Cloud computing drives telecom operators ' strategic transformation

Sadie Investment Consultancy Center for Communications Industry Research, Wen Xingyu

Cloud computing as the core of future information Service system, its brand-new service way brings the revolutionary ICT experience for enterprise users and individual users. In this revolutionary it wave of cloud computing, the three telecom operators will become the main force of China's cloud computing strategy by virtue of their comprehensive data center nodes, their unique wireless/wired network access capabilities, and their deep accumulation of users and channels.

Telecommunications operators have long been in the field of SaaS layout, with the increase in data volume and bandwidth and the development of mobile Internet, telecom operators fully layout cloud computing has become a foregone conclusion. On the one hand, relying on cloud computing, domestic telecom enterprises will occasion exerting force, internal business system IT resources integration, reduce the cost of business delivery, the external cloud to build new business model of the basic resource platform, in the application level to promote the landing of cloud computing. On the other hand, operators have the ability and foundation to build large data centers and become the leading players in the cloud services. Therefore, in the background of cloud computing, China's three telecom operators are actively engaged in strategic transformation to build their own brand cloud service system.

Cloud strategy of the three operators to be a separation of the trend, cloud computing platform from the "Private cloud" to "mixed cloud" accelerated evolution

The development of cloud computing is closely related to the transformation of telecom operators. In the three major operators from their own point of view to plan the cloud computing architecture, China Telecom "Sky Wing Cloud" will be the launch of the three major carriers cloud strategic development catalyst, will accelerate China Mobile, the Chinese unicom in the cloud computing area layout. At this stage, China Unicom will mainly rely on the IDC resources to compete with China Telecom, although China Mobile in the IDC resources lag behind the telecom and Unicom, but has gradually applied the research results of cloud computing to support systems and business platforms. The three major operators cloud computing strategy Ding Development trend has formed, the future operators in the cloud computing competition will be more intense.

In the early stage of construction, the telecom operators more attention to their own "private cloud" construction, and telecom operators in the cloud computing platform to build a unique advantage for its accelerated development has created a good opportunity. Operators can use their own "private cloud platform", the gradual evolution of its "mixed cloud Platform", through SMS, voice and other simple and quick way for the group and industry customers with mobile office, production control, marketing services and other business, in the group and industry customers to save costs, Improve work efficiency while creating a new operating income model to achieve the full use of resources.

Telecom operators transform from "Pipeline" type to "end-to-end" Integrated information service Provider

Just as IP once changed the architecture of the entire communications industry, cloud computing technology will change the entire information industry in the future, which provides a historic opportunity for telecom operators to transform from CT to big ICT industry, and also provides an opportunity for telecom operators to switch from "pipeline" owners to "end-to-end" service providers.

Therefore, China Telecom operators ' cloud computing transformation Strategy is not only the transformation of business strategy, but also the transformation of business role. But in the final analysis, the transformation strategy of telecom operators will be the transformation of the business role, that is, "based on high-speed network access and large-scale data centers, such as cloud computing services platform, for enterprises and individual users, to provide IaaS, PAAs and SaaS-oriented integrated information service providers." ”

The important significance of telecom operators ' cloud computing Transformation strategy lies in: to reduce the operational cost, to achieve sustainable growth, to enhance the value and enhance the industry leading position. Among them, through the private cloud application realizes it construction and the operation dimension cost is reduced greatly, realizes the business transformation and the sustainable development by the public cloud service, relies on constructs the cloud platform to strengthen to the value chain control ability, by virtue of the construction of the industrial ecology realizes its in the industry the leading power enhancement.

The three major telecommunications operators of the public cloud services have been in various industries landing applications

With the strong support of the state for the five cloud computing application demonstration projects such as Beijing, Shenzhen and Shanghai, the public cloud application cases of telecom operators are increasing; private cloud is no longer in the stage of server virtualization, Desktop cloud, large cloud IDC began to scale deployment; such as financial cloud, e-commerce cloud, All kinds of industries such as intelligent traffic cloud also apply more ground.

"Financial Cloud" is the China Telecom Shanghai Company specifically for the financial industry Tailored data Center "cloud services", which broke the traditional financial enterprise data center of the respective construction, the mode of operation, small and medium-sized financial enterprises will be "on-demand, pay-for-do" delivery model to obtain cloud computing services, Thus saving a lot of construction and operation management costs; Shandong Unicom and Qingdao government signed a support for the development of cloud computing industry Strategic Cooperation Agreement, China Unicom Qingdao Cloud Computing Center will open up the Enterprise service zone, planning for E-commerce Enterprises to provide "flexible computing resources rental" services, the formation of "E-commerce Cloud"; Business Services Cloud "through virtualization technology to simplify the management process, reduce energy consumption, and carry the Xinhua news Agency-China Network, tel Portal, SMS issue, micro-film resources, such as a number of new business systems; Chongqing Mobile set up special channel for offshore data transmission, joint Chongqing International Offshore Cloud Computing Special Test zone Core Enterprise To undertake cross-border business data such as offshore cloud computing. Initially set up a cloud intelligent city, and in the intelligent industry, intelligent transportation, smart grid, intelligent logistics, intelligent agriculture, intelligent medicine, such as the eight major areas of application to achieve an important breakthrough.

(Editor: Lu Guang)