Cloud business: Low cost is the cloud

A wire to move a company, "shell company" may become a common phenomenon, this is the cloud business to our imagination. Three years ago, when the economy entered its coldest winter, Boston's Aquent company began compressing costs and trying to maintain strategic flexibility. The company migrated file classes, data-class applications to cloud mail, and replaced the internal phone system with cloud-based voice services, put the ERP system on the Amazon's cloud service system AWS ... "Think about the various problems of the previous relocation of the office, now we only use the equipment to move over, connect the power, connected to the Internet on the line." The company's head is so sentimental.

But after many years, the Aquent company again faces the relocation time, perhaps even the equipment has not been "moved". Bulky mainframe computers will be discarded, virtual master opportunity to make Office into a "light assets" operation, a variety of mini terminal equipment can be carried in the pocket, in the office can be viewed from the cloud, as the monitor can be the mini light projections to replace-agility, cost reduction behind is the efficiency of ascension.

And the impact of cloud commerce in China on Chinese industries is even more pronounced. We can move our eyes to a livelihood issue. When it comes to the Spring Festival, it is difficult to buy tickets. At the train station in the middle of the night, men and women huddled in the dragon in the probe to stomp, the face if the Ashes but also worried. But booking online is more painful than that--the internet is busy, refusing to log on makes people nervous. Years later, the Ministry of Railways still said "we have the ability to solve problems" – in fact, solving the problem of Web servers is really simple, with the help of cloud computing services, the Ministry of Railways can support more robust API services, supporting flexible expansion without buying expensive hardware equipment, with the help of a similar to Ali, Tencent, a large internet company with a large number of unexpected access to resources, can ensure that services do not go down.

Another example, telecommunications enterprises in various types of festivals, the need to deliver a large amount of text messages, in order to cope with the resulting peak, telecommunications enterprises have to invest heavily in the acquisition of high computational capacity of equipment to deal with this huge pressure. However, if you use the cloud computing platform, you can at the peak of the arrival of some unimportant or idle computing resources reasonably allocated to support the SMS business, so as to avoid a lot of unnecessary investment.

Low cost "Carpool" road

Cloud computing is not a new concept, but its impact on future business is just unfolding. It's beautiful, elegant and virtualized. In order to clarify this concept, you can use the concept of "carpool family" to make a metaphor. "Carpool Family" spell is the car, cloud computing is the server, they have a similar point. Moonlight to work without a car, a few people will be with the car family together carpool, so to small say is to make work more comfortable, said to the big place, can save energy, reduce pollution, ease road congestion.

And we talk about cloud computing, to fight the server and resources, small to say is to reduce the cost of hardware and services, to a large point is to save resources, reduce unnecessary waste, alleviate bandwidth congestion problem. Therefore, cloud computing is a reasonable sharing of information.

Just like 100 years ago, when everyone was using electricity, individuals were generating electricity from their basements, businesses were starting their own power plants, and only a few big power plants would be built today, and everyone could use electricity without considering where the electricity came from and the cost was lower-and so was cloud computing.

Let the weak enjoy equality

If cloud computing brings benefits to the IT department of large enterprises, it can be regarded as a "pie" in the sky for small and medium-sized enterprises. In the past, small companies were understaffed and it budgets were tight, and the productivity of the millions of-dollar IT equipment was a dream far away. Today, cloud computing provides them with large enterprise-class technology, and upfront costs are very low and upgrades are convenient. The importance of cloud computing as a new trend is beyond doubt that it not only wipes out the pros and cons of the size of the enterprise, it is likely to make the pros and cons easier. Simply put, the most powerful and innovative technology in the world today is no longer unique to large enterprises.

Cloud computing allows every ordinary enterprise and average person to reach the top IT technology at a very low cost.

