Three options for Lenovo Cloud storage

Du Xiaoli, associate dean of Lenovo Institute, said that IaaS is not the focus of Lenovo's current concerns, PAAs is the commanding heights of the future cloud computing industry was born in 2008 Lenovo Enterprise network disk became Lenovo Cloud storage business of a touchstone. In the past two years, Lenovo Enterprise network disk business has maintained a high-speed growth of more than 100%, and has more than 200 stable enterprise customers.　　Nevertheless, Lenovo Enterprise Network will still face many challenges in the future development, including the further improvement of Service brand awareness, and constantly expand the depth and breadth of cloud storage services, and let enterprise network disk and customer business processes docking. Du Xiaoli, associate dean of Lenovo Institute, believes that China's cloud storage services in the development of the main obstacles encountered two. First, because of cultural differences, users of the east and the West have different perceptions and acceptance of innovation. Western users are accustomed to using innovative technology to meet new business needs, while Eastern users are accustomed to using innovative technology to solve existing problems without rushing to expand new business. This difference has led to the development of cloud storage, a new service in China, slower than abroad. Second, Chinese corporate clients are undergoing a shift from buying to buying services, which requires a process. However, the rise of cloud services is an inevitable trend. Du Xiaoli said: "Lenovo's style is to dare to the world first, so willing to cloud storage services in this emerging market to invest and nurture." "Technological innovation or business model innovation" in the implementation of Lenovo cloud storage strategy, Lenovo Institute plays a dual role. It is not only the developer of enterprise network disk product, but also the operator of enterprise network disk business. In the process of cloud landing, technological innovation and business model innovation are inseparable.　　Lenovo found the intersection of the two. In the Internet age, to determine whether a company is competitive, not how many products it sells, but how many users accept its services, Baidu is a good example. This shift in standards has also led to a change in product development patterns. In the past, a product development cycle is very long, from customer demand to the manufacturer to launch a new product may take several months. But in the era of cloud computing, the distance between product development and market demand is getting closer. The process of product development is actually the process of intimate interaction between developers and users. The customer presents new requirements, and the related changes may be reflected in the product the next day. Du Xiaoli said: "Lenovo Institute is traditionally engaged in in-depth research and development of products and technologies." But as the business model of cloud computing continues to innovate, the distance between technology and product development and customer and market is being narrowed. Lenovo Institute not only to continue to do a good job of technology and product innovation, but also to shoulder the task of business model innovation. Lenovo Cloud Storage was born in this context.　　"Enterprise or personal association is not the first to do network disk business, but Lenovo Enterprise network in many main consumer market in the network disk has a distinct feeling, one of the essential difference is Lenovo Enterprise network disk focus on enterprise customer market." Back inIn the 2007, Lenovo reached the following consensus within its cloud computing strategy: Lenovo is developing a mobile Internet end-to-end solution that needs the support of the cloud computing architecture; The value of the data is much higher than the value of the hardware itself, and the data service is the future trend and the key link of Lenovo cloud computing strategy.　　After clarifying the above objectives, Lenovo has to do is to find a breakthrough, that is, for enterprises to provide cloud storage services. What is the core value of cloud computing? Reducing IT costs and increasing the usage and management efficiency of IT resources is the most basic requirement. But companies are not satisfied, using cloud computing to transform and streamline business processes, while leveraging cloud computing for business model innovation is the most concern. "Lenovo Enterprise Network, although the use of the ' net disk ' the name, but it and traditional to meet individual user storage requirements of the network is very different, like the car and the difference between the engineering vehicles." Lenovo Enterprise network disk mainly solves the problem of reengineering and optimizing business process. With Lenovo Enterprise network, customers can connect the data exchange with the existing business system, which is not the traditional network disk. Du Xiaoli added, "Lenovo Enterprise Network has a unique function--the sub-account management function, it can meet customer data storage, exchange security and manageability requirements." This is a unique feature of enterprise-class products. "Unlike vendors who are staring at the market for personal cloud storage services, Lenovo is acutely aware of business opportunities in the enterprise cloud storage services market, and has launched Lenovo Enterprise Network services in a timely fashion."　　However, Du Xiaoli says Lenovo will not abandon the consumer market, but only change one way to incorporate cloud storage technology into Lenovo Mobile Internet solutions. In the field of cloud storage, Lenovo can have a variety of options, such as the provision of cloud storage products or solutions, can also provide cloud terminal solution, but Lenovo finally chose the Enterprise network services. "Lenovo is fully capable of providing cloud storage devices or solutions," Du Xiaoli explains. However, cloud storage is not a technology, a device, or a solution, but a service that provides a service in the form of cloud computing. Lenovo used to be a sales equipment-oriented enterprise. In the future, Lenovo's goal is to become a leading provider of equipment and services at the same time.　　"IaaS or SaaS Du Xiaoli said, Lenovo Enterprise network disk will be PAAs and SaaS two models organically integrated, the future development prospects are very broad. Du Xiaoli, for example, says: "A student who is enrolled in a university in Beijing will use e-mail to store and exchange documents." Four years down, the student may accumulate a large amount of important data. But when the student goes to another city to graduate, he gets a new email address. This new mailbox has no way to exchange data directly with the original mailbox. The student can only download data from the original mailbox to a PC or laptop, and then upload the data to a new mailbox. Cloud computing technology will revolutionize this isolated data tubeWay. In the future, a platform-level data management Service can easily unify the two different mailbox services. Users can use different e-mail addresses, but data management is done on a unified platform. As a result, the data can be migrated easily even when the user changes the mailbox.　　"As a cloud storage service platform, Lenovo Enterprise network disk can be connected with the Third-party application services, the cloud storage functions integrated into a variety of application services; As a SaaS application, Lenovo Enterprise network disk can realize data storage, distribution and management, and is committed to the application services into the enterprise business process as part of. In the cloud storage business, Lenovo adopted an open, cooperative strategy, not only with Jinshan, Ufida and other manufacturers to carry out technical cooperation, but with Sina, Purcell and other cooperation in the application model of innovation. Du Xiaoli says Lenovo is also actively innovating in the business model of cloud computing. At present, Lenovo Enterprise Network disk does not establish its own data center, but the adoption of a managed approach.　　One of Lenovo's cloud strategy goals is to become a cloud service operator. Newspaper reporter Guo