Cloud-computing feast to treat operators should be "cloud" and change

Recently, at the 2011 Information Technology Booster Operators Leap-forward development forum and the second operator IT operations Support Innovation Technology Conference, IDC vice president Tim Dillon is amazing, he predicted that by 2014, 80% of the new software will be able to get through the cloud, public cloud and private cloud input speed, Will be 4-5 times the total IT market. Attractive market prospects, attracting a number of industries to invest in the cloud computing industry, the operators of network-oriented telecommunications operators are naturally unwilling to miss the feast.

Cloud Computing brings new opportunities

"In the face of such a tempting market, telecom operators are not far behind, as a cloud computing technology users and the provider of new service model, we can not find a new blue sea market." Telecom operators have been trying to transform themselves over the years, trying to be the leader of ICT, and cloud computing is just a big convergence of ICT, which can be the main direction of transformation. "When it comes to the opportunities that cloud computing brings to operators," said Huiling, deputy dean of China Telecom's Beijing Institute.

The traditional IDC market, operators mainly provide network infrastructure services, "into the cloud computing era, operators in the original basic resources, integration of computing, storage, it and other infrastructure, the introduction of new service model, open up new market space and revenue growth point." "Daixiaohui, deputy director of the Ministry of Industry and Information technology, is very optimistic about the future of cloud computing," the operator has become an IT capability outsourcing provider for many enterprises and public services to provide various IT capabilities on an as-needed basis. ”

"For individual users, because cloud applications rely more on cloud responses, as a result, the broadband of the public users will grow rapidly as the cloud application increases, and the enterprise will host more of its own business to the cloud in order to provide services to the enterprise customers. "The cloud will drive the broadband market and the rapid growth of the mobile internet," said Chen Wenhai, secretary general of the Communications branch of the China Electronic Society.

In addition, the advent of cloud computing has greatly promoted the information development of the whole society and provided the opportunity for the development of other ICT business of the operators. "In order to promote the development of cloud computing industry, the government continuously gives policy support and tilt, and inspires more information service requirements, which provides more opportunities for operators to have ICT services and services." Dongbao, deputy director of the Ministry of Industry and Information technology, said that he also believes that cloud computing provides an unlimited capacity platform that lowers the threshold for innovation, and the innovative potential of individuals and small and medium-sized enterprises, with innovation as the mainstay, will be further released.

"Operators can use cloud computing technology and development patterns to change the existing IT equipment and software investment model, adjust the entire IT operations organization, to the unified IT infrastructure operation transformation, reduce investment in advance, improve it efficiency." Tangshulian, deputy director of the Communications Management Committee of China Communications Society, added, "the management of resources within the operator can also save energy and reduce emissions, enhance enterprise innovation, it responsiveness, and greatly enhance the competitiveness of enterprises." ”

Traditional carrier pressure Highlights

Opportunities and challenges are always accompanied. The integration of ICT, on the one hand, will lead to a single communication-oriented business decline, such as network telephony, instant messaging, Web call center, and so constantly impact on the traditional communications market. On the other hand, the role of each link in the industrial chain has a trend of upward and downstream integration, so that the former in the traditional industrial chain upstream and downstream of the enterprise into a direct competitor, operators will face more intense competition, traditional business and the market will face greater impact.

First, the emergence of powerful new competitors, all kinds of external pressure highlighted. Many internet companies have launched cloud computing, foreign famous Amazon, Google, Saleforce, FaceBook, they can be said to be the first practitioners of cloud computing, the domestic Alibaba, Shanda, Tencent, such as the establishment of a variety of cloud platforms and cloud services; Also from the original simple to promote others to use equipment to the service provider transformation. IBM, for example, has built data centers around the world to provide fully hosted cloud services for medium and large enterprises, Microsoft services to small and medium-sized enterprises with azure platforms, and server vendors such as Dell to build global data centers; has successfully expanded from consumer electronics to Internet service providers, and its App store online stores have become a mainstream Internet service Portal; Even pure communications equipment providers are trying to shift to cloud services, such as Huawei, which is in the cloud industry chain, is actively providing operators with cloud desktops, Cloud storage and other scenarios, but also announced that its users are no longer limited to communications vendors, but also for small and medium-sized enterprises.

"This undoubtedly exacerbates the competition in the operating market, with internet companies and platform-type companies with the advantage of technology being able to switch to cloud computing operators more quickly and move into a broader field of operation in the context of IDC's basic resources, which makes the competition situation of existing operators more severe, Traditional operators of the pipeline crisis is also more obvious. "The director of cloud computing at IBM China Software Development Center gave this feeling.

Secondly, cloud computing has put forward the change demand to the traditional carrier's existing system. Cloud computing is the change of technology, but also the change of business model, cloud computing is not only communication technology, there are more it technology and Internet technology, the original extensive mode of operation is no longer applicable. "Cloud technology to operators put forward higher personnel requirements, whether product development, operation or sales team." Zhang, Vice president of Customer Service division of Cisco Greater China, has a clear understanding of the changes brought about by cloud computing, "in the process of gradual transformation of operators to service-oriented enterprises, there are still many problems to be solved in fine operation." ”

In addition, cloud computing challenges the existing network architecture. "Because cloud computing is more on the server side, network security will be a major challenge." "Zhang Hongko, director of the Network Technology Research Institute of Beijing and Beijing, raised his concern," the original network of relatively independent enterprises into the cloud of the city, the network no boundaries, such a situation on the network security put forward higher requirements, must establish a credible cloud computing environment.

Newspaper reporter Zhu Yi

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)