Thinking about the N of information security protection in cloud computing era

Cloud computing is an architectural approach to sharing IT infrastructure that allows any privileged user to access shared computing resources over the network, but the cloud services offered by different vendors on the market are not the same or even incompatible due to the lack of industry standards. Over time, the concept of cloud computing continues to expand, covering a wider range of services: The era of cloud computing in all walks of life is coming, according to the China-Wai Electronic Information Industry Development Research Institute recently released the "2011-2015 Cloud computing Industry market Panorama survey and investment assessment in-depth report" Research analysis and forecast data show that 2010 China cloud computing market size reached 16.731 billion yuan, compared to 2009 9.223 billion yuan, an increase of 81.4%, is expected to break through 60 billion in 2012. At present, China's cloud computing industry is on the eve of industry breakthrough. In the next 3-5 years, the cloud computing market will grow at an average annual compound growth rate of 27.4%. The Global cloud services market is expected to reach $55 billion trillion by 2014. Low cost, flexible expansion, on-line timely is the main driving force to choose cloud computing solution. The demand for cloud computing services for small and medium-sized enterprises is greater than for large enterprises with stronger overall strength. 2011, Small and medium-sized Enterprises cloud computing market space will exceed large enterprise market. As of 2010, only 7% of SMEs used cloud computing services.

Cloud storage is the storage part of cloud computing, a virtualized, easily extensible pool of storage resources. Cloud storage means that storage can serve as a service that is available to users over the network. There are several ways in which users can use storage and pay by usage. The domestic cloud storage market has developed rapidly in recent years, according to a study from Springboardresearch. The domestic market for cloud storage services will grow rapidly from $6.05 million trillion in 2009 to $208.54 million in 2014. All kinds of medium-sized enterprises or other organizations will become the first round of large-scale use of cloud storage services in central, including all kinds of manufacturing enterprises. Springboard companies believe that reducing TCO and simple and rapid implementation are the main drivers of the entire cloud storage market. Limited IT budgets and investments focused on the core business will make midsize enterprises the source of the driving force for the first wide adoption of cloud storage services. The use of cloud storage services will help these business owners effectively reduce the investment in Fixed assets (CAPEX) and protect the capital flow of enterprises. In the cloud storage service providers, traditional hosting service providers will become market advocates, who will tend to invest more in cloud storage services and repackage their existing hosting services. High potential demand for cloud storage is brewing in sectors such as transportation, manufacturing and utilities.

"There will be high potential demand for cloud storage services in China's transportation, manufacturing, utilities and energy sectors," according to Springboard's report. The cloud storage service will attract customers to deal with multiple-area, multiple-industry customers. Public utilities and Energy customers will gradually adopt cloud storage services, encouraged by government policies. The cloud storage service provides it with adequate storage technical support and reduces onsite deployment equipment and maintenance costs. For manufacturing, cloud storage services provide customers with the latest storage technology and the ability to seamlessly connect to existing applications. Manufacturing customers, especially those who do not yet have a mature data center and have expensive it costs to maintain the information management of production systems, will have high potential requirements for cloud storage services. "The domestic cloud storage market demand is very large, enterprises need not only the cloud storage services, but also the need for system cloud storage solutions, the current domestic manufacturers do not do well in this respect, and some foreign manufacturers have put forward their own solutions, which is worth our learning."

Cloud storage has become a trend for future storage development, at present, cloud storage vendors are combining various kinds of search technology, application technology and cloud storage to provide a series of data services to enterprises, but the future development trend of China's cloud storage market will mainly be from the direction of security, portability and data access.

But we must also see. Despite the advantages of cloud computing and cloud storage, government departments, businesses and organizations are still concerned about the choice of cloud computing services. A number of surveys show that the potential security risk of cloud computing is the main resistance to the deployment of cloud platform, and the security of cloud storage is one of the main reasons hindering the popularization of the code. For now, the cloud computing industry is still in its infancy, and companies cannot deliver full trust to service providers. Over time, cloud computing technology will gradually mature, enterprise acceptance level will continue to improve. The market recognition of cloud computing in the next few years is expected to increase more than 30%. The most notable is the security of cloud storage. Since the day the cloud was born, security has been one of the primary considerations for companies to implement cloud computing, as well as security for cloud storage, which is often the primary business consideration and technical consideration for customers who want to cloud storage. However, many users have more security requirements for cloud storage than they can provide for their architecture. Even so, in the face of such unrealistic and high security requirements, many large cloud storage vendors are working to build more secure data centers and to build encryption layers and layers comparable to the NSA to protect data in storage.

The rapid development of cloud computing business model will have an important impact on China's IT industry, especially in many fields including the footsteps data cloud storage architecture and its security, thus creating a new prospect of cloud storage security. In the next 5 years, the cloud computing and related cloud storage security services market will maintain a high growth trend.

Cloud storage can be more secure and convenient to store and manage the massive data stored in each system, especially to facilitate timely and comprehensive, in-depth analysis of the data in the system, for the Government, organizations and enterprises in the fierce market competition insight into the opportunity, according to market demand for timely adjustment of development strategy, For strategic investors to choose the right strategic planning provides accurate information and scientific decision-making basis, therefore, cloud storage is of great significance.

