Yahoo plans to launch cloud computing storage System--mobstor

As an emerging technology that promises to slash costs, cloud computing is increasingly being sought after by industry vendors, including Amazon, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Yahoo, EMC and Google, among other big it vendors. Now, with the gradual deepening of cloud computing concepts, cloud Computing's advantages in maximizing resources, quantifying it costs, and achieving broader information delivery have been recognized by most users. There is no doubt that cloud computing is becoming an important development trend in the IT industry, and its impact will gradually permeate the industry as well as the users ' applications. So what are the chances of cloud computing for domestic IT companies and users?
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According to the news, Yahoo plans to launch a cloud computing storage System--mobstor, the company called it "for the internet to build a unstructured storage system."

Yahoo Senior Product Manager Navenite John Jahe (Navneet joneja) compares mobstor with existing cloud computing storage systems. He says Facebook's haystack system is primarily optimized for image storage, while Mobstor is optimized for the various storage needs of users.

It is reported that Mobstor based on rest (state of expression) architecture design, is accessible through the browser application interface, with a simple security model, storage content is not known function. The service's outstanding performance is able to carry out fast, reliable and secure storage, and to provide users with core services based on the implementation of multi-level services. It is reported that Mobstor is optimized for performance and applicability.

The following is an introduction to the service by the Yahoo Developer Web blog:

Facebook's haystack is based on bulk storage design. Mobstor also supports bulk storage, but it does not fully require this design. Instead, Mobstor has a storage-layer abstraction that we call ObjectStore. ObjectStore contains the core storage operations we need to do, which allows us to have many basic physical object stores. For example, this enables us to combine bulk storage with file storage. The storage top layer has routing intelligence and determines that ObjectStore is stored as a specified segment of data. Haystack determines that each object is through a 64-bit picture key, and that all objects on the mobstor are obtained through a logical URL rather than an object ID.

On Mobstor, the storage layer maps the logical URL and physical storage, and all execution can be done at the storage layer. Needless to say, this operation has potential performance bottlenecks, so we have carefully optimized the algorithms and hardware used.

Cloud computing will have a profound impact on Internet applications, product application patterns, and the direction of it product development.

First, cloud computing will give the internet greater meaning and, to some extent, change the way Internet companies operate, and through cloud computing, more apps can be delivered and run as Internet services. One of the pioneers of cloud computing-Google even insists that almost all software applications in the future can be moved to the Internet to replace software with services.

Second, cloud computing will expand the application of IT hardware and software products, and change the application mode of hardware and software products. At present, the industry has a very popular saying, the cloud model is likened to power plant centralized power supply model. In other words, through cloud computing, users can get the application environment or application itself without having to buy a new server, not to deploy the software. For users, hardware and software products will no longer need to be deployed around the user, these products are no longer exclusive to the user's own products, but become an available, virtual resources.

Furthermore, the direction of development of IT products will change to accommodate both of these changes. Intel has said that future technology development will be associated with the application in the cloud, Intel designed the server platform to adapt to this change, the technology development goals will also add to the "cloud" new content, IBM to cloud computing is a heavy note, and this is named "Blue Cloud" plan. In addition, there are now even a dedicated device for cloud computing applications released, known as the "cloud computing computer."

To sum up, cloud computing as an application model, its emergence and application of the scope of the gradual expansion of the industrial chain will have a significant impact on the downstream.