2013 Cloud computing market: China Cloud service provider Battleground

According to the latest data from IDC, as of March this year, 13 provinces and autonomous regions in China have planned a large data center construction project of about 30 100,000 servers, with a total investment of 270 billion yuan. VMware's third annual Cloud Maturity survey found that the adoption rate of cloud computing in mainland China has risen sharply over the past 12 months and that one-third of its organizations have adopted and used cloud computing technology. The survey also shows that 2013 years of cloud computing will have greater potential for landing. 28% of respondents said they are not currently deploying cloud computing, but are planning to adopt them. For those companies that say they plan to use cloud computing, 29% said they would start using cloud-based solutions within 12 months.

Domestic cloud computing development in full swing

At the beginning of the "Twelve-Five" plan, the Ministry of Technology intends to speed up the development of cloud computing planning, the Development and Reform Commission set up a special fund for cloud computing this year about 800 million yuan, to support Beijing, Shanghai and other 5 models of cloud computing demonstration projects, strongly support the cloud computing applications, support more than the Although the government supports cloud computing to promote the development of cloud computing industry, but enterprises are the main market, China's major enterprises have also seized the cloud computing market. Internet companies, E-commerce, telecommunications operators, cloud computing services, etc., have accelerated the pace of cloud computing industry or service.

Baidu in March this year to publish Baidu Cloud strategy, the launch of its own application store, May 29, this "Baidu Cloud" and drifted to Chengdu, and Chengdu High-tech zone to reach a cooperation, jointly established the first "Baidu Cloud application development zone." Tencent founder Ma recently revealed that the cloud is an important strategy for Tencent, Tencent is also an important area of investment in the future, directly serve the company's hundreds of millions of users. At present, Tencent in Shenzhen, Shanghai, Tianjin, Beijing and Xi ' an built a nationwide cloud network structure, will also be landed in Huizhou Zhong Kai Gao district.

Aliyun, known as China's Amazon, is a data-centric cloud computing service company that aims to build the first Internet data-sharing platform and has successfully shifted to cloud computing services. Based on flying large-scale distributed computing systems, Aliyun provides flexible computing ECS, open Storage service OSS, relational database RDS, Open Data processing ODPs, open structured Data Services OTS, and other cloud services to help developers of mobile internet to reduce costs.

In the cloud-lined market, operators have become the focus of the race because of their ability to develop cloud computing and the two cornerstones of the data center. Since 2009, China Telecom began to carry out cloud computing tracking and research, set up a "Wing Cloud project" team, August 2011, the Sky Wing Cloud Computing conference, the release of cloud computing strategy and solutions, and completed Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Sichuan and other 6 field trials and resource pool deployment. The establishment of cloud computing company in March this year indicates that China Telecom has completed the pilot demonstration of cloud computing and entered a new stage of scale deployment and professional operation. September 2012, Sheichaoyang, general manager of China Telecom Cloud computing company, disclosed the 1121 project of detailed development of China Telecom cloud computing. November 27, China Telecom and VMware signed a memorandum of cooperation, the two sides announced will be in the cloud computing technology research and application of close cooperation to further promote the implementation of cloud computing technology in China, the expansion of cloud application services innovation incubation.

After China Telecom set up a cloud company, the Chinese unicom is brewing cloud computing company, marking the operators to transform the cloud computing. It is understood that China Unicom has set up a preparatory, the group leader by the former general manager of Hainan Unicom Giogang as. According to the planning of China Unicom's intelligent city, China Unicom relies on the core technology of cloud computing, IoT, mobile Internet, combined with the advantages of basic communication resources, through 56 cloud computing nodes to carry the national business, to build a unified China Unicom Wisdom City cloud platform.

Although China Mobile has yet to set up a cloud company, it has been proactive in the cloud computing sector. China Mobile's "big Cloud" cloud computing platform is based on a number of important open source software developed by the mobile Internet as the core platform, integrated with network resources, user resources, business capacity resources and other resources, for the mobile internet to provide a strong personalized information services.

Wave as a domestic server manufacturers, tightly grasp the trend of industrial development. In 2010, the wave took the lead in the domestic release of the cloud strategy, put forward the industry clouds concept, to the overall transformation of cloud computing. After two years of development, the tide has become China's only one can cover IaaS, PaaS, SaaS three levels of cloud computing overall solution service capabilities of the independent brand.

In the public cloud field, the pure cloud-computing enterprises in the domestic market can be said to be rare. In addition to the above Aliyun, Sheng can be said to be the public cloud field representative. July 22, 2011, Sheng announced the opening of the public test. Sheng International-leading AWS model, has launched on-demand cloud host, the first public cloud dedicated to the development of Key-value cloud storage, cloud hard disk, self-service CDN accelerated products, cloud monitoring, as well as video cloud, Web site cloud, database cloud, mobile cloud services and other related services.

