"China creates" opportunities in cloud computing

NI, an academician of China Academy of Engineering and deputy director of the China Institute of Electronic Computing, said at the IBM Cloud Computing Summit in Shanghai yesterday that with the booming momentum of cloud computing, China's information industry will gain opportunities to upgrade from "Made in China" to "China". He predicts, to http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/37255.html ">2015 year, the domestic related industry chain's scale is expected to reach 1 trillion yuan."
　　
According to NI, the data center established by the traditional technology route, 95% of the computing resources are idle, 75% of the energy consumption on the computing-related devices, and if the cloud computing model, computing resource utilization can reach 60%, effective energy consumption can be increased to nearly 50%.
　　
Ni says the traditional IT sector has been monopolized by the "Wintel Alliance" of Microsoft and Intel, many of whom are accustomed to information terminals made up of Windows operating systems and Intel's chips. But in the era of cloud computing, the information technology pattern will change drastically--the importance of terminal equipment drops, the hardware configuration is relatively simple, more computing resources are concentrated on the Internet, that is, "cloud". In this case, the user will be most concerned about the "cloud" service price/performance, and not the desktop computer use which hardware and software. This change allows the "cloud services" provider to get rid of the end-user's use of imported technology, some, or even all the use of domestic it technology. After the use of domestic technology, important information systems in China can be more autonomous control.
　　
Ni revealed that some of the domestic computing features of the large computing center, the equipment host has begun to use domestic technology. He also said that at present 90% of the global cloud computing platform is based on open source software, in fact, has shaken the dominance of the old IT giants such as Microsoft.
　　
Today, cloud computing is widely considered to be another major change opportunity in it history, following the mainframe, personal computers, and the Internet. Ni said the opportunity was only once in 15 years. China's cloud computing has crossed the initial market-import period and is now in a fast-growing phase. He thinks, by 2015, the scale of domestic related industry chain should be able to reach 1 trillion yuan.

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