View Internet data centers

 

At noon on June 18, I went to an IDC (the so-called "Internet Data Center") to view the information on the spot.

I remember that ten years ago, a friend of mine, engaged in 21 vianet, actually engaged in IDC. So far, I still admire him. Generally speaking, IDC is the place where servers are centrally hosted. The "System Management" software is complicated and management is costly. It is difficult to make money by "scale. However, IDCs cater to the objective needs of the market and gradually become an industry.

After Google's development, a very large number of servers are centralized and managed in a unified manner, forming the material basis of cloud computing. "Cloud computing" is a large concentration of social computing capabilities, and is also the objective basis of the so-called "Saas. "Cloud computing" (that is, "IDC giant") has built up millions of servers, and its operating system must be customized. Otherwise, the system management cost will be uncontrollable. Google uses the Linux operating system, the database uses the cluster technology, and the system management uses the "Distribution Management", "Load Balancing", and other "non-traditional commercial software" proprietary technologies. The computing efficiency of cloud computing far exceeds that of large IDCs.

In fact, the continuous development of "cloud computing" must involve mobile "access devices" (so-called "smart phones" and handset ). The main point of Google's "Smartphone" ("android" Platform) is its business model "Innovation ". Android business model is no longer a traditional "Access Model" (charging Internet access fees, which is "Divided" with China Telecom), but an "Internet model" (dividing advertising fees into fees ), the Internet access fee is gradually reduced to zero. With an Android phone, you can find information about the surrounding environment, including nearby hotels, hotels, large shopping centers, and bookstores. If you want to shop, search for the name of the item you want to buy, advertisements for related items (near you) appear in front of you immediately; if you want to consume (such as watching movies ), the name of the film that matches your interest and the cinema nearby will immediately display your eyes. If you want to turn on the corresponding switch of your Android phone, your location will be "known" at any time ". Recently, Google "bids" to buy "commercial channels" to build Google's "Network Empire.

In the "cloud computing" era, free software will be everywhere. Basically, people no longer need to purchase private software and only need to share services. This is a strange logic. In the near future, the battle between Google and Microsoft is inevitable. Anyone of us will be involved and cannot help. The Smart Internet era is so approaching (next year) that it is so weird and exciting.