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With the impact of tablets, smartphones and solid-state drives, the global hard disk market in 2013 was down 12% from 2012. 2013 sales are expected to be 32.7 billion U.S. dollars, and 2012 is 37.1 billion U.S. dollars, 2014 will continue to shrink to 32 billion U.S. dollars. Fang Zhang, IHS Storage systems analyst, said: The 2013 HDD industry will face enormous challenges. Desktop PCs will be shipped down and laptops will be hit by smartphones and tablets. SSD prices continue to fall, which will also take away a portion of the hard drive market. ...

2013, a remarkable year, in this year can be said that the cloud storage market development has risen to a certain degree, it can be said that cloud storage fashion has developed into a transit point, during the year there are many cloud storage products were born and rapid development, these products in the file sharing is gradually accepted by many enterprises, and has begun to be widely used by enterprises. 2 billion dollars in the market game! Revealing future cloud storage many vendors such as Box, Dropbox and Citrix Sharefile have been raising money and adding new security work ...

In the Enterprise storage arena, Lenovo is working with EMC to fight the world and has achieved a decent record. At the recent CES show, Lenovo stands for home and personal cloud storage solutions beacon. Do not hear the solution, cloud storage These words feel very complex, in fact this is the NAS. Lenovo Cloud storage solution Beacon Lenovo has launched a mobile phone called Beacon 08, but that was a long time ago, and it has little to do with the beacon currently on display at CES. It is reported that Lenovo at CES ...

January 31 News, with the rapid development of mobile Internet, intelligent terminals continue to introduce new, the choice of electronic digital products are more and more. But in the face of numerous and complicated, often on the data of G, how to choose a sharp cloud disk has become a major concern for most users of the topic. It is a difficult problem to ensure the privacy of data transfers while also synchronizing real-time between smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktops. In order to let you understand the differences between the different clouds, the small set deliberately selected the market to mobile phone operators mainly three hot products for a horizontal evaluation. ...

Now, managers provide different workloads to end users, regardless of what hardware they are trying to manipulate and where to consume data from.   In addition to server virtualization, new virtualization technologies go into modern data centers, including security virtualization, Application Virtualization, desktop virtualization, user virtualization, storage virtualization, and more. By controlling data, applications, and even desktops in data centers, administrators can provide a secure look and feel for end users. By consolidating flexible virtualization-ready solutions, data center administrators suddenly have more available ...

Microsoft has officially unveiled a new cloud storage service, OneDrive, which not only adds new features like automatic uploading of Android devices, but also provides 100GB of cloud storage space for users, according to foreign media PC World. Microsoft's official launch of OneDrive (a picture from digital Trends) is reported to have changed its name to SkyDrive as it was ruled by British courts to violate BSkyB's Sky brand trademark. The newly released OneDrive except for the SkyDrive ...

is direct-attached storage obsolete? Direct-attached storage is what we often call Das (direct-attached storage), usually the storage media that is installed inside the server or installed in an expansion enclosure directly connected to the server. There must be a fixed binding connection between the DAS storage and the server, so there is no network structure between them, but direct data read and write. Das has been considered a inefficient structure in the way servers and storage are connected, and it is not convenient for data protection. Direct-attached storage cannot be shared, so often out of ...

Object Storage Startups scality add their storage to Hadoop, allowing users to avoid loading data through Hadoop's own file system. They also launched a plug-in for cinder--'s block storage layer in the OpenStack project. The ring is an object storage infrastructure based on a set of X86 server nodes that stores objects instead of files or blocks, and can operate in parallel. Scality offers a "production-level Hadoop storage Implementation" using cdmi--developed and promoted by SNIa ...

Welcome to the New year, many of the domestic network has launched its own new version, then, the performance of these new versions? What new surprises will they bring to us in the new Year? In this article, small series on the Huashan on the sword, the current domestic most popular cool plate, Jinshan fast, Baidu network disk and 360 network plate for a round of horizontal evaluation. Since the current domestic network capacity has been up to TB level, so the project we are evaluating will not include capacity evaluation. So when the tyrants capacity of the tide past, users are concerned about what? Must be the user experience! In this article we only focus on the most closely related work of the user experience ...

Dropbox is a reliable stand-alone file synchronization tool, the total number of users recently also exceeded the 100 million mark, and the current daily users upload the number of files saved, more than 100 million. It is also recognized as the most popular cloud service. One of the big features of Dropbox cloud storage is ease of use-no need to ignore it once the setup is complete. But if you dig deep, you'll find that the app is more fun than you think. A website has announced 10 tips a few days ago, can let you shake the body to become Dropbox master: 1. Get as much free space as possible Dro ...

