5 years of cloud computing will reach 95 billion U.S. dollars in China's existing industrial chain short board

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Don't worry. Open a Web browser, access to Google's online word processing software Google Docs page, new documents, edit content, save the document on Google Server, rather than your computer hard drive, you can access any computer on the Internet at any time.

"If you like the new editing experience of online word processing, you are embracing a beautiful web application model-Cloud computing (Cloud Computing)," said Li Kai-Fu, a global vice-president and President of Greater China, in a walk in the clouds.

The latest trend is that Google will launch the Gdrive service in 2009, through which users can have almost all their data (mail, pictures, music, documents, etc.) online, and can access those data at any time, "the introduction of gdrive will make the traditional PC redundant."

The current financial tsunami has rapidly expanded the application trend of cloud computing. For small and medium-sized enterprises that need to save basic investment, cloud computing services, which allow a large number of network systems to share the IT infrastructure, can help them pay by the amount they use, without having to buy the server and maintain it by themselves, to the minimum cost and the most convenient way to achieve enterprise-class technical standards.

China's IT companies are lagging behind in dealing with cloud computing, compared with the international IT Giants ' early investment in the commanding heights of cloud computing. So far, only two IT industry companies have explicitly announced their cloud plans-one is the network security company Rising, the other is the E-commerce giant Alibaba.

And all the early signs of Chinese internet companies joining the "cloud" race began sporadically in the six months after July last year.

"Cloud security" hype?

In the ideal state of cloud computing, users will not have to worry about virus intrusion. Network security company Rising is the first high-profile announcement of "cloud planning" company, it proposed last July, based on the concept of cloud computing "cloud Security" program.

The plan intends to users and rising technology platform through the Internet closely linked to form a huge trojan, malicious software monitoring and killing network, each "rising card 6.0" users become "cloud security" participants.

Through these cloud security client to the network software behavior abnormal monitoring, obtains the online Trojan, the malicious program the newest information, sends to the server side to carry on the automatic analysis and the processing, then distributes the virus and the Trojan solution solution to each client.

"The official operation for six months, this ' cloud security ' system has covered more than billion domestic netizens. "Rising software company marketing director Magang to our correspondent said that, before, in the face of the explosion of the geometric growth of the new Trojan virus, rising every day can intercept 8.1 million." If analyzed by an ordinary virus analysis engineer, only about 20 new viruses can be analyzed daily. Implementation of cloud security, rising every day to deal with the new virus has stabilized in about 120,000.

Magang said, the current rising "cloud security" system in the server, bandwidth and other hardware input more than tens of millions of yuan, the next few years of hardware investment will not be lower than the existing level, and the corresponding technical team and future research costs will be several times the hardware investment.

In the rising of the "cloud security" plan two months later, another domestic security manufacturer Qihoo 360, chairman of the Zhou, said in public, there is no real cloud security, "only those with large-scale search technology, mailbox technology, storage technology, such as massive data processing capabilities of the company to truly achieve ' cloud security '."

"A business without more than 1000 servers, do not talk about ' cloud security '." Zhou did not disclose how many servers the Qihoo owned, but claimed that Qihoo had initially built China's largest "cloud security" computing center.

However, in the Samsung Economic Research Institute (China) technology industry group researcher Xu Liyan, the several domestic anti-virus software manufacturers of "cloud security" controversy, more just concept hype. "When foreign security companies have already come up with cloud computing business, domestic anti-virus software manufacturers can not say I do not, even if only with this concept it will say." She said.

Xu Liyan that the real cloud security services, in addition to personal security products, there are more enterprise-oriented products security. "Real cloud security requirements serve to cover all aspects of enterprise security, not just viruses, such as Symantec's security solutions for small and medium businesses, including endpoint security, data backup and storage, and more on the initiative of the service." ”

Initiative, that is, different from the past to find problems and then passively resolved, but its provision of cloud services can proactively manage the enterprise security system, such as the threat before the occurrence of data backup. "Therefore, the real cloud security requirements have strong data processing capabilities, and then require hardware support and platform construction." "There are very few domestic security companies that can do this," Xu Liyan said.

