China has become a cloud-computing gold-mining destination

Just hours after Amazon announced the creation of a new Amazon Web Services division in the Beijing area, IBM has also courageously moved forward, announcing a new partnership with the Century Internet company, which offers high-end smartcloud through its hosting facility in Beijing. Enterprise+ Cloud services.

IBM also points out that IBM, as an enterprise IT provider, has many years of experience working with Chinese customers, compared with AWS, a novice in China and enterprise-class workloads – but AWS's "best known achievement is its support for Netflix".

Alarm bells ringing--aws has been or is about to become a business competitor

IBM has always been a competitive business philosophy, and a period of time before the value of 600 million of billions of dollars in the CIA cloud orders to the situation in AWS is clearly a heavy blow to their self-esteem. SmartCloud Enterprise+ is a set of OpenStack cloud services dedicated to enterprise customers, and according to an IBM spokeswoman, IBM has taken its "open standards based" feature as its primary creation concept-a clear target for Amazon's "proprietary" cloud. It remains to be seen how things will evolve in the future.

You can hear about the company of the century interconnection--of course, a huge operator-neutral Internet service company that has worked with Microsoft to launch Windows Azure, Office 365, and other services in China. These services are still in the public beta phase, according to a Microsoft spokesman.

While AWS, IBM and Microsoft are flocking to the Chinese market, Google has opted for a different direction in the trend – possibly related to the Internet censorship that the company had previously encountered in China. But in the face of a vast potential market such as China, it is unlikely that Google's silence will last long. The OpenStack Foundation held its OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong this autumn, hoping to capitalize on the region's interest in cloud computing as a financial return.

China is a land of concern, Gigaom research analyst Janakiram MSV said. "Google's retreat is due to the past Chinese censorship has left its psychological shadow." In fact, the main reason Google is affected is the actual operation of its product users. There is no contradiction between Amazon and the Chinese government because they are driving a business-to-business environment. That said, it is also not easy for AWS to achieve the desired results in their dealings with Chinese companies and public utilities, "he explains.

On the other hand, he believes that IBM's long-term development in China and India has made it a trusted supplier for these regional markets. "IBM has a very strong relationship with local system integrators, and the latter's technical decisions have a strong impact on the business approach of local companies." The partnership with the century Interconnection company will help IBM attract many large enterprises and government agency customers, while limiting the performance of AWS in the emerging and small and medium business markets. "He expects IBM to continue to follow its business philosophy in the Indian market and to work with large local telecoms operators or data center providers," he said.

But there are also reports that AWS is on track and signed a memorandum of cooperation with public authorities such as the Beijing Municipal committee and the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region government.

Huge market opportunities

According to IDC, it spending in the emerging world is up 13% per cent this year compared with the same period last year, with China taking the first place, a precursor to the economic recovery. "In dollar terms, China's IT spending growth will be the same as the US – it is important that the overall size of the Chinese market is only one-third per cent of the US market, so such an increase cannot be overlooked," IDC's statistics said. In addition, according to Gartner, China's IaaS market will maintain a 35.4% annual compound growth rate from 2011 to 2016. This year, Gartner has conservatively estimated that China's IaaS market could be as large as $96.3 million trillion.

However, any practitioner who is concerned about the headline news of censorship between China and the US knows that the new market poses special challenges to business operations. But the answer is now clear--huge markets and potentially massive gains have overwhelmed the fear of risk, and US cloud-service companies are scrambling to get into the fray.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)