The market prototype of cloud computing has been gradually formed

Cloud computing (Cloud Computing) is the development of distributed processing (distributed Computing), parallel processing (Parallel Computing) and Grid computing (grid Computing), or the business implementation of these computer science concepts.

The basic principle of cloud computing is that enterprise data centers run more like the Internet by distributing computations across a large number of distributed computers rather than on local computers or remote servers. This allows the enterprise to switch resources to the required applications and to access the computer and storage systems as needed.

This is a revolutionary move, for example, from an ancient single generator to a power plant's centralized power supply model. It means that computing power can also be used as a commodity circulation, like gas, water and electricity, easy to use, low-cost. The biggest difference is that it is transmitted over the Internet. The blueprint for cloud computing has come to pass: in the future, with just a laptop or a mobile phone, you can do everything we need through Web services, even tasks such as supercomputing. From this perspective, end users are the real owners of cloud computing. The application of cloud computing consists of the idea of combining forces with each of these members. In the most fundamental sense, cloud computing is the ability to use software and data on the Internet.

At the moment, PCs are still the core tool in our day-to-day life-we use PCs to process documents, store data, and share information with others via email or u disk. If the PC hard drive is broken, we will be stranded because of data loss. In the "Cloud computing" era, the cloud will do the work of storing and computing for us. "Cloud" is the computer group, each group includes hundreds of thousands of units, and even millions of computers. The benefit of the cloud is that the computer can be updated at any time to ensure that the cloud is immortal. Google has several such "clouds", and other IT giants, such as Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon, have or are building such "clouds". At that time, we only need a computer to be able to access the Internet, do not need to care about the storage or calculation of which "cloud", but once necessary, we can use any equipment, such as computers, mobile phones, to quickly calculate and find this information. We don't have to worry about losing data any more.

Recently, the author of the Cloud Computing Questionnaire market Research, it is known that cloud computing is a comprehensive market concept, it covers the software as a service, utility computing and online platform. We further classify the software as the common application software, the specialized application software and the core application software.

We know it's still too early to think of the real advantages of cloud computing, but we can see that the market prototype of cloud computing is gradually forming. Unsurprisingly, the biggest advantage is the ability to scale according to peak demand. But security, like earnings, is at the bottom of the list of voting concerns. Clearly, the security issue has not been sufficiently valued, as many manufacturers claim. For more information, see the following table:

Depending on the size of the enterprise, users will have different answers to when and where to try cloud computing. Overall, it is clear that the cloud is facing a very strong resistance. While it respondents are more positive about cloud computing than we usually see, at least 40% of respondents said they never considered cloud computing. This may be because more than 70% of respondents are system architects, system designers, IT managers, and business managers.

Depending on the size of the business, different data factories obviously, slightly larger companies with more than 250 employees have significantly more use of different kinds of software, namely service products and utility computing, than small businesses. But research on a smaller enterprise involves most common applications, and this is the most common category.

This data is clearly contradictory to the predictions of many pundits, who believe that cloud services may be more attractive to small businesses. In fact, it takes more publicity and a lot of work to make the benefits of cloud services more acceptable and accepted by these enterprises.

The challenge they face is simple: to let users know the difference between cloud computing. But users will have a series of questions: When an Internet service provider's network fails, the user will not be able to work. When a cloud service provider's server is down, the user will not be able to work. Users cannot work when their own Internet provider is having problems. Users lose all of their data when their storage area network is in disarray and recourse to a backup system is useless.

How can these problems be solved? Everyone is waiting for the manufacturer's answer.