Century interconnection issue 1 billion yuan dim sum debt cloud infrastructure investment hot

Spring Breeze is blowing, China's cloud service market is coming at a brisk pace. Century interconnection in the overseas issue of the 1 billion yuan dim sum debt heated, let people hear the footsteps of spring.

Learned from the relevant channels, recently, the century interconnection has successfully issued a 1 billion yuan in the foreign dim sum debt, become the first domestic internet industry companies to issue such bonds (renminbi bonds issued outside the mainland of China are "dim sum bonds"). According to insiders, the bond subscription situation is hot, achieving more than four times times the subscription amount.

Century Interconnection senior vice President Shofen said, the century interconnect business in recent years has been in short supply situation. The speed of the company's data center infrastructure is far from being able to meet the strong growth market demand. Therefore, there is a new cabinet space as long as the service is ordered an empty helpless situation.

"China has the largest number of Internet users in the world, but the total size of the matching data center is several times different from that in Europe and the United States." So we believe that the huge demand gap in China's data center service market will continue to exist in the next few years. "Shofen points out.

In order to tie in with the long-term development trend of the market, Century interconnection has been continuously investing in building the leading cloud computing data center in recent years. For example, is under construction in Beijing Daxing District century interconnection M6 data center, is a total area of 42,000 square meters of the Super Cloud Computing center, regardless of scale or standard, will be one of the leading domestic. According to the introduction, the first phase of the project is expected to be delivered by the end of this year.

"There are high standards in the construction of data centers, such as specialty, location and infrastructure," he said. We do not want to reduce the overall level of our data center in order to expand blindly, this is responsible for customers, and also from the long-term development of the company. Therefore, we have been actively looking for and secure investment in the construction of a new generation of green data centers. ”

"At present, the company hopes to use this financing to invest in building the leading cloud computing data center in other parts of the country," Shofen said. Expand the global network of data centers across the country to more regions, and we will also plan and strategically introduce more innovative cloud services to provide customers with higher value integrated services. ”

In fact, over the years, especially since the successful landing in Nasdaq in 2011, Century interconnection has been trying to transform the value-hosting service to High-value-added services while fully expanding the traditional data center hosting business. For example, the establishment of a Management Network division, the acquisition of Beijing Rapid network into the CDN market, as well as the full launch of the next generation of data center network development and construction.

Fast Network chairman and CEO Liu Geode joined the century interconnection, in addition to continue to be responsible for the fast-network business, but also served as the Chief software Officer of the century interconnection. He pointed out that in order to consolidate and develop the century interconnection in the field of network technology long-term accumulation and competitive advantage, Century interconnection further clarified the network virtualization technology, Software Definition Network Technology SDN and Content aggregation open Network Ccon receptacle) as the key technology breakthrough, to create a more technical innovation and core competitiveness of the new generation of Internet data centers, and further consolidate the third party telecom neutrality IDC's first brand position of the three-year development strategy.

In order to deepen the above strategy, the century interconnection and the Beijing Posts and Telecommunications have jointly established the "Bupt-century interconnection" joint laboratory, which is used to jointly develop the next generation network technologies and applications such as content aggregation open Network (CCON), and jointly promote the optimization and improvement of China's broadband network environment.

As one of the key initiatives in the strategic transformation of the company, last November 1, Century interconnection signed the public cloud Strategic Cooperation Agreement with Microsoft------------------------------------------ A moment in the industry aroused no small ripples, the move to create a foreign mainstream cloud computing technology support of the public cloud platform settled in China's precedent.

Ningki, senior vice president of the Internet, said, with the help of Microsoft's infrastructure and cloud computing platform technology advantages, coupled with the unique Internet infrastructure operation capabilities of the century, the cooperation between the two sides has been getting better, the preparatory work on the line has entered the countdown, and is expected to officially launch this year, the Internet public cloud business services.

It is learned that around the strategic cooperation with Microsoft Project, Century interconnection will continue to increase investment in upstream application and content aggregation, midstream operation and support platform, downstream channel development and construction, and through a wide range of strategic cooperation in the value chain, including the rapid realization of the scale effect of strategic acquisitions of core technology and product teams.

Ningki pointed out that it is the key to the development of China's cloud computing industry to build a good mobile business cloud platform ecosystem based on mobile terminals as the target market and productive applications. As one of the important initiatives to support and implement the next Generation data center network and cloud computing platform, June 2012, Century interconnection, as one of the joint initiators and contributors, joined the Beijing Economic and Technological Development zone and won the support and participation of the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance and the Beijing Development and Reform Commission. The venture capital fund, which invests in innovative SMEs in cloud computing, has been established to promote the prosperity of China's cloud computing ecosystem. Currently, the fund has invested three advantage projects.

Zolin, a fund manager appointed by the century interconnection, said in an interview with CNET Science and technology Information Network: "The fact that cloud computing has become a subversive revolution sweeping the global IT world is an indisputable reality, and if China is to emerge from the new wave of information revolution marked by large data, it will not only rely on the technology of the international giants, But also rely on the domestic such as the interconnection of telecommunications neutral, market-based infrastructure platform for the support and protection, but also to play the risk of capital in the incubation and foster the early entrepreneurial strength of the key role.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)