Industry observation: The seven-male hegemony in the domestic cloud storage market

Here is a brief introduction to the concept of cloud storage.

As one of the most important components of cloud computing (cloudcomputing) in recent years, cloud storage (cloudstorage) undertakes the task of collecting, storing and processing data in service form at the lowest level, and on this basis, it launches the upper cloud platform and cloud services.

Cloud storage is typically provided by third parties with complete data center facilities. Enterprise users and individuals host data to a third party and perform on-demand access to data through public, private, or mixed cloud forms. In short, it can be understood as an extended, online storage space for you.

In fact, although the concept of cloud storage is proposed in the last two years, its actual application began more than 10 years ago with an internet-based email system (the concept was first proposed by Hotmail, but now Gmail has become a symbol of this field).

Web2.0 's popular services, from Docs documents to Evernote notes, from Facebook to Twitter chatter, are also built on cloud storage mechanisms. It can be said that not every netizen knows the existence of cloud storage, but at least 80% Internet users have already lived in the cloud.

For users, the advantages of cloud storage are mainly:

1, on-demand use, on-demand, do not have to bear the extra cost, effectively reduce costs.

2, no need to add additional hardware facilities or equipped with special personnel responsible for maintenance, reduce management difficulties.

3, the common data replication, backup, server expansion and other work to the third party to carry out, and thus focus on their core business.

4, rapid deployment configuration, at any time to expand the increase or decrease, more flexible and controllable.

With the development of broadband network, cluster technology, grid technology and Distributed File system expansion, CDN content distribution, Peer-to-peer, data compression technology widely used, as well as the improvement of storage virtualization technology, cloud storage technology has tended to mature. In terms of business prospects, "user-created content" and "sharing" as the spirit of the Web2.0 to promote the entire network of users of online services, the pioneers of the courage to eat crabs have also benefited from, and become a sample example. No wonder, cloud storage has become the industry in the eyes of the sweet cakes, new business growth.

In the next 5 years, Springboardresearch, an IT marketing consultancy, showed in the China Cloud Storage Services Report (Chinacloudstorageservicesreport) released this August China's cloud storage services market will grow at a compound annual rate of 103% per cent.

Springboard that China's cloud-storage services market will grow rapidly from $6.05 million trillion in 2009 to $210 million in 2014. The report also notes that "while the monthly price of storage services per gigabyte will continue to decline, the overall adoption of the cloud storage market is growing more rapidly, which will drive the overall size of the cloud storage market to rise rapidly over the next 5 years." ”

Lenovo is a well-known enterprise that provides cloud storage services earlier in the country, but its business is limited to commercial. Domestic individual users more use of foreign free tools, such as Dropbox, SugarSync, Windowslivemesh. And in May this year, the quiet, and the domestic IT industry finally press the resistance, have robbed at this point in the beginning of the outbreak.