Cloud computing: An intelligent brain, a huge switch

Although any new hot topics will inevitably encounter confusion and misunderstanding in the early stages, although looking at the trend, followed by the boom, for the ever-changing IT industry is normal, but noisy cloud, the first few years seem to have no landing, which for profit-driven business, it is a bit the cart before the horse.

Since 2006, when Google introduced the concept of "cloud computing", a few years, cloud services, cloud security, Cloud antivirus, cloud storage, cloud, cloud games, cloud education, cloud marketing, Cloud mobile phones and other "cloud family" series has become the most popular in the IT and the Internet, one of the hottest words. Microsoft, Dell, Apple, Alibaba, Shanda, Lenovo and other well-known companies at home and abroad follow their footsteps, and gradually killed into the cloud computing field.

Although any new hot topics will inevitably encounter confusion and misunderstanding in the early stages, although looking at the trend, followed by the boom, for the ever-changing IT industry is normal, but noisy cloud, the first few years seem to have no landing, which for profit-driven business, it is a bit the cart before the horse.

There are forecasts that the vast majority of companies will adopt cloud computing over the next 5 years. Clearly, the understanding and application of cloud computing has become a compulsory course for enterprises and governments to grasp the pulse of the market. In view of this, this article gathers the expert point of view, attempts to brush aside the cloud, sees clouds nature.

Microsoft Online Services Group chief architect Xue: Cloud computing is the original distribution in the end of the various types of resources, on-demand supply. Cloud computing will bring many opportunities to the IT industry, which is not fully implemented by a Microsoft company, so Microsoft has a range of partners on every level of the infrastructure, platform, and terminal software of the cloud Computing strategy architecture. It is expected that by 2014, Global will have more than 400 million network functions of intelligent terminals, then the network is not the equipment, nor the application, but a "brain", a user can understand the intent and task of the "brain", so that people through the "cloud" to reach the "want to" realm.

IBM Cloud Computing chief technology officer Kristof Kloeckner: Cloud computing is a "huge switch" that allows enterprise organizations to have more choice in deploying applications; cloud computing is a perfect storm in terms of changing IT service consumption and delivery; cloud computing era, It is the task of the IT department to devote resources to parts that are strategically critical to their business.

Gang, CEO of Shanda Network Group cloud Computing: Cloud Computing is a transformation of a business model and a transformation of it resource usage patterns. In the past, consumers were buying computers, and in the future it was time to buy computing and buy storage. This is a huge change, related to people's livelihood and international strategic security. The Chinese Government is also aware of this and is playing the role of a catalyst.

Zhou, chairman of Qihoo 360: cloud computing and the wireless internet are subversive to traditional computers and the Internet, and it's hard to say that there is a clear view of this trend and market. Therefore, we should pay attention to product details, focus on "micro-innovation", and focus on understanding and thinking of user experience, which is much more important than macro-theory.

"Cloud computing is the core of Huawei's global strategy, with the goal of building an open and transparent cloud computing platform focused on developing and innovating with partners," said Ding, president of Huawei North America. Huawei's U.S. strategy focuses on corporate cooperation, providing IT solutions for large U.S. companies and the need to collaborate on private clouds.

Wave Group Chairman Sun Pi: Global Cloud computing infrastructure construction speed is accelerating, the United States and Europe and Japan and other developed countries in technology and equipment dominate, but emerging markets such as China's cloud computing as a strategic opportunity for industrial transformation, the actual construction speed higher than Europe and the United States and other developed countries. China's cloud computing industry is still in the import and preparation period, on the eve of large-scale outbreak, its gold development phase is coming. In the short term, Chinese companies should focus on the process improvement, efficiency improvement and cost savings brought about by cloud computing, in the long run, enterprises should focus on the potential of cloud computing in innovation, and promote business transformation and industrial upgrading.

Shen, president of the Microsoft Chinese Association: Cloud Computing represents the historical return of the "central-decentralized-central" negation of denial, the essence of which is the redistribution of global information resources from "end" to "cloud". The so-called information resources mainly include computing, storage, communication and control. The centralized supply of information resources will bring overall subversion, integration and innovation to the whole IT industry (including computer, Internet, wired and wireless communication, information service, media entertainment, etc.). Further, due to the IT industry in social life and the national economy in all sectors of the basic and instrumental status, cloud computing will bring the entire national economy and even social changes, change people's lives and work even the way of thinking.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)