"Cloud computing" siege

"Cloud computing" era will come sooner or later, Google, Amazon, the United States telecom giant At&t, Alibaba, etc., has long or is creating a "cloud computing" service environment, which will, to some extent, change the technology base of the existing Internet. With the various advantages of cloud computing more intuitive and operational, the future will undoubtedly have more enterprises, especially the majority of small and medium-sized enterprises to join in.

Cloud Friends Column

In recent days, friends have been exchanging information about the benefits of cloud computing and how to buy it, including start-up companies, companies that are already running mature, and companies that are preparing for new projects. One of the companies providing video services is having a headache 2013 budget input in the data center. The simple help he made a budget, according to 2012 growth, 2013 data Center input needs about 5 million yuan.

For a start-up company, such a budget is hard for both companies and investors what's more, the growth rate of users using video services is only a forecast for this year's rise, and spending on growth for these users will be a whole year's budget, even if only in batches, and funding guarantees can be a headache for the company. At the same time, even if the data center for a batch input, because to take into account the peak users and peak conditions of the user experience, so also to ensure that the product in the network transmission peak value of the normal operation.

The era of "cloud computing" comes

Who invented cloud computing, a collaborative project between IBM and Google, "cloud computing" or Amazon's EC2 service? None of this we can talk about. Since the 1960s, McCarthy's idea of computing power as a utility for utilities like water and electricity has been the origin of cloud computing, making it practical and romantic.

Imagine, in the future, when a business establishes a new office point, do not need to purchase office computers, but directly to buy a bunch of low-cost cloud host, the host into the enterprise's IT office environment, and then most of it deployment will be completed, no longer worry about network equipment division, IT infrastructure settings, data storage, Network security and other things. For those who put it equipment as a day-to-day office business, is always a headache, the enterprise's input cost reduction, information management become more convenient, this is how comfortable one thing ah!

Looking at the history of cloud computing, in Google engineer Christopher Bisilia do "Google 101" project must not think of this project, will change the entire Internet and even the entire world Computer Application mode. When he was thinking about how to integrate the old school computers and provide computing resources to other students, it was not expected that the project would create a new business model to provide computing services as a profit.

Many experts believe that cloud computing will change the technology base of the Internet, and even affect the whole industry pattern. From Google to the public release of cloud computing search concept, to 2006 Amazon flexible computing cloud commercial applications, and then to the U.S. telecom giant At&t (American telephone and Telegraph Company) launched the dynamic hosting services, as well as the domestic Alibaba Group Aliyun, Huawei's Huawei Cloud services ...

Cloud computing from the concept to the application of the process, like an intelligent life, from the embryonic stage, overheating, trough, recovery period, gradually towards the mature stage. Big companies are creating a service environment for cloud computing, and cloud computing means more to SMEs, why cloud computing, what companies are suitable for cloud computing, and what benefits can cloud computing bring?

How to use "cloud computing"

If the enterprise plans to establish a new information office environment, the use of cloud computing office, can meet the needs of different enterprise applications. First of all, from the cost of investment, to 50 of companies as an example, the company's first investment in it office costs about 200,000 yuan. If you use the Cloud Computing office environment, the initial cost of input will be reduced to half. For this kind of workplace is relatively concentrated, customer service-oriented companies, the investment in cloud computing is a very cost-effective thing.

In addition, cloud computing can provide enterprises with applications, data storage, infrastructure and other resources in the form of services, and allocate resources automatically according to the needs of the enterprise. The information office of these companies is relatively simple and does not involve complex network partitioning and information security issues. So what are these companies? This kind of company's it office equipment is mainly used to assist to do some content inquiry, record and so on does not involve the complex computer application, including some housing intermediary company, the call center, the external Provision service education organization and so on.

Mobile office will become a way of working, more and more office people are accustomed to using mobile phone processing mail, using pad processing files, the past on the laptop to deal with the work of the habit, has been more and more mobile devices on the internet and ease of operation and convenience of the replacement, But people still use desktop or laptop computers this creates the problem of working with different it devices, causing the data to not be stored on the same device, and the applications that can be used on office equipment are often not uniform, and if there is a unified working environment, it will make this work way more efficient.

Can cloud computing solve such problems? First, use cloud computing to keep all data in the same place, all devices handle the same data, which avoids inconsistencies between the data in different devices, and when the office staff needs to use the data, it will not be the same as the original to check which data is the latest, or temporarily download the latest data from the mailbox. Second, cloud computing can provide users with Remote Desktop services, and office workers can use a wide range of terminal devices (such as PCs, laptops, smartphones, etc.) to access desks, thereby using a unified it office environment. The advantage is that no matter where the office is, no matter what equipment they use to access the office environment, the office staff see the content and the use of the office environment are consistent. The ubiquitous features of cloud computing can be a very good solution to mobile office, cross-regional office and other enterprises new office methods.

There are also better reasons to migrate businesses across geographies into cloud computing offices. As business continues to grow, it will gradually open branches and offices in the country and even overseas. How to work together across geographies will become more and more of their concern. Although some companies use VPN, fiber-optic line and so on to help build a cross-regional office network, but these solutions have high input cost, late management and maintenance costs are very high, for many companies can not afford. And cloud computing itself is a web-based service, by building the office network on cloud computing, excluding the office environment to the user where the office of the restrictions, coupled with cloud computing input can be carried out in batches, network division and management can be completed by the service provider, so from the initial cost of input, management and maintenance costs, Can let the average small and medium-sized enterprises accept.

When businesses need to set up new offices in the field, only need to contact cloud computing provider to buy new cloud services, then the office staff use computers or cloud host to access the cloud computing desktop, immediately and headquarters to maintain the same information office, received daily information, processing work process and the headquarters to maintain consistent, The head office and the subsidiary company share the Office resources, the OA environment and so on. The office environment under cloud computing can make the company and the branch company in the daily operation speed is quicker, the enterprise Office flow synchronization, the information resources and the personnel skill sharing and so on to establish the stronger link.

While cloud computing has unparalleled advantages in unified management, demand allocation, segmented billing, and remote access to support multiple devices, it should be noted that not all small and medium-sized enterprises are suitable for fast cloud computing. The use of cloud computing in the present for small and medium-sized enterprises have some limitations, but these limitations mainly focus on the information security concerns, network access to the lack of experience, personnel awareness needs to improve, but from a technical point of view does not exist too big bottleneck. With the overall optimization of the network environment, enterprise staff to adapt to the remote office, with the various advantages of cloud computing more intuitive and operational, no doubt more small and medium-sized enterprises will be transferred to the business position.