Four advantages to enable enterprises to choose to use cloud storage products

"It expert network exclusive contributor" Although the cloud storage products to date there are some deficiencies, but the advantages of cloud storage products are constantly recognized and accepted by enterprises. I believe that in the near future, more and more enterprises will start to use cloud storage products.　　Because the author believes that the following four advantages can enable enterprises to choose to use cloud storage products. Advantage One: Cost advantage.

Businesses now rarely have separate storage systems. A large part of this is due to the high deployment cost of the storage system. For this reason, some companies would rather bear the risk of data loss than pay a large price to buy a storage system. The use of cloud storage products, can significantly reduce the storage system deployment costs.

A cloud storage product is a provider that deploys a storage server on the Internet and leases it to an enterprise. This is the same as the current housing market. Now the house is more and more expensive, ordinary people can't afford it. But to live again, what to do? At this time only by renting to solve the problem. After all, the rent is paid by month or year, and most people pay for it. Although in the long run its cost may not be the same as the cost of purchase. But after all, it can diversify the capital pressure of the enterprise.

Simply put, you can enjoy a higher storage service at a lower price. Using the current more popular words, is cheap. In addition, in the cloud storage products (such as Huawei's T3000), in the cloud storage products combined with the concept of tiered storage to further reduce enterprise storage costs. Tiered storage is stored in high, medium, low-end storage systems, depending on the importance of the data. Of course, different storage systems have different prices for their leases. Like the company's usual monitoring data, its importance is relatively low. And its capacity is relatively large. It takes a lot of space to put it in a high-end storage system, but it's not necessary. You can place it in a low-end storage system at this point to reduce the cost of renting space.

According to the author's understanding, the unit cost of cloud storage now is about 2 dollars GB. Because the storage server is the vendor responsible for maintenance. So this unit cost actually covers the cost of maintenance. This cost is completely acceptable to the enterprise. The cost will be even lower as the competitive pressures of future cloud storage products increase and the process of nationalization occurs.

Advantage Two: Management advantage.

The second advantage of the cloud storage product is the management advantage. Specifically, it can be carried out from several levels.

First, the maintenance tasks for the cloud storage products are performed by the vendor. In other words, the enterprise itself does not need to be equipped with professional storage system administrators. In fact, this is like one months sister-in-law. Some women give birth to their children for the first time and may lack the necessary experience in how to take care of their children. This may inadvertently cause harm to the child. And the month sister-in-law is different. It's his job to take care of the newborn child. The children passed his hand were dozens of, even hundreds. Experience is very rich. It may be better to take care of the child than the mother herself. This is the reason why the month sister-in-law is so popular. Now the enterprise uses the cloud storage product, has the specialized personnel to be responsible for the cloud storage server maintenance, as if to the server invited one months sister-in-law. In stability or performance, more than their own maintenance.

Second, it is easier to expand. Today's cloud storage products, such as Huawei's T3000, are basically designed to be modular. One of the important advantages of modular design is its high flexibility. The following can be extended according to the business of the enterprise. It's like renting a house. The landlord has a big house with more than 10 rooms inside. Users can rent a two of them according to their own needs. If later feel not enough, still need to rent, do not need to change a house, just need to rent a room like the landlord. This can save the trouble of moving. This is what businesses need. Some enterprises in the prophase planning is insufficient, often will appear the late storage space insufficient situation. As I have encountered a company before. At the beginning of the storage system, only the needs of the database, file server, mailbox server are considered. But the need for a factory monitoring system was not taken into account. Later on the monitoring system, only to find that the original storage space can not meet the monitoring needs (monitoring of video files generally need to store about 2 weeks, and large files). The enterprise shall not stop buying a storage server dedicated to storing video files. If the enterprise uses the cloud storage product, can save this aspect the trouble.

Advantage Three: Access advantage.

If an enterprise deploys a storage server on its own, such as deploying a storage system for a file server or an ERP system, there may be some barriers to access. If the enterprise deploys the system, often uses the intranet the IP address. This is due to the limitations of IP addresses and, on the other hand, security considerations. To hide important devices such as storage servers within the enterprise. But it also brings some obstacles to access. If the enterprise now has staff outside the business trip. He needs to use the Internet to access documents within the enterprise. There are certain difficulties at this time. Enterprise network administrators need to configure their VPN or NAT servers. However, this will increase the cost of management, and the speed of access is not ideal. Not very well in stability.

Now with cloud storage products, these problems can be eliminated. When a user accesses a file on an extranet, it is like landing a 163 mailbox, not only fast, but also without the need to pass through other intermediate channels. Users can access files anytime, anywhere, according to their needs.

A big difference between a cloud storage product and its own deployment server is the placement of the server. Deploy your own servers, for a variety of reasons, the server is often placed within the enterprise. and cloud storage products, whose servers are placed on the Internet. And this server location is different, the user accesses the way also has the difference. Cloud storage products Because the server is placed on the Internet, for this purpose, whether intranet users or extranet users, access to information stored on the cloud storage products must be done via the Internet (some will create replicas on the intranet server). And because the storage server performance is superior, at the same time will lease relatively large bandwidth, this user access speed is acceptable.

Advantage Four: tailor-made solutions.

Cloud storage products provide their storage space, in fact, provide not only the space itself, but also according to the needs of enterprises to give a tailored solution. Enterprises have different information credit. Different information applications have different requirements for storage devices. Only by treating separately can we achieve maximum satisfaction in performance and security while saving costs.

The simplest example is the video surveillance data and the ERP system data, which is different to the storage device requirements. Video surveillance data is characterized by large capacity, low repetition rate (usually only the data is stored without being read), can be overwritten (general data only need to save half a month). ERP data is characterized by permanent preservation, small capacity, high repetition utilization, high performance requirements, high concurrent access, and so on. The different characteristics of these different data determine the use of different storage devices. For video monitoring data, only large capacity is required. Performance can be lower. As for the ERP data, the storage device requires high I/O, perfect data fault-tolerant mechanism and so on. Because of the lack of professional talents, it is difficult to design a reasonable solution according to the actual situation of the enterprise.

When the enterprise chooses to use the cloud storage product, the other side will build a fit storage solution for the enterprise according to the Enterprise's own situation and the project budget. This is the additional services that businesses enjoy when they buy cloud storage products. The author in the actual work, more value is this kind of service.