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Evaluation of personal cloud storage products in China

Debao Dai (School of Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China)
Wenfang Zheng (School of Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China)
Tijun Fan (School of Business, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China)

Industrial Management & Data Systems

ISSN: 0263-5577

Article publication date: 6 February 2017

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to compare and evaluate the personal cloud storage products (PCSPs) in China and find the gap among them for promoting their service level. There are five representative products including Baidu cloud, Tencent cloud, Qihoo 360-cloud, Kingsoft cloud and Huawei DBank.

Design/methodology/approach

This study, first, extracts corresponding indicators based on the extant literature to evaluate PCSPs, and then collects the data about each index by investigation and the performance test, finally proposes a model to rank PCSPs, which applies analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to determine the indexed weights and the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution-grey relational analysis calculate evaluation score of each PCSP.

Findings

Among them, Qihoo 360-cloud gets the highest evaluation score contributed by large space, file editing and fast transmission speed. The rest are Kingsoft cloud, Baidu cloud, Huawei DBank and Tencent cloud in order. These storage products are all want of the addition or improvement of the online editing service similar as Google Docs.

Research limitations/implications

AHP method is subjective, some of the data is incomplete, and some accidental error and systematic error exist in the actual testing process.

Practical implications

The findings can assist users in selecting more suitable products and offer cloud storage providers (CSPs) a general direction of improving their product performance.

Social implications

Contributing to improve the overall level of the cloud storage services in China.

Originality/value

The study perfects the evaluation index system of the PCSP and fills the research gap in studying PCSPs in China, and expands the application field of the multiple criteria decision-making problems. This evaluation process and results have implied that CSPs in China should provide good services of large capacity, cooperation and security with the good internet environment of economical, high and stable speed by institutions and internet access providers.

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Acknowledgements

Funding sources: the Key Project of Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 71431004); the Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (No. 13YS015).

Citation

Dai, D., Zheng, W. and Fan, T. (2017), "Evaluation of personal cloud storage products in China", Industrial Management & Data Systems, Vol. 117 No. 1, pp. 131-148. https://doi.org/10.1108/IMDS-12-2015-0504

Publisher

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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