Cloud Base: Billions of ideas for China's "cloud Silicon Valley"

Beijing also has an area of 7000 square meters of "cloud base", here is China's cloud computing business "Silicon Valley." It is trying to create a complete cloud-computing industry chain for China, hatching the world's best cloud computing operator as many companies are about to enter the cloud.

Article │ our correspondent Qionghua

A Xiangyun clouds above Beijing. Cloud base, located in the Beijing Economic and technological Development zone of the North Industrial Software Park, covers an area of 7000 square meters, August 2010 into use, Tian led the broadband capital has invested 9 start-up companies, the amount of about 500 million yuan. Here, traditional data centers are condensed into a container called the "cloud Box"-the first commercially available modular datacenter in the country, May 2011 officially released, can accommodate the equivalent of four National Library data, applicable to industrial parks, research institutes, Intelligent City, IDC expansion New, Disaster Preparedness Center and many other scenarios. It is one of the components of China's "cloud computing" skeleton, and it takes only 6 weeks to deploy such a "cloud box".

It regression service. The era of cloud computing is an enterprise that is undergoing a change from it deployment to it consumption. It is undeniable that in the past, it architecture was the CTO's Love and Hate affair. On the one hand, this is the standard of enterprise innovation, with a large number of IT assets proud, on the other hand, occupy more than 80% of the enterprise's resources for maintenance. "Cloud Box" The birth of the IDC deployment of this complex, high-energy, long project, into a convenient civilian products, with the need to use, so that enterprises can focus on core business innovation and process design. Undoubtedly, the "cloud box" opened a new era in the domestic data center, meaning comparable to the 2007 Sun launched the "black box" program to the world.

"Let enterprise in it architecture democratization, light" is the broadband capital Chairman Tian to build this "cloud base" original intention. The Asiainfo (ASIA. NASDAQ, the founder and former Netcom Group CEO, is now taking advantage of the influence of its political and business sectors to become the pioneer of China's layout of cloud computing. It also includes Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, Trend Technology founder Ming, Quanta Computer founder Limberi, Granville Electronics founder Chen, friend System CEO Yao Hongyu and government power. "This is one of the most exciting things that has happened in the IT industry over the past 40 years, and I have once again found the excitement of investing and the determination to do something." "Tian said. The first innovator to bring Chinese companies to the US Nasdaq market is now leading the changing it revolution.

China Cloud "Skeleton"

Founded less than a year, a cloud computing data center, servers, thin terminals and other hardware products, cloud computing operating systems, virtualization management systems, intelligent Knowledge Base and other software products, as well as system solutions of the industrial chain has been the beginning of the embryonic.

Tian Yun Technology, heaven and earth Super Cloud, Friends of the sky, cloud trends, Netcom Broadband, day-run, Cloud Cube, space-based communication, cloud Network nine enterprises settled in the base, entrenched in the cloud industry chain of each node, and the first batch of customers to form a continuous operation of the cash flow. For a pioneering enterprise, this is undoubtedly significant.

First of all, infrastructure, in the "cloud Box" data center, there are March 2011 official commercial "Super Cloud" server 25 products. The latter as a virtual data centralized processing "factory", is China's first cloud server, from Beijing World Super Cloud Technology Co., Ltd. Research and Development, the advent of several months to harvest nearly thousands of server orders, Taobao CDN node Server procurement is its products. In addition, customers are also no lack of China Mobile [74.70 0.95%], Baidu, 360 and other companies figure.

As is known to all, the current Chinese server market is almost monopolized by multinational companies such as IBM, HP and Dell. The world's hyper-cloud is invested by broadband capital, at the beginning of the establishment of the "Break International brand Monopoly" banner, from its conception of the first server to trial production, only experienced 8 months, and from the first server down to the series of new products released, only spent three months. This can be a glimpse of "cloud base" research and development, industrialization speed.

Second, the basic software aspect, the friend system, the sky cloud trend two enterprises are doing the cloud computing operating system development, as well as the open source virtualization software. Unlike stand-alone operating systems, the operating system under the cloud computing architecture emphasizes the synergy between different machines. "It is a new management idea to focus on the big things." The core is a problem similar to the organization mechanism-how to organize all kinds of technology through a mechanism, how to solve the different needs of users as soon as possible, and solve the best? "This is a description of his product philosophy by Dr. Yao Hongyu, the friend system CEO.

The analogy organization mechanism, this involves the cloud computing business model question. Cloud computing is not a public service, like Amazon, we see, maybe it bought a lot of servers and then split leases, making a lot of money, often ignoring the strong technical strength behind the hardware-the resource synergy of these technologies, which gives the Amazon IaaS Model a competitive advantage, further creating a profit space. "Cloud base" to make money, sustainable development, business model is being explored. However, the technical implementation is far from simple, which is one of the short boards of China's architectural cloud computing environment.

