Can cloud computing bring about big changes in industry?

The China Cloud Industry Alliance, launched by Beijing Aerospace University, Broadband capital and Baidu, has been established in Beijing recently. This not only blew up China's cloud computing technology and products breakthrough innovation, industry leapfrog Development of the horn, but also once again triggered the industry's concern about the development of China's cloud computing.

With the rapid evolution of the world, cloud computing is no longer an unfamiliar term for ordinary people, but synonymous with sharing and collaboration. It will help people easily access data storage, wireless computing capabilities through wireless terminals, and let the world share information resources.

What can cloud computing do, and what changes will it bring to our lives?

Cloud computing is not a bluff

"It is estimated that by 2020, the global mobile phone 8 billion, connected to the network of 50 billion components." Such a large number of components connected to the network, will produce a huge amount of resources, but also create unprecedented opportunities. Lu Xuejin, director of the Taiwan Cloud Computing Industry Association, is confident about the future of cloud computing. Cloud computing, he argues, is a general trend. The development of technology has brought the popularization of broadband network, so that computers, servers, storage devices, wireless terminals are effectively connected to the use of the birth and promotion of cloud computing.

So how does cloud computing reflect intelligence?

Experts use driving as an example to describe the impact of cloud computing on People's daily lives. An application that combines traffic, voice, and cell phones: it stores the real-time traffic on every street in the cloud and prompts you to choose the best route when you drive. When you are stuck in a traffic jam on a certain road, it collects traffic information and uploads it in time to help others avoid traffic jams.

If the end user cloud computing means that software applications are more convenient and efficient, the open platform of cloud computing is more like a marketplace for the application developers.

Tencent vice president Lau The social Network, mobile terminals on the open platform strategy as a revolutionary drive. "Cloud computing platform can increase its users from 10,000 to 10 million or even billions in a short time." And the open platform has a very strong payment function that allows developers to get revenue quickly.

"Cloud computing is not a bluff, it's a big change in industry," said Zhang, chairman of Microsoft Asia Pacific Research Group. An important opportunity for the IT industry. Recently, the International Data Corporation (IDC) has forecast that in the next 4-5 years, cloud computing will promote the entire industry transformation, create 14 million jobs, bringing more than 1 trillion dollars worth of new economy, the industry. And 1/3 of the jobs and output are in China. ”

"It's a luxury to talk about cloud computing in China."

According to the latest data from IDC, as of March 2012, 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.

However, in the vast number of cloud-centric data centers in the construction, others believe that today in China to talk about cloud computing is also very luxurious. The development of cloud computing in China still faces many problems to be solved urgently.

The Chairman and chief executive of innovation plant Lee Kai-Fu said Chinese developers also face a big dilemma. "If you want to develop traffic radio, such products to deal with a variety of mobile phones, clouds, if the server is not enough how to expand?" It takes too much time for these jobs to be done by developers. Unfortunately, China has not had a good system plan. ”

Experts pointed out that data security, data format compatibility (especially data portability), unified standard format is the current cloud computing to solve the three major problems.

Zhang says there are many technologies, such as cryptography and authentication, that can solve security and privacy issues. But there's always a risk. Data portability is also an important issue. If a user uses a cloud computing service provided by a company and then is unwilling to use it, can you change another one?

It is noteworthy that the relevant State departments are trying to promote the cloud computing pilot demonstration work. The National Development and Reform Commission on its official website, said in the field of cloud computing, with the Ministry of Industry in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Wuxi and other 5 cities first launched the cloud Computing Services innovation and Development pilot demonstration, efforts to promote cloud computing services, explore cloud computing services in the economic and social development of the feasibility Orderly guide and promote the development of cloud computing.

How to meet the challenges of cloud computing

"How many people have lost their phones?" About 15%. How many people have the data in Tencent, Microsoft lost? I don't think so. "The concern about cloud computing security is caused by stereotypes," said Lee, "and the huge cost of losing user data at large companies like Amazon and Tencent." So, it's safe to be in the cloud of ' public ' in the user's ' own pocket '. ”

This shows that the security issue is not the most important cloud computing challenges, but more importantly, the cloud computing era it enterprises how to seize business opportunities, to achieve transformation. It is clear that cloud computing has increased the efficiency of computers and servers and will have a knock-on effect on traditional hardware manufacturing. They need to think about how to put the existing enterprise model into the cloud, how to find their place in the new industry chain.

In fact, to avoid falling behind in the cloud computing era, IT companies are actively investing in research resources in the cloud computing field. It is understood that over the past 5 years, Microsoft's entire company's strategic resources have been placed in the cloud, such as the new Office365, Win8. Microsoft now has 4000-5000 researchers working on cloud computing.

Alcate Lang Asia Pacific President Sinrujie the position of operators in the cloud computing era as a crisis in the past. Traditional businesses are dying and telecoms companies need to relocate.

In the whole industry chain, those service providers, such as Tencent, which are stepping out of their reliance on operators, are hard to predict. The key is to see who can get more network benefits, is it a device-providing apple or a platform Tencent or a telecoms company that provides operational services?

Lu Xuejin said that the development of the network will lead to the transfer of traditional telecommunications industry business. "Not only do the traditional telephone, more important to do the communication service provider." People to communicate, people and objects to communicate, there are a lot of information to deal with. By providing a variety of hardware services, we will become a more intelligent pipeline.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)