Determining the Best Cloud Storage Platform for Your Needs

Different people and businesses have different types of file and data that requires storage for future use or for future referencing.

For instance a medical student might need to store files which contain the study information that the student will require to read from time to time: paparazzi on the other hand will need to save photos and images capture about special events & occasions or places and people for future use. A bank on the other hand will have files to store pertaining to clients’ accounts records, staff records as well as the day-to-day transactions which the bank encounters.

This means that there are different packages of cloud storage which could offer various solutions to the varying needs of different businesses as well as individuals.

Basically, there are four types of cloud storage solutions.

• Private Cloud Storage . Just as the name may suggest, this type of cloud storage means that the infrastructure is used by a single person or company hence high level of privacy and security.
  
  When designing the infrastructure of a private cloud, the specific needs of the company as well specific administrative controls are integrated with the storage concerns so as to enable ease of data access and manipulation as well increase security level.
  
  The infrastructure could be designed at the person’s premises or could be off-site in another which is accessible by the owner of the data. This is most appropriate for top confidential companies such as banks.

• Public Cloud Storage. . In public cloud storage, data and files of an individual are located within the premises of the company offering the cloud storage services which means that as a client, you have no control over the nature of the storage infrastructure. Also the infrastructure is shared, and so are the resources used, which means that the possibility of data hijacking and other attacks may be experienced.
  
  However, due to the high amounts of data which might be stored at a given time, public cloud storage companies usually ensure that the servers they use are of high performance hence effectiveness in the cloud storage services offered.

• Hybrid Storage . This is an instance where by there are different categories of data which a business handles and such data will require different storage methods because of the manner in which the access to the data might be needed.
  
  Therefore in hybrid cloud storage, both private and public cloud storage infrastructures are combined and put into use with each storing different data. For instance banks could have their clients data stored in public cloud where the clients could have accounts that to enable them interact with the banking official and then their confidential account details could be stored in private cloud.

• Community cloud storage . This is a cloud infrastructure whereby data can be accessed by different departments or organization such as different branches of a company located in different towns or in the case of government data whereby different government functionalities can access government data.