Recently, the public beta of Alibaba Cloud Disk has attracted much attention, and it has announced several principles to the outside world: unlimited speed, privacy and security.
What surprises the outside world is that why Ali is still making a cloud disk product at this time node?
User needs are the most direct reason - people's demand for cloud storage has not been fully satisfied. Cloud disk products in the market have one or more shortcomings in terms of storage capacity, transmission speed, functional experience, and privacy protection.
Today’s corporate communication tools, such as DingTalk, Feishu, etc., not only integrate corporate web disk services, but also support document sharing and online collaboration. The web disk services in office scenarios have been met to a certain extent; however, web disks are still Has its irreplaceable product status. People’s demand for file storage and sharing will gradually increase and become diversified with the development of IoT and digitalization
What is unique about the safe planet cloud disk?
If you are a senior user of online disk, then 2016 must be an unforgettable year. Internet disk services such as 360 online disk, Sina micro disk, and Thunder fast disk have announced the closure. Now three or four years have passed. In addition to the old online disks such as Baidu, 115 personal disks, and OneDrive , there are also many emerging forces such as Cow Express, Uncle Wen, Teambition and other online disks appearing in front of our eyes. The long-standing online storage market has blossomed, so what is unique about the security planet launched at this time?
It is well known that cloud disks have high requirements for bandwidth, storage, and servers. Alibaba Cloud Disk is based on its own Alibaba Cloud, and Safe Planet provides cloud services by AWS .
How does AWS compare to Alibaba Cloud?
As the originator of cloud computing, AWS has absolute leadership in technology and market. Some people like to say that elementary school students (Ali) and professors ( AWS ). It is because of AWS powerful infrastructure to provide, secure and high-speed stability planet can be done to maximize the use of bandwidth for 13 Ge 9 data persistence, that goal is " 100 Yi-second video memory 100 years, there may be Lost in 1 second". AWS nodes all over the world can still guarantee a stable access speed in multinational office scenarios.
What does Safe Planet use to protect user data privacy and security?
Naturally, from the perspective of cloud disk users, the fluency of uploading and downloading is currently a major core pain point. Service providers including Alibaba Cloud Disk have proposed to protect user data privacy, but they cannot avoid data leakage caused by man-made data such as big data analysis of user data to seek commercial value.
The security planet team Slogan calls "return cloud storage to its essence". Unlimited speed is just to unlock the user's key. What really allows users to own the digital world is security. After all, no one wants their privacy to spread across the Internet in a few seconds. .
In order to protect user data privacy, Safe Planet uses end-to-end encryption technology .
Take Zoom as an example: As the most popular video conferencing software in the world, its server stores a large amount of business and personal privacy data. There was a serious incident of leaking user data last year, but then Zoom introduced an end-to-end encryption technical solution to effectively prevent data leakage.
End-to-end encryption is a terminal-based data privacy protection scheme. User data encryption and key generation are performed on computers and mobile phones, and as a server, only ciphertexts are stored without keys. Therefore, even the service provider itself cannot decrypt it. If the server is compromised, the *** can only get meaningless garbled codes. The user can restore the data and use it normally with the key.
It can be said that end-to-end encryption can fundamentally solve the problem of data leakage, but it is also a double-edged sword. Service providers cannot control user data, and it is difficult to use these data for commercial value. Although end-to-end encryption has not yet become mainstream, I believe it will have a place in the future. If you are interested, you may wish to try a safe planet.
Regarding the network disk, we deserve more choices
The iiMedia Consulting Report in August 2020 shows that the scale of cloud storage service users is gradually increasing and is expected to reach 400 million by the end of 2020. In July 2020, the number of active people on "Baidu Netdisk" was 39.872 million, while the second place "Tencent Weiyun" was only 4.374 million-the second place was only about one-tenth of the first place.
We have experienced and even evaluated many online disks, so why are we still looking for new ones?
The reason is simple: other online disks are still far away from "Baidu Online Disk". Although the download speed limit of "Baidu Netdisk" made us complain, it also brought us comprehensive content resources, convenient user experience, relatively reliable cloud storage, and rich third-party support. This makes it seem that when I use other online disks, I am more of supplementing the deficiencies in the use of "Baidu Internet Disk" rather than replacing it.
Is it possible for Safe Planet or Alibaba Cloud Disk to take its place and become our main network disk?
It may be too early to discuss this issue, but there is no doubt that whether it is Safe Planet or Alibaba Cloud Disk, they have brought us a fresh experience, fast transmission speed, stable transmission performance, and more in line with 5G. The positioning of the times and the management of privacy protection. The various convenient functions that will be launched in the future make us look forward to it.
Maybe there is no online disk that has absolute advantages over other online disks, but as users, we certainly hope that the online disk that carries our work and study can be more convenient, more practical, more stable, safer, and able to accompany you. We go longer.