvanix Web service API points users back to the cloud, the virtual volumes look like direct-attached storage in the LAN. APIs automatically manage policies, such as locating the most recent Nirvanix storage node using virtual volumes, Nirvanix Management Portal supports the use of your internal Dynamic directory architecture for authentication, creating separate user folders.

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Currently, Nirvanix is contracted with Atempo, which integrates the backup and archiving software solution into the Nirvanix cloud in connectivity. Users can deploy Atempo as their own backup and/or archiving solution, but they contract to use the Nirvanix service and archive the data in the Nirvanix data center without purchasing hard disk storage locally. This allows customers to take advantage of Nirvanix best practices for storage. These best practices will protect their data and replicate the data to another Nirvanix cloud and maintain and manage the data.

This integration is another ideal way for SMEs to use the services and practices that large enterprises can afford. The integration between Nirvanix and Atempo is an example of how cloud storage is simply an extension of deployed software and practices. Currently, the retail price of Nirvanix cloud storage Services is 256 USD/month terabyte.

Axcient

In any way, axcient is a new ding. The newly established axcient also joined the cloud storage service (ie, online backup/restore, storage, or software as a service) camp. Axient also provides a hybrid approach to customer service with cloud-based data protection and backup/recovery and replication devices.

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The hybrid solution will be sold only through channels, targeting small and medium-sized enterprises. Specifically, it is intended for businesses that have up to 500 servers or workstations and 10GB to 10TB of storage capacity to back up. Axcient's service goal is to provide cost-effective solutions that not only protect enterprise data but also provide some redundancy to the service. A key part of the Axcient solution is to deploy a backup dedicated device in the enterprise location. This device provides local data protection for fast backup, rapid recovery, and server failover. Protection is extensive, covering most of the major operating systems and applications, such as Exchange or SQL. Using a dedicated device eliminates the effect of the server waiting for the first backup task to complete.

Dedicated devices can be backed up for the first time in the background, while your server continues to process business work without affecting your workflow. Backup dedicated devices replicate data to the Axcient facility outside the user's site, which provides disaster backup, disaster recovery, long-term archiving, site failover, and file sharing or synchronization. Solution providers for the SME market can use the Axcient interpretation scheme to provide online backup for their customers.
Axcient provides a management interface while providing backup-specific devices. This management interface enables solution providers to monitor customer backups from a single management GUI. This enables SME solution providers to provide online backup with local company personal style.

What cloud storage services can be provided domestically

Century interconnection

Century interconnection in early 2009 launched the Cloudex Flexible computing platform, can be said to become China's "cloud computing" commercial pioneer.

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Cloudex is a century-interconnected cloud computing service platform that provides users with a fast-deployable, Pay-as-you-go, highly secure and reliable computing capacity and storage capabilities, as well as an open cloud infrastructure service interface for applications. According to their business needs, customers can flexibly customize the Internet infrastructure resources such as the computing of Century interconnection, and the flexible deployment will greatly reduce the cost of purchasing and maintenance.

The cloud backup service, built on top of Cloudex, serves as a model "cloud computing" application service that provides customers with the ability to back up data in the cloud, provide data disaster-recovery capabilities, and create real conveniences for the general public. It has six layers of protection, with terminal integration, intelligent backup and mass storage system features, can provide users with safe, reliable, convenient, simple automatic and permanent protection experience. With the "cloud backup", people do not have to worry about the phone, PC and other terminal equipment loss or damage caused by data loss, exempt users from the trouble.

China Mobile 139 Mailbox

China Mobile, announced in 2009, for mobile users of free, unlimited amount of Super Mobile mailbox officially online. This marks the first domestic free, powerful mobile mailbox for the broad masses of mobile users open to the user brought a new business experience.
　　
139 Mailbox Business is a number of value-added mobile phone service email business, mobile phone number is the e-mail account. Through 139 of mailboxes, users can send and receive mail by phone, to family, friends, colleagues to send text messages, MMS, photos, audio and video files, and so on, users can receive, send, forward by mobile phone at any time, when the new mail arrives in the mailbox, immediately receive a reminder on the phone; by SMS, MMS, WAP mode can send and receive mail, Can directly through 139 of the mailbox to write MMS, send MMS, not by mobile phone model restrictions. In addition, 139 mailbox can also with Enterprise Mail, OA and CRM and other enterprise application system to carry on the coupling, realizes the wireless mobile Commerce application.
139 mailbox business is divided into three kinds of modes: PC client mode, mobile client mode and Web page mode. The three complement each other to provide users with a full range of business display, providing specialized functional services, including network storage, network editing and computing capabilities.

PC Client mode refers to the user through the PC access to 139 mailbox, it can carry out identity recognition, combined with mobile phone access control system identification, Bank identity authentication and system authentication, can also carry out mobile phone payments and E-commerce. PC client mode is characterized by good security, not easy to intercept the relevant user information, the user experience is good, not limited by the browser, play a large space, not by the HTTP protocol restrictions, faster, the communication function as a selling point, you can achieve the purpose of capturing the user's desktop, enhance the user's activity

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Mobile phone client mode refers to the user through the mobile phone access to 139 mailboxes, such as mobile phone photos that are uploaded, in 139 mailbox backstage to complete the backup and management of data, can be real-time backup mobile phone address book, Mobile information, and build SMS firewall, but also for mobile phone users to provide location-based services.

Web page mode refers to a user accessing 139 mailboxes over the web. Its characteristics are the use of low threshold, simple and convenient, user experience is good, easy to be accepted by the majority of users, conducive to the rapid third-party business access, such as the establishment of personal homepage, marketing and promotion on the Internet.

Telecom

As a new generation of cloud storage services, China Telecom e-Cloud system aims to establish a secure and reliable personal information bank. Therefore, we have taken very careful and multiple measures to ensure the privacy and security of your data. Like the bank's safe deposit business, e-Cloud Online backup service provides a space, a more secure, easier, faster, cheaper private space than home (own hard drive). The following is a brief description of the technical nature of e Cloud:

When you install the E cloud, the e cloud client encrypts all data that needs to be backed up using a 256-bit Advanced encryption algorithm on the client (we will further explain the cryptographic algorithm later). When data is transferred to the server, the server stores the encrypted data directly.

This means that the data remains encrypted on the server. Anyone, including system administrator, Hacker software, even got the e cloud database, can get only a bunch of encrypted numbers. This will fully guarantee the privacy of your information.

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This is also an important feature of the e cloud that distinguishes it from the traditional network disk. If you are a network user, you will find that the vast majority of the current network using the B/S (browser/server) architecture, it seems more simple to use than e-cloud, but these nets are almost no encryption method (even if a small number of encryption is also relatively simple, easy to crack) to store data. This means that the data you upload is always visible on the server side.

Summary

Cloud storage standards have been snia, primarily to specify how public cloud storage services interact with customers. Of course, this is only published by the American Network Storage Association, which has little to do with us.

Reporter on the cloud storage standards of things, interview an industry personage, he said: "The standard came out, and how?" Is it possible to ensure that cloud storage standards are adhered to by vendors? Now every manufacturer has its own set of standards, once the impact of their own interests, manufacturers will certainly abandon the implementation of standards. ”

It seems that the establishment of industry standards, but only the first step to standardize the market, specific compliance, standards in the implementation of what are not perfect place, we will wait and see.