How long will the free storage last?
Kingsoft Sina offline network disk, Baidu Cloud leaked user privacy, 360 speed limit, Tencent Weiyun adjusted some functions. In the past, the space was given to you to play, but now all kinds of tricks make you worry. Why does personal free storage make it difficult to ride a tiger today?
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The personal network disk storage that grabs users to send space
is actually not a new product. It has already started in foreign countries in 2002, and there are similar products in China in 2007, but they have not been made. The reason why it is so popular after c2c (copy to china) is mainly because dropbox is listed with a market value of 22 billion US dollars. Making domestic bigwigs jealous, dropbox started to decline all the way last year, and the future is worrying.In 2013, the free space war was on the verge of breaking out, and more than 10 online disks successively announced to give away huge space , ranging from a few terabytes to infinite space. Then these companies that make online disks are big and small, but they have operated online disks for less than 2 years. Basically, they started pk just after they made products, fighting each other and grabbing users.
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High resource cost and
storage requirements With the popularization of various smart devices, the electronic requirements for corporate offices are getting higher and higher. It can be said that the more advanced the society, the more things need to be stored. However, the resources required for storage are higher than those of general products.Here is a comparison with 360 antivirus software. 360 free anti-virus software, the Chinese brand of "software is free" to the extreme depths. Compared with other antivirus software products, 360 Antivirus is free. Aside from other things, the cost of the 360 antivirus software server is actually not high. The server only needs to do a good job of the interface, provide resource download, etc.
The difference between the network disk and storage is that each person has a few T, and everyone has private information such as photos. There are not many things to deduplicate, and the compression ratio of photos is not large. Basically it's real storage, to keep it safe, at least 1 backup. The optical storage is at least zb (1Zb=1000Pb=1000000Tb) level. It is also necessary to provide corresponding bandwidth for users to access, to do CDNs all over the country , etc., and so on, any one of them comes out, this price is not affordable for ordinary enterprises Got it. Especially when you have to give it all for free.
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I can't find the profit point
. Looking at BAT on the Internet in China, as long as things are lively, BAT must be there. The online disk is Baidu Cloud , which is undoubtedly the number one personal online disk in China. Tencent Weiyun has always been relatively low-key, and now it is mainly related to QQ . Integrated , no special highlights. After Ali acquired Kupan, it stopped the personal online disk business early and switched to Alibaba Cloud , DingTalk and other enterprise services. The best Kingsoft Express was sold to Xunlei early to become Kingsoft Cloud. Other small factories have basically no sound.
At present, no matter which network disk is free, the data stored by individuals has a high degree of privacy. Baidu Cloud almost made headlines for leaking user photo privacy. There are even non-favorites who take advantage of this feature to start illegal transactions. Policies in this regard will become increasingly tight. Taking this opportunity to close the service is also a wise move.
How long can you keep free storage? When you save a photo of a t and upload it, he said that he would charge a fee of 100 a year. Do you want it or not?
How to store corporate documents.
Let's talk about the storage of corporate files. Corporate files are not like individuals. What individuals store is their own things. What an enterprise needs to store are all corporate things, most of which are used for archiving, sharing or distributing to customers. At the same time, enterprises pay more attention to security and sharing.
With the popularity of personal network disks, enterprise network disks also began to be paid attention by enterprises at the same time. Box went public last year with a market value of $2.2 billion. Become the vane of enterprise network disk.
There are a lot of domestic imitators, the big one is Lenovo Box , and the small one is Yifangyun . Basically, it mimics the box exactly as it is. However, it does not seem to be popular in the country. Among them, Lenovo’s network disk invested the most, and then the market response was flat. Yifangyun is still in the investment stage, and the end is unknown.
Then private cloud became popular in China. According to 2014 and 2015 China Cloud Ecology reports, the public cloud is demo for enterprise network disk products, and private cloud makes a fortune.
For corporate data, security is the top priority, otherwise there would not be so many companies buying encryption software and various security networks. So private cloud is called the first choice. Yiliyun is one of the few online disks in China that only serves as a private cloud. Among all kinds of network disk pk, a cloud disk is called the leader of enterprise network disk private cloud technology with ultra-low hardware requirements and high concurrency performance.
Cloud storage pros and cons, how to make the lowest cost choice
However, pure private cloud deployment cannot meet the requirements of some enterprises, such as cross-regional requirements, which require access by foreign branches.
If you build a private network yourself, the price is high, and the later maintenance cost has also become a burden on the enterprise.