Cloud computing two big monopolies are about to divide

The concept of "cloud computing" is rapidly rising around the world: 2010, China's cloud computing market size reached 55.93 billion yuan, an increase of 29.3%. It is estimated that 2011-2015, the annual composite growth rate of more than 50%. 2011 Global Cloud Computing Market size will reach 40.7 billion U.S. dollars, 2020 will increase to 241 billion U.S. dollars. By 2015, China's cloud computing industry chain will reach 750 billion to 1 trillion yuan.

But equally rapidly, the world of cloud computing has in fact formed two big monopolies. Among them, the first big monopolies are Amazon and Google, the second largest monopoly is EMC and VMware.

The first big monopolies: Amazon and Google

Google

Hardware advantage, large data center, search engine is to promote the rapid development of Google Cloud computing three big power. The Google Cloud infrastructure model includes four separate, tightly knit systems: Google file system, which is built on top of the cluster, and the Map/reduce programming model proposed for Google Apps, Distributed lock mechanism Chubby and the model simplified by Google developed a large-scale distributed database bigtable.

Google also builds other cloud computing components, including a domain description language and a distributed lock service mechanism. Sawzall is a domain language based on MapReduce, which is devoted to large-scale information processing. Chubby is a highly available, distributed data Lock service, and when a machine fails, Chubby uses the Paxos algorithm to ensure backup.

Google specific cloud computing products include the following:

Docs is the first cloud computing application, belongs to the S layer, is similar to Microsoft Office's online Office software.

Apps is a Google Apps suite that integrates management functions such as Cmail, Googletalk, Google Calendar, Docs, and the latest cloud apps Googlesites, API extensions, Can be better to achieve synergies anytime, anywhere.

Googlesites is Google's latest cloud computing application that can be used to create a variety of team sites as a component of apps.

Google App Engine is a platform composed of Python application servers, bigtable databases, and GFS to provide developers with integrated host servers and an automated online application service.

There are signs that Google's cloud-computing goals are not just for individual users, but for the vast majority of space from individual users to corporate users. Google is also actively working with other cloud computing companies. Google, one of the world's most influential High-tech companies, is embracing the era of cloud computing with a pioneer attitude.

Amazon

Amazon is the internet's largest online retailer, and its cloud computing platform, the flexible Computing cloud EC2 (Elastic compute cloud), can effectively address the waste of resources and make Amazon the first company to sell infrastructure as a service.

As early as March 2006, Amazon released a simple storage service (simply Storage SERVICE,S3), paid for the service in the form of a monthly rent, and in July 2007, the simple queue service was rolled out (easy queues Service,sqs), With this service, application writers can transfer data between distributed programs without considering the problem of message loss. On the basis of the above services, Amazon has optimized and transformed the existing platforms of the company, opened the service interface and developed a EC2 system that is open to external developers while safeguarding its retail application business.

Unlike Google's cloud computing services, Google offers cloud computing platforms only for its applications on the Internet, and independent developers or developers cannot work on the platform, so they can only develop cloud applications with Open-source Hadoop software support. Amazon also does not sell the physical cloud computing services platform, but instead builds its own flexible computing cloud on a platform of large-scale cluster computing within the company, where users can operate on the cloud's web interface to manipulate individual instances (Instance) And the payment method is determined by the user's usage condition, that is, the user only needs to pay for the computing platform instance that he uses, and then the billing is ended after the running. The example described here is a complete virtual machine run instance controlled by the user. In this way, users do not have to set up their own cloud computing platform, saving equipment and maintenance costs.

In the future development of the flexible computing cloud, Amazon has also planned how to help users develop Web 2.0 applications on top of the cloud computing platform. Amazon believes that, in addition to its reliance on the online retail business, cloud computing is the core value of Amazon. It can be foreseen that in the future development process, Amazon will be in the flexible computing cloud platform to add more network Services Module modules, for users to build cloud computing applications to provide convenience.

Second largest monopolies: EMC and VMware

EMC

EMC Corporation is a leading developer and provider of global information infrastructure technology and solutions.

