Cloud computing: Blow up the sand and start to gold

Cloud computing in the chaos has gone through a year, cloud computing news and advertising overwhelming, but only crazy sand sky. People create a large number of "cloud" at the beginning or end of the "cloud" of the term: manufacturing Cloud (Cloud manufacturing), Business Cloud (cloud commerce), home appliances Cloud (cloud appliance) and so on. The word "cloud" has become a miracle in Chinese characters, which can be put into the front or back of any word, and it can be said that cloud computing has become an important term in the public mind. But the road in front of cloud computing industry is where, now the people in the industry are lost.

Cloud computing is a revolution in the information industry, which is a recognized fact, but now the cloud computing industry is experiencing a similar process with the early development of the Internet industry, the industry bubble is forming and expanding. When it comes to bubbles, everyone's first reaction is negative, but like a good beer, a bubble is a must, and the key is wine under the bubble. In the bubble period of cloud computing, it is more necessary to have a sober mind to the cloud industry, and not to go with the bubble in the end.

Cloud computing has finally become a model

Cloud computing was given an official explanation for the Government's emphasis on the cloud computing industry in March 2012 in the State Department's work report, but the whole definition was very cautious and left a lot of room for changes and explanations of future definitions. The definition of cloud computing in government work reports is this:

"Cloud computing: The growth, use, and delivery model of internet-based services, often involving the provision of dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources over the Internet." is a product of the development of traditional computer and network technology, which means that computing power can also be circulated as a commodity through the Internet. ”

The core of the definition is "the growth, use, and delivery model of internet-based services". This definition of cloud computing as a "model" rather than a new "technology" shows that it has a far-reaching impact on the industry, is far from a single technological innovation can be summed up. Most people have been looking at cloud computing as just a technology, some academics have been hoping to have a strict definition of cloud computing, but the more technical definition of cloud computing, the more people do not understand cloud computing, so there is no one of the technical definition of cloud computing has been recognized by everyone, But the definition of cloud computing as an industrial model is all resolved, and an industry model needs a lot of different technologies to support it, and no technical definition can fully cover all the technical elements required by the cloud industry.

Multiple places in the definition use the "usual", "refers to the", "" often "," mean "and other inaccurate statements, indicating that the future of cloud computing is still a certain amount of estimation and prediction of the composition of cloud computing industry, the development of a fast-changing, with strong vitality, this uncertainty is also a feature of strategic emerging industries.

In this definition indirectly to the traditional Internet and cloud computing made a difference, can be understood as cloud computing services in the traditional Internet services on the basis of the increase, Internet services in the era of cloud computing is the entire cloud computing industry innovation and market power. For ordinary users to really experience the benefits of cloud computing is this increase in services, the resources behind cloud computing: computing resources, storage resources, bandwidth resources, data centers, etc., through application developers must be transformed into "increased service" before the direct face of ordinary users, A large number of application software developers face unprecedented opportunities in the cloud computing era, in particular, small and medium-sized start-up enterprises in the entrepreneurial threshold will be further reduced, application developers in the era of cloud computing only need to focus on their own innovative application services themselves, cloud computing resources provide a model for application developers to provide a broader space for imagination and innovation.

Cloud computing brings service growth

Second, the cloud computing industry model Division of Labor Clear

Cloud Computing's industrial chain is very long, both vertical and horizontal expansion, from the definition of government work report, cloud computing almost covers the entire information industry in all areas. But the cloud computing industry also has its own characteristics and structure, if we do not consider the traditional equipment manufacturing, bandwidth delivery and other industries, only for cloud computing features can be divided into the cloud industry as follows:

The new model makes the division of industry clearer

In the macro-structure chart of the industry, the basic resource operator undertakes to compute resources, storage resources, bandwidth resources and other resources "dynamic", "scalable" to the application developers to use the responsibility, application developers in these dynamically scalable resources to "encapsulate" the various cloud computing era "increase" Internet services that use the Internet and are delivered to users through the application of the integrator. Through this process computing capacity also as a commodity on the internet to achieve the flow. From the whole process, cloud computing is really a new industry "model", not a technology, technology is only a tool to achieve this industry model.

In the cloud computing era, the delivery mode of information industry will change greatly, the basic resources need to be encapsulated by the application developer for a certain service and then delivered by the application integrator to the end user, the division of the industrial chain is very clear, the basic resource itself is not oriented to the end user's service attribute, Only after the application developer encapsulates the service attribute to the user, application developers in the era of cloud computing often only need to care about the packaging of resources and service innovation, service delivery and market work is often done by the application of the integrator, application integrator will often be "service supermarket", "Application Supermarket" format for the end user, Apple's model is similar to this one, and it can be seen as an integrator of applications.

Cloud computing This industry model will be the two small, middle of the big industrial pattern, application developers will be the main force of the entire industry and innovative source of power, and the resource operators and application services integration provider will focus on a few enterprises.

Cloud computing in the industrial model of the changes to the Chinese information industry has provided unprecedented opportunities for development, to avoid China's technical and foreign competition, and the resources of cloud computing through the integration to provide applications, the ability of individual resources is no longer the impact of cloud computing services, the decisive factor, But the traditional Internet industry single server's ability is an important technical index, the cloud computing mode in the thinking change makes our country's chip industry, the core system software industry can bypass the foreign technology in the market to our country formation pressure to obtain the precious development time and the market space.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)