IBM is late in China to send "cloud computing" roadmap

In the "Elephant" transformation process, the software business unit from a former novice, gradually transformed into a skilled and highly competitive department. Of these, cloud computing, which has been laid out since 2006, is undoubtedly an important step for IBM.

Perhaps the "wisdom of the Earth" too rigid, so that as the pioneer of cloud computing, IBM still let the outside world feel that it is somewhat outdated. Now, the "blue giant" will begin to reverse this inaccurate perception.

August 23, Chanda, chairman and chief executive officer of IBM Greater China, announced the establishment of the cloud computing division of Greater China in Shanghai. He told the "ithttp://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13057.html" > Times that the department will integrate IBM software, hardware, services, research and development and other departments of resources to play an integrated advantage, Provide End-to-end cloud computing solutions to strengthen the layout of the Chinese market. It is the first time that IBM has set up a cloud computing business in China since 2008, when it launched the "Smart Earth" strategy in China. At the same time, Chanda also released IBM's "Cloud computing" roadmap.

Up to now, the industry is still on the real role of cloud computing at this stage is controversial, but the future people must live in the "Cloud World", but the consensus of all parties. So in the last two or three years, it giants such as Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Hewlett-Packard and Dell each show "muscle" and frequently advertise their public cloud, private cloud, community cloud and hybrid cloud in public, even Apple, which is not in the cloud, released its icloud cloud plan earlier this year. When the industry is judging these companies, it's also a wonder: What is IBM's plan for cloud computing?

In fact, IBM was the most early advocate of cloud computing, and many years ago IBM began proposing grid computing, a concept that appeared to be new in the marketplace at the time, a prototype of cloud computing.

IBM has long begun to implement cloud computing strategy within the company, and has benefited from the implementation of cloud computing, IBM has built a lot of cloud computing platform within the company, which is Blueinsight, the world's largest business analysis private cloud technology, has saved IBM tens of millions of of dollars.

IBM, which seems to have been "low-key" in the cloud market, has made a powerful sound, according to Chanda, IBM has implemented 2000 private cloud projects in the world in only 2010 years, IBM Cloud platform has 19 million users, global Fortune 500 Enterprises, 80% Using IBM's cloud computing services. In addition, IBM has built 5 cloud centers and 12 backup clouds in global investment.

Given such a brilliant performance, why did IBM come so late today to unveil its cloud strategy roadmap? And, with the industry still in dispute, can IBM explain the concept of cloud computing? What are the advantages and disadvantages of IBM cloud computing compared to competitors?

Palmisano "Saved" the cloud.

People familiar with it history will know that it is the IBM chairman Palmisano a "surprise" visit to Google to make the cloud a live.

In the 2006, Grid computing (the predecessor of Cloud computing), Google's global network of operations has formed a cluster, Google internal to this large-scale computer cluster called "cloud." That fall, Google's young engineer Bisilia to Enrique Schmidt, Google's CEO, when he took advantage of 20% of his time (Google allocated to employees for independent development projects), back to school to start a course to guide students to the "cloud" system programming development. Schmidt passed the plan and named it "Google 101" inside Google.

At the end of November 2006, Bisilia began promoting the "Google 101" program at his alma mater, Washington University. Throughout the spring of 2007, news of the course spread, and the faculties of other universities began to ask for participation.

This has created a problem for Bisilia, expanding the size of the "Google 101" program, which means the scale of the "cloud" cluster will increase exponentially. But Google is not ready to let students randomly access the cluster of computers running their 10.6 billion dollar business. "Cloud" technology to promote the face of premature death.

However, the sudden visit to the Google Mansion Palmisano helped Bisilia solve the problem.

Palmisano and his team of IBM are said to have written on the whiteboard to discuss "cloud computing" when talking to Schmidt and more than 10 Google engineers, including Bisilia.

IBM has always wanted to deploy a "cloud" system to provide data and services to enterprise customers. At the same time, under Palmisano's leadership, IBM has become a leading proponent of Open-source software such as Linux systems. This is the focus of the "blue giant" in the software campaign, especially in the battle against Microsoft. If Google and IBM collaborate on the cloud, they will have a chance to create a future of cloud computing.

When Palmisano left Google, Bisilia and IBM's Dennis were all assigned to form the "cloud" of Google IBM's Joint University. For the next 3 months, they fought alongside Google's headquarters.

They led the senior leadership in Mountain View, Calif., in February 2007, while using video to showcase the project prototype for the first time at IBM headquarters in Armonk, New York. A staff member uses mobile phones to download data from the cloud cluster. In October, Google and IBM jointly announced that the world's many universities will be included in a similar Google's "cloud computing" platform. Thus, "cloud computing" in the global industry quickly become a hot topic, IBM and Google also embarked on their own "cloud computing" road.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)