On the story of Beijing's cloud computing strategy planning

In order to integrate the high-end talent, venture capital, industrial base and innovative enterprise of the cloud computing industry in Beijing to promote the development of cloud computing industry, and seize the initiative in the new round of the international Competition of Information Technology, Beijing Municipal Commission issued the action Plan of "Xiangyun project" in October 2010. It is proposed that by 2015, the three types of "cloud computing" services (infrastructure services, platform services and software services) 50 billion yuan industrial scale, which led to the formation of cloud computing industry chain 200 billion yuan output value.

To further understand the progress of Xiangyun project and future planning, IT168 reporter interviewed CICC data vice President Li Jiang, who served as Beijing Xiangyun Project Strategic Planning Group leader.

▲ Figure 1 Vice President Li Jiang of CICC Data Systems Co., Ltd.

The main difficulties faced in Beijing's cloud computing strategy planning

Li Jiang, who was head of the strategic Planning Group of Beijing's Xiangyun project, said that the main difficulty in the cloud computing strategy planning process was who should be supported in the development of the cloud computing in Beijing. In the future Xiangyun project implementation process should always introduce who? Beijing in software services, hardware manufacturing, Data center and operational services have a very good foundation, in the cloud computing development should be transformed who?

Li Jiang introduced, at that time in doing strategic planning, the research method is to foreign more than 100 enterprises and more than 200 enterprises in Beijing to compare, to find out the point of the Beijing cloud computing, and the development of Beijing Xiangyun Project industrial chain planning.

What are the advantages of Beijing in the cloud computing industry chain? Li Jiang said, "cloud industry chain is very long, it involves the basic electronic components, hardware equipment, basic software, platform and applications, as well as cloud integration and cloud operation services." In these links, Beijing has advantages in many aspects, such as the chip manufacturing, the cloud of the equipment manufacturing capacity, in the basic software and application software, Beijing in the country's best and most extensive coverage, and many industry application software vendors, basically headquarters are also in Beijing. In the service sector, both integrated services and data center operating services, Beijing has a good advantage, there are many high-end talent in this area. ”

Through the industrial chain analysis and Planning, Beijing has focused on developing some key aspects of cloud computing, such as low-power chips and cloud devices; In the introduction, Beijing should introduce key technologies such as hardware manufacturing, large platform software, cloud database and so on, and in the transition, We should focus on how to platform the application software provided by many traditional application service vendors in Beijing, and carry out large-scale operation at the same time.

Second, to do cloud computing resources plus platform suppliers

As a professional provider of cloud computing operation service provider and information System outsourcing service, the CICC data participates in the development of some discussions and plans of Beijing cloud computing, participates in and leads the industrial chain planning of Xiangyun project in Beijing.

▲ Beijing Cloud Computing Industry chain map (click to view larger image)

July 28 This year, the CICC data system released the Beijing "Xiangyun code" cloud backstage. "This cloud backstage is actually a cloud hosting platform that will support many app stores in the future," Li Jiang. This year also released the Cloud Computing Experience Center, cloud computing Production Center and cloud Computing Promotion Center. Next year will be working with many units to build cloud computing migration and testing centers, cloud computing labs, and how to build brands in the future. So, cloud background is not only a SaaS, IaaS or PAAs platform, we hope that as the cloud computing resources and platform providers, that is, cloud computing data center of the site resources, operation and maintenance resources and technology platform. ”

Li Jiang to IT168 reporter, in the "7 28" gold data cloud background after the release, the response is very large, now basically every day to receive two to three people, the industry in Beijing Xiangyun Project cloud background of concern is very high, many units and companies want to work together with Beijing to join the construction of Xiangyun project. At present, Beijing Xiangyun Project Cloud backstage now has some contract landed, has already cooperated with the application software developer to release 10 application software products.

Third, the change from the traditional data center hosting Shangdaoyun service provider

The change is the enterprise adapts the market environment the survival way, the gold data as a data center service trustee and the birth, faces the cloud computing tide to carry on how to adjust and changes?

"The traditional data center hosting provider is facing the customer's IT department, we want to continue to upgrade to a cloud computing service provider, the application to the customer, the future of the customer facing is not only IT department, but the company's business unit." "Li Jiang Talk, this requires us to gradually in accordance with the industry to promote our application, but also requires us to cooperate to promote the technology and ability, so as to continue to extend to a wider range of customers and regions, to change the original business of gold data boundaries and business connotation."

In addition, the traditional data center provides a kind of resource services, cloud background is a kind of resources, platform and data services effectively combined. This means that we need to provide resources on the network monitoring, application promotion and other services, at the same time, for the scalability of the platform and data storage have put forward new challenges.

Li Jiang said that after more than a year of practice, the gold data for the future development has laid a solid foundation, in resources, teams and customers have a certain advantage.

Advantages of resources: On the one hand, there are not many services in the data center of the third party in China, most of the data centers in the country, most of the room, is basically the unit exclusive, only for the unit of the Department's services, generally not for the social third party to provide services, on the other hand, China's IT service has not reached a level of industrialization , the scale is not big, many services are belong to the lower level of the project Integration Services, there is no large-scale operation services. CICC data has a high level of data center resources, and start positioning is to be a Third-party service provider, after the advent of cloud computing, we are equal to the third party of socialized public service providers to do a cloud computing service provider.

Team Advantage: The gold data quickly set up a cloud computing research and development, promotion team. They continue to innovate and explore, and external cooperation, adjust the direction of service, improve products, the team is currently in some areas of cloud computing and market segments have made some achievements.

Customer Advantage: Before the cloud, the CICC data has many high-end operating customers in the country, with the customer's years of cooperation, especially through the years to provide a high reliability, high security, such as some services, has established a good customer base. The next step is how to grow with these customers and help customers develop new businesses in the cloud computing field.

How can we grow with our customers and look for new business growth in the cloud computing age? Li Jiang the Bank of communications as an example, "We have worked with the Bank of communications on business continuity management to help them ensure that production centers provide a safe and reliable production environment during major events." Recently, in the cloud computing, we put the voice of the bank's credit card data, through the intelligent platform storage to the cloud, and intelligent analysis, deepen our cooperation with the bank and the breadth and depth. ”

四、三个 to promote cloud computing applications

The key to the application of cloud computing is how to provide more applications to meet the needs of users. Li Jiang says new applications should be created from three levels:

The second level is the application of innovation. The providers of applications that need a lot of cloud computing are making new ideas, and then online to provide more extensive application functionality. Apple's App Store is a good example.

The third level is to create new application requirements. Not to meet the current application needs, but to create new application requirements, to combine the characteristics of cloud computing to create new application requirements, such as it can effectively handle large data, it can be a good way to complete the expansion of it, reduce costs, fee-based service model of new ways, and so on.

At the end of the interview, Li Jiang introduces the future development planning of CICC data in cloud computing: On the one hand, we should integrate the service of the resources and the platform, and establish the core advantages in the service team, service system and service standard. On the other hand, the CICC data will also hope to cooperate with the vast application software service providers, Porting and testing their applications and delivering them through the cloud. So the gold data will be the next step with partners to set up a cloud computing application, migration and Testing Center, I hope that in the future more partners to join the Beijing Xiangyun project, together to create Xiangyun project industrial chain.

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Li Jiang: Vice president of CICC Data Systems company, vice president of China Business Continuity Management (BCM), committee member of Cloud computing experts of China Electronic Society, Beijing Daxing District, the first batch of "Government distinguished experts".

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)