Cloud computing-The next goal of the tech "madman" Wang?

Photo: Wang and Technical vice President of the United States Murong are May, "the United States Open Service" for the name of the United States Group Cloud host online, very refreshing page, only one product, 5 grades. "We are our own users, we speak for ourselves," the propaganda, to impress people. Why did the United States win the Battle of the Thousand? Why do you do cloud computing? With such questions, I interviewed Wang and Murong, vice president of technology. Neither Wang nor Murong have separate offices or even cubicles. Wang's station was next to the conference room where we were chatting, with the table of several other colleagues. Of course, he has a little privilege--the area of the work station is bigger than the table. Next to the station there is a slightly strange single sofa, a friend of his own hack out. We didn't have a few minutes to talk because we had to get out of the big room and move to the smaller room when the other colleagues were scheduled. Yes, the American regiment and the Wang, Murong, are very much like Silicon Valley's technology companies and technical leaders. Mark Zuckerberg, one of the most talked-about hacker in the IPO prospectus, is at Facebook's desk, a common (albeit now relatively secretive) corner of the company's big open space. Wang may be one of the best-known serial entrepreneurs in China. But some awkward is, before the United States Regiment, his fame mainly from the school, the domestic, rice and other items "up early but late set" of the repeated defeats and wars. and failure, in addition to the untimely, there have been comments directed at Wang is a typical technical male, although has the vision and ability, extremely intelligent, but lacks the wrist, will not manage, character immature, and Chinese society out of tune. In Shenyin 2010 published the analysis of the Chinese Internet, "the story of two entrepreneurs," The simple, Winkle, ungrounded, do the elite market and can only earn a yell, a bit sad to push the W, in fact, is the Wang. However, the U.S. regiment just in the most grounded gas "thousand Regiment War" to kill a way out, the last month sales have broken 1 billion, more than twice times than other opponents, in March this year Wang even shouted out the target of billions. What is the secret? Wang himself is summed up in this way: first, confidence and patience are essential. Group buying is a big deal, but it's not a sprint, it needs to keep moving. In the 2011, there were opponents who used very desperately to beat the United States, but we are not in a hurry. Then, buy this thing in the end to serve who, we must find out. Consumers and merchants, once there are contradictions, how to choose, this concept affects a lot of places. We have made it clear that consumers first, merchant second, so the first to introduce many consumer protection measures, consumers at ease, development is very smooth. Finally, the importance of technology. Group purchase is a typical O2O, consumer online transactions, offline consumption. But this process is not easy, you have to line the product technology research and development, and the line of business negotiations to promote strong, the two genes are not the same, have a good balance. Some people think that group buying is entirely a line of things, with skillsIt doesn't matter, but it's not. We are able to win the Battle of the thousand groups and have a great relationship with the leadership of IT systems. Hear here, always want to find in China to prove the technical important case of my exciting, hurriedly ask: Technology in the Thousand Regiment war in the end played what role? Wang's answer is that many times the technology is decisive. All wars are always the same as spelling information. Sometimes you know better than your opponents, the difference is very big. World War II Pacific War is largely a information war, the United States because of radar, but also cracked the other's password, Japan's aircraft can soon know the flight, and finally even the Commander-in-Chief 56 are directly killed, can not play. The same is true in the group buying war. Because the business is very dispersed, the country hundreds of cities, each city in the end what is the situation, each city has several group buying website in doing, each share how, the growth trend how, the opponent in with which merchant 怍, each plan how, sell how, like war. What you recommend to consumers, what solutions they offer, and technology plays a key role. If your IT system is strong, it is equivalent to have a satellite, can know the situation in the country, decision-making is very easy, otherwise you are two eyes a smear, can't play. Murong also emphasized that technology can improve overall efficiency. In addition to the virtual machine management system This cloud platform, a key release, the unified data platform, the United States and its own development of the business, sales and other IT support system greatly improve the operation of the automation level, for its sound development also work. Wang For example, buy the merchant payment in the United States this function is to do IT system, the merchant signed the contract to determine payment trigger conditions, and then the system automatic payment, without human intervention, fast. And there is a competitor's payment process is basically by hand, need a team of nearly hundred people. His summary of experience is that people should only do creative value-added things, otherwise try to use machines, can automate automation. This is actually the embodiment of the engineer culture. Murong is deeply impressed by Facebook's research and development management. While there is still a distance from Facebook, the emphasis on recruiting a high level of technical staff, "工欲善其事, prerequisite", and using tools to enhance the efficiency of the team and even the entire company is the direction they have been working on. Group buying was the most intense, when the opponent burned money millions of dozen ads every day, the United States Regiment in IT systems research and development and recruitment engineers invested heavily. So why do you want to launch a cloud service? Wang's answer is simple, because the U.S. regiment in order to support their business, did a virtual machine management platform, part of the OpenStack, part of their own development, the company's entire business, tens of millions of of the turnover every day on top, and stable and easy to use, Then in the expansion of the room there are some spare, feel that other small companies and entrepreneurial team will need to take out the outside. Murong added that the platform was originally designed to meet the needs of both the production environment and the product development and testing environment. The entire company's internal and external linesProduction system has been more complex, each product even if small, but also need to be able to more efficient use of computing resources, more clean deployment, more convenient operation dimension, so virtualization is imperative. and offline research and development test environment, in order to improve efficiency and agility, and a simple management system, so that developers can easily self-service without approval for the development of the environment. Even if the product personnel to do research prototype, as long as he will write a little bit of simple code, you can do their own, do not have to wait for research and development. This will greatly liberate the team's productivity and creativity. At present, the United States and the cloud regardless of line online, or inside and outside the company, the entire system is unified. As for the next plan, Wang said that he had not thought too much and would not commit to more things. Cloud computing is destined to be a very long, slow thing, and they have enough patience to do it slowly. But Wang also stressed that cloud computing is no small matter, it is no doubt the direction of the future, and if China does not have cloud computing, it will be in innovation and abroad to pull a big distance. "I told my friends a few years ago that, like the end of 19th century, if you went abroad and found that they had steam locomotives and China didn't, it was simply not competitive." The same is true of cloud computing. "The United States Mission must still focus on the local e-commerce, but in support of their business at the same time, the basic technology can do better, and then the whole open up, the surplus resources open up, and there is not much extra cost, why not?" The United States will not suddenly do a very complex cloud services, Not to do what you don't need but there must be something in the market that someone needs. From the school, the meal whether to the United States Regiment, Wang's team is maturing, this is they from the failure to succeed one of the key variables. What remains is their consistent belief that the Internet will change everything, and that any industry that has not been changed by the Internet is about to be changed by the Internet.