"Welcome to the digital age, activate the potential of data elements, promote the construction of a network power, accelerate the construction of digital economy, digital society, and digital government, and drive the transformation of production methods, lifestyles, and governance methods through digital transformation." The "14th Five-Year Plan" released at the beginning of the year The planning outline (draft) clarifies the direction for the construction and development of Digital China, and also brings new opportunities for promoting the storage industry.
Storage systems are currently undergoing a period of unprecedented change. The rise of digital transformation and the surge in data volume pose new challenges to data storage capacity, processing speed, and information security.
Because the traditional network storage system uses a centralized storage server to store all data, the storage server becomes the bottleneck of system performance, and brings reliability and security concerns, and cannot meet the needs of large-scale storage applications.
If the traditional storage device is scaled out, it will incur high costs.
The distributed network storage system adopts a scalable system structure, stores data in multiple independent devices, uses multiple storage servers to share the storage load, and uses location servers to locate and store information, which not only improves the reliability and availability of the system And access efficiency, but also easy to expand, so more and more users of all ages.
Distributed storage systems have the following characteristics:
Scalable: It can be expanded to a cluster scale of hundreds or even thousands of units, and the overall performance of the system increases linearly.
Low cost: The characteristics of automatic fault tolerance and automatic load balancing allow distributed storage systems to be built on low-cost servers, and the linear expansion capability also reduces server costs and realizes automatic operation and maintenance.
High performance: From a single server to the entire distributed storage cluster, all have high performance.
Ease of use: The distributed storage system needs to provide convenient and easy-to-use interfaces and complete monitoring, operation and maintenance tools, and can be easily integrated with other systems.
Distributed storage has become the main driving force for the growth of China's storage market.
IDC predicts that by 2024, China's distributed storage market will reach US$2.46 billion; the global data storage market forecast released by MarketsandMarkets shows that the global data storage market will exceed US$100 billion in 2024.
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In the IPFS system, files and data have the uniqueness of existence. A network without files added to IPFS will assign a unique encrypted hash value to the content, which means that the address generated after the IPFS hash value operation is unique. . The changed address has the characteristics of non-tampering and non-deletion.
Therefore, once data is stored in IPFS, it is safe. On the traditional HTTP network, hackers can attack you and steal your files.
In the IPFS network, all files and data are scattered on many nodes and encrypted, and hackers have no way to attack.
As an emerging scene of distributed storage, IPFS has become a dark horse and has sprung up suddenly. Compared with traditional distributed storage scenarios, IPFS has greater advantages in terms of performance, reliability, capacity, supply, price, and ease of maintenance.
There are more and more applications based on IPFS technology. At present, there are many successful projects, from data storage to file transmission, from social media to buying and selling transactions. These APPs, applications, and platforms are reconstructing the entire Internet.