Cloud Storage
Cloud storage is a model of computer data storage, in which data is stored in “logical pools”. Physical storage spans multiple servers, and this environment is owned and managed by hosting companies. These cloud storage companies provide and responsible for keeping data available to be accessible, and this physical storage protected and ran 24/7. People and Organizations buy or subscribe to this cloud storage capacity from the provider to store its user data.
Cloud storage services accessible through co-located cloud service, a web service Application Programming Interface (API), such as cloud desktop storage, cloud storage gateway and Web-based content management system. Physical storage most likely is built and placed across multiple countries, this way to increase the capability to provide user data. For example, One Drive physical storage environment are placed in Indonesia, Singapore, USA, etc. When user from Indonesia try to access its data and malfunction such as natural disaster that prevent Indonesian user to retrieve its data, would get and retrieved data from Singapore or USA instead.
History
History of Cloud storage computing have been invented by Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider in 1960s with his work called ARPANET to connect people and data from anywhere any time. Some of us might know about Amazon Web Services which introduced their cloud storage services in 2006, which has gained widespread recognition as the cloud storage supplier.
Architecture Cloud storage is predicated on highly virtualized infrastructure and is like broader cloud computing in terms of accessible interfaces, near-instant elasticity and scalability, multitenancy, and metered resources. Cloud storage services may be utilized from an off-premises service or deployed on-premises. Cloud storage typically refers to a hosted object storage service, but the term has broadened to incorporate other kinds of data storage that are now available as a service, like block storage.
Object storage services like Amazon S3, Oracle Cloud Storage and Microsoft Azure Storage, object storage software like Openstack Swift, object storage systems like EMC Atmos, EMC ECS and Hitachi Content Platform, and distributed storage research projects like Ocean Store and VISION Cloud are all samples of storage that may be hosted and deployed with cloud storage characteristics.
Architecture
Cloud storage architecture is highly fault tolerant through redundancy and distribution of knowledge, highly durable through the creation of versioned copies, typically eventually in step with relevancy data replicas. Companies need only pay money for the storage they really use, typically a means of consumption during a month. Organizations can make a choice from off-premises and on-premises cloud storage options, or a combination of the two options, looking on relevant decision criteria that’s complementary to initial direct cost savings potential: as an example, continuity of operations, disaster recovery, security, and records retention laws, regulations, and policies. Storage availability and data protection is intrinsic to object storage architecture, so counting on the appliance, the extra technology, effort, and price to feature availability and protection may be eliminated.
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