Cloud storage
Chau Ting Fong(13206117)
Chung Hiu Ngan(13208446)
Ng Ka Yi(13208446)
10/21/2013

Introduction
Examples
content
Advantages
Potential
concerns
Survey
results
conclusion

DENFINITION
Simple term that refers to
online space that you can
use to store your data.
Another way for keeping
a backup of your files.
Introduction—what is
cloud storage?

• Is a model of networked enterprise storage.
• Data stored in virtualized pool which hosted by third
parties.
• Hosting companies operate large data centre.
• People have to buy or lease storage capacity from the
hosting companies.
• The data may span across multiple servers and multiple
locations.
Introduction-background

• Files-hosting service
• Internet hosting service specifically designed to host user
files.
• It allows users to upload files that could then be accessed
over the internet from a different computer, tablet, smart
phone or other networked device, by the same user or
possibly by other users, after a password or other
authentication is provided.
Introduction-background

YouTube-what is cloud
storage?

• Invented by Joseph Robnett Licklider in the 1960s
• He refers to a cloud “ that does all the heavy thinking for
everybody” in this book “sirens of titan” published
in1959.
• In the sixties, it has been slowly developing, until the
nineties with the appearance of Web 2.0 .
Introduction--history

DropBox
Window live
skydrive
Box.net
Google drives
justCloud.com
memopal
Examples

economical
• Some cloud
storage services
are free of
charge.
• The cost is
cheaper than
using external
hard drives or
backup tapes for
backing up data.
convenient
• Can open the
file everywhere
without saving
the data in
external hard
drives.
advantages
Space saving
• It’s invisible,
without physical
presence. It
doesn’t take up
space.

Have the risk of unauthorized physical access to the
data
Is a rich resource for both hackers and national
security agency.
Opssible for other customers to access your data when
sharing storage and network with manyother users.
For average user of the computer and internet, the cost
may outweigh its benefits.
Potential concerns

• Target: public
• Information: opinion on cloud storage
• Site:
https://qtrial.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_dcAcYJ7T7rm
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Online survey