Current Market for Cloud customers are in increasing trend and current growth in customers brought up the necessity to address the needs of the discrete consumers. Any consumer that uses the Cloud Servers and Cloud Computing for personal use like storing and backing up user data which contain personal records like Music, Movies etc are categorized as individual Consumers. The Enterprises which are small, mid and large cap companies who store their historic and day to day data are considered as commercial customers.
As per reports a growing number of consumers are clamoring for cloud-based services, yet with so many using only the small amount of storage that companies offer for free-consumer cloud boom is running. Currently, consumer cloud market- subscriptions to cloud storage services- easily surpassed previous projections that estimated 500 million people would sign up for them last year. Within the first half of 2012 alone, worldwide subscriptions had already exceeded 375 million. Subscriptions to both free and paid cloud services are expected to climb to an estimated 625 million in 2013, then doubling in the course of four years to reach 1.3 billion by 2017.
AS per the reports, the global target storage market size has accelerated its growth after gradual recovered from the economic crisis. In 2012, the total revenue of primary storage technologies has reached USD 9.2 billion, with an annual growth rate of 16.7%.It is very imperative that Market Size for such Cloud Computing Virtualizations now passed budding stage to considerable size and there is a lot demand for the Cloud Computing Providers.
Rent A Cloud (RAC) to get massive exposure from being bundled with the #1 PC makers once the product is completed. This will give Rent A Cloud (RAC) lower end subscription business and position Rent A Cloud (RAC) for some bigger enterprise accounts down the road. As on par with the study with the market data, Initially, RAC wants to deliver on the on the low end and then find a way into the enterprise. Cross Breaded hybrid clouds cater in-house storage resources. Public cloud network gives enterprises to hold critical data in-house allows to access cloud storage whenever and wherever needed.
Cloud Storage model pricing is way different to the traditional Storages. The RCA pricing model is cost effective as plans to charges customers only for the resources that use (Pay-per-your-usage). It provides the customers to predict future costs. The customers are still facing a a complex endeavor due to the discreet applications and use-cases. Every Enterprise or Cloud customer’s requirement is unique and RCA offer a simplified pricing scheme. It is a good option to research with a minimal investment and then extrapolate from those results to develop a more accurate pricing estimation model. Not all customers size is the same and there is no one-size-fits-all.
24X7 RAC service team to cater the needs of the customer who are well-versed the technical aspects of the cloud storage. The RAC technical team to look after the server functions to minimize the downtime to zero percent.
Cloud Computing Delivery Model and Cloud Platforms critically argues the necessity to view the security aspects in a different way. This is because of the way this is implemented and hosted. Public Clouds can have a much less security as not much information is confidential. Hence a necessity of Private Cloud architecture with multi level security should be setup to have a better harmony.