Cloud Storage: New Generation of Storage

By Aryan Singhal

Cloud storage and presence of cloud as medium to store all types of data has a huge impact and is a boon to everyone that such a service is available. Individuals and corporations use cloud to store their valuable data. For non-tech user this can be photos, videos and documents, while on the other hand companies use cloud to store valuable employee and customer data and also run analytics on them in the cloud.

So far cloud storage sounds very interesting, so let’s look at its benefits. One of the most effective part about it is usability and accessibility. Cloud services like Google Drive and iCloud provide very user friendly interfaces for the users so that they can upload and store images, videos and other documents with a few clicks. These files when uploaded can be accessable from any device with a internet connection.

While the interfaces and UI experience provided by cloud companies is great, the question of security arises in everyone’s mind as anything associated to the internet raises security concerns. The data is stored in redundant servers, this means that even if the data is lost or collapsed it will be managed by other data centers which make your data safe and supervised. Also while uploading data to these cloud servers, cloud providers ensure that the data is encrypted and only accessible by the rightful person. If all the data centers of the storage provider get collapse or destroyed, then only your data could be lost, and this is entirely impossible phenomena because a cloud storage service is formed of thousands of data centers.

Cloud storage is a very cost efficient option for businesses because they can entirely outsource the storage of their data to a cloud storage provider and thus reducing their own costs. With this the company itself does not need any inner power and support to manage and store their data; the cloud storage vendor handles all. There are some cloud storage services provided which give cloud storage for a lifetime at an affordable price, which is a win-win offer for small business and individual users.

Cloud storage works like a hard disk on your system, and if you want to store any file in the cloud, it will not temper any ongoing task. There may be more than one user using a cloud storage service, and the current responsibility of one user would not affect the task of another since it is all is managed and automated by the cloud vendor. Also companies can store their data in the cloud and then perform different operations on the data in the cloud itself as these cloud providers also provide resources to performs these operations at a lower prices.

In the last decade, cloud services have gained so much popularity in the software industry — and now every big tech company has its cloud service. No matter whether it’s a small or big business, everyone requires cloud service to store data because data is the next power weapon. Big tech is investing a lot in the cloud industry because it holds the potential to change the complete structure of storage and communication.