Cloud Storage and It's Applications

1. Advanatges

1.1. Cost-saving

1.1.1. Less administrative work

1.1.2. Less storage hardware

1.2. Online editing

1.3. Automatical back-up

1.4. High accessibility

1.5. East to get-started

1.6. Flexible storage space

1.7. Easy sharing of files

1.8. Updated hardware

2. Applications

2.1. Current Applications

2.1.1. Personal use

2.1.2. Business use

2.2. Possible Applications in the future

2.2.1. Privacy and data collection

2.2.2. Security Service Management

2.2.3. Trust Management and Policy Integration

2.2.4. Authentication and Identity Management

2.2.5. Organizational Security Management

2.3. Examples

2.3.1. Google Drive

2.3.2. Dropbox

2.3.3. iCloud

2.3.4. OneDrive

2.3.5. Mega

2.3.6. Sendspace

2.3.7. Baidu Yun

3. Cloud Storage

3.1. Principle

3.2. Definition

3.3. Background

4. Disadvantages

4.1. Low data security

4.2. Hacker's target

4.3. Uncertain data ownership

4.4. Uncertain supplier's stability