Therefore, it is important to develop the security protection system of cloud storage for the above requirements. Taking the security solution of cloud manufacturing platform as the starting point, solving the problem of data storage security, and then popularizing to the common cloud storage service, as a starting point, it is an urgent problem to provide security for the cloud storage service in more fields.

1, the development of cloud computing has become a new hot

Cloud computing technology Innovation is the new information industry technological revolution, has become the future development direction of information industry, many countries in the world are developing cloud computing research and development strategy. In September 2009, the Obama administration announced that it would implement a long-term cloud-computing policy in the hope of using virtualization to compress U.S. government spending. Japan plans to build a cloud infrastructure called Kasumigaseki Cloud. In China's "Twelve-Five" planning of the next generation of information technology industry focus on the direction of development, including cloud computing and other 10 industries; "Strengthening cloud computing service platform Construction" is an important measure to build the future information infrastructure. In December 2009, IDC's top ten forecasts for the IT and telecoms industry pointed out that cloud computing will expand and mature, with many new public cloud hotspots, private cloud services, cloud applications and services linking public clouds to private clouds. "In 2 years, more big Chinese companies will use cloud computing and will rise from 43% to 88%," Accenture's 2010 Cloud computing research report said. In recent years, China's cloud computing industry will develop rapidly. "According to IDC forecasts, from the end of 2009 to the end of 2013, four years, cloud computing will bring the global revenue of 800 billion dollars of new business, for China to bring more than 1.105 trillion yuan of new business revenue."

Cloud computing is favored and recognized by users because of its cost base, high resource utilization, fast return and low management overhead. In the world, cloud computing technology industry development is very active. Since 2007, the industry's focus on cloud computing research, discussion and related products has been rising. Numerous international IT companies have launched their own cloud computing offerings, such as IBM's WebSphere Cloudburst Appliance (WCA), Amazon's Amazon simple Storage Service (S3), Google's Google App Engine (age), Salesforce.corn Company's "Software as a service" concept and Force.corn platform, Microsoft's Windows Azure platform and so on. Compared with the rapid development of foreign cloud computing technology, China's technology and products lag behind obviously. -Aspect, our country needs to invest the technical force to carry on the research of the independent cloud computing, another aspect, more important is our country needs to quickly grasp the cloud computing core Security question, provides the practical technical guarantee for the cloud computing application in our country.

Cloud storage is an important component of cloud computing, which refers to storage and storage-related services provided by cloud storage service providers, which need to store local data over the network in an online storage stroke provided by the storage service provider (Storage service PROVIDER,SSP). Users who need storage services no longer need to set up their own data centers, simply request storage services from the SSP, thereby avoiding duplication of storage platforms and saving expensive hardware and software infrastructure investments. Cloud storage services are currently the most mature cloud computing services, many international companies have launched a cloud storage products, including Amazon's Cloud Drive, Goaglestorage, Apple icloud, Microsoft SkyDrive and so on. In 2013, the growth rate of cloud storage services is expected to exceed all other cloud services, according to IDC survey data. Over the next four years, the market share of cloud storage will grow from 9% to 14%, meaning that the market for cloud storage will be close to $6.2 billion trillion. In 2010, the IT marketing consultancy, Springboard study, published the China Cloud Storage Services report (Chinese Cloud Storage services), which shows that in the next 5 years, China's cloud storage services market will grow at an annual compound rate of 103% per cent. Springboard that China's cloud-storage services market will grow rapidly from $6.05 million trillion in 2009 to $210 million in 2014. December 2009. "Cloud computing will expand and mature, with many new public cloud hotspots, private cloud services, cloud applications and services that combine the public cloud with the private cloud," said the top ten 2010 forecasts for the IT and telecoms industry published by IDC, the Internet Data Center. The

Cloud storage is a trend of future storage development, cloud storage has become the major international IT companies strategic development focus. Today, cloud storage vendors are combining various types of search, application technology, and cloud storage to provide a range of data services to the enterprise. Cloud storage has now been supported and focused by many vendors. Amazon launches resilient block storage (EBS) technology to support data persistence storage, Google launches online storage services gdrive, content distribution Network service provider CDNetworks and cloud storage platform provider Nirvanix Strategic partnership, Provides an integrated platform for cloud storage and content delivery services, EMC buys Berkeley Data Bae, acquires Mozy online service software for the company, operates SaaS Business, Microsoft launches Windows Azure, and the creation of large data centers across the United States, IBM also has the cloud computing standards as part of the Global Backup Center expansion program.

At the same time, cloud storage in China also began to develop gradually, not only international IT companies in China to carry out cloud storage business, many Chinese companies also gradually launched cloud storage products. For example, the cloud storage service has just received $20 million trillion in funding, and Huawei has a 16GB cloud storage space for its platform computers. China Telecom also plans to officially operate cloud storage services in 2012. In general, the cloud storage services market in central is starting to grow and the market prospects are huge.

(Responsible editor: Liu Fen)