Internet Storage
by Tin Hung CHAN
1. History
1.1. Service providers
1.1.1. Google drive
1.1.2. Dropbox
1.1.3. i-Cloud
1.2. Developers
1.2.1. Amazon Web Services introduced their cloud storage service AWS S3 in 2006
1.2.2. Invented by Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider in the 1960s
2. Future development
2.1. Promotion
2.1.1. Vision Cloud EU Project
2.2. Develop of new companies
3. Architecture
3.1. Storage format
3.1.1. Data are storaged in the hosting companies
3.2. Storage systems
3.2.1. EMC Atmos
3.2.2. Hitachi content platform
4. Advantages
4.1. Lower cost
4.1.1. Only pay for the storage they actually use
4.1.2. Users only need to pay for the amount they used
4.2. convenient
4.2.1. users can immediately access to a broad range of resources and applications hosted in storage
5. Disadvantage
5.1. Security problems
5.1.1. The leak of information
5.1.2. The hosting companies may be hacked by the other
5.2. Stability problems
5.2.1. The hosting companies may go bankrupt