95 billion dollar market capacity

Alibaba is the country's second high-profile announcement to enter the cloud, the time was last December, exactly the value of the international E-commerce giant Amazon cloud computing strategist Jeff Barr came to China to explore the possibility of its cloud business.

Ali Software, Alibaba Group's subsidiary, said Ali built the first E-commerce Cloud computing center will be settled in Nanjing in early 2009 and will work together with the data center of Hangzhou headquarters.

"Nanjing E-commerce Cloud Computing Center of the early investment over billion." "Ali Software general manager Wang Tao said to our correspondent recently, after the completion of the Nanjing Cloud Computing Center, not only can meet the dozens of cities around Nanjing, the millions of small and medium-sized enterprises in the IT computing needs, but also for the Yangtze River Delta region, multiple software Park ISV software companies to develop API interface, invoke a variety of computing, storage, bandwidth and other IT resources.

"We currently have no competitors in the E-commerce cloud computing market. "Wang Tao did not disclose the specific way to achieve cloud computing, said only at the appropriate time to disclose the technical details."

However, in Wuxi, just two hours from Nanjing, the world's first commercial cloud computing center, built by IBM, has been commercialized, playing the same small business card. IBM says that by providing services and software over the Web, cloud computing can help customers save up to 80% of room space and 60% of energy and cooling costs, while raising asset utilization to three times times the original level.

IBM has invested more than $2 billion trillion in the acquisition, research and integration costs of its cloud computing business, costing US $360 million trillion to build its "most complex" cloud computing hub in North Carolina's "corporate history".

IDC, an information technology consultancy, predicts that cloud computing services will spend nearly one-third of its overall IT spending growth by 2013. Merrill Lynch expects the global cloud computing market to reach $95 billion trillion over the next 5 years.

The joint CTO Xun Minghua predicted that in the next 5 years, in the face of the bandwidth, storage, power, room and other costs of a large increase in the profits of Chinese internet companies may be eaten, if not to deal with the "cloud" challenges, the Chinese internet may face a "crash."

Industrial Chain Short Board

Even for Chinese netizens, cloud computing is still the freshest and most fashionable, but Wang Tao is no stranger to it. He said that many people mistakenly think Cloud computing is IBM, Google, Amazon, the International it giants of the exclusive pet, in fact, Chinese Engineering Institute, Beijing Aerospace University and other experts have been engaged in this field for many years.

But compared with the international IT giants in the 2008 hot "cloud computing" fierce battle, the Chinese local enterprises at first appeared not enthusiastic, until 2008 years, only to launch a number of computer security applications, and in the product essentially and "cloud computing" there is a big gap. "Cloud security emphasizes the aggregation of security threats, and there is a gap between computing and searching faster than cloud computing itself leverages the resources available on the network." "Xu Liyan said.

Xu Liyan said that the biggest difference between domestic and foreign cloud computing enterprises is that foreign enterprises are based on the establishment of cloud platform as the center, on the platform to provide a variety of services, and open source for users to share, the first emphasis on domestic enterprises to invest in cloud computing for their own main business services, at present it is not

She played for example, this is like foreign enterprises are under construction of a playground, not only their own development of recreational projects, but also let everyone rent venues to jointly develop, which will attract more and more customers, and domestic enterprises do not have the advantage of the site, but only to make money from the construction of recreational projects.

Professor Lvben, senior Internet analyst at the Institute of Management, said that the establishment of cloud platform of large servers, storage and energy-saving key technologies or master in the hands of IBM, Google and other foreign it giants, domestic enterprises do not have; and domestic enterprises such as Alibaba, such as E-commerce and other technical applications have a certain advantage.

The analysis of the Samsung Economic Research Institute said that the cloud computing industry chain's ideal state is: cloud computing operators will be hardware vendors, software companies, data integrators, platform technology providers and terminal providers integrated into the cloud platform, through a standard model to the end user on-demand services.

Xu Liyan that, compared to multinational companies, only a single industry link advantage of Chinese enterprises in the upstream of the industrial chain is very difficult to occupy the initiative.

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