A new round of changes in object storage 

As we all know, traditional enterprise storage has a common feature, that is, it can only scale vertically. It can not meet the storage needs of massive and unstructured data in terms of management, cost, capacity and performance. In order to meet the storage requirements of unstructured data, the whole enterprise storage market has changed from "vertical expansion" to "horizontal expansion", forming a new generation of enterprise storage, including block storage, file storage and object storage.

As a new network storage architecture, object storage adopts "object" data organization. It combines the advantages of NAS and San. At the same time, it has the advantages of high-speed direct access of San and data sharing of NAS. It provides a storage architecture with high reliability, cross platform and secure data sharing.

From a technical point of view, distributed file storage and object storage are the most suitable for storing unstructured data, that is, pictures, videos and other types of data. However, in terms of concurrency performance of a large number of files, object storage is much stronger than file storage. At the same time, in terms of performance stability after storing a large number of files in the system, object storage is also much stronger than file storage. Therefore, the wide adoption of object storage will also lay the foundation for enterprises to build a data Lake step by step in the future.

From the perspective of application scenarios, emerging technologies represented by 5g, big data and artificial intelligence are more and more deeply applied in the industry. Data extends in "end, edge and cloud", with more and more types and quantities of data. Object storage has natural advantages in the face of massive data scenarios, and has been widely adopted by Internet and cloud companies in the past few years, It has gradually become a "rising star" in the storage market.