After a year, the former gamebreakers set the goal of the next stage as "beyond +".
On December 15, 2021, Pole Space held a new product launch conference in Beijing with the theme of "Beyond +", and launched a private cloud Z2S for individual and family users, as well as a new Z4 that meets the needs of enterprise advanced users and small and micro enterprises, the two new products continue the Z series national tide style and hardcore performance at the same time, the changes in its software system are more eye-catching; especially the launch of the Extreme Space Affection APP, which is regarded by the industry as a model for the private cloud industry to open the digital life of the elderly.
In the face of the traditional NAS vendors like squeezing toothpaste like the iterative rhythm of new products, the pole space will be full of innovation, Z2S and new Z4 can be said to have completed a comprehensive "transcendence" in terms of hardware configuration, software system and user experience, etc., the new Z4 uses Intel J4125 processor 4GB/8GB super memory, equipped with dual 2.5G network cards and supports link aggregation to 5G, 10G transmission speed M2 interface SSD cache, the maximum support for single disk 20TB, can be called a performance monster in the 4-bay private cloud Z2S adopts dual-bay products, 4-core ARM processor, 2G/4G memory, compared with the previous generation, the CPU is increased by 50%, the GPU is increased by 90%, and the comprehensive performance is greatly improved. Among them, the Z2S 2G memory version is priced at 1399 and the 4G memory version is priced at 1599 yuan; the Z2S 8T set (with two 4T Cool Wolf hard disks) the 2G memory version is priced at 2999 and the 4G memory version is priced at 3199. The new Z4 is not increased, the 4G memory version is priced at 2599 yuan, and the 8G memory version is priced at 2799 yuan.
"Beyond +" is not only reflected in product performance and user experience, with the launch of these two Z series new products and the launch of the Polar Space Affection APP, Pole Space has also completed the layout of all categories and differentiation in the field of private cloud. Yuan Bin, founder and CEO of Polar Space, said that at this time last year, we released a new Polar Space private cloud Z2 and Z4, and the past 365 days of Polar Space have been changing and growing, experiencing support praise, criticism and complaints and even attacks and insults, as well as supervision and encouragement from friendly businessmen, and also gained valuable opinions from countless users.
In the past 365 days, the ZOS system has iterated 50 versions, launched more than 40 functions, and iterated more than 400 APP versions for Apple, Android mobile phones, televisions, Windows and Apple computer clients, WeChat Mini Programs and browsers. Yuan Bin stressed that the R&D team of Polar Space has really achieved weekly updates and continuous iterative upgrades in order to give users the best experience.
In the past year, Polar Space has experienced many events such as the impact of the epidemic, the surge in chips and the restructuring of the industrial chain, and it took 4 months to achieve stable shipments. Even so, the first time to participate in the "double 11" exceeded 8 million sales, ranking the top three in the network storage category; the private cloud network praise rate TOP1, in Jingdong, Tmall and other e-commerce private cloud sales ranked first, sales growth industry TOP1, Xiti private cloud field "triple crown"! In the industry's view, the polar space private cloud has grown from the "fastest growing private cloud brand" to the "first-line private cloud brand", of which the user experience brought by the software system is indispensable.
The scale of the private cloud track has increased, and the demand for data storage has ushered in a blowout
Under the popularity of various types of intelligent terminals, data storage demand is not only exploding in the enterprise office field, but also individuals and families are facing storage problems caused by data surge. On the one hand, the storage of photos, emails, videos, documents and other data has become a just need for individuals and families, and family data assets have become truly valuable assets, requiring safe, reliable and easy-to-use storage solutions. On the other hand, traditional storage devices have been difficult to fill the current user's storage and backup of data assets, hard disk loss, damage, or network disk password leakage will bring losses to individuals and families.
