Building Intelligent pipeline needs to find "advisers" cloud wisdom

Cloud Tube End--a synonymous with the telecommunications industry , what exactly is he? "Cloud" represents the server, storage and other IT infrastructure, "pipe" represents routers, optical fiber, base station and other communication infrastructure, "end" represents the terminal, OS and its applications, the three constitute the end-to-end infrastructure. These three are inextricably linked and mutually reinforcing. For their future development, in fact, it is not difficult to scrutinize, "tube" The future is "intelligent pipeline", "end" of the Future "intelligent terminal", but "cloud" the future is what? Is it "smart cloud"? To think so, that is wrong, the cloud is intelligence, intelligence is the cloud. "Cloud" is not a parallel entity with pipelines and terminals, but a pattern, a new model of infrastructure capability, computing, storage, transmission, rendering.

But what is the point of cloud computing for smart plumbing?

The salient features of the cloud pattern are different from the demand side or the supply method. From the demand side is to include at least ubiquitous and configurable, from the supply side is the flexibility, resource pooling, virtualization and distribution. In the future End-to-end infrastructure, whether storage, computing, transmission, or terminal rendering, it will be redeployed in cloud mode to achieve more efficient resource supply and demand matching. Intelligent pipeline is the cloud of network ability, intelligent in the cloud, its most recognized technical characteristics--busy leisure, terminals, business, divided into customer groups to provide variable rate, differentiated QoS of the communication services is not the cloud of the "on-demand", but the use of the network is not the ability to compute.

Any application/service is inseparable from the three modules of storage, computing and communication, and the distribution of intelligence at the bottom and surface can also be expressed as the End-to-end application of cloud mode. It can be said that the ICT industry's end-to-end infrastructure has been cloud. What is the common driving force behind this? The key word is demand!

The IBM Palmisano team proposed on demand in 2002, the "need" is the user's needs. At the same time put forward and widely spread the saying also includes "the future computing power will be like water and electricity, open a switch can flow," "Cloud storage", "intelligent Pipeline", "cloud antivirus" and so on. In fact, the "cloud" behind is a common customer-driven philosophy, that any person at any time in any place can communicate with anyone in any form, this is not the need to express it? Cloud computing, intelligent pipelines, behind the actual needs of customers.

Therefore, the development of cloud computing for operators to build intelligent pipeline can be used for reference?

How to solve the problem of carrier pipeline?

IAAS provides storage, computing power on demand. The real ability to provide IaaS is only Google, Amazon and a few, but in the long run, with the popularity of cloud computing, the underlying ability will be commercialized. If we identify with storage, computing and communication are moving in the direction of the cloud, and intelligent pipeline is another expression of network capability cloud, then, the problem that the IaaS supplier faces, the intelligent pipeline operator also must encounter--the market base operators are often only 3, but the pipeline is unavoidable. In addition to the industry game, universal service obligations and network neutrality Regulation also advance this process.

Just imagine, if it is only IDC host custodian, even if it has the ability to provide IaaS, but also just better play the original role--the commercialization of computing, storage capabilities of the provider, its revolutionary significance in the demand side rather than the supply-side. Similarly, variable speed, quality of service differences, such as the intelligent pipeline as a technical vision, may bring users a better experience, stimulate business innovation, but will not solve the operator's pipeline of industrial problems.

If the intelligent pipeline must bear the burden of this industry, it can only give more meaning, just as the PAAs gives cloud computing.

The business acumen offered by cloud computing

Through this model, cloud computing providers can quickly build ecosystems and lock in the customer loyalty of cloud businesses. But few of the Giants are purely cloud-computing providers, and pure cloud-computing providers will be commercialized. Most crucially, PAAs has a good synergy with the overall strategy of these giants, such as Salesforce can assemble a group of creative developers to add Plug-ins to their CRM products through the PAAs model to meet the increasingly personalized needs of enterprise customers, And AWS for Amazon means from the enterprise's Commerce link into the enterprise's internal information link, provide e-business one-stop solution (domestic Alibaba is doing similar things). Thus, rather than being a platform, a service (PaaS) is a permanent model of cloud computing, it is rather a business logic for the big giants to take advantage of cloud computing.

It can be expected that smart pipelines are not just infrastructure, but also business acumen, and operators should not be intelligent pipelines for intelligent pipelines, but should first find the business vision that the smart pipeline can serve. Aggregation platform is such a business vision, smart piping must have the technical capability to support this vision, specifically: Build a friendly development environment, open rich network APIs to partners, and support a mashup network of mainstream capabilities (storage, computing, terminals, software, and OTT). The latter point is particularly critical, and future competition is end-to-end.

Operators must realize that simply opening up the network does not guarantee the competitiveness of the platform. In addition to the ability to open up the bottom of cloud computing, PAAs providers are more capable of importing layers (such as Salesforce's CRM and Google Map), It also supports imports of external capabilities, including surface and bottom layers (such as Salesforce support developers calling Amazon EC2 and Facebook APIs).