Storage Evolution: Cloud storage is the future kingly way

With the security it process continues to advance, Yunan defense, cloud computing, cloud storage in the field of security hot; On the other hand, security high-definition, networking and intelligent development, security, especially video surveillance data explosion-type growth, massive data storage and application become a new problem. In this context, cloud storage becomes a necessary choice for security data storage and higher-order applications.

As we all know, the rapid development of security applications, especially intelligent city, Safe city, intelligent transportation and other industries in the application of in-depth, security large data such as video surveillance videos, alarm data, and also an explosion of growth. According to IHS, global video surveillance generated more than 1500PB of data per day in 2011, and historical cumulative data will be larger; IDC expects global data storage to be up to 40ZB (1zb=1 billion TB) by 2020.

With the security monitoring to high-definition, networking, intelligent direction, security video, monitoring and other data explosion-like growth, security storage capacity and scale of a significant increase, the traditional storage mode has been unable to meet the massive data storage and application needs. And transplant from the IT field of cloud storage technology, in the security industry has been called a perfect match, not only effectively lifted the traditional security storage system shackles, but also for a richer intelligent applications to provide strong support.

Cloud storage power security large data mining

With the security video surveillance business into the data torrent era, a great test of the traditional security storage mode. However, the current commonly used storage systems, such as DVR, NVR, Ipsan, not only in capacity growth is difficult to meet the capacity of the scale of petabytes, the performance bottlenecks in the security application of the support has hardly grown. In this context, cloud storage becomes the inevitable choice for large data storage and application of security.

Unlike the traditional way of storing the cloud, cloud storage needs to use the functions of cluster application, grid technology or distributed file system to combine the different types of storage devices in the network through the application software to work together to provide a system of data storage and service access function, which adopts network virtualization technology, Storing data in a cloud, and through the relevant platform, the use of relevant software for data virtualization storage, security management, backup and system performance optimization, to solve data sharing, high concurrency access, data backup and security management, the ultimate realization of the system's flexible expansion, IO performance optimization and reduce costs, Can realize the maximization of the resource benefit.

Compared with traditional video monitoring data storage mode, security cloud storage solves the conflict between storage performance and storage capacity linear growth. Hangzhou Hai Kang Wei Digital technology Co., Ltd. Cloud storage support manager Crown analysis points out that cloud storage can not only guarantee the large-scale security monitoring and storage scale, storage system can meet the storage needs of video recording more high-performance, at the same time through virtualization, clustering, distributed storage and computing technology, A large number of large-scale and complex storage equipment for systematic encapsulation, the top of the security Monitoring Platform and analysis system presents a unified service exports, output storage services. Cloud storage also provides users with more flexible capacity allocation and adjustment strategies, and more stable and reliable service quality.

In addition, "cloud storage technology in the security industry's application also for large data mining and analysis provides a strong support." Cloud storage will also be based on the characteristics of the requirements of its own transformation and optimization, such as the flow of data to adjust their own storage format, the video key information analysis after the first time, together with the video data storage. In this way, the intelligent analysis and application of the data will no longer be restricted, more conducive to security large data cloud computing, with the ensuing security innovation will be more flexible and rich. "Hai Kang Wei, as the crown spoke.

In the long run, "with the development of intelligent applications, the future can be superimposed on the cloud storage platform for a series of storage management and application software, the external provision of intelligent Analysis Services, the future stack of rich management and application software cloud storage System, will be able to greatly promote security cloud storage market applications." "Jia du Xin Tai Technology Co., Ltd. Intelligent Security Division technical Director Zhang Jinfei pointed out."

Vertical industry How to deploy cloud storage

The rise of cloud storage for security video large data application has laid the foundation, it can be said that cloud storage set up a very good platform for data mining, security manufacturers to do is to make full use of this rich platform to deepen and innovate more high-quality applications.