"Cloud base" is trying to make up the short plate. Friends of the system provides the independent intellectual property rights of the cloud based software products, as well as industry solutions. Friends of the system, founded in Beijing in 2007, 2009 access to broadband Capital venture capital, currently in Beijing Zhongguancun and the United States Silicon Valley has a research and development center, the core technical personnel mainly from the United States Yahoo, Oracle and other information technology sources. Up to now, it has developed a series of Cloudos platform to build products, including digital streaming platform, distributed virtual Storage System, Grid computing platform and system monitoring management platform, and in data transmission, storage, computational analysis and virtualization management to form a number of application solutions. At present, products have been stationed in the National Grid, government departments, media, telecommunications operators four areas, using its products, developers can build autonomous control of the core of the cloud platform, thereby saving development time. For example, a friend of the game business, the 2011 Spring Festival Online, has accumulated 55 million registered users, and Facebook reached the order of magnitude of users, it took two years.

Another typical case, than in April 2010, the cloud trend and cloud technology in the China Mobile Research Institute set up the Tcloud IaaS operating platform Phase I, to achieve with China Mobile big cloud virtualization platform docking. Cloud trend, by the trend of science and technology and broadband capital jointly founded in 2009, headquartered in China, and in China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea and other 6 countries and regions with branch offices and offices. September 2010, the sky Cloud trend again together with cloud technology, friends of the system, the creation of China's power [1.61-1.23%] industry's first "cloud Computing Simulation Laboratory", this is China's first industry cloud. Today, the sky Cloud trend is working with China Telecom to launch a cloud storage service similar to the Amazon EC2-China Cloud. March 2011, the sky Cloud trend for the domestic mobile internet pilot manufacturers-miracle communication completed terabytes of massive data analysis system development.

Other settled enterprises, but also including the sky-dimensional Communications cloud computing network services, has been with AT&T, France Telecom, Germany Telecom, such as the establishment of network interconnection and business docking; Days of financing to create a managed cloud call center service model; Cloud network dedicated to cloud computing and three network integration of the first portal site Netcom Broadband is running China's first video cloud platform based on cloud computing, the Internet of things, in order to realize the future integration of video content production, front-end broadcast control, transmission, terminal adaptation of the next generation of television stations.

China opportunities in "cloud Silicon Valley"

By the deployment of the above series of enterprises, can be a glimpse of Tian-ning investment "cloud base" thinking: "Cloud base" is trying to structure a complete cloud industry chain in China, in the international many enterprises will enter the cloud, for Chinese enterprises to build China's own "cloud Silicon Valley."

"Why did Silicon Valley succeed?" is to focus on popularity, concentration of funds, centralized business model, centralized technology. According to Tian's plan, the current mode of operation of the cloud base is to work with entrepreneurs to establish joint ventures at the Cloud base. Plan in the "Twelve-Five" period to drive the hardware and software and services of the output value of 200 billion yuan, the birth of 8-10 furniture has independent intellectual property rights, world-class cloud computing software and hardware enterprises, pooling of cloud computing industry talent 8000 to 10,000 people, thus forming a model effect, really for the development of Chinese cloud computing as a " and the role of "builders".

It is a battle that has not yet been introduced into the traditional institutions of investors, but only Tian assembled a few friends in the circle, such as Yahoo founder Jerry Yang, the founder of the trend of Zhang Ming is alone. "For a new technology, the traditional fund is obviously not very suitable, because there is a question of the term return." However, he always thought it was a matter of "gathering popularity" and welcomed the participation of more capital forces.

In Shanghai, there is also such a cloud computing venture capital-"Sea of Clouds Venture fund", by the broadband investment combined with Shanghai Yangpu District government, venture capital fund jointly established.

Excellent investment results are not Tian goals. His ultimate goal is to make Chinese companies among the world's most outstanding cloud operators. There is no doubt that the world of cloud computing is far from being formed, and that the changes in cloud computing are being rezoned from the world's giant crocodiles.

Globally, Microsoft, IBM, Amazon, Yahoo, Facebook, and Apple, which has just released icloud online cloud storage in June, are seizing the word on cloud computing. Tian admits that foreign giants are leading the way in cloud computing technology and ideas, however, "1000 of billions of dollars in computing power has been growing geometrically and the revolution is evolving." "He believes that cloud computing is China's" unprecedented opportunity "--it every great innovation, will be born a group of great companies, the PC era, the birth of Microsoft, IBM, SAP, Oracle; the internet era, the birth of Google, Amazon, Yahoo, HP The era of cloud computing, the opportunity of Chinese enterprises came.

The opportunity in cloud computing is very many, will affect all walks of life, there will be a huge scale of business model in succession, for example, Data bank. "We're going to build the world's first Data bank, which allows foreigners to put information in our custody." China should have this imagination. "Tian said.

Green Cloud

Of course, it would be a hassle to explain to everyone exactly what cloud computing is all about--and it's not significant. As Tian said, cloud computing is shuffling the world's enterprises, now we thunderclap IBM, Microsoft, Intel, these competing "cloud" voice of the Enterprise, "Ten years later, these names do not exist?" ”

In this "heavy core, thin terminal" era, in the information terminal, we need to be clear, whether it is a computer, mobile phone or ipad, these terminals will eventually be as cheap as books, lightweight and convenient, no matter where, with the turn; entrepreneurial enterprises can "bag settled", do not need to buy servers, software applications and heavy terminals , just lease the cloud service and pay the related fee based on the amount of usage.

