Cloud Computing: Enterprise Evolution

What can cloud computing change?

ICT Business category, business model, social life ... And IDC's digital measure is that in the next five years, public and private cloud computing services will create nearly 14 million jobs globally, and its push for it innovation is expected to bring in 1.1 trillion of dollars in new business revenue each year. H3C, a veteran network equipment manufacturer, the answer is that the network market is from the enterprise network to the cloud computing, data Center interconnection development, in the network market changes, H3C keen to capture it, CT and terminal of the large fusion background, focus on IP network technology development, itself also with the growth and change. And its customers, has covered hundred lines of business. "What businesses are thinking about is not just how cloud computing can change the service and delivery patterns of it, solve user problems, but also need to measure the value of cloud computing in business," H3C chief operating officer Cao Xiangying said, "The future H3C need a big growth point, cloud can do, we will be more and more investment in this." ”

So it seems as if we can understand that the economic attributes behind cloud computing are destined to be a new kind of productivity, which makes social life very different from the industrial economic era of commercial activity. It is noteworthy that the enterprise as the most active cell in the social field, the first perception and application of this advanced technology, where technology and social organization formed a unique phenomenon-corporate cloud.

At present, this is the beginning of the European and American Enterprise Evolution model, in the domestic is also increasingly sought after, many enterprises began to use 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 companies in cloud computing is particularly interesting, under the influence of the technology and business drivers of cloud computing.

Corporate Cloud, Evolutionary methodology

According to the industry's popular saying, it's centralization can help enterprises improve production efficiency, it is precisely because of this consideration, many domestic enterprises want to do it centralized management, but the use of traditional it to achieve centralized management, large investment, slow, difficult. In this context, cloud computing began to gradually enter the industry's view. They hope to use cloud computing, can rebuild the industrial chain, even the industry downstream enterprises are due to cloud computing and reshuffle. For example, a tourism-developed city of Hainan, is hoping to open up the entire industrial chain through cloud computing. Coal-rich Shanxi, for example, is building a nationwide industry cluster through cloud computing.

Then, for the large enterprises such as Hainan Airlines, their hope is to make the management of the enterprise more convenient through cloud computing, to form an effective support for the enterprise's increasingly large diversified business, and make it more simple backstage.

Hainan Airlines is currently China's only one by one Skytrax five-star Airlines, after 18 years of development, has developed into aviation tourism, modern logistics and modern financial services for the three pillars of the modern service industry integrated operators, industry coverage of aviation, logistics, finance, tourism, home ownership, business, Airport management and other related industries. Such a diversified and large-scale business, without the strong support of information technology. And the use of what efficient, economic means to support such a huge business needs, is the most serious challenges of HNA informatization.

2009, HNA Group decided to "cloud computing" a comprehensive change strategy, and has been independent of the HNA information company is the impetus and executor of this strategy. At present, HNA information company in two cities in China to establish a cloud data center for the HNA Group of nearly 60,000 users to provide more than 500 applications, including IaaS services, SaaS private cloud services, as well as a public cloud services. More crucially, in addition to reducing it costs, bringing management and business forward to promote, but also the formation of a unique "cloud economy"-the enterprise cloud resources into the cloud services, only this one, HNA information Company's annual income can be increased by more than tens of millions of dollars.

Again, such as Shandong Province, the largest enterprise-Shandong Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd., in the information development to a certain extent, cloud computing has become a new "help" to promote the development of the group of information. Shan Steel Group 199 Enterprises (units), with the key resources and the core business of the gradual integration, Shan Gang integrated OA, finance and ERP and other information systems to form a group of data centers. Shan Steel Group will be more long-term vision, in the whole Mountain Steel Group information Planning, data center in addition to bear the group's IT business, but also for the subordinate enterprises to provide cloud services, thus driving subordinate enterprises in the application of information. Seemingly "unreachable" cloud computing, is expected in the traditional enterprises to explore more value space, the cloud is more like a fever in the enterprise inside a needle catalyst.

Of course, cloud computing is just a platform to sing what kind of play 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.

The preacher, the race under the cloud

As a leader in cloud computing, Microsoft, IBM, HP, Google, Amazon, VMware, Cisco, and H3C are among the industry's "preachers" of software, servers, storage, virtualization, and networking. For example, Microsoft's "multi-screen One cloud", IBM's "Intelligent Earth" ...

So does it mean that opportunities in the industry will be divided up? On the contrary, with the birth of cloud computing, we find that a large number of companies such as Facebook, Salesforce, Google, Amazon, Twitter have grown up through cloud computing, the most typical of which is Salesforce in CRM software, which relies on cloud computing, The Pay-as-you-go cloud-service model grew its annual income from $22 million trillion in 2002 to $1.94 billion trillion in 2011 years, and its shares rose 160-fold from 25 dollars to around $6.4 times this year, from just early 2009.

For a business environment, in a near-salesforce way, the domestic ufida interpretation of the new opportunities brought about by cloud computing. Since the end of 2010 Ufida issued a cloud strategy, Ufida once again proved its commitment to cloud computing, this April Ufida officially released Ufida "Cloud Platform", and announced the launch of new brand logo. In the process of implementing Soft+service's core strategy, the enterprise's own hardware resource-data center has also undergone great changes: large-capacity interface, high virtualization, green energy-saving, strict safety measures ... In fact, H3C help to build the data center, whether in the refinement of management, or in the virtualization deployment and future expansion of the Ufida to achieve a qualitative leap for Ufida group to the cloud service provider transformation has laid a strong physical foundation.

Of course, in the traditional network equipment field, H3C's advanced is another typical. Although Cisco is undoubtedly the Boss-class behemoth in the corporate market today, its huge market share cannot be shaken. But in the global marketplace Cisco needs to compete with HP, IBM, Avaya, and the domestic market from the H3C, allowing Cisco to refocus its global business architecture on core networks, collaboration architectures and data centers and cloud computing.

Earnings showed that 2011 H3C sales revenue of 1.46 billion U.S. dollars, growth rate of 32.7%, 8 consecutive years of composite growth of 28%, currently in the Chinese market h3c switch market share of 34.8%, enterprise-Class router market share of 44.9%, wireless WLAN market share first. Obviously, H3C has become Cisco's most direct competitor in the domestic corporate network and cloud computing market. At the same time, H3C with HP's overseas marketing resources, and frequently to the Cisco-dominated U.S. domestic market launched a shock. H3C product line Vice President De and said, "H3C overseas market development momentum is very good, although the overseas market accounted for H3C overall sales share is not high, but mainly high-end data center products." "2011 Overseas market share ratio for Europe 45%, North America 35%, Asia Pacific 15%, and won the Dream Factory, Hewlett-Packard Data Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the United States UL Laboratory and other high-end customer recognition." The HNA group mentioned above is also a user of H3C products and solutions.

Of course, whether it is Salesforce or H3C, in these rely on cloud computing to obtain new successful enterprises, no matter what: focus on the accumulation of their own technology, the market demand for accurate grasp, and timely and dynamic opportunities. In fact, H3C has been emphasizing on several occasions that cloud-ready networks and related fields will remain the focus of the H3C in the coming years. In view of this, cloud computing is not only the evolutionary impetus of traditional enterprises, but also an important development opportunity of it innovative enterprises.