Since EMC and VMware presented the concept of private cloud at the same time in 08 and 09, EMC has focused on the private cloud as its strategic focus and worked closely with VMware to work on information storage, management, protection, security, and intelligent extraction, centered around information infrastructure and virtual architecture. November 2009, EMC, VMware and Cisco jointly established the VCE Virtual Computing Environment Consortium and launched the Vblock infrastructure package, setting up an independent company Acadia to provide a private cloud infrastructure architecture for the end-to-end business of the data center.

The cloud computing solutions and services offered by EMC are grouped into the following broad categories.

First, it is based on EMC's most traditional and core business, offering storage products that apply to a variety of cloud computing applications. Includes storage aspects (EMC virtual matrix Architectur), according to backup (consolidated data domain and legacy backup recovery and de-duplication solution).

Facing the PAAs layer, EMC offers a variety of management tools. In the area of cloud database, EMC released the Vfabric Data Director Databases management tool this August. Vfabric Data Director is also ongoing research and development and can only support limited database types, but will ultimately support all mainstream products, including domestic databases.

At the SaaS level, EMC launched the EMC OnDemand Service in May this year to provide software products to users in the form of SaaS. EMC, the oldest in storage, has been increasing its software power through mergers and acquisitions, especially the 2004 acquisition of VMware. EMC has also gained a lot of competitive advantage in the cloud computing world. At present, the U.S. public cloud providers are almost all of EMC's customers, domestic enterprises, Taobao and other suppliers are also using EMC products.

VMware

VMware, the world's leading provider of virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions, was signed by EMC in 2004 for a 635 million dollar cash deal, and has since become a strong supporter of EMC's cloud computing strategy.

Around the X86 architecture product, VMware has been expanding the coverage of its products and services over the past 5 years. In the 2007, VMware first completed the transition from server virtualization to data center virtual vendors, and in 2008 began a full-scale transformation of cloud computing, with the acquisition and self-development of progressively richer cloud product lines, offering a variety of software products and solutions from IaaS, PAAs to SaaS. Today, its virtualization includes from the cloud to the end of all levels.

Relying on traditional technologies such as vsphere and Vfabric, VMware currently offers three-level solutions for cloud infrastructure management, cloud computing application platforms, and end user cloud.

The cloud infrastructure and management solution is built on VMware vsphere to help customers upgrade their IT infrastructure by leveraging existing investments to create a private cloud or a hybrid cloud that is interoperable with the VMware vcloud public cloud.

With VMware Cloud computing application Platform solutions, developers can quickly build and run cloud computing applications in their deployments for maximum flexibility. Today, more than 2 million of developers worldwide rely on VMware vfabric to create dynamically portable, scalable applications.

End-User Computing solutions Create a modern, user-oriented approach to personal computing that allows users to access applications and data securely, anytime, anywhere, with any device. VMware also provides virtualized application suites, such as messaging, e-mail, calendars, and collaboration, which employ a modular architecture that enables distributed access to data and storage that can be deployed and managed across the cloud.

In the future, VMware can also virtualize emerging applications, large data applications, and real-time data applications.

The two major monopolies are not the same in nature. Among them, Amazon and Google as the public cloud operators, directly to the end user, has become the de facto industry standard-makers. When all cloud computing device providers face them, they must try to meet their requirements. And end users, have been in many applications have been benefited.

For the second monopoly group, focus on the product supplier level. To put it simply, the popularity of the X86 platform has led to the popularity of VMware in the marketplace. Almost everyone is familiar with virtual machines on PCs, leading to many applications using VMware technology.

      Looking ahead, the monopoly will continue as long as the first monopoly group does not make a big mistake. But the second monopoly is in danger of being pulled out. Because cloud computing is more and more unimportant to the hardware itself after virtualization, whether the user or the integrator is not necessarily going back to X86 's unique architecture, it should be that the computing resources of multiple architectures are fully exploited. Vendor lock-in may soon be over. &NBSP