Cloud services require customer accumulation

Today, whether it is such as IBM, Microsoft, such as international giants, or like Huawei, Baidu, Ufida such as the local giant crocodile, are known as professional cloud services provider. Even some local small and medium-sized enterprises, have launched cloud computing products and services, hoping to get a piece of cake in the market tide. Shanghai Pudong Software Park Hui Zhi software general manager Guo Xiaoping told the "China Electronic newspaper" reporter, the enterprise can transform to do cloud platform, cloud services, not the size of the enterprise itself, but whether the accumulation of a certain customer.

Cloud services have three challenges

Whether large or small enterprises, in the face of the growing stage of the cloud computing market, will encounter a variety of problems. Guo Xiaoping Frankly, put into the cloud computing market, need to evaluate three aspects of the problem first. One is the market, although everyone is talking about cloud computing, but it is not so easy for enterprise users to really spend money to buy cloud services. Because users have had some it input before, it is difficult to replace or discard existing IT equipment. And for security reasons, users are wary of making decisions about the entire system on the public cloud. Therefore, to solve these problems requires cloud computing service providers to continue to open up the market, do a good job, step-by-step user recognition.

The second problem is technology. In Guo Xiaoping's view, cloud computing technology is actually relatively simple. We are more concerned about the virtualization technology is only to solve the resources from the entity into a virtual first step, but for the management of virtual resources, scheduling, when there are problems to do disaster recovery backup, and the entire cloud platform architecture, design closely related.

In addition, the operation of cloud computing, the industry as a major technical test. Guo Xiaoping that cloud computing integrates all IT resources. Previously operating an IDC or a small software, but only limited to a part, but if the operation of the cloud platform, operators need not only understand the platform's underlying architecture, a variety of devices, but also need to understand running on the intermediate software, such as operating systems, middleware, databases and so on. And the technology of cloud computing is to reduce cost, integrate many devices together. When a device fails, technicians are required to quickly switch to the normal equipment to keep the system running properly. "To ensure that each device is available, you can connect at any time, the pressure on the technical staff is very high." He said bluntly.

Although China's cloud platform operators are still in the initial stage, and foreign gaps, the provision of cloud services may be interrupted, repeated. However, at the same time, we should also note that the IT industry's operational level has been continuously improved in practice, which is the normal phenomenon of industry progress. "Guo Xiaoping said.

The third problem is basic resources. Guo Xiaoping that the bandwidth and IP address resources are now almost all in the hands of telecom operators, and bandwidth and IP resources are not enough, the other small and medium-sized enterprises to develop cloud computing kabozi problem.

Local companies still have a chance

For the local cloud service providers, IBM, Microsoft, such as competitors is a scourge, the face of their local enterprises have no chance? Guo Xiaoping told the China Electronic News reporter, local enterprises and IBM, Microsoft in the cloud computing gap is not big. According to his understanding, some domestic enterprises with the IBM, Microsoft Solution, the runtime also appeared some problems, or function can not achieve, or failure to appear. He believes that these companies in the cloud is more at the market level of publicity, how the landing effect has yet to be tested.

Google, Amazon is with IBM, Microsoft at different technical level of enterprises, but also really do cloud computing more mature enterprises. But Guo Xiaoping that cloud platforms are their business operations and their business secrets, they don't build cloud platforms for others and sell their business secrets.

And some domestic enterprises, such as Huawei, high quality cloud technology, do no worse than foreign enterprises, "it depends on whether the country stressed the independent technology, whether to give support." "Guo Xiaoping said.

Cloud computing is the opportunity for China's enterprises to overtake the corners. 武连峰, assistant vice president of IDC, told the China Electronic news reporter that every time a major technological innovation and revolution occurs, several new giant technology companies will emerge. When computers and packaged software were invented, IBM and Microsoft Rose, he said, and when the internet became popular, Google overtook Microsoft, and when mobile smart terminals appeared, Apple overtook Nokia, and Facebook overtook Google when social networks were rife. And whether it's Microsoft, Google, Facebook, or Apple, it's a small, obscure company before the advent of new technologies and business models. "When cloud computing changes the way it works, who can say that the next overlord will not be in China?" "he said.

Customer base is the public cloud service key

Each public cloud platform operators need to have a certain customer base and better customer groups, to start doing cloud operations.

Guo Xiaoping told the "China Electronic newspaper" reporter, the current market on the public cloud in front of the Aliyun, Sheng, million nets, have a better customer positioning. Aliyun face Alibaba, Taobao electronic shops, Shanda in the game, literature, creative industries have users accumulate, million network before hosting, but also have a customer base. Huitong Software is Shanghai Pudong Software Park subordinate enterprises, in the face of Software Park forty thousand or fifty thousand of innovative, technology-based SMEs to provide cloud platform services.

The small and medium-sized enterprise cloud service that faces the park also has its own characteristic. According to a survey of the requirements of the software, the common small and medium-sized enterprises for cloud host, cloud storage and other infrastructure types and corresponding value-added services need more, at the same time, OA, mailbox, social platform and other general-purpose applications need more. "The advantage of providing cloud services for Software Park Enterprises is mainly in the customization of services," "We understand that small and medium-sized enterprises, regardless of their industry or size, have a demand for the underlying architecture and generic software, and differentiated competition lies in providing them with full business and customized services from IaaS to SaaS," Guo Xiaoping said. ”

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)