Will cloud storage be faster and better but will it cost more cheaply?

2012 Cloud Storage Development trends

Today, many people think that the era of cloud computing has come, and the traditional storage industry will be the brutal replacement of cloud storage. More and more enterprise CIOs and IT managers have moved enterprise data to the cloud, which can be said to be a big bet.

So far, cloud storage has not lived up to expectations. Although its development is a bit slow, it is mainly the question of the security of cloud storage. One of the main reasons is that people's concept of cloud is not fully formed, to see things can not touch is always hard to believe, and today many of the cloud is built to use the old technology, in terms of security is not better than the internal enterprise. At the same time, the integrity of cloud-store providers remains to be confirmed, and so on, and so on, which now creates skepticism about cloud computing.

And since 2012, more and more small and medium-sized enterprises have begun to move their corporate data to the cloud, mainly because they had less investment in enterprise IT equipment, so the transfer caused a relatively small amount of trouble. And the growth of enterprise data and cloud security is gradually recognized to enable enterprises to start using cloud storage.

But the majority of companies moving into the cloud are not the public cloud of choice, but the private cloud approach, but the construction of private clouds does not save the amount of money that is imagined.

And the public cloud can provide great cost-benefit computer resource sharing, low cost, support multi-user use, can save more cost than private cloud. In large enterprises, the hybrid cloud is respected, and the hybrid cloud is simply understood to be a hybrid storage system formed by the private cloud of the enterprise, coupled with a limited use of the public cloud. It is hard for large companies to use the public cloud in 100%, so the hybrid cloud is the best solution for them at the moment.

Cloud storage will be better and faster, but not necessarily cheaper.

As cloud computing grows, people become smarter, forcing cloud storage providers to constantly upgrade their services. More and more customers are aware that the cloud is not closed, and they are beginning to want to know more about the details of the cloud storage, including where the data is hosted. How is data security protected? What's the cost? And so on, so that service providers are not constantly upgrading their performance.

Cloud storage providers want to disclose the least amount of information, but customers are aware of this behavior, and they ask providers for information such as storage logs, performance hints, and so on, which greatly increases the transparency of cloud storage. Service providers have to consider how to respond faster, better service customers, and when the enterprise users really understand the product, then the application is not far away.

Private cloud does not save you too much money, but it can improve your utilization, make your device more efficient, the cloud does not need to replace the data center, but only need to store and enrich your data.

Also, cloud storage can provide you with storage space more quickly than the raw data store, which is why businesses are starting to deploy more private clouds to cope with sudden data bursts and computer performance needs to improve.

As cloud storage technology matures and people become more aware, cloud storage servers will be better, and storage will be faster, but the main private cloud is now more deployed, so it's not too cheap in terms of cost. But cloud storage must be the best destination for future data resources.