Cloud computing begins to become the mainstream voice of global IT industry

In mid-November, many domestic and foreign IT companies gathered in Beijing to participate in the Hadoop China 2009 Cloud Computing Conference to discuss the current situation and future of cloud computing. After years of accumulation and continuous exploration, cloud computing (Cloud Computing) began to become a mainstream voice of the global IT industry, and began a good development in China-

Actively build a platform of localization

Not long ago, Dongguan Songshan Lake Industrial Park announced that the local government invested 200 million yuan to establish a cloud computing platform, has made substantial progress, has begun to cooperate with enterprises, and has been put into operation. Foshan Nanhai District Science and Technology Information Bureau Director Leung also revealed that the Guangdong (South China Sea) cloud computing Center was set up at the end of April this year, has completed the main site construction, is being carried out equipment, software commissioning, will be put into trial operation at the end of. Guangzhou, Shenzhen is currently building a supercomputer center, the cloud computing platform technology is also eager to.

Industry insiders said that with the high economic growth, a large number of enterprises are facing serious enterprise IT transformation and upgrade, in Guangdong, cloud computing pilot, is the cloud computing platform in the process of localization to accumulate experience, find problems, and gradually expand the pilot scale, and eventually integrate and transform the existing IT structure, to achieve from point to face of scientific development.

Although Google, IBM, Microsoft and other international it giants have announced their own cloud computing strategy in China, however, it was pointed out that data security is China's establishment of "domestic cloud" an important reason. If the cloud computing platform market is monopolized by foreign companies, a large number of Chinese enterprises ' data information is mastered by foreign companies, which will bring huge risks, and the pricing power of services will be left to the foreign companies. Although the current cloud computing platform needs foreign technical and hardware support, the choice of operators is undoubtedly domestic companies.

Preliminary application effect is obvious

Li Deii, academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering and vice President of China Electronic Society, thinks that the biggest benefit of cloud computing is its flexibility, personalization, diversification and simple application and service.

Shanghai Telecom has more than 7 million fixed-line users and more than 3 million broadband users, the current total data up to 1000TB (trillion bytes), distributed in heterogeneous storage systems and platforms, and the data is growing at 100TB a year, every day a part of the data to be backed up. and virtualized cloud storage, not only increased storage utilization, storage hardware cost savings of 60%, but also the storage management of IT staff time savings of 30%, through a single console to manage heterogeneous storage hardware, but also eliminates planned downtime.

Of course, cloud computing is still facing such problems as system control, data storage security, management reliability, new architecture, and so on, while the profit model of cloud computing platform is further explored, however, its market benefit has been preliminarily validated. such as the well-known cloud computing platform-"Amazon Elastic Platform (EC2)", by renting their own rich storage servers, bandwidth, CPU and other resources, Amazon's cloud-related business revenue has more than 100 million dollars.

Today, Lenovo's advocacy of cloud storage, rising cloud security and Qihoo 360 are based on the basic concepts of cloud computing and basic technology to carry out a useful attempt, and achieved a certain market share and good benefits.

Wevey, vice president of Lenovo Group, said that based on the cloud computing concept, Lenovo had released 5 technical achievements in the commercial field. Lenovo is moving in the direction of it giants such as IBM and HP. (Shuai She Jianlei)

(Source: Edition, People's Daily)