It is learned that Myshare, a smart fog storage solution provider, has completed an angel round of financing of several million yuan, led by SST Venture Capital, followed by Node Capital.
It is learned that Myshare, a smart fog storage solution provider, has completed an angel round of financing of several million yuan, led by SST Venture Capital, followed by Node Capital.
The development of storage has developed from the earliest hard disk and LAN network storage to the later data center and cloud storage. At present, networking has become a standard configuration for equipment to work normally, and the latter always needs to call data on the cloud to meet user requests. Today, as mobile and IoT devices become more and more common, lower network latency is required to ensure user experience, which puts higher requirements on the node distribution of cloud computing centers.
In this context, storage solution provider Myshare proposed a fog storage solution. According to the Myshare technical team, Myshare Intelligence Fog Storage (MIFS for short) is a widely distributed storage architecture. Through storage aggregation technology, the idle storage space distributed in different families, different companies and different geographical locations is connected through software to form A unified storage system.
As long as there are enough storage nodes connected, the distribution of such a network will exceed cloud storage based on centralized data center technology. Myshare calls it fog storage.Compared with traditional cloud storage, the Myshare technical team believes that technically, the fog storage network architecture is more conducive to reducing latency and storage costs. Fog storage improves the distribution of storage nodes and is closer to data sources such as sensors and mobile devices. Fog storage greatly shortens the end-to-end delay; economically, most of the use of fog storage is considered to beSmall and medium-sized NAS for home use
The idle space is more economical. At the same time, MIFS uses algorithms to fragment data across regions, with high redundancy and low-cost protection to meet personal data storage needs and reliability-sensitive enterprise-level needs.
The Myshare technical team stated that the development of fog storage technology was limited by two conditions. One is that related technologies such as data cutting, protection and scheduling are not mature enough; the other is that there are no idle storage resources with high durability and availability.
Before shared storage, the shared CDN distribution technology represented by Xunlei was quite mature. Shared CDN is mainly for distributing data to a large number of nodes, and does not need protection, because once it is lost, it can read other nodes. Storage depends on cost considerations and designing specific protection, partitioning and backup schemes.Most of the shared storage space projects on the market allow mobile phones, home PCs and even mobile phones to join any device at will, just like the story told in the American drama Silicon Valley. This type of scheme is easier to attract individuals to participate, but it is likely to affect the stability and availability of equipment, and the consideration of disaster resistance is not enough.
MIFS cooperates with existing storage device providers, mainly targeting small and medium-sized NAS for home use as nodes.NAS (Network Attached Storage, Network Attached Storage) is simply a networked storage device, which is equivalent to having aPrivate Baidu Cloud, but more efficient, users can manage their private files across platforms at any time. Originally, the main users of NAS products were enterprises. Later, with the improvement of storage requirements and performance requirements of individual users, coupled with the successive shutdown of network disks, and network security issues, users’ awareness of backup has been enhanced. Many factors have led to the rise of small and medium-sized household NAS products.According to the ZDC market research report
, enterprise-level products are only 4% ahead of home-level products, and the market for home users is expected to equal the commercial market in the future.
The Myshare technical team believes that considering the price/performance ratio, when purchasing a small or medium-sized NAS for home use, the general user will buy a relatively large storage space. In fact, they will not use so much in actual use, so there is a lot of idle space. Compared with mobile phones and personal PCs and other devices that may be turned off at any time, NAS is usually turned on for a long time and is more stable.
In addition, MyShare sounds a bit like IPFS. The Myshare technical team explained that the goal of IPFS is to replace the http protocol and propose an access method that is completely incompatible with http; MIFS chooses an http-based REST interface compatible with existing public clouds, which can be adopted by enterprise users, and existing applications can be migrated smoothly .
The main target users of MyShare are enterprises with high distribution requirements, such as the Internet of Things, data sources, monitoring equipment in public places, Internet of Vehicles, etc. The distribution of traditional data centers can no longer meet the data delay requirements. The other is emerging entrepreneurial enterprises that are highly sensitive to cloud storage prices.
MyShare team has about 12 people, mainly research and development. The founder of the project, He Zhiyong, has more than 10 years of industry experience. He has been responsible for storage RD, sales and marketing for a long time. He has worked as a software engineer and senior software engineer at Intel, and a senior software engineer and chief technical consultant at EMC. Analysis, participated in the cloud storage iCloud China project.
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