Cloud computing: Are you ready?

By 2012, 80% of the world's Fortune 1000 companies will use cloud computing services in different ways, according to Gartner, a market-research firm. Experts have also said that the future of the Internet is a cloud computing, it will gradually penetrate into people's work and life.　　Please pay attention to--break the sand pot A "cloud" is slowly drifting towards us. Cloud computing, one of the hottest it topics nowadays.　　Although cloud computing is not a technological revolution in terms of technology evolution, its impact on the IT industry is revolutionary. What is cloud computing? Is it a commercial hype or a vision for the future? Are we really ready to walk the clouds?　　Are we hugging or rejecting cloud computing?　　In the recent "2009 Cloud Computing China Forum", government officials, industry experts, the business community on the nature of cloud computing and development trends to explore, this is the first time in the domestic cloud computing in-depth discussion of a large forum.　　Change the future of cloud computing three years ago, Google first proposed cloud computing concept, followed by IBM launched the "Blue Cloud Plan", the concept of successful market, cloud computing has been the focus of many IT vendors: Amazon, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, EMC and many other IT giants have joined. But for the benefit of the cause, there is still no unified definition of what is cloud computing today. This is like the cloud of the horizon, "Distant view of the visible, near-view boundless." In general, cloud computing refers to the delivery and usage patterns of IT infrastructure, which means acquiring the required resources (hardware, platform, software) on an as-needed and extensible basis over the network.　　The network that provides resources is called "cloud", the resources in the "cloud" can be obtained at any time, use on demand, expand at any time, pay by use. Fan, EMC's global vice-president, gave reporters an example of a loss of data if the computer's hard drive broke down. But in the "cloud computing" era, the cloud will do the work of storing and computing for us.　　At that time, only need a computer to be able to access the Internet, do not need to care about the storage or calculation of which "cloud". "Whenever necessary, we can use any equipment, such as computers, mobile phones, and so on, to quickly calculate and find such information." "Cloud computing is very close to the people," Fan said. "In other words, as long as your PC or mobile phones and other terminals installed a simple operating system and full-featured browser, the boot input username and password, you exist in the" cloud "application software and data will be synchronized to reach the terminal for you to use.　　This means that ordinary users will likely consume "compute" resources as easily as electricity and water.　　Zhang, chairman of Microsoft China Research and Development Group, believes that in the near future, where there is electricity can be calculated, there are calculations where there is intelligence, there are intelligent places can surf the internet, individuals and enterprises will usher in new opportunities for development. "As a new computing model, cloud computing makes it easy for enterprises to acquire the resources they need to help them achieve business innovation." "IBM China DevelopmentHeart General manager Wang pointed out. The sky will float "China Cloud" what does cloud computing mean for China?　　What are the prospects for development? "Cloud computing will be a symbol of national power.　　"In 3-5 years, China is expected to become the world's strongest in cloud computing," Wang said.　　Wang's judgment is that cloud computing is in the early stages of development, but because of early start, China's cloud computing technology and business development is expected to be the world's leading position. "We are a big developing country, and cloud computing is from scratch, which just makes it possible to construct solutions from the most reasonable solutions." No baggage, light, will not be the original product drag, the use of our later advantage.　　NI, vice chairman of Cloud computing Experts Committee of China Electronic Society. "Cloud computing is not just an academic ' cloud ', ' a foreign ' cloud ', hoping to raise a dazzling ' China cloud ' in the sky. "said Yang, chief research and development officer at Intel Asia Pacific Research and Development company software and services Division."　　It is understood that many domestic companies have begun to have their own characteristics of cloud computing research and development. According to Huang, director of the China Mobile Communications Research Institute, an experimental cloud computing platform based on open source technology, "big Cloud", has been built. "There are already studies like data mining, storage, large-capacity databases, and search engines. "And in the commercial application of cloud computing, China has also taken the forefront." 2006, in order to attract enterprises to the Wuxi Software Park, Wuxi government and IBM to build a new enterprise data center model based on the building of Cloud computing center.　　Software Park tenants can use the data center to lease software development and testing environments, which is the world's first commercially available cloud computing hub. It will take a while for cloud computing to fall. Despite the impetus of many internet giants, the trend of "cloud computing" has no doubt.　　But for now, the "cloud computing" awareness has yet to be strengthened. People tend to worry that the "cloud computing" model, the combination of all the data, resources to ensure that they are safe, confidential? This fear is clearly not unfounded.　　In addition, how to let consumers develop the habit of paying users and building a profitable business model will be a headache for cloud computing providers. By contrast, the formation of cloud computing standards seems more difficult. Perhaps because the current major cloud computing vendors are some it giants, so it is inevitable to say the words, is the first to develop a broad industry-wide adherence to standards in order to standardize the market? Or do you have the standard of fact to speak?　　There is a lot of controversy in the industry. In March this year, with IBM's proposal, more than 200 it vendors, such as Cisco and EMC, signed the "Open Cloud computing Manifesto" to develop open, unified cloud computing standards.　　But Amazon, Google and Microsoft have not signed the declaration. "Only a variety of clouds in the sky can make the world colorful, but there must be open standards."　　"Wang said. Zhang that many IT vendors are building an open platform for cloud computing, although thisSome platforms are technically different, but the entire cloud computing platform does not require a higher standard of unification. Jichuan, director of the China Electronic Society, said cloud computing still has a lot of theoretical and practical problems to solve, such as how to build the cloud computing service platform, how to connect the Man-machine interface, how to be compatible with the new terminal and the system and the existing network and system, how to make the information flow intelligent and how to determine the information security, and how to realize the "These problems require the joint efforts of all parties for in-depth discussion." "Some analysts believe that cloud computing is a fusion of many new technologies, but it is important that it provides a new business model that is centred on the need to hire IT resources." These will have an important impact on the future IT industry, thus creating a new IT application prospects.