Now the network will never die, but shuffle is imminent ...

August 20 News, a few days ago, 115 network disk released a "to the unbound mobile phone users to cancel the public sharing function," the announcement caused no small repercussions; in just a few days, 115 network disk issued a bulletin, this stop is all users of the public sharing function. The consistently bullish 115 network has made such a surprising decision, and its transfer to SNS social services is also disturbing. 115 Network disk Accident and small and medium-sized Internet Enterprise Network disk Business, let people understand that this "chaos into" the "cloud storage" industry order sooner or later will be disrupted, now the network will not die, but shuffle is imminent ...

"Burn Money" game

115 network disk is not the first to stop sharing documents to the public Network service. This March, the network was "fast enough" to announce a strategic partnership with Aliyun and intended to forgo the release of free users on the new platform. and 115 network disk a hard-hearted strategic transformation, looks like a cruel brandished "from the palace."

Although now domestic involvement in the "Network disk" services of many enterprises, a wide variety of products have their own characteristics. However, as the number of users, the requirements for enterprise servers will naturally become higher. Due to the limitations of domestic network conditions, the service providers in order to ensure the popularity and stability of services, is often not only in the telecommunications to purchase IDC resources, but also in the netcom and other operators to buy; more tragic is the consumption of a large number of IDC and bandwidth, the service providers can get their hope that the results It can be said that the operating network disk is a "burning money" game, if its own profitability is too poor "burn", then the service will not survive.

The sad experience of the small network disk manufacturer tells us, the network Disk Service is a entry threshold low but needs the high technology and the fund support industry. In 115 of the network, 30 million of the users, only 1% of the users are paid, for a single business scope, relying solely on financing and user-paid to maintain the life of the enterprise can not afford tens of millions of users of the toss, but the scope of business more extensive, More technical capacity of large Internet companies such as search engine started Baidu, to security-oriented 360, Jinshan, etc., although not early, but they have-perhaps only they have the abundant funds and technology, the game of burning money to continue to play down.

"Sharing" or key winning logic

Off the chain, the mass user is not free to download what other users share, although there are rumors that the 115 network is to develop a more social color of the "circle" of the sacrifice, but has caused a large number of users lost. Without the user's social network, even the convenience of the "circle" will not help, let alone today's SNS service is in a "bubble" state, 115 network disk results will be difficult to predict.

God closes a door and opens a window. 115 network disk closed the public to share the function, but for long eyeing the network disk services Baidu found more lethal weapons: Recently, Baidu Network Plate announced to provide a "fully open new version of the chain function." The new version of the chain than the previous 115 network offers more functions, not only upload the file size, number and download speed, Baidu network share page can also support documents, pictures, audio online preview and playback, to achieve the cloud storage in the first truly "unlimited sharing" of the network disk. For the 115 of users who have just lost their chain of service, these features are enough for them to abandon.

In an open mobile internet era, sharing is undoubtedly one of the most important functions, but there is no doubt that "sharing" is also capital. Alone from the financial point of view, Baidu is obviously better than 115 network disk many. Not only that, in the application of mobile terminals development, but also more than ordinary small network disk has a strong strength. Baidu's main product search and set up a full national cloud storage server is a lot of peer companies are envious. In addition, the chain brings a large number of downloads need not be able to withstand, but in the face of a large number of users in response to demand, 115 network disk than Baidu Gap is obvious.

Even on several popular terminals, the 115 network has no advantage compared to it, from the web end to the PC side, and then to the iOS and Android platform, Baidu Network disk across the current popular all platforms, and even if there is a large amount of use, There is no need to worry about the pressure on Baidu to cope with the need for instantaneous synchronization and the handling of oversized loads – a commonplace for the country's largest search engine. It seems, although not in the 115 net plate "since the palace" after the start, but Baidu ready, menacing, I am afraid is early want to "eat" it.

"Outside the chain" becomes future cloud storage new play

The appearance of the outside chain sharing function is inevitable. Today's Web services are one of the basic components of future cloud computing, and if you can't do the web today, you'll be hard-pressed to deal with future "web Disks"-or real cloud storage. Moreover, the future of personal "cloud storage" services, not just upload the download so simple.

In today's network, our most intuitive feeling is that the user put the location of files from the local to the server, regardless of the use of computers or mobile terminals, can allow users to easily share. The future cloud storage feature is a file synchronization, operational collaboration, multiple application convergence platform, such as in the underlying architecture, cloud storage applications will include distributed file systems, multi-user management and authentication technology, such as the only to provide upload, download, sharing functions of the traditional network disk technology architecture is very different.

The seamless combination of information and people's lives in everyday life is the meaning of mobile internet and "cloud". No matter where you are, users can interact with their information through mobile terminals, which requires manufacturers to start from the user's daily needs, rather than the simple network today, let users take the initiative to find cloud services. Therefore, the single storage file function will not meet all the needs of people, simple network disk services can not survive, can only take the initiative to change the strategy, or wait for a larger enterprise to buy it, or even slow death, and only the successful creation of a complete "cloud" computing ecology of large internet companies, can really face the "cloud "The future.

And the future, "network disk" there will be a life-and-death fierce competition.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)