Why would you consider using cloud-computing storage services for at least some of your data and applications? Well, unless you've been living an isolated life for the last six years, you're bound to have a deep understanding of the benefits of cloud computing storage. Public cloud computing can bring significant economic benefits because you only need to pay for the resources you need and use, saving the cost of new storage systems and the space, energy, and cooling costs needed to accommodate and run the system. The unlimited virtual capacity offered by most vendors can be cost-effective for your data storage ...

Enterprise business is rapidly shifting to cloud-based storage. Most of these people are managers or above, and they all think that cloud is a key factor, and that cloud and related applications will bring huge benefits to the business. 1. Public, private cloud development researchers say the proportion of users using public and private clouds is roughly the same, with 37% and 35% respectively. Oddly enough, only 7% of the users who use cloud storage use the public cloud and the private cloud, which is what we normally call a hybrid cloud. Now, more and more cloud service providers develop hybrid cloud ...

Microsoft's new CEO, Nadra, says Microsoft will become a "mobile first, Cloud first" company, which means that Microsoft's various cloud services will be upgraded and strengthened. The latest news is that Microsoft's cloud storage service, after using the new brand OneDrive, will significantly increase free storage space while adding a number of new features. Microsoft's cloud storage currently uses the SkyDrive brand, but because Microsoft was forced to give up the brand in a trademark dispute with BSkyB, the new name would be one Drive. At present, Microsoft Official ...

Note: Alex Gobanski (Alex Gorbansky) is Docurated's chief executive officer and co-founder. "I" in the text is Alex Gobanski. I've been focusing on the enterprise storage industry since 2000, first as a Loudcloud customer/end user, then as an EMC vendor, now as an independent analyst, but anyway, I've always been concerned about the industry. The development momentum of the cloud storage market seems to be in between EMC, HDS, NetApp, and Veritas.

In the digital age, your files and memories will no longer really belong to you, they belong to the cloud. Once upload, never owned Kerl Gudwin want to take back their own things. One day he decided to set up a company to shoot local sporting events in Ohio. For a while his business was good, but what happened next made him furious. To preserve the precious images they had taken, Goodwin put them in the cloud, the most popular storage facility. The tragedy is that, January 19, 2012, all these assets are in the balance ...

February 5, IBM in the overseas start a series of heavyweight storage and server product line, in the industry caused a lot of repercussions. On the day before the Spring festival in ZDNet, "So many voices," wired to IBM Systems and technology Department of Storage Products division of Greater China Strategy and marketing manager Mr. Wu, CBSI Enterprise Solutions Center, the chief analyst Zhang Guangbin to his online visit. At the same time, Mr. Wu said that in order to give users a hands-on experience of the actual technology display opportunities, IBM will be held on March 7 2013 IBM Wisdom Cloud Storage Peak Network forum. For this ...

Into the 2013, the explosion of large data and the development of mobile internet, making cloud storage services become an indispensable part of people's work, life, review of the entire cloud storage market, traditional service providers and major Internet companies compete, from the space capacity has been extended to the user experience, data sharing. According to the latest statistics, 360 cloud disk total number of registered users has exceeded 160 million, the average monthly maintenance of 12 million new registered user growth, ranked first in the industry, and set the largest number of users, the largest space, security, the best cloud storage service providers, the best user experience in the industry's top five. ...

Last week, Dropbox's 8 billion-dollar valuation was once a hot topic, and the driving factor behind it was 4 million enterprise-class service clients. But not all enterprise-class users can use Dropbox services. More strictly, in some industries that are more sensitive to data security, such as medical, financial and other industries, it is not allowed to store data on a third cloud service provider's server, not only for Dropbox. What about the data storage of these enterprises? From the Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator graduated from the start-up company Aerofs ...

At present, a variety of personal cloud storage services have emerged, so that more users can enjoy the documents, pictures, videos and other content in the cloud storage and sharing.  Compared with the traditional storage mode, cloud storage is undoubtedly more convenient, no need to carry any hardware devices, as long as there is a network can access the cloud storage files, and can be shared remotely with friends. West count My Cloud personal cloud storage Western data as one of the well-known brands in the storage industry, launched its latest personal cloud storage solutions My could series, my Cloud series ...

Christmas is on the rise, with discounts and perks, and Microsoft recently sent a Christmas gift to Windows Phone users. Yesterday, Microsoft emailed some Windows Phone users, giving them a year of 20GB SkyDrive space, according to promotional emails, click on promotional links before January 31, 2014 to fill 20GB space, plus skydrive default 7GB free capacity, Can be stacked up to 27GB. However, not all Windows Ph ...