More importantly, emerging fields such as metaverse and NFT put forward higher requirements for data quantitative storage and NFT assets, which are difficult to meet at this stage of hard disks, network disks, cloud disks, U disks and other storage devices, in order to facilitate storage and access, build a highly private and stable private cloud to become a new data storage carrier. Thanks to the maturity of technical solutions and favorable policies, the global private cloud market has entered a rapid upward cycle.
Against this backdrop, Pole Space launched its flagship model, the Z4, in 2020, as well as the Genie Z2 for individual and home users. With excellent product performance and software services, it has quickly gained the reputation of users, made breakthrough achievements in the private cloud market, and has become a large mobile hard disk, private entertainment theater and powerful productivity tool for many users. Among the 20,000 users of Polar Space, the online rate reached 75%, the opening probability was as high as 95%, the APP usage rate was as high as 96%, and even the PC client usage rate and the TV user usage rate reached 70% and 42% respectively, and the usage rate of mini programs was also 20%. Yuan Bin stressed that the viscosity of users' use of different terminals is very high, and polar space has become an entertainment tool and productivity tool for many users to meet the storage and application needs of different scenarios.
After entering the vast consumer market, the seemingly niche polar space private cloud shows the ultimate user recognition and market activity. In the past year, there have been more than 7,000 user feedback and suggestions, and more than 50,000+ users have discussed and shared on various platforms such as forums, Tieba ( Tieba ) , Toutiao , and Zhihu . Word-of-mouth marketing and repurchase have become the labels of extreme space, and even some users have come to the door to take the initiative to act as agents.
From breaking to surpassing, the Z Series focuses on software systems
After breaking the game, it is beyond! Today, when Yuan Bin re-stood at the center of the conference, he brought his new thinking on the private cloud industry and the polar space. Is a private cloud just a user's need? Can the user experience pursued by Polar Space conquer users? Can the team at Polar Space make a good product that users really like? Yuan Bin made in-depth analysis and interpretation from high-end enterprise services, enterprise applications, and personal home applications.
In his view, whether it is enterprise office storage or personal home storage, the extreme space home private cloud can perfectly solve many pain points and difficulties of users who just need it. Based on the hard core technology and product capabilities as the guarantee, Jichang space is based on the technical architecture of NAS (Network Attached Storage network auxiliary storage device), making full use of the achievements of the development of the Internet, cloud computing and other technologies in the past 10 years, and integrating various application service functions to create a data solution integrating software and hardware. Its core function is secure and reliable data storage, while providing software application services for these stored contents.
For users, the polar space is a super mobile hard disk that can be accessed at any time 24 hours a day without carrying; it is also a super memory "mobile phone" that can liberate the mobile phone space to store millions of photos, or a faster, larger capacity, and more secure data network disk, so that the whole family and the whole company can enjoy VIP-level storage services. At the same time, Polar Space is also an online entertainment website for users, downloading movies, American dramas, music, novels, and files and videos shared by the network disk, watching them anytime and anywhere. Yuan Bin stressed that in these scenarios, users pay attention not only to storage needs, but to the application and experience parts of the software. At the same time, the experience and application of the software system determines the market size of the private cloud, and based on the emphasis on the software system and user experience, the polar space opens up a new blue ocean of private cloud.
Focus on software systems and user experience to meet the storage needs of all scenarios
The product logic of polar space is very different from the traditional NAS, the traditional NAS is monopolized by large manufacturers, the product is generally complex and expensive, the hardware update such as CPU is slow, and the market lacks improvement and innovation power for user needs. Therefore, Polar Space has focused on software system services and user experience from the beginning of the game. Tao Jianliang, head of polar space products, said that technology should bring convenience to every family member.
The new iteration of the polar space ZOS operating system completely subverts the previous situation of complex operation and difficult use of storage devices. Whether it is storage, backup, or permission management, users are handy, a variety of free applications cover backup, security, life, utilities, multimedia and other categories, can meet the needs of individuals, families and even small and micro enterprises. Tao Jianliang said that Pole Space insists on weekly iteration, continues to enrich functions and experience optimization, and continuously improves efficiency and performance.
