Cloud computing--the opportunity for telecom operators to transform

China's "Twelve-Five" period "cloud computing into the focus of development industry, causing great concern, although there are some restrictions and bottlenecks in cloud computing, but few people will doubt that cloud computing will open a new era." For telecom operators, cloud computing has brought great opportunities for the electric voice operators to find the direction of transformation, but cloud computing is also a huge challenge, China Telecom where to go? Yous, director of the International Institute of Technology Athletics at the Development Research Center of the State Council, gave his opinion.

First: Telecom operators need to build pipelines

Yous said that in order to develop cloud computing, telecom operators should build good communication channels on the basis of building strong storage systems. Take Google, the user who currently has the largest cloud technology, for example. Google's search engine is built on the support of more than 1 million servers distributed over more than 200 sites, and the number of these facilities is growing rapidly. For Google more than 200 sites with a very large amount of information interaction, if there is no strong, stable pipeline, then cloud computing becomes a "dead cloud." For pipeline construction, this is a powerful advantage of telecom operators. In addition, operators can provide personal consumer cloud services, such as the iphone, Android phone is a good personal cloud service platform, it is no longer a traditional mobile phone, but a microcomputer. In the future, individual consumers only need to access the cloud computing platform through the network, no matter how the operating system upgrades, how the game requirements to upgrade, only to the operators to increase or