China Telecom's first foothold in implementing cloud computing strategy, stopping in the cloud storage area

China Telecom's first foothold in implementing cloud computing strategy has stopped in the cloud storage area where the Giants are piling together.

Days ago, the sky-wing cloud storage portal quietly online, through the issuance of invitation code to test, the current beta has entered the second stage. The long circulated China Telecom cloud computing company has also been low-key in April, general manager Sheichaoyang in a public forum for the first appearance and published a cloud computing speech.

Coincidentally, just as China Telecom inside the cloud storage, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and other international cloud computing giants have launched cloud storage services. There are signs that cloud storage is the key to the success of the cloud computing war.

Target 6 billion yuan

China Telecom officially launched the Sky Wing Cloud Computing Program in 2009, completed in 2011, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Sichuan and other six cities of the pilot and resource pool deployment, is building the largest cloud data center in Inner Mongolia has broken ground. August 31, 2011, China Telecom formally held a cloud computing conference, proposed to professional operation, that is, the establishment of cloud computing companies.

According to Sheichaoyang, general manager of China Telecom Cloud computing Company, China Telecom 2011 IDC revenue of 4.3 billion, is expected to reach 6 billion this year. This 1.7 billion yuan growth will come from cloud computing, and cloud Computing's first station, China Telecom, the main push cloud storage services.

It is understood that the sky-wing cloud storage during the beta, where the new registered users will be given 18.9G storage space, and each check-in has 50M space to give away, invite friends to sign up for 200M.

At present, the sky Wing cloud storage with breakpoint continuation, private space, Address book backup, photo album image browsing, music and video online playback and other functions; in Android, PC, IPhone, ipad and other platforms have client-side downloads.

At the same time, the international cloud computing giant is also a storm in the cloud storage area: Amazon launches cloud storage desktop client cloud Drive. New users can have 5GB free space, Google officially launched on April 24 Google Drive, free space is also 5GB, Microsoft April 23 officially launched SkyDrive Client for download, and launched a skydrive of paid cloud storage services. At present, the old users can be set to get 25GB space, new users free space to change to 7GB.

If added to the already launched Apple icloud, Alibaba cloud, cloud storage domain instant giants everywhere.

Long-term investment

Why do giants choose to plunge into cloud computing from cloud storage? The industry's general view is that cloud storage does long-term investment rather than short-term returns.

China Telecom enterprises and business customers told reporters that cloud storage can be divided into two parts, part of the cloud computing infrastructure, which is basically a large company proprietary business, such as the aforementioned companies. The other part is the cloud computing application layer, which is basically based on the first part, providing the end-user application services cloud, such as Nut cloud, 115 network disk, Dropbox, etc. "Dropbox cloud storage is built entirely on Amazon's cloud storage, or Dropbox is a value-added service for Amazon cloud storage." ”

The person emphasized that storage can bind user habits, precipitate user preferences and social relationships, and gain control over user data. Especially in mobile broadband, the trend of the popularity of intelligent terminals, "users will be the personal text messages, contacts, photos, music are in the cloud, then when the next time users change their mobile phones, the possibility of buying the brand again will be very large, from Apple icloud and Amazon Kindle has been effective." ”

It boils down to the essence of the game of Giants is not seeking victory, only to use cheap or even free lunch to catch users, improve the cost of migration, in an unknown moment to make you willing to pay. In the next 5 years, China's cloud storage market will grow from $6.05 million trillion in 2009 to $208.54 million trillion in 2014, the annual composite growth rate will reach 103%, according to the consultancy report.

But competition has become white-hot, and even infrastructure predators such as China Telecom cannot guarantee the capture of consumers. Experts in the industry pointed out that the focus of cloud storage is not "storage" in the "service", "can not make the cloud storage into a simple business of selling space, it is too unimaginative." ”

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)