Extreme space private cloud not only has the advantages of good privacy of local storage devices, high data security, high-speed access, and large capacity space, but also has the advantages of accessing and sharing convenience anytime, anywhere like public cloud disks. This iteration adds the "hard disk move" function that users are most concerned about, which can complete the replacement of hard disk without losing data. For example, replace a hard disk that is about to be damaged, or replace a small hard disk with a large capacity hard disk. Hard disk movers will move the data of all accounts at once, even if the disks are full, it can be easily and non-destructively expanded, which not only reduces costs, improves efficiency, but also ensures data security, and is simple to operate.
For individual and family users, Jichang can provide automatic backup of massive mobile phone photos, automatic classification of smart photo albums, with a variety of collation methods such as portrait recognition and scene classification, and can also control the operation permissions of family album members and set members. The powerful cloud disk synchronization function allows the homework assigned by the teacher, the child's learning video, and the course materials to the child to watch and use at any time.
Pioneered the "elderly" private cloud to open up a differentiated market
At this stage, the problem of "digital divide" faced by the elderly is becoming increasingly prominent, for this reason, the General Office of the State Council issued the "Implementation Plan on Effectively Solving the Difficulties of the Elderly in Using Intelligent Technology", and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology also said that it encourages smart devices to provide "elderly models" and "elderly models" to help the elderly catch up with the scientific and technological train.
Tao Jianliang said that most of the products of the Internet are not friendly to the elderly, and many software is not convenient to operate. In order to facilitate the operation of the parents, see the photos of the children and grandchildren at any time, hear the favorite music, and watch the movies belonging to their era at any time, Pole Space has customized and developed the Extreme Space Affection App for parents and elders. Tao Jianliang said that considering the decline in the ability of the elderly to fine operation, the inconvenience of variable sliding and complicated search and screening, we have customized a simplified content module, the labeling is clear and clear, there is no cumbersome jump setting, and it is more convenient and comfortable to use; so that the elderly users who do not understand the network and will not have smart devices can also be easily used and integrated into the digital age. For example, after the children sort out the pictures and videos of their grandchildren and the music movies that their parents like, the parents at the other end can open the App to watch and use directly, thus providing more personalized, diversified, high-quality, and simplified private cloud services for elderly users.
In terms of film and television entertainment services, Polar Space continues to lead the industry, and the Extreme Film and Television function has been praised since its launch. Ji film and television from Thunderbolt, PT download began to optimize, to ISO packaging, BDMV original disk, local NFO support, and then to the source code / transcoding output, and finally in the mobile phone computer TV and other decoding and playback, providing an end-to-end complete solution, perfect support ISO, BDMV, MKV and other original disk 4K Blu-ray film and television files, support hundreds of video formats to play, perfect subtitle function support embedded, plug-in, but also intelligent matching, almost can replace professional Blu-ray player. There are also new changes in music, multi-terminal synchronous playlists, source code playback has greatly improved the user experience, in addition, the industry's preemptive reading services have also brought users a new experience.
At the same time, polar space is also an important tool to improve the productivity of individuals and small teams. For individuals, Polar Space incarnates as an office artifact, automatically backs up data, synchronizes documents, and privacy safes, and develops remote point-to-point transmission technology for oversized files - Lightning Transmission, which greatly improves security and efficiency. As a network disk for small and medium-sized enterprises, Polar Space supports grouping sub-team management of members, while setting member permissions for easy management; it can also be mapped into a network hard disk, which is convenient for collaborative office, and the Recycle Bin prevents accidental deletion and other practical functions. Taking document synchronization as an example, Polar Space supports online editing of multi-terminal documents, which is convenient for the classification, marking, searching, and deletion of notepads, and meets more complex synchronization needs and file loss in special scenarios. Tao Jianliang said that the pole space is the research and development mode of user participation in the whole process, whether it is hardware or software system will continue to iterate and innovate with the user's needs as the core.
