China Unicom to set up cloud computing company Giogang as leader

According to people familiar with the situation, in order to better adapt to the cloud computing era of user demand, speed up the promotion of China Unicom's corporate strategic transformation, China Unicom is brewing the establishment of cloud computing company, has set up a preparatory, the group leader by Hainan Unicom general manager Giogang as. Preparatory members also come from China Unicom Research Institute, System integration company, group customer department and other departments.

However, the person did not disclose the future cloud computing company's specific size and business planning. Prior to this, China Telecom has set up a separate cloud computing company at the group level, telecom will be positioned as a set of marketing, operations, product development in one of the Internet companies, the main business includes IDC and CDN, as well as cloud computing IT resources derived from the cloud host, cloud storage and other services.

Unicom actively follow up

In recent years, the traditional telecom market is becoming more and more saturated, the operators ' income growth is weak, so it is urgent to open up new areas and seek new business growth points to enhance their competitive advantages. At the same time, the traditional business model is gradually disintegrating, telecommunications, IT, the Internet and other fields to accelerate convergence, industry restrictions are gradually blurred, operators are facing more and more from other areas of competitors, and even very strong opponents, such as Google, Amazon and other companies.

Google, Amazon and other companies rely on large-scale construction of data centers to transform into service providers, so that operators face the risk of being piped. In the new industry competition, the operators begin to embrace the cloud era with their powerful data center and network resources, and become one of the most important participants in the industry competition under the new pattern.

Among foreign operators, Japan's three major operators, NTT, KDDI, SoftBank, Verizon and At&t, as well as the world's leading operators such as BT, Telefonica and Skt, have released relevant cloud computing strategies. China Telecom officially released its sky-wing cloud computing strategy, brand and solution on August 31, 2011, and formulated a "three-step" strategy.

Zhang Yunyong, head of the cloud computing group at China Unicom, said that China Unicom's positioning was the provider of cloud infrastructure, the custodian of private cloud services, the incubator of industry application cloud and the convergence of public cloud services. Its work includes the deployment of a unified, green Enterprise Cloud service Base resource pool, the provision of efficient and secure enterprise cloud services products, the construction of flexible and convenient enterprise private cloud hosting service center, the construction of application-oriented shared incubation platform, and the creation of demand-oriented service enterprises gathered into capacity.

This is similar to the strategic positioning of China Telecom's cloud computing company as "intelligent pipeline leader, integrated platform provider, content and service participant". To achieve this goal, Unicom to the group level of the overall layout of the inevitable choice. In fact, China Unicom has planned to build 2 group-level and several provincial production bases nationwide to form a large-scale cloud computing resource pool, and the cloud computing company at the group level is gradually approaching.

There are some basic

China Unicom has long begun to focus on cloud computing, which has been running nationwide for the IDC business years ago. But because the provincial and municipal companies have greater autonomy, the development of cloud computing in China Unicom faces many constraints. Therefore, the establishment of cloud computing companies to help change the current fragmented chaos, the integration of group resources and unified planning and construction, intensive operations, in the full embrace of the cloud before achieving internal unity and unity.

In fact, on the way to cloud computing, Unicom already has a very good foundation. It not only has all over the country IDC data Center and basic network resources, but also the establishment of IDC one-stop service system, in the introduction of cloud computing technology, but also go before, its virtual data center VDC business has been commercial.

Last year, China Unicom IDC Business forecast revenue will exceed 2.2 billion yuan, continue to maintain a 2-digit growth trend, in the domestic market share to maintain stability, become the current information services to the commanding heights of the important breakthrough. As of September 2011, China Unicom IDC room number of 196, distributed in 31 provinces 135 cities, including five-star room 16, four stars Room 24. The Trusteeship Room area 100,000 square meters, the rack total quantity 36,800, the export total bandwidth 5021G, the international Sea cable Total capacity surpasses 260G, the international land cable Total capacity surpasses 560G, the Internet international export bandwidth surpasses the 300G.

In the next three years, China Unicom will be in Langfang, Dalian, Wuxi, Dongguan, Nanning, Hohhot and Chongqing Seven cities to establish a large five-star data center. Combined with the construction of the group's seven major bases, China Unicom also selected Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Qingdao, Zhengzhou, Hangzhou, Langfang, Dalian, Wuxi, Chongqing, Dongguan, Nanning and Hohhot as the focus of the development of IDC Business City, to base and one or two or three lines of 70 cities as the core, vigorously develop the IDC business.

China Unicom first launched a Cross-domain service in 2010, realized a "little accept, a little sign, resources, unified settlement," The innovative marketing organization model, especially in the next seven major bases gradually start, the whole network chess service model will allow more customers to benefit from it. 2011, China Unicom Group IDC Operations Center has accepted the international and domestic Cross-domain Project 112 items, the project order amount of more than 62.15 million yuan.

And China Unicom launched the VDC Virtualization data Center based on the IaaS layer of cloud services, has taken the lead in the domestic commercial production, including 4 major products, namely cloud host, cloud storage, flexible enterprise cloud, thin terminal. China Unicom's VDC will integrate information services, infrastructure services and applications organically, so as to realize the expansion and growth of the unicom cloud services, and get rid of the vicious market competition of the communication resources leasing business alone.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)