In the past two years, more and more city-level security projects have been proposed to use cloud storage to solve the problem of massive video data storage, the relevant video monitoring cloud storage solutions have been in the public security, intelligent transportation, intelligent buildings and other fields have been implemented and applied. Although the current security cloud storage technology and solutions are still difficult to mature, and related applications are only in the professional market intelligent city, Safe city and other large-scale projects in the trial application, but its application prospects are still worth looking forward to.

Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co., Ltd. Product manager Yang Wenzhao that from the perspective of industry application, the current safe city construction, intelligent city security business data storage, large-scale manufacturing enterprise monitoring system, will be the urgent need for cloud storage; In the view of the construction of Ping an city, because of the complex structure of the system, the monitoring scale and the huge amount of storage data , the system has many subsystems, the monitoring system and the business system integration needs, all have higher expectation to the cloud storage. Currently and in the future for some time, large-scale projects for security cloud storage has higher expectations and more urgent needs, and will become the mainstream security cloud storage applications.

For security cloud storage solutions in the professional market for large-scale projects in the first application, Jia all new too Zhang Jinfei think, mainly because these project investment quota is big, the project scale is big, moreover involves the point line surface to be more extensive, produces the data quantity is bigger, therefore to the storage demand also to be bigger, and has the intelligent analysis application and so on higher demand. "These industries, in addition to the size of the cloud storage application of the soil, for video, image data analysis and mining is also more concerned about, and cloud storage can play a higher level of distributed storage and distributed computing characteristics, application-oriented output more valuable data." Therefore, cloud storage in the field of security applications will become a trend. Said the crown of the sea.

Compared with traditional security storage mode, cloud storage brings the main advantages of data processing performance, security, system interoperability and application convenience. Dahua shares Yang Wenzhao that, from the perspective of industry application, the current safe city construction, intelligent city security Business data storage, large enterprise monitoring system, will be more advanced demand cloud storage; In the view of the construction of Ping an city, because of the complex structure of the system, the monitoring scale and the large amount of storage data, The need for the integration of monitoring systems with business systems has higher expectations for cloud storage, so cloud storage gets more opportunities in these scenarios.

In addition, security cloud storage is also expected to the civilian and commercial security market extension. Suzhou Keda Technology Co., Ltd. Marketing Director Zhiqiang that in the short term, the demand for cloud storage will focus on the main market in safe cities, intelligent transportation, finance and other large industries. While the civil market is more concerned about standardized services, the industry market is more concerned about personalized services. With the popularization of network and the increasing demand of mass video sharing, the application scope will be wider.

Challenge Traditional Storage technology architecture

With the massive increase of video information, traditional storage mode is confronted with many challenges: it is difficult to manage and dispatch the massive video, the ability of the large amount of information concurrent read and write encounters the bottleneck of equipment performance, the maintenance difficulty and maintenance cost of massive storage equipment and hard disk are greatly increased;

"In traditional security storage solutions, most of the file system is used to store audio and video data, in the cloud storage mode, the management of data resources and distribution system is the core of file system, at the same time, also faced with storage device management interface is not uniform, file system is easy to damage, data write performance is not high, retrieval efficiency decline and so "Zhejiang Yu-Vision Technology Co., Ltd. Storage product line chief Engineer Balijan pointed out."

And virtualization, distributed cloud storage solutions, can be a good solution to the above problems, and to meet the market for security applications of higher demand. Dahua shares Yang Wenzhao that cloud storage this virtualized business model can solve the business scale, multi-level platform integration, storage performance and security bottlenecks, and can well fill the traditional storage System short board, play the characteristics of distributed storage and distributed computing, oriented to the application side output more valuable data, Bring a better user experience.

Admittedly, most of the cloud storage is still in the early stages of development, because the security of the cloud storage needs, not only a single device data storage, but covers the data storage, management, analysis and application links, and the data is not limited to video or photo files, but also includes pre-built data, streaming media data and other unstructured data, Storage to expand the rich intelligent applications, which requires a unified solution to the overall solution.

