2013: Cloud computing explosion year?

Recently, the United States http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/7840.html "> Business intelligence software provider, the founder and CEO Romain Stanek (Roman Stanek predicts that 2013 will be the year of cloud computing, while social game developers Zynga, Dell and Nokia will disappear. Importantly, he attributed the failure of traditional technology giants to the size and structure of cloud computing, which has sharply reduced the threshold for start-ups to compete with these tech giants.

In the United States, where cloud computing is more mature, some small businesses have been using cloud computing to achieve a rapid growth in market capitalisation. The most commonly known case is Dropbox, the world's leading networked storage service provider, just a few people. They chose to set up the server on the S3 platform, because the characteristics of cloud services, storage costs will be infinitely diluted, thereby gaining rapid growth. Only by simple storage services, we have already gained billions of users.

What about China? Admittedly, China's cloud computing started late, the real emergence of more mature cloud computing services in 2011 years. And for what is cloud computing, a lot of people are still scratching their heads. This year, more and more people are beginning to realize that cloud computing is not simply virtualization, nor does it mean spending money to build large data centers. Pure hardware construction, only the basis of cloud computing development, to really drive the industry and market prosperity, must first rely on similar to Dropbox cloud applications, and then slowly permeate the business practice of various industries.

The good news is that, starting in 2012, cloud computing began to move from concept to application in China. However, due to the immature market environment, cloud computing, especially the public cloud platform to quickly get some big corporate recognition is not realistic, the government, the traditional industry cloud information construction can not be achieved overnight. This makes cloud computing more valuable for small and medium-sized users, and more and more entrepreneurs choose cloud computing.

The Premier League is the world's most thrilling top football tournament, with nearly tens of millions of fans in the country, including the exclusive copyright of the Premier League in China, the New England sports media will produce and provide a wonderful match for the fans every week, and several domestic media are competing to broadcast the Premier League, and the Sheng platform is participating For the Premier League show to provide cloud platform transcoding, storage and other technical support, for not staying up to watch live friends to provide a timely and rapid flow of video playback, to achieve the fans speed browsing experience, but also greatly reduce the human investment and capital costs.

There are many mobile applications are born in the cloud, such as Marcum, Youdao, such as personal cloud notebook products, such as cloud Address Book, Cloud Word, 360 cloud antivirus tools such as the application, as well as the Cloud Bookstore reading platform, are through cloud computing technology, to provide users with services. It can be imagined that there will be more new and interesting cloud games, Cloud video, Cloud community and other apps on mobile phones in the future. Because cloud computing enables young people with ideas to lease hosts and storage, and to quickly implement the product's operation, it only requires very little cost.

Some people predict that in the future, the so-called computer will really only be a terminal, and all content will be in the cloud. This can help future intelligent applications to better get rid of the shackles of hardware, so that very small and even miniature terminals, can have a superb fast computing capacity, so as to achieve a real intelligent society. Of course, the path of China's cloud computing is still very long, but cloud computing has begun to move towards real application and practice in our field of view, rather than stay in the construction of data center and the concept of empty talk, this also let us to its development in the 2013, have more confidence.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)