Cloud computing China Opportunity: Solving the fragmented distribution of enterprises

the economic attributes behind cloud computing have doomed cloud computing to be a new kind of productivity, making social life different from the industrial economy of commercial activity.


　　


in recent years, with the popularization and popularization of the concept, the huge commercial potential of cloud computing is constantly being demonstrated. A report by IDC (Internet Data Center) says that spending on public and private cloud computing services will create nearly 14 million jobs around the world in 2011-2015 years, and that its push for it innovation is expected to bring in $1.1 trillion trillion of new business revenue each year. At home, the new model is gaining traction, and many companies are taking advantage of cloud computing to reduce the cost and complexity of traditional IT services. In other words, cloud computing is looking for medicine to make it more streamlined and faster. The role of Chinese companies in cloud computing is particularly interesting, under the influence of the technology and business drivers of cloud computing. To this end, our correspondent interviewed the IBM Global Alliance Emerging Countries Group Cloud computing general manager Dr. Ku Weidong.




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CEI: What is the biggest change in cloud computing?


　　


Ku Weidong: Cloud computing can bring new consumption patterns and delivery patterns to an enterprise. In terms of consumption patterns, enterprise IT requirements need not be met by purchasing IT hardware devices and software, and businesses can lease the required IT resources from cloud computing providers to meet their IT needs. From the delivery model, the enterprise does not have to build a hardware and software infrastructure, as well as the computer room and other supporting physical construction and power resources, as before the cloud computing, but can get the computing and enterprise application resources from the cloud computing provider through the network. Cloud computing can drive and change the business model of the business, while also promoting the emergence of many new business models.


　　


CEI: There is information that cloud computing is not a new breakthrough in technology, mainly to integrate some of the original technology into the new business model, this is the correct statement?


　　


Ku Weidong: There is some truth to this argument, but not quite right. Before the advent of cloud computing, software was basically running on the same machine. It is now running on the pool of resources in the cloud. The environment is different, the technical support that needs to provide is different, so can not say a little new things are not. Cloud computing is a step-by-step growth and development to the present, and there is no sudden emergence of new technology, but through the original technology of the gradual development of integration. Although there are still some technical problems in cloud computing, there are no new breakthroughs in technology.


　　


CEI: Why is it that cloud computing is a chance for China?


　　


Ku Weidong: It centralization can help Chinese enterprises improve production efficiency, many Chinese enterprises want to do it centralized management, but the use of traditional it to achieve centralized management, large investment, slow, difficult. Cloud computing can rebuild the industry chain, industry downstream enterprises will be due to cloud computing and shuffle, for a country or a region, cloud computing can bring great changes. For example, a tourism developed city how to get through the industrial chain, or coal-rich Shanxi can even through cloud computing to create a national industry gathering.


　　


for cloud computing, the distribution of Chinese enterprises dispersed, the low level of information is precisely the opportunity, because one of the biggest highlights of cloud computing is that it can provide IT services regardless of geographical size. Through cloud computing enterprises can get the IT services it needs.


　　


Cloud Computing has brought opportunities to Chinese companies, and we are no longer starting to build the IT system from scratch like foreign companies. We can, like them, leverage the IT services provided by cloud computing to meet the enterprise's it needs. In this sense, Chinese enterprises and foreign enterprises are standing at the same starting line.


　　


CEI: What are the challenges facing China's cloud computing and what are the problems in the process of promotion?


　　


Ku Weidong: The cloud computing Center has thousands of servers and a variety of hardware devices, and power consumption is huge. Cloud services are provided over the network, and network speed, network 7x24 uninterrupted service, and network reliability are important for cloud computing. Cloud Computing Center Services Tens of thousands of households, once the downtime, the impact is very large, social costs immeasurable. How to ensure the security of cloud computing is also an important problem to be solved. All in all, power consumption, network reliability, security are the challenges that China's cloud computing faces. But from now on, the biggest challenge for cloud computing is that consumers need time to embrace new technologies. The introduction of any new technology will have a popular acceptance process. In the 80 's, I went to study in North America, when the bank card has been widely promoted, but there are still some people like to go to the counter line, that only face-to-face delivery of people to be safe. So cloud computing also needs a process to be accepted. A new technology, if it can bring benefits, sooner or later it can be widely promoted, then the company and individuals will be in the cloud computing tide benefits, so cloud computing will eventually become popular.


　　


CEI: What kind of enterprise will be fully developed in the cloud computing tide, and what kind of enterprises will be impacted?


　　


Ku Weidong: Cloud computing is just a stage, the kind of play you want to sing depends on the enterprise itself. Each business model is different. Only a deep understanding of cloud computing, and a good combination of cloud computing and its business model, can be found in the cloud computing tide of opportunity. A large number of companies such as Facebook, Saleforce, Google, Amazon and Twitter have grown up through cloud computing, the most typical of which is saleforce, Revenues rose from $22 million trillion in 2002 to $1.94 billion trillion in 2011 years, and from the beginning of 2009 alone, the shares surged 160 times from 25 dollars to 6.4 times dollars this year. Blockbuster, by contrast, is a traditional video rental company with a revenue of $6 billion trillion in 2004, but Netflix, a cloud-based video services company, developed in just a few years as a cloud-computing company with 20 million users in North America. Such a strong impact and competition allowed blockbuster to fail in the summer of 2010.


　　


CEI: From the current development of cloud computing, mainly still some large enterprises, state-owned enterprises, the Government accept the concept of cloud computing relatively fast, how can quickly let small and medium-sized enterprises to participate in the cloud?


　　


Ku Weidong: The government must continue to increase support for cloud computing, small businesses can not do their own cloud computing, must be integrated into the credibility of a better cloud computing center. Foreign work in this area is basically established by large enterprises, but because of the domestic enterprise credit construction and related system deficiencies, so the domestic or the government thrust, so as to make it easier for SMEs to participate in the cloud.


　　


CEI: Is government support for cloud computing not enough? Is the government slowing down in relation to the enactment of relevant laws and regulations?


　　


Ku Weidong: The current state of the cloud computing industry is very supportive, but most of the rest in the establishment of data center stage, the following operating phase is currently an urgent problem to be solved. Our country is groping and exploring how to do this work, because the government can not directly run the cloud computing Center, must look for a professional cloud computing operations team, it takes time.


　　


because the cloud computing itself has not developed to fully mature, so both at home and abroad in a regulatory process, with the continuous improvement of the technology, regulations will continue to develop.


　　


CEI: With the spread of cloud computing, will this service become part of the city's construction as well as hydropower?


　　


Ku Weidong: We often use hydro as a metaphor for cloud computing because there is something in common between the two. But cloud computing is not exactly the same as electricity and water. This is because the water and electricity is not the attribute of data, the same size of data has different values, which is not measurable. Cloud computing will become part of the city's construction, with a combination of public and private clouds, some of which are secret or policy-related, and public services that Governments provide to citizens and businesses.


　　


CEI: Does the privacy of data create doubt about the security of cloud computing?


　　


Ku Weidong: For example, using a bank, the first people are not at ease with their own assets in the bank, cloud computing is the same. We can do more to protect the security of cloud computing through concept update, technical means and laws and regulations three aspects. This has urged technicians to develop more cloud-related security technologies and urge the Government to introduce laws and regulations on cloud data protection more quickly.

(editor: Heritage)