At present, each of the DA ' an defense manufacturers also closely combined with the characteristics of video surveillance to launch the corresponding cloud storage solutions, such as the Sea Kang Granville, Dahua shares, such as science and technology, such as large security manufacturers, have launched a unique cloud storage solutions, at the same time, Huawei, Wave, Shuguang and other IT vendors, have launched a cloud storage solution for security. In a growing range of security cloud storage solutions, Keda, Dahua shares, such as technology and other security manufacturers closer to the industry needs, thus more advantages.

With the security IT development continues to deepen, security technology and philosophy is also toward the direction of IT development, cloud storage from the IT field to introduce security, to meet the security industry storage and application needs. Yao Chuo, general manager of the Innovation Technology Center of Guangzhou Jinpeng Group Co., Ltd. expected that the security market will appear more and more cloud storage solutions, and create a richer cloud storage applications, traditional security market pattern or will change dramatically.

Cloud storage to kill into the security market, traditional manufacturers how to challenge?

Obviously, security cloud storage as a large data era of massive security data storage, management and application of innovative means, the scale of the application of cloud storage will be a security storage market innovation, breaking the past to talk about storage only at the level of hardware equipment at the stage, The security storage market will also be upgraded to a more stringent level of storage system requirements. Into the security "cloud" era, to the security industry chain of the various links also put forward new requirements.

In the security big data explosive growth of the present, the demand for intelligent analysis is increasing, the competitiveness of pure hardware vendors is decreasing, and the integrated vendors who can build cloud storage architecture and meet the needs of data analysis and application within the framework of large data architecture will have a better voice in cloud storage solutions. "Soft and hard integration" in vogue, cloud storage also to security manufacturers to put forward a new topic. In this regard, Jia new too Zhang Jinfei pointed out that security cloud storage should also have a matching distributed computing, distributed storage and other solutions; for equipment manufacturers, they must launch relevant solutions as soon as possible, rather than selling hardware equipment, in order to adapt to market development trend and enhance market competitiveness.

The rise of security cloud storage, the challenge to the traditional storage vendors. There is no doubt that the future will be a solution to the cloud storage system, there are already many manufacturers in the market to launch such a solution, which is both an opportunity for storage vendors, but also a challenge. With the development of large security data, the market will pay more attention to the application of data analysis based on cloud storage solution, this requires storage vendors for a large number of data storage, analysis, application to provide support and analysis capabilities, therefore, storage vendors should change the concept as soon as possible, for the special needs of the security industry, assuming that the cloud technology and industry application understanding.

In addition, with the IT and security industry increasingly close, it and Internet enterprises with a lot of cloud storage technology advantages, a strong intervention in the security market, and well fit the security data storage and application needs. At the same time, many manufacturers of security industry, but also in the IT wave of rapid development, it and Internet enterprises to enter the security market, the most important competitor. Therefore, as a cross-border it and Internet enterprises, must understand the characteristics of security, and the introduction of customized industry cloud storage solutions.

"Leading security cloud storage development is still the security vendors, just in this process to prevent the difference between manufacturers and it internet companies in the reduction of the future it, Internet security manufacturers will be more advantages and leadership." Said the crown of the sea.

In addition, security is also an important challenge for security cloud storage systems. Although by encrypting data, tamper-proof, anti-theft access and other technical means, cloud storage can provide better than traditional storage solutions, and through clustering and distributed storage to prevent data loss, to achieve data verification and recovery, multiple copy backup, data center backup, etc., but the data privacy and sharing between the contradictions, The hidden technical hidden behind the system can not be ignored. In this regard, Dahua shares Yang Wenzhao that the full replica and "Erasure Code" technology will be the current response to the threat of an excellent choice.

As security storage and application requirements continue to escalate, security storage technology will continue to evolve, especially in the era of high-definition intelligence, market demand will further promote the development of cloud storage technology and applications. In the security of the trend of it, cloud storage will become the security industry to open the way to the future, the traditional security enterprises will usher in new challenges.