Foreign cloud computing Giants: "Targeting" the Chinese market

At present, the public cloud service market in China is about 3.5 billion RMB, but it is increasing at 70%. Faced with such a huge development potential in the cloud computing market, foreign IT giants have taken steps to actively penetrate the emerging market in China.

One of the most typical representatives is Microsoft. November 1, 2012, Microsoft and the Shanghai municipal government and the century interconnection signed the agreement, will be in China to operate the Windows Azure platform and Office 365 services, to achieve the official landing of Microsoft enterprise-class cloud services. To this end, Microsoft became the first to bring the public cloud platform into the Chinese market of multinational companies, which is the first time foreign companies in China to obtain public cloud operation qualification. Microsoft Asia Pacific Global Technology Support Center and Wuxi government has become a strategic cooperation agreement, will be in the next three years to invest 300 million yuan to set up the Wuxi Center. Covenda, general manager of Microsoft Asia Pacific Global Technology Support Center, said in an interview that the Wuxi Center will contribute to Microsoft's China Business Development Plan from a service perspective.

IBM announced the creation of the Greater China Cloud computing division at the 2011 Cloud Computing Summit and unveiled its first development roadmap for cloud computing in China. IBM, in the cloud Computing Summit, elaborated on its cloud computing strategy in China, in which IBM will work with the Chinese government and companies to cut it spending and complexity through a cloud of data centers, and to speed up time-to-market through cloud-based platforms, Cloud applications are used to gain rapid application support for cloud construction and cloud service providers through cloud-based business models. December 10 morning, Southeast University IBM Cloud computing Joint Research Center was established in Southeast University. It is reported that the center is currently IBM in the world's first, but also IBM and China's universities to establish a joint research center in the field of cloud computing. December 4, the IBM Joint soft power and Hubei province Xiangyang municipal government contracted, will jointly build the outstanding Cloud computing Center in Xiangyang City.

Around 2010, Amazon began seeking negotiations with "telecom-neutral Internet infrastructure service providers" about the public cloud, and completed the vast negotiations in 2011. But to everyone's surprise, Amazon has been out of the way after addressing all the hurdles to licences, data centers and public Yun YUNWI. And as China's cloud computing market has gone hot, Amazon has been put on the agenda again in China.

The 2012 is HP's strategic adjustment, in mid-May, Hewlett-Packard announced the opening Test of cloud computing services, allowing all users to register accounts and charges, in fact, HP on the Chinese cloud computing market high hopes. After the arrival of the new CEO, Whitman, a technology product and service provider facing business integration, is eager to find new opportunities for enterprise-class business through the growth of the Chinese market. HP has launched a converged cloud architecture in the Chinese market to try to integrate the private cloud, the public cloud and the managed cloud through the traditional IT infrastructure.

After IBM, Hewlett-Packard and other giants into the Western cloud computing market, Dell also announced in recent days will make the same strategic move. December 5, Dell China large business customer business, Managing director Wang Lijun in Chengdu Media conference announced that Dell and April in Chengdu, the Cloud Computing center will be formally put into use this month, and then will be facing the Sichuan, Chongqing and other markets to expand their business.

Red Hat, the Open-source software company, is gradually shifting its focus to the Chinese market, which is now planning to invest more in research and development and expand its team in China. Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst said, "China's IT spending and cloud computing technology is simply exploding, very attractive." ”

Domestic manufacturers face technical challenges, foreign manufacturers "one card is difficult to find"

Despite China's huge market potential, many enterprises aspire to, but in the scale of development still faces many challenges.

For domestic enterprises, the lack of core technology and key products, cloud security issues such as the need to jointly crack the industry. Some key products and technologies that constrain development still need breakthroughs; cloud computing service capability and level compared to developed countries, the scale of the cloud computing services is relatively small, the business is single, cloud computing standard system is not perfect, and cloud computing security related data and privacy protection, security management and other aspects of technology and regulations are not complete; Cloud computing industry chain and ecological environment have not yet formed, to the traditional industry information support is insufficient.

But for foreign giants, enter the Chinese market, will face the cloud computing data jurisdiction and policy and regulation issues, facing difficulties to obtain entry qualification Certificate "one card difficult to seek" embarrassing situation. The international giants already on the ground, how to coordinate the competition and cooperation between the telecom operators and the domestic enterprises with telecom value-added service licences is still open to question.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)