Cloud computing: Development model meets bottleneck industry needs to think cold

"Can you turn the cloud into fog?" Clouds drift in the air cannot fall down, can have a middle form, let it turn into fog? It's closer to the ground. "A local official recently told the China Electronic news reporter that he was distressed that the new cloud computing infrastructure was no use and that large investments would not be returned."

Government-led is the distinctive feature of the development of cloud computing in our country, and the relevant policies have been promulgated in the past two years. But the new cloud-computing hub faces a dilemma of no end-user, and cloud computing needs to be considered coldly.

Cloud Computing center should not be reduced to image engineering

The concept of cloud computing was first introduced to China by multinationals and was soon accepted by local governments, and local governments showed unprecedented enthusiasm in developing cloud computing. According to Hechinying, vice president of the consultants, so far, the cloud has "action" in China's local cities, more than 100, especially the hottest last year.

At present, more than 20 cities in China have promulgated the cloud computing Industry Development Plan, Action plan, encourage the construction demonstration pilot project, formulated the land, the tax, the Fund and so on preferential policy. Local governments to actively promote the region IDC, disaster preparedness Center, such as cloud computing infrastructure, has become a new generation of cloud computing infrastructure, the main catalyst.

Most of the cloud computing centers built around the world are public or mixed clouds to provide public computing services to the public and to gain profits. However, the Cloud computing center is now built with few users, far from the needs of users. Hechinying that the development of cloud computing has entered an awkward position. The local government invests a lot of money but does not receive the economic benefits, the end user also did not receive the benefit, but only sells the server the hardware manufacturer and sells the software and the solution service manufacturer to make the big money.

In addition to the lack of existing products and services that do not match the needs of users, Hechinying also believes that cloud computing requires users to change the way they use computing resources, and that this shift in usage requires a process that cannot be done in the short term through policy stimulus. Another major reason is the cost of migration, SMEs are the target customers of cloud computing, the important purpose of developing cloud computing is to reduce their IT costs. But for the small and medium-sized enterprises, the existing IT infrastructure is basically enough to meet the needs, there is no need for the use of new investment in cloud computing. "If you must use, who will pay for the migration costs?" "Hechinying said.

The government-led development model has encountered bottlenecks. Some local governments have built cloud computing infrastructure when there are no specific needs. Because of the lack of end users, cloud computing center has been cold, reduced to image engineering. According to the reporter understand, in order to promote the healthy development of cloud computing, China's relevant departments are brewing to develop the guidance of cloud computing.

The development of cloud computing should not take traditional IT industry old road

Compared to domestic local governments in full swing to promote cloud computing development, foreign cloud computing is mainly driven by enterprises, is the demand-driven enterprise spontaneous behavior.

It is understood that in foreign countries, cloud computing is the first by Google, Amazon and other information services enterprises to promote and practice, and then emerged the government, large enterprises to cloud computing, especially private cloud demand, followed by Microsoft, IBM and other enterprises to provide cloud computing information system solutions.

An Hui, Director of software and information services at Sadie think-tank, told the China Electronic News reporter that although the United States has also deployed relevant planning and planning, it is from the user's point of view. It is because from the user's point of view and the development of cloud computing, so its development focus on the provision of cloud computing services, development steps and needs to be consistent, the development focus has not deviated from the infrastructure construction.

Beijing Huasheng Tiancheng Technology Co., Ltd., general manager of the company said, Google, Amazon is because of the explosion of service business, the increasing number of high-end servers and storage equipment caused by the cost of enterprises too much pressure, resulting in a strong technology to reduce the cost of the need. In this strong demand, cloud computing emerged.

In our country, the difference between the understanding of cloud computing makes the local government become the pushing force. An Hui points out that both the government and most companies are the infrastructure of cloud computing as an important economic growth point. Many places in the cloud computing planning, put forward "cloud computing industry chain" scale target, is a proof.

This understanding of cloud computing angle, it is easy to go to the traditional information technology industry development of the old road: to hardware products, software products, network construction, data center and other infrastructure construction as the focus of cloud computing development, these "visible" content as a result of development.

Zhouning admits that enterprises need to see application requirements will be to do the corresponding cloud computing model, and the current domestic can adapt to the cloud model business is not much, but also on Baidu, Tencent's business is a cloud computing service model. But he also pointed out that the model of Baidu and Tencent is basically personal service, the cloud computing model for enterprise and Government application service is not obvious, the application driving force is not the main factor that restricts the development of cloud computing. Although many of the domestic companies engaged in cloud computing services are based on the characteristics of various industries, exploration and refinement with industry characteristics of the application, but need time. The Government's position in the development of cloud computing should be scientifically planned, guided and laid out.

An Hui that cloud computing is a new field, its development law is not obvious, and there is not much to follow. Therefore, the Government should not move in the development of cloud computing, not blind, not only to do the macro-direction of the guide, so that the general direction does not go, for example, will not go to the mass data center to build up, but also to do specific work of the participants, such as the promotion of the field of government Project means to promote cloud computing development small step run.

In the government's guidance and demand, Huang, director of China Mobile Research Institute, said that if the Chinese government could take the lead in using the cloud and release the government's demand, it could also drive the development of cloud computing. The U.S. government, for example, has put a lot of business into the Amazon cloud after research, and costs have dropped a lot, he said. "To give full play to the government's public trust and guidance in cloud computing services is an important guarantee of China's success in cloud computing and an important development direction of the public cloud in China," he said. Dr Xu Zeming, Vice Minister of research and Development at the Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center (the National Center for Supercomputing, Shenzhen), told China Electronic daily.

Security issues should not restrict cloud computing promotion

In addition to the problem of demand, vague knowledge and fear of cloud computing security have restricted the development of cloud computing in China to some extent.

Xu Zeming that cloud computing security is the extension of traditional information security and development, security concerns should not restrict the spread of cloud computing, because China has established a sound information security product system. In the case of electronic payment on the Internet, electronic payment is becoming more and more popular, and users are now able to accept the security of electronic payment to a large extent.

He believes that there are already some scientific research institutions and universities in the cloud computing security has done a lot of research, but also a lot of results appear. This link is still not very smooth, good cloud security results in the application has not yet emerged.

Sheng told the China Electronic newspaper reporter, cloud computing is still in the market incubation period, the need to gradually guide users to accept and trust the cloud computing model. The cloud platform can be seen as an information bank. She said: "In the past we put money under our own bed, now we put in the bank, which is actually the result of social division of labor, we also gradually found that the latter is more secure." Many small and medium-sized entrepreneurs because of hardware and environmental constraints, the security issues of defense and treatment are not as experienced as large it enterprises. Therefore, the cloud platform in fact better help small and medium entrepreneurs to do professional security protection. ”

"No absolute security," Dongzhenjiang, deputy dean of the Research Institute for Cloud Computing and IT operations at ZTE, said to the China Electronic newspaper reporter, "as the old minister of Jichuan said, all networks have ' eyes ', loopholes are normal, and the key is to identify with the cloud." ”

One way to increase security is to give credit to the government. An Hui suggests that cloud computing service providers can be established to assess the service capabilities, security credentials and credit rating of the cloud services provider. Xu Zeming that the government should further improve the policies and regulations, such as the development of information based on identity authentication, authorization management, improve the network identity certification management policy. To study and develop the rules for the reliability identification of electronic signatures and data messages, and to provide support for electronic forensics, forensic expertise and legal litigation.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)