Take a look at the "cloud": a brief description of the prosperity of the cloud management

In recent years, the Chinese market can be said that the wind has become a "cloud" surge. As we all know, the "cloud" has been diffused throughout the market in a flash moment. Cloud data, cloud Antivirus, cloud input method, cloud TV, cloud reimbursement, cloud has become a familiar term for people.

Nowadays, "Cloud" has also been pushed to the cusp of the trend of enterprise management and has become one of the hottest topics in corporate management innovation in recent years. In response to the needs of business management, major management software vendors at home and abroad have begun wits, confrontation cloud, all kinds of cloud management software are also scrambling to have introduced, for example, the first year of software in August 2012 launched the first Cloud reimbursement platform.

So, what is the cloud in the end? Why the rise of cloud? Large and disorderly cloud how to manage? How companies can get value from the cloud?

What is the cloud?

The so-called "cloud" is to create "cloud computing" data processing base, is a data collection platform for sharing, that is, data storage, processing, and information delivery and database maintenance space. There are generally broad and narrow points, the generalized cloud is based on the data and information of the entire society, its maintenance and management of virtual computing resources. The narrow sense of the cloud is based on a specific industry or field, according to certain rules and standards of large amounts of data for the maintenance and management of virtual computing resources.

Why business "cloud" explosion?

According to a recent IBM study, the information generated in the past two years accounted for 90% of the total human historical information. This is big data, its volume has reached the traditional database management system can not effectively handle the extent. As business operations expand, so does the volume of data, which has jumped from TB to PB. Research by IDC, a market research firm, also shows that by 2020 the global electronic storage of data will reach 35ZB, which is 40 times the global storage capacity in 2009; and among them, enterprise data is growing at a rate of 55% annually.

Noah first year that it is precisely because of the exponential expansion of the data and the increased demand for data transmission and storage, in the face of the challenges of big data, companies need an automated, scale-out storage platform. Therefore, with the continuous development of cloud technology, massive data growth has spawned a more economical and new data management model - cloud. The reason why it is more economical is that it pays for the part of resources it uses without paying a large sum of IT and labor costs.