Just like in the Wuxi National Software Park IPARK-IBM "Pangu World" cloud computing platform project, it from the beginning of the positioning is not only for enterprises in the park to provide some computing power and storage capabilities, but also through the incubation of some ISVs developed a common system to provide SMEs, so that they focus on the main business, Reduce IT costs on an as-needed basis. At the same time, the cloud computing platform can lead to close cooperation between enterprises and open up new business models, for the Wuxi Software Park can be a multi-tenant way to improve profitability. In this cloud platform, IBM and many partners to provide the characteristics of "application", so that the park enterprises in the "cloud" to achieve software product development, testing, production operations and even commercial implementation.

For example, only more than 20 employees of the first user-----------------------------the software is a bread baking ERP industry, the traditional market development is to help customers each store to install PCs, and then install stand-alone software. This will require a "sweep shop", on-site implementation and after-sales service costs high, slow.

And now the German software business is fully carried out in the cloud, customers as long as there is terminal can access the Internet, from software installation, upgrade to after-sale services can be quickly realized. The little-unknown small business has now developed into the top three of the domestic bakery software. Relying on more and more rich cloud computing platform, Wuxi National Software Park will hatch more successful enterprises.

Five faces of future cloud business

Business prospects and innovative models based on these cloud computing applications are beyond imagination, and they have a huge impact on all walks of life, real and getting closer.

City Cloud: The pipeline Department cooperates with telecom companies on a secure cloud platform through the mobile phone signal positioning to quickly grasp the flow of vehicles, roads, areas, regardless of whether there is a pipe camera, can do know, and this kind of data for urban management departments to more scientifically planning business district, residential areas, public transport, Reasonable layout of hospitals, schools and even gas stations; intelligent cities can build the city's general control center through cloud computing, if the system automatically monitored a large number of people gathered suddenly, according to the Cross-sectoral comprehensive information and mathematical model analysis, can be judged in time to be a sudden event or a registered large-scale performances or activities, such as group rallies, So as to provide appropriate security and guidance.

Tourism Cloud: The tourism strategy on the cloud platform will be more magical, people will find more comprehensive information: Every view of the detailed and tasting, all the hotel rooms 3D real, and even a small restaurant features delicacies. This information is taken from the civil to the people, meteorological, transportation, business and other departments of information also converge to the resource pool, so that the future travel more perfect; it is also easy for the government to determine which sights should be invested, which parks can be opened free, which scenic spots to control passenger flow, so more scientific planning, development of tourism business.

Health Cloud: The insurance company, patients and all levels of hospital unified on a cloud platform, the realization of test results and electronic medical record sharing, tele-consultation, online registration and appointment of outpatient services such as efficient, reduce the patient queuing, reimbursement of the pain, save the overall social resources; The common patients will be scientifically diverted to the Community hospital to get the nearest convenient service, while the large general hospital is more focused on the treatment of incurable diseases and critically ill patients, and also avoids the widespread infection caused by SARS or swine flu epidemics when they take various modes of transportation to large hospitals when the patients are diagnosed. More conducive to overall monitoring and control, and the relatively low pressure of hospitals, they can also through the remote diagnosis on the cloud platform to help improve the medical level of community hospitals.

Power grid Cloud: Electricity is a kind of special energy, after the hair is not able to save, must use out. The smart grid on the cloud platform, by agreement price, full-network scheduling, so that all the operation of power grids from power generation, transmission, distribution, sale of electricity in all aspects can be organically coordinated, to achieve intelligent network scheduling, improve power grid efficiency, energy conservation; At the same time, this cloud platform can also support enterprises and residents more rational, economical electricity. The use efficiency of electric energy is expected to be greatly improved.

Industry Cloud: Automobile manufacturers can and related parts enterprises, 4S shop through the cloud platform seamless connection, thus unifying product quality standards, timely update design, reduce the risk of inventory, improve after-sales service level. Timely after-sale feedback can avoid mass recall events. Cloud platform can also reduce the operating costs of small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises, for example, a spare parts production enterprises, it specializes in producing a meager profit of the mold products, but it needs to use a very expensive design software, the core car companies can provide software on a cloud platform for the use of the enterprise, according to the use of time charges can be. In this way, the entire industry chain can be unified design standards, while saving the cost of the entire industry chain, and further help SMEs to focus their investment on the core manufacturing advantages, rather than spend on it software procurement.