Terminal increasingly light, green, behind its support, it is "cloud base" created by the "heavy core." As early as the head of the Netcom, Tian at that time in the mobile operating architecture data center, burned less than 200 million or 300 million. However, when he went to Google's Oregon State data center in the United States, the area is the size of a standard football field, no three-way power, backup of the low-power operation, or shocked. As we all know, this 30-acre land has tens of thousands of servers, carrying the world's most powerful data centers, dealing with billions of of Google's data delivered to every corner of the world.

This is an amazing scene that can drastically reduce the enterprise's it construction and management costs, and even analogy to the company's Low-carbon energy-saving. It needs to be pointed out that the IT industry is now a large consumer of data centers, more than the aviation industry. Cloud computing platform through large-scale deployment of server resources, on-demand configuration of computing resources, the server can increase the utilization of resources from 15% to 80%.

Tian made a figurative metaphor: "The mainframe era is like a primitive society, we draw water from the lake; The PC age is like an agricultural society, we draw from our own wells, can't share, you can't drink when you don't drink; In the era of cloud computing, we had running waters, and as soon as we opened the faucet, it came. "Next, is cloud docking Enterprise class user, when can form large-scale application problem." As we all know, the US cloud computing relies on the "public cloud" piled up, China is different, to rely on "private cloud", the biggest impetus from enterprise-class applications.

The problem follows, and this is Tian's constant consideration: will companies put data on this? Are you willing to pay? Businesses tend to weigh security with economics, and in the final analysis, putting data in a place that can't be seen or touched is a worry about security and privacy. Isn't it? In addition, the hardware technical standards of the manufacturers dispute, the software format standard of interest entanglement, this is the current integration of cloud computing industry chain is difficult, only rely on a large number of middleware, virtualization technology to break these barriers.

Tian hope that in the near future, the cloud docking enterprise-class user model, like the iphone, the ipad, "as soon as you think, corporate office should be so to go." Enterprise-class application, the current focus on desktop virtualization, "cloud base" the entire building is used, Huawei is used, mobile operators are also used. "It used to be that PCs had their own storage, and now it's not needed, a screen is connected to my cloud box, so the cost of office is down." ”

The father of cloud computing

Tian, the first innovator to bring Chinese companies to the Nasdaq market in the United States, is now weaving the "home cloud".

From returnee entrepreneurs to large state-owned enterprise executives, from Internet system integrators to telecom operators, the two-identity switch makes Tian have a panoramic view of the Internet industry chain. As early as March 2002, he was in an article "Do Business Why?" "I am convinced that the PC industry will be fully rewritten when implementing 10M, 100M bandwidth to home and desktop," the article said. There was no Microsoft, no operating system, maybe no intel chips, and the whole rules of the game changed. What does it feel like when we suddenly find out that the change in the rules of the game is our own company? ”

This is the original idea of the "Father of cloud computing" in China. Of course, in the 2002, it could only be called fantasy. Tian himself was unaware that this was the embryonic form of his current career. For an innovator, however, the gulf between ideals and reality often takes time to wait: On the one hand, virtualization technology, bandwidth two basic conditions, none of that time; On the other hand, the dotcom bubble burst, looking around the world and seeing no promising technology or industry. As a telecoms operator, he is acutely aware that traditional operators are about to face a "plumbing" situation and even threaten survival. For example, every year fixed network operators have invested huge sums of money to expand the backbone of the network, but often an internet business has swallowed a lot of traffic, users just pay less and less monthly fee, in the creation of a network of giants at the same time, operators are approaching the danger of living beyond their means.

To rekindle the Tian dream, thanks to two people: one is Yahoo founder Jerry Yang, the other is the trend of technology founder Ming. In 2008, Jerry Yang revived Yahoo and failed to find more meaningful things after returning. May 2010, Zhang Ming is in joint venture with Tian, set up a cloud trend, do open source virtualization software. Three people, one with "industry serve the country" ideal, a fine cutting-edge technology development, a good business model of the structure, complementarity, "cloud base" emerged.

However, the landing of such an exciting "cloud", still need time to test, but also the government, entrepreneurs, mobile operators to promote the common. For this, Tian see very clearly. What will be the result of this investment of broadband capital, the layout of the industrial chain will eventually show what kind of, "skeleton" structure is good, the application of "meat" how to fill in? "It will take at least 3-5 years of exploration. "At the moment, broadband capital is starting with a complete industrial chain, grasping the opportunities of China's cloud era-at least the general direction is not wrong." Apple, a Tian admiration of the "cloud" in the "Dark Horse", is now popular in the world, is its typical from the "cloud" to "application", and then to the "end" of the industrial chain structure.

"PC era we are a passive, the internet age we are a follower, to the era of cloud computing, we are lucky, we are ready." "Tian said.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)