Bring an own cloud (Bring Wour Own Device - BYOC)

The trend of BYOC is obliged by the emergence as to certain owners of 'personal clouds', and the staff of corporations, the given right of application of public or private cloud services of the third firms for accomplishment of certain office tasks. In corporate option the idea of BYOC provides consolidation of corporate and consumer software, both in local, and in cloud versions, for achievement of an effective objective^[1].

New products for the new market

The representation by group of manufacturers of storage systems of the new products allowing any person to store files in the desktop device of the size of the toaster and then to address these data, to open to them shared access, to change and send them — and to perform all these operations from any device at any time using the normal web browser made last week became key news here. Did you already somewhere hear all this? Well, this corporate cloud which is cut down to the simplest parts.

The Western Digital corporation specializing in production of disk storage modules and storage systems which provided on October 3 a new product line of MyCloud was one of these companies. The devices [[, entering into family [[MyCloud|entering into family MyCloud are in addition completed with mobile application for iOS]] and Android which allows users to watch photos and streaming videos and to address the files from any place using smartphones or tablets. The application also provides a possibility of the general access to files and joint work over them, supports data transmission by e-mail, the organization of collective access to files for the link, printing of documents and processing by their applications of the third firms. Besides, mobile application of MyCloud devices is integrated with other public cloud services, allowing users to exchange files with the accounts in Dropbox the Cloud service of file sharing, SkyDrive and Google One (before Google Drive).

Terabytes of personal cloud services of data storage

Besides, new products from such producers as Seagate (Seagate Central), Buffalo, LaCie and Synology, give the chance of storage of terabytes of data with expanded functions of security and sufficient power for stream broadcast of content in high quality on several devices at the same time. Whether you are the owner of small business who is looking for an effective method of management of fast-growing volume of the collecting data or the media fanatic wishing to have access to all musical, to video and media data existing in the world, one of these NAS devices (network-attached storage) will be certain the fact that it is necessary for you. Do not make a mistake — these products already on sale and are on sale in large numbers as for all of them the price is about 350 dollars apiece or even less.

On the corporate party of 'a personal cloud' of change distribution Freemia models are stimulated. To compete impracticablly with free of charge extended product even if it is the basic version of the application with the minimum feature set. The functionality offered earlier in the form of the licensed software product is often implemented in the form of the cheap application or service SaaS (software-as-a-service), cloud, available on a subscription, today. For example, the companies Google also Microsoft offer the Web services including a cloud storage system which can be used for document storage, the organization of collective access to documents and joint work with them. Use for work as employees of corporations of the personal accounts in such services as Box, Dropbox can be other example or EMC Mozy. It is very widespread practice in the large organizations which do not have the sufficient budget or number of employees to go in step with changes in IT.

Difficulty of the competition to free solutions

Storage systems of the corporate level are offered several years or is free, or at the nominal price of production, and many buyers take advantages of work with them. For the purpose of support of business continuity and joint work of employees to IT department very important and to provide implementation of cloud services and to consider requirements of BYOD that not only will offer personnel convenience and the simplicity inherent in mass market products, but also guarantees a possibility of safe and reliable interaction of employees.

Eventually IT departments will inevitably be faced the need of embedding in the IT strategy of requirements both BYOD, and BYOC that means connection of management tools mobile devices, carrying out security audits, integration of the systems of centralized operation and use of simple and convenient solutions. Through deployment friendly to employees of BYOD/BYOC strategy IT managers will be able to provide to the organizations competitive advantage before the companies not ready to work with clouds and data processing using personal devices.

All this idea — the response to changes in the world as a result of which owners of business and consumers in the increasing sizes demand access to all the information — irrespective of where they are and what types of mobile devices use. As suppliers of NAS storage systems continue to increase the capacity of devices, to reduce their dimensions, to raise an exchange rate of data, to reduce the prices and to offer more opportunities for the organization of a safe cloud service of information storage, result will become what most corporate IT departments did for many years: focus shift on the individual user.