The cost of storage is not just the price of purchasing physical hardware

Most storage managers agree that storage costs are not just the price of buying physical hardware. IT managers often add maintenance costs and the cost of running and managing storage for administrators.   In fact, there are more components to the true cost of storage, and determining the true cost of storage systems requires determining the cost of x capacity to provide a level of Y-level performance to an application. Let's take a look at the cost of providing capacity, for example, if you have an application that requires a net usable capacity of terabytes, how much storage do you need to actually buy to ensure that terabytes of storage? Obviously ...

Cloud storage is not perfect

Many news hype claims that cloud storage is the ultimate goal of a data storage solution, but in fact, cloud storage (also known as managed storage) is not perfect.   If used improperly, the role of cloud storage may outweigh the benefits.   1. Cloud storage: Imperfect secrets about cloud storage. This is not to say that storing data in a cloud service is completely unworkable.   If you know how to properly use cloud services instead of local storage, cloud-based files and data warehouses will create significant value. First, let's look at the drawbacks of cloud storage, which will help you decide ...

The competition between cloud storage is becoming white-hot

With the official release of Microsoft SkyDrive for Ipad/os X, the competition between the cloud storage field is becoming more and more intense. Currently, the main cloud storage service providers in the market are mainly divided into dropbox,skydrive and Apple's icloud three, in addition to the rumored Google Drive.   Then the consumer how to choose, small make bold here to this three cloud storage service provider to do a brief analysis, hope to be able to help everybody. Dropbox Dropbox ...

The cloud storage market is taking a step forward

The cloud storage market is gradually moving forward, and over the past few years the concept of cloud storage has largely remained in the developer domain, using cloud storage as a cheap, on-demand resource for storing data generated in some projects. Now we've seen the cloud begin to be embraced by traditional IT departments as a new way of storage provisioning and usage. By interacting with some vendors and users, we believe that 2011 will be a key year, and that some midsize IT departments and businesses will consider putting cloud storage deployments on the agenda in the year.

The annual composite growth rate of the domestic cloud storage business market will reach 103%

According to market research institutions, in the next few years, the domestic cloud storage business market growth rate will reach 103%. The domestic cloud storage business market will grow from $6.05 million trillion in 2009 to $210 million in 2014. According to market research institutions, in the next few years, the domestic cloud storage business market growth rate will reach 103%.   The domestic cloud storage business market will grow from $6.05 million trillion in 2009 to $210 million in 2014. (Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)

Many personal cloud storage user experience is not good

For most users in the country, there are two requirements for using cloud storage: synchronizing and sharing files, uploading/downloading large files. However, at home, because of the restrictions on the size of a single file, many users complained that free users were severely restricted, even paid users, because the speed of the reason for synchronization of files is not too fast. Plus upload and download wait too long, many personal cloud storage user experience is not good. Several common domestic cloud storage services, including the common products include nearly 10 cloud storage services, Jinshan fast disk, 115 network disk, Huawei Dbank, QQ network disk 、...

What about the "battle situation" of the domestic cloud storage market?

Domestic cloud storage Market has entered the white-hot, the home is to make every effort, the movement repeatedly, the current domestic do network disk although many, but also mixed, from the market occupies, is also the world share, and not a single show. Everyone seems to have not found a good profit model, but also in the stones, a loss yell stage, this is a free reign of the Times, 360 of the success is the best example. There are fees through differentiated services, there are bundled sales through products, as the main product value-added services appear ..., what is the situation of the "war"? Provide differentiated services, take the value-added road ...

Cloud storage software must take advantage of the Internet deployment

The most unfortunate thing about cloud storage is that it is often considered a big grocery store where you can dump any data you might need later. But the truth is, even today, you can use it to do more things. Suppose we want the cloud to dump redundant data somewhere on the Internet, what should you expect the cloud storage software to do? As I've talked about before, cloud storage software can be loaded into your servers and storage to create your own cloud, or it can be placed on a critical cloud storage system that is available. No matter what the software can do, how it can do this ...

The application of virtualization storage technology can save us a lot of money investment

In the storage domain, the application of virtualization storage technology can save us a lot of capital investment, reduce the pressure of enterprises. Through virtualization, users will get rid of the complexity of the underlying physical environment, make full use of storage space based on heterogeneous platform, and realize the effective planning of resources on the basis of openness. Virtualization automates the configuration of storage devices and their space, enabling users to use all of the physically dispersed storage resources within a domain to manage unpredictable events across regions, such as business discontinuities, adjustments to capacity requirements, and employee changes. Regardless of the bit of storage domain where these storage resources are stored ...

Cloud storage management requires accurate predictions

Global data storage is growing at an unpredictable and doubling rate. As companies strive to improve storage performance as they grow rapidly, some companies are looking for cloud storage services as a solution. This is clearly an opportunity for Yu Yun providers, but they also face the risk of cloud storage management problems and flooding data. While many enterprises are considering private cloud storage and other virtualization on-demand storage, only a small number of enterprises have the ability to manage these environments. According to a 2011 by 1000 enterprise Managers commissioned storage vendor em ...

