The exploration and practice of cloud computing in insurance industry

Cloud computing allows users to gain computing power on a remote server over the Internet in any location.

The current IT industry's largest cloud users when the number of Google,google search engine built in more than 200 locations, more than 1 million servers support, Google Maps, Gmail, docs and other sharing of these infrastructure.

As the insurance industry that serves the development of the national economy, it is vital for the development of the industry to grasp this technological tide of cloud computing.

Cloud computing definition and service approach

There is a foreigner just to China after the market to buy vegetables, bought 2 kg of cucumber, 3 kg of tomatoes, 4 kg of onions, 5 kg of spinach, and then asked the stall how much money, then the stall owner closed his eyes to the sky silence 5 seconds, Mouth said 21.8 yuan. At this time the foreigner stunned very surprised, exclaimed "You use cloud computing?" "The joke actually speaks of the basic concepts and service patterns of cloud computing, which allows users to get computing power on remote servers from anywhere on the internet." The narrow definition of cloud computing refers to the delivery and usage patterns of IT infrastructure, which means that the required resources are available on demand via the network (hardware, platform, software, the network that provides resources is called "cloud", the resources in the "cloud" can be extended infinitely by the user, and can be obtained at any time, be expanded at any time, use on demand, pay by use. Cloud computing in its broadest sense refers to the delivery and usage patterns of services, which refer to the required services on demand via the network, which can be it hardware and software, the Internet, or any other service.

The development of cloud computing can be divided into several categories according to the type of service provided, the first class provides the main infrastructure (that is, iaas,infrastructure as a service), this stage cloud platform through virtual hardware resources, the IT industry to create virtual data centers, Enables it to centralize host, memory, I/O devices, storage, and computing capabilities as a virtual resource pool services for the entire network of users. The second category provides services primarily for the application platform (i.e. Paas,platform as a service), a phase in which cloud computing provides the development environment as a services. Users can use the intermediary middleware platform, equipment to develop their own programs, and through the Internet and server to the user's hands. The third category provides services mainly for the application software (i.e. Saas,software as a service), the cloud platform provides the application service engine, the user constructs each kind of application through the engine. This type of cloud computing is passed to thousands of users through the browser, which saves users from spending on server and software development, licensing, and can effectively reduce the development cycle and cost of input. Cloud computing through the provision of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS three types of service, and gradually improve it resource sharing, and ultimately to make users like the use of electricity, water and electricity, such as the status of access to measurable services.

The current application of cloud computing in various industries

The concept of cloud computing originated in it, electric commerce, and they are the Pioneer Pathfinder (18.000,0.00,0.00%) of cloud computing. Amazon, for example, focuses 1/4 of Amazon's sales on Thanksgiving and Christmas discounts, a period of high demand for traffic storage, and a lot of free computing power in the off-season. The savvy operators began to try to rent out the rest of the resources to the business, and the Amazon service Cloud was born. Amazon's service cloud name is Amazon Web, which provides access to networked storage, computer processing, information queuing, and database management system access infrastructure services, the IAAS service model described above.

The current IT industry's largest cloud users when the number of Google,google search engine built in more than 200 locations, more than 1 million servers support, Google Maps, Gmail, docs and other sharing of these infrastructure. Using apps such as Google Docs, user data is stored in a location on the Internet, and can be accessed easily through any Internet-connected system. Google currently offers services such as platform, software delivery mode, the PAAs and SaaS Services described above. At the same time, the pace of cloud computing is also followed by IBM, Microsoft, has launched the "Blue Cloud" computing platform, Windows Azure operating system ("Blue sky"), varying degrees in the context of similar Internet or Internet architecture to create a cloud computing platform.

At present, some domestic IT companies are also trying to explore the financial aspects of cloud application, such as digital China to seize the CBRC to encourage the opening of rural financial institutions, to build rural financial information platform, through the integration of rural financial institutions and public function modules to provide rental services to rural financial institutions, on demand; bird, Green cattle and other domestic call platform integrators, through internet-based call software, to the insurance company to provide call platform cloud services, so that the small and medium-sized insurance company's call center from the expensive from the platform to facilitate the lease change, so as to achieve cost reduction, improve the quality of service business value.

Insurance companies in the "Security cloud" of the building is also actively carry out a useful exploration, as the leader of the professional health insurance company, PICC has always adhered to the development of innovation and development, made full use of the technology and concept of "cloud computing", rationally planned IT system and resources, independently developed the "Social Security pass" with independent intellectual property rights. And the health care system. These two systems are actually exploring the cloud sharing model, while PICC Health also innovates the use of virtualization technology, and uses the green energy-saving blade server for Virtual machine deployment, saving the company hardware investment, while also ensuring the high reliability of each system infrastructure.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)