Cloud computing achievements of Google

The development of technology is constantly improving. In the early days of the mainframe, all the calculations were gathered in the mainframe; in the PC era, the main functions of the computer were on one PC; and now, in the era of "cloud computing", there will be new capabilities in computing concentrated.

The distributed era of PC, created the bustling Microsoft, Apple; centralized computing constantly creating a "cloud era", but also the achievements of Google. Google is trying to move all the calculator calculations and applications to different "clouds." Microsoft has proposed a new concept of "cloud-end computing" balance: "cloud" and the terminal will share some of the computing and application functions.

Microsoft proposed that "cloud computing" is based on the premise that although the balance determined by Moore's Law and the WINTEL architecture is being broken in the "cloud computing" era, a new balance of hardware, bandwidth, and content is emerging: terminal performance, bandwidth Development, will never catch up with the growth rate of the content, the three always maintain a dynamic balance of the best.

Zhang Yaqin, Microsoft's senior vice president and chairman of Microsoft (China) Co., Ltd., in an interview with China Business News commented that it is precisely because of the above balance that data will be concentrated after entering the age of the Internet-centric era, but not all are concentrated : A lot of data may exist in different data centers - "Cloud", a lot of computing may be in the terminal.

Massive acquisition of Yahoo, Microsoft is to meet the "cloud era" an important step in the challenge. However, at a turning point in time, Microsoft at the crossroads of planning how to plan for the next decade will determine whether it is still standing in the forefront of industry or eventually disappearing from people's eyes.

Microsoft "cloud computing" duel Google

The Internet industry has three levels: the bottom is the infrastructure provided by network equipment companies and telecom operators, like the highway; the second level is the platform, including hardware and software platforms, mainly provided by Microsoft, Intel and other companies, as Motor cars on the highway; and the third level is the application, including search, IM, information, just as in the car can listen to music, receive information and so on.

"When it comes to the Internet, people should recognize these three different levels rather than just applications." According to Ya-Qin Zhang, only by integrating these three aspects can we realize that in the future only "cloud computing" will be used to provide everything that is too Idealized.

Microsoft believes that the computing industry in the cloud computing era will be "centralized + distributed" after the centralized computing of the information industry through the distributed computing in the PC era.

Ya-Qin Zhang said that from an economic point of view, bandwidth, storage, computing will not be free, consumers need to find a pattern that meets their needs, and therefore "end" of the calculation must exist.

"From a technical point of view, the end of the computing power to bring users more exciting applications." Ya-Qin Zhang said that from the communications supply and demand, although the bandwidth growth, but the content is growing faster, such as video, Three-dimensional images, etc., the development of bandwidth is always keep up with the growth rate of the content.

The requirements at each level are different, the more easily change to the top. And in the application layer Google only through "cloud computing" to provide different services, Microsoft is both an application service provider, but also a software platform provider, its "software + service" strategy is the user wants to serve the service, you want the software Give the software.

Ya-Qin Zhang believes that the software is platform-based, because many business customers hope that the software provider to provide the form, and in the Internet application layer, Microsoft will provide more services.