Industry Analysis: Cloud storage sneaks in the era of big data

Cloud storage and cloud computing have the same features in terms of agility, scalability, and multi-tenancy, and the advantages of this model are also obvious: Payment is simple, users only need to pay for the capacity they actually use; enterprises no longer rely on Physical equipment in its own data center avoids the purchase of additional storage devices; it reduces backup and replication maintenance burdens and costs.

However, there are many potential problems with cloud storage. First, the sensitive data is stored in the cloud storage provider. Its security and reliability make many companies still doubt the cloud storage. Moreover, many companies are still accustomed to buying hardware rather than services from the traditional point of view. Many large companies and government agencies have their own data centers.

Second, because customers spend differently on WAN bandwidth, the performance of cloud storage may be lower than that of local storage, coupled with the current lack of advanced network construction in the country, etc. These factors all constrain the development of cloud storage.

At the same time, with the increase in data content, large companies have begun to consider issues related to PB-level data. The problem is that all of this data is not only costly to keep, but it is also increasingly difficult to quickly and easily transfer data from storage to the server. Therefore, companies have been investing in technologies such as virtualization and cloud storage that can help them simplify the overall IT architecture, reduce costs, and use storage effectively.

Those companies that want to save petabytes of data will need to use cloud solutions to meet their needs, because they face the limitations that traditional physical storage may bring.