Business in the cloud computing era: China and the World in sync

It is well known that after Edison invented the electric lamp, he intended to sell the generator and the light bulb to thousands of families. But his disciple Insal decided to build a public power grid, which allowed us to enjoy cheap electricity without having to install a generator in every household's basement-and so does cloud computing.

This is a standard idiot explanation for the concept of cloud computing. John Mackenzie, a scientist at IBM in the 1960, spoke about creating the word "artificial Intelligence," Bisilia, a 27-year-old engineer at Google in 2006, when he coined the term "cloud computing", and Carr, of the Harvard Business Review in 2007, is no longer important for cloud computing Ling It is also said in a book, and today, businessmen with various cloud concepts still say so.

But the industry's bosses, whether Microsoft's gates, Intel's Barrett, or GM's Immelt, were once noncommittal. Li's views were fairly representative at the beginning of last year: "This is a new bottle of old wine, nothing new." Ma simply said it could be hundreds of or 1000 years later, "It's really possible to go to avatar." ”

They shut up now--because cloud computing is suddenly not tired. Since the second half of last year, South Korea, Japan, Britain, Germany, the United States and the middle countries have released cloud computing development plans. IDC predicts that from 2009 to 2013, Cloud computing services will generate 800 billion of billions of dollars in new revenue for the world, with China up to 1.105 trillion trillion yuan-enough to allow Americans to fight a 10-year war on terror, which is enough to allow the Chinese to spend one year free of oil.

The country-level accession has led to a rise in the cloud computing sector on the global stock market, which surged 1/3 per cent. In May of this year, even Mr Buffett, who had never been uncharacteristically, said he had neglected the technology industry, "if I could live another 50 years, I would have chosen to invest in the" big winners "that will emerge in the tech sector. "Yes," said the cloud.

China's enthusiasm for the cloud has even made the cloud's "native" America feel ashamed. A typical example is that more than 20 government industrial parks and manufacturers have announced a cloud computing platform strategy in just a week around September.

China opportunities

"As long as you connect the keyboard mouse, you can play a large video game, the quality is not worse than the x-box360." Fang, the employee of the cloud-linked software, said. He is referring to the company this year will be in Hangzhou number set-top box on the launch of the Cloud game column. Cloud-linked before the introduction of the PC Cloud game client "island Crisis 2", "Need for Speed 14", "Live football 2011" and other large-scale games, the end of August, the introduction of 7-day free test card, was popular with many fans.

Canlon Price, the cloud does make the price of more than 2000 yuan Microsoft x-box360 and Sony PS3 and other high-end consoles embarrassed. Cloud is not the only company in the country to enter the cloud game market, its competitors have Jinshan fast game, focus on Apple cloud game Flash software, Pao open Game cloud, as well as click Technology Lava Games, they in the business and the cloud is not too much coincidence, but Fang still very uneasy.

"Theoretically have 4 m bandwidth to ensure quality, 2M bandwidth to ensure fluency, but the domestic network environment is too complex." In fact, this is our most anxious problem. "Fang said. Because the domestic does not meet the requirements of the basic hardware and Platform service providers (IaaS and PAAs), cloud single-handedly from the bottom to all are their own, but the network problem can not be resolved on their own.

Although the-onlive and Gaikai, the two rival rivals of the US technology and model, have also chosen to build the cloud, the gap is there: the two-year-old Cloud union, which won 2 million dollars in SoftBank last year, is now considering a second round of funding, But the OnLive, which covers the United States and will land in Britain on September 22, has won 40 million dollars this year; Gaikai has also received 40 million dollars in two rounds of investment this year and has landed in 12 countries.

It seems to be a question of money, but it's not all about money. The 30-Year-old Dundee, the founder of the cloud, occasionally laments on Weibo, "OnLive has added new features to speed." ”

Han Zhu, one of the founders of the fiercely competitive nut shop network, is much more optimistic. The 2007 graduate of the Shanghai Jiaotong University, a master's degree in electronics, this April with two friends to run the cloud storage project, the same face no local cloud services available in the dilemma, can only all their own.

The-dropbox, a template on the other side of the ocean, is lightly loosely using Amazon's cloud computing platform, which has surged 5 times times over the past year, with the company valuing 6 billion of dollars.

The nut shop, along with its dozens of competitors in the domestic service, does not use Amazon's cloud services. In fact, there is no barrier, the only reason is that the gap between China and the United States is too big, the user experience is not good enough, Amazon does not provide cloud computing services at home.

So far, China has not set up a licensing system for cloud computing services, but there is no doubt that there are restrictions on server services for hardware. "In theory, cloud computing is borderless. Although Amazon operates on a global scale, there is no. So far I have not seen any foreign businessman in mainland China, the only one Rasebas, in Hong Kong. Oscar, executive vice president of global development and greater China, trend technology.

Han Zhu still felt a chance at the nut shop. "At present the domestic network disk user is about millions of, I estimate this market capacity can be as high as 50 million users." There is always room for a service with a unique and excellent experience. ”

This is no exaggeration. China's cloud storage services market will rapidly grow from $6.05 million trillion in 2009 to $210 million in 2014, according to the China Cloud storage Services report, released last year by Springboard. But the public opinion also generally thinks, China's resources price, the land price, especially the high cost-effective human resources, will be the cloud computing era unique natural condition.

"This is a rare opportunity for China," he said. "Oscar said," The circle began last year, the consensus: the era of universal PC, China has just opened the door to reform and opening-up, the people do not have money; The internet era, the United States finished the cable, China began to shop first; at the Industrial Revolution level of the cloud computing era, we are the first ”

Is that a familiar argument? Yes, a few years ago when the new energy car boom, China's auto industry also said so.

If the above mentioned cloud games, cloud storage you feel a little distance, you must have heard about the "cloud cell Phone", which was reported one months ago by the media, and Huawei, Ali and millet three Chinese companies have almost simultaneously launched their own "cloud phones", although they have not found any big difference from other smartphones after studying them. In addition to the hundreds of G online storage space (also known as the network disk) and a number of custom services, but the concept of "cloud mobile phone" has really aroused the curiosity of consumers and the industry turmoil. Perhaps, half a year later, China's magical Shanzhai army will be more than a marketing product-low-priced various kinds of "cloud mobile phone", which is not what High-tech, if "cloud mobile phone" is only a cloud storage function.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)