The little things in the cloud-storage market ....

"Zhong Yun net original" according to a recent study published by market research firm IDC, public cloud service providers ' spending on storage hardware, software and professional services will grow at an average rate of 23.6% per year from 2010 to 2015. The global public cloud and private cloud storage will reach $22.6 billion trillion by 2015, said Richard Villars, vice president of IDC's Storage systems and implementation strategy. The cloud storage market is a tempting prospect.

Cloud storage services really started to become an industry hotspot in 2009, and Nirvanix and Amazon S3 Services were the typical representatives. Since then, many large manufacturers have entered this field, there are Microsoft, Rackspace, Google and so on. From then on, the cloud storage market entered the Warring States period.

Why do many IT companies covet cloud storage? Why does cloud storage have the advantage of being a pastry-like? The author tries to do the discussion:

One is low cost, no need to build a higher cost storage system.

Second, has the management superiority, the maintenance task all is completes by the supplier, and the expansibility is stronger.

Third, it can be customized, cloud service providers specifically for a single enterprise customers to provide a tailored cloud storage service solution, or can be the enterprise's own IT organizations to deploy a set of private cloud services architecture.

Of course, cloud storage also has deficiencies, in security, stability, network access speed aspects of a certain problem, and data ownership is user considerations. In addition, for domestic enterprises, their concept is more accustomed to spend money to buy hardware products rather than services. Therefore, in the domestic promotion there is a conceptual threshold.

Acquisition and financing in the cloud storage sector

Compared with the domestic, the foreign cloud storage market more active, faster development. As the cloud storage market heats up, more and more companies are moving into the cloud storage market, leading to a recent takeover battle in the cloud storage market. While large enterprises to acquire cloud storage vendors, small enterprises are also financing to expand the market size.

-According to foreign media reports, Red hat Tuesday (October 4) made a bold decision to enter the storage software market, the acquisition of cloud storage software company Gluster. Gluster's clients currently include Pandora, Box.net and Samsung Electronics.

--The computer network software manufacturer Citrix System has bought enterprise cloud storage service provider Sharefile, but did not disclose the specific amount.

-Beijing Time October 12 News, "Mobile new discovery" reported that cloud storage service provider Box.net today announced that the company has just completed the fourth round of financing. In this round of financing, Box.net raised 81 million of dollars of funds, in addition to the previous investors, the fourth round of financing of investors also include Grace Investment (New Enterprise Associates) and Pak Venture capital company (Bessemer Venture ).

-On the evening of October 18, US online storage service provider Dropbox confirmed that a second round of funding had been carried out with a scale of 250 million dollars. This round of financing is led by VC Company Index Ventures, and has benchmark capital, Goldman Sachs, Greylock, institutional Venture, RIT Participants and new investors such as Valiant Capital. The Sequoia capital, Hadi Patovi (Hadi partovi) and Ari Patovi (Ali Partovi), who had previously been involved in the investment, also took part in the round of financing.

The domestic cloud-storage market is relatively calm, with more home-built platforms, pushing cloud services, or moving from networked storage to cloud storage services. But still by some manufacturers to win the favor of VCs, such as cool plate.

Cool disk from the venture to the DCM department to obtain a total of 20 million dollars in a huge sum of financing. Like Dropbox, cool disks also support multiple platforms including clients, Web sites and mobile phone access, synchronizing files. User registration can get 5GB of free storage space, each invite a friend can also be given 1GB space.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)