Personal cloud storage market is becoming clearer or will replace local storage

Not long ago, Google has released the cloud notes products keep, causing the Chinese market for personal cloud storage business concerns. Previously, Evernote-represented personal cloud storage services had been around the world.

It can be said that the maturity of cloud computing technology, the development of mobile Internet, the popularity of smartphones has brought the prosperity of personal cloud storage business. According to Iris Consulting statistics, China's personal cloud storage users are expected to reach 223 million in 2013, the internet penetration rate reached 36.7%. The Gartner report also shows that 36% of the digital content is expected to be stored in the cloud by 2016, compared with 7% in 2011.

The huge market potential of personal cloud storage has aroused widespread discussion in the industry. Recently, China Telecom Shanghai Research Institute analyst Zhang Liping published a signed article, he said in the article: personal cloud Storage has gradually come into people's lives, and received wide attention. Whether it is the network disk class cloud storage or the note class cloud storage, its splendid all far exceeds the storage boundary. He argues that, despite the problems, the trend of personal cloud replacement for local storage of computers is becoming clearer. Zhang Liping's article represents the industry's mainstream view of the personal cloud storage market.

Here is the full text:

The personal cloud is an extension of cloud computing in the personal domain: the Internet-centric process of personal information, that is, the organization, storage, distribution, and reprocessing of individuals ' various messages through the Internet. Like all clouds, a personal cloud consists of servers, terminals, applications, and personal information. Personal information is stored on the server, calculated by the Web application running there, and serviced via a network interface to terminals such as PCs, tablets, smartphones, internet TVs, etc. The terminal accesses the personal cloud service through the client software such as Web browser.

Personal clouds have the same characteristics as general cloud computing, such as sharing, random access, and scalability. Personal information not only for their own use, but also for friends and relatives, public use, thereby realizing the social value of personal information. Any form of networking terminals, such as personal computers, tablets, smartphones, internet TVs, etc., can access personal information at any time, any place. Personal cloud can be expanded flexibly without changing the infrastructure, supporting more personal information and processing methods.

Personal clouds also have different characteristics from the general cloud computing. This is determined by the characteristics of personal information. Personal information is private and requires high security. The individual has a large number of pictures, video and other multimedia information, requires a large amount of storage, and can be expanded. Most individuals are not professionals, do not have complex information processing, do not need too strong computational power, but value ease of use. Therefore, personal cloud computing has the characteristics of "fool", large capacity, high security and so on.

Personal Cloud has a personal homepage, personal cloud storage, Personal (mobile) information management and other services. Personal Homepage Service is a kind of comprehensive service that displays personal image, shares personal information and communicates with friends through the Internet. Personal cloud storage Service is a service that uploads, downloads and shares personal files through the Internet, usually called network u disk, wireless u disk, etc. Most personal information management services are for mobile devices, providing storage and synchronization services for information such as contacts, calendars, Notepad, bookmarks, and so on.

As an important application of cloud computing, personal cloud storage has gradually come into people's life and received wide attention. Whether it is the network disk class cloud storage or the note class cloud storage, its splendid all far exceeds the storage boundary. The big development of cloud storage has been driven by large data explosion, and also benefited from the rapid development of mobile terminals and mobile internet and the maturity of cloud computing technology. As more and more software and data are migrating to the "cloud", the trend of personal cloud replacement for local storage of computers is becoming clearer.

As a new area of cloud computing, personal cloud faces many challenges. With the ability of cloud computing to bring a new experience to the traditional computer users, people's demand for computing, storage capacity continues to improve, the future of equipment system security will be more stringent. Despite the problems, the future of personal cloud is worth looking forward to. With the advent of the multi-screen era, all electronic products are likely to become the end of the cloud, personal cloud services will break this limitation, truly achieve the content between different devices access and sharing.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)