10 steps to choose the right cloud storage service Partner

It is difficult to transfer any system or part of the system to the cloud by one's own power. Choosing the right solution provider is also daunting. Yes, experience is the best teacher, but learning at work has a real-world price. If mistakes are created, those costs can be as big as breaking the company's bottom line. This is detrimental to many it-managed careers. So when it practitioners want to introduce something new to their company, such as cloud-storage partners, it's important to find out what others are doing by doing their homework ahead of time. The good advice that colleagues on the front line put forward is gold. Felix Sa ...

Russian search giant Yandex announces cloud storage service Yandex Disk

Beijing Time March 6, according to CNET reports, Russian search giant Yandex announced the launch of cloud storage services Yandex Disk, the service currently provides 10G free space, supporting PC Windows, Mac OS X, Android, iOS and other system platforms. In addition, Yandex mail attachments can be stored automatically. Yandex is the most popular site in Russia, and currently offers services including search, latest news, maps and encyclopedias, e-mail, e-commerce, internet advertising and ...

Key Technologies for cloud storage

Introduction Cloud Computing (Cloud Computing) is an internet-based Super computing model in which thousands of computers and servers are connected to a cloud of computers in remote data centers. The user uses the computer, the notebook, the handset and so on the way to pick up the data center, according to own demand carries on the computation. There is still no universally agreed definition of cloud computing. Combined with the above definition, we can sum up some essential features of cloud computing, that is, distributed computing and storage characteristics, high scalability, user-friendly, good management. 1 Cloud storage schema orange as storage node (Sto ...)

To enter the high technology threshold and the security of the cloud storage area, Jinshan convincing

Absrtact: The domestic cloud storage service was already a piece of Red Sea as early as 2012, the service provider while burning the money to compete for the user, can in the recent 2013 Global Mobile Internet Conference, the Jin Shanyun President Wang Yulin, who concentrates on cloud storage business, announced that pre Domestic cloud storage services as early as 2012 is already a piece of the Red Sea, service providers while burning money to compete for users, can be in the previous 2013 Global Mobile Internet Conference, focused on cloud storage business Jin Shanyun President Wang Yulin claimed that Jin Shanyun will be profitable in about 3 years. ...

Dropbox can do much more than that.

Dropbox is a very popular cloud storage service. Users use it to store photos, files, and other materials, and access them from computers, cell phones, or other devices. But Dropbox can do much more than that, according to Dropbox founder Drew Houston. 1. Enterprises can replace some it facilities with Dropbox. The Charleston Symphony Orchestra recently stored their email and server data on Dropbox, and then they drove away redundant it maintainers. 2. Dropbox ...

Enterprise-class users build their own private cloud

Now, as data centers are constantly being upgraded and scaled up, many enterprise-class users are building their own private cloud, and the growing demand for private cloud building by users is also driving the cloud provider to expand on the market. As far as EMC is concerned, China is landing a cloud-computing city, but to truly realize the vision of a public cloud, it needs to create a private cloud architecture for enterprise-class data centers.   Therefore, the private cloud construction mature and perfect, to realize the public cloud vision will play a very favorable supporting role. As friends in the storage world have also gradually decentralized high-end storage technology to midrange storage products and solutions ...

Vendors scramble for the cloud storage market

At present, major manufacturers have entered the field of cloud storage, around the cloud storage industry chain, the launch of their own cloud storage services, surging, multifaceted, and the industry also predicted that 2012 is the first year of cloud storage competition. Relative to the major manufacturers in the personal cloud storage market of the Red Sea, enterprise-class cloud storage market is only part of the traditional it vendors concern. Recently, Lenovo Research Institute deputy Dean Du Xiaoli told the "China Electronic newspaper" reporter, in the face of the numerous miscellaneous market, enterprises should have something to do, and the Enterprise cloud storage Market Field competition is basically blank. Vendors compete for cloud storage market mobile interconnection ...

Dell says it is partnering with Nirvanix to launch a cloud storage service

Dell quietly released a message a few days ago, saying it was working with Nirvanix to launch a cloud storage service. But the news is only on Twitter, and there is no official video or news release. Extended URL link-oriented Dell page (http://www.onlywire.com/r/100113920) This PDF is a formal service description, as described below: The Dell-Nirvanix cloud storage-public cloud service is a public, Multi-tenant Staas (S ...)

Cloud storage is a new growth point

Cloud storage, in my opinion, seems easier to understand than cloud computing, is in the application of the time is also relatively easy, but this is a cloud era, the development of storage, there should be a cloud of labels, cloud storage so dressed in a cloud outfit appearance, the entire storage market, cloud storage is emerging as a growth point. Mention cloud storage Now we are familiar with the Apple icloud, Apple in the cloud storage in this regard as predecessors, said to be the predecessor is actually the field of mobile Terminal cloud storage predecessors, based on Apple's cloud storage, many domestic manufacturers began to creatively proposed "cloud hand ..."

Microsoft launches cloud storage service SkyDrive

The August 29 news, according to TechCrunch, earlier this month, Microsoft unveiled a thoroughly redesigned cloud storage service SkyDrive that conforms to the look and feel of the WINDOWS8 Metro user interface. Microsoft also pledged to launch its first official Android version of SkyDrive application soon. Now the app has appeared in Google App store Google Play. This Android app is available with Microsoft Windows Phone version SkyDrive and iOS version Skydri ...

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