It is worth noting that Polar Space has also released a new function - docker, as founder Yuan Bin said, what users need, we do. In short, docker is an open-source application container engine that allows developers to package their applications into a portable image and then publish them to machines with any popular Linux or Windows operating system, or virtualization, giving users the opportunity to realize more possibilities.
Z2S/New Z4 is unveiled at the same time, and the performance monster is fully upgraded
As a professional private cloud brand, Ji space for the user's storage needs, products cover different bays, not only high configuration, but also very convenient to use; a NAS, safe backup, so that your data storage becomes simple, from personal home to enterprise, on-demand choice can be. Yuan Bin said that Ji space pays more attention to the software system innovation and user experience of private cloud products, but the hardware performance is also very outstanding.
Yuan Bin said that Z2S continues the small size and rich color industrial design of the previous generation of home private cloud, which is loved by female users and shows a leapfrog improvement in performance. Z2S is equipped with a 4-core ARM CPU, 2G/4G large running memory, compared with the previous Z2, Z2S CPU performance increased by 50%, GPU performance increased by 90%, video and picture transcoding speed increased by 150%, BT/PT download speed increased by 120%, AI image recognition speed increased by 150%. This configuration is easy enough to meet the daily needs of a family of 6, which is suitable for all ages. In terms of video services, Polar Space has added an HDMI interface, supporting HDMI2.0A and supporting 4K 60p output to meet the various viewing needs of users.
In terms of user experience, Polar Space's pursuit of quieter is endless, and the innovative fan control algorithm gives users a senseless silence experience. In addition, further optimization has been made in terms of external paint, power button and front cover design, and the quality of the product has been ensured after countless anti-drop tests.
The new Z4 adopts all-aerospace grade 5052 aluminum alloy shell, which not only has excellent machinability, corrosion resistance, high fatigue strength, but also excellent auxiliary heat dissipation ability, and can also greatly reduce resonance and noise. The multi-curved industrial design style is full of technology, and the expensive automotive-grade stamping process brings the ultimate in weight reduction and integration, ensuring a solid overall structure.
The new Z4 adopts Intel J4125 processor, 4GB/8GB large operation memory, equipped with dual 2.5G network cards and supports M2 interface SSD flash memory with link aggregation for 5G and 10G transmission speeds, which can provide higher data access speeds. 4 hard disk bits, the maximum support for a single disk 20TB, compatible with 2.5 inches and 3.5 inches, support mechanical hard disk also support SSD, the main high-end digital players and small and micro enterprises user market.
The new Z4 unique hard disk bracket tool-free installation design allows users to load and unload the hard disk without any tools, continuously improve the internal quality of the product, strengthen the heat dissipation, and cooperate with the large silent hydraulic bearing fan and intelligent temperature control algorithm to achieve a good balance between temperature and noise. The active component connection uses a large number of silent elastic silicone for contact isolation, ensuring that there are no rigid contact points in the whole machine, and greatly reducing the operating noise and vibration of the equipment.
With the release of the new generation of Z series and the launch of the Extreme Space Affection APP, the pole space from breaking the game to surpassing the pole space is changing the dull private cloud industry with high-frequency and hard-core innovation. At 20:00 that night, Z2S/Z4 will open pre-sale on the official website and the self-operated flagship store of Jingdong Ji Space. There is no doubt that the characteristics of ease of use, privacy, security, strength and national tide displayed by Polar Space have not only led the development trend of the industry, but also become the original intention of consumers to buy. When the users who define the "trend" go to the front of the stage, we see that the "new domestic product" pole space in the private cloud is coinciding with the storage needs and application pain points of the "Z generation", with software services and user experience as the core, and the concept of "technology to save a better life" is leading the private cloud industry to a new round of industrial upgrading.