Future Personal Cloud Service Development Analysis

Today, cloud computing has completely replaced the "social", and become the industry has been the most discussed but the most difficult to understand technical wave. Services such as Dropbox, iCloud and Google Drive have become mainstream, and consumers such as Evernote, Wunderlist and Pocket are using it every day without knowing they are using cloud applications.

While the online backup and synchronization service has been providing personal clouds for years, its uses and general needs have been proven on smartphones and tablets. As consumers spend more and more time online on various connected devices, the next evolution in the connectivity experience should be to consolidate and simplify the cloud itself.

From the evolution of the Web's point of view, the cloud should be simplified. Every major leap in the Web follows the same pattern:

1) New ideas appear

2) A large number of vertical cottage products / services and single-purpose solutions emerge

3) Integration

The cloud is now in its third phase: personal cloud instead of hard disk becomes the focus of personal web life (cloud services), and it also holds our place for content storage and service access (cloud storage). According to Forbes' comment to Gartner's interview, the personal cloud will be a hub for computing and communication with all the services, Web destinations and connectivity.

Gartner also predicts that personal cloud will be widely adopted by 2015, but less than 10% of consumers accounted for cloud storage as primary storage in 2014. But the cloud is now more and more widespread: fragmentation, inefficiency, and security risks are the three major concerns for consumers and service providers. In the coming years, a key reshuffle of premium personal cloud services that can be securely and seamlessly delivered across the Internet for simultaneous sharing of storage across devices (smartphones, tablets, TVs, PCs) will take place. Those who can solve the above problems may be able to survive a personal cloud.

Fragmentation

Countless uses A single cloud service has led to the fragmentation of applications and programs. For example Google Drive is used for documentation, Evernote is a one-time note record, and Pocket is the content aggregator. In theory, these should all be ways of organizing and simplifying everyday life, but fragmentation results in the opposite effect.

Now, each user's smartphone has an average of 67 applications. Update and upgrade a bunch of devices on a single use of a single application, allowing users to fear back. App of this situation can be compared with the operating system "Tower of Babel," the continually created conflicts and collapse must be solved by escalating. But in the future we will not see the all-inclusive "universal" app appearing, but only a small part of making your multi-device experience easier, richer, and safer.

Safety

Security is a prominent issue for mobile Internet and cloud services. Mobile devices, and especially Android devices, have become threat centers. Attacks on both ends are on the rise, and cloud-based services are a big goal due to their wide range of impact. Even worse, most developers do not use the appropriate encryption protocol to protect the message and data, app security level uneven.

Software updates, new programs and apps can be somewhat inefficient for security risks, but require more downloads to ensure personal cloud security. This fragmented solution offsets consumer confidence in cloud services. Security risks will not go away at any time, but future personal cloud storage will provide a unified but distributed solution that simplifies protection and increases protection.

effectiveness

Imagine the fact that the data on GB is being transferred across different devices on the Internet at various rates, which can be a problem for the personal cloud.

The biggest problem is that many applications and programs on computers, TVs or mobile phones compete with each other for bandwidth resources and do not communicate with each other. In order to improve the speed of a program, applications must be manually shut down, and the introduction of more and more applications will not help to speed up the Internet. Hopefully there will be a personal-oriented load balancer application to solve this problem.

This in turn creates another problem. To take advantage of the competition, personal cloud services should run on a stand-alone program. In this case, the user's notes, documents, news, movies, music, etc. can be provided in a load-balanced, task-oriented manner so as not to degrade the efficiency of the device.

Browser power

Have to mention here browser. To a large extent, these three major problems belong to the original sin of the ever-expanding primary application. The pursuit of native applications led us to ignore the long history of browsers. In fact, modern browsers are far from smartly sending and receiving http requests. Browsers can be described as a natural operating system in the personal cloud era. And now the complexity of personal cloud has also evolved to the level that requires its own operating system.

Personal cloud storage within the browser is not new. However, browsers that successfully provide smooth, secure and efficient cloud storage services will be able to adapt to changing customer needs. Eliminating the need for millions of apps. The next few years will be the moment when consumers will decide who they belong to, and browsers are already building a perfect framework to bring together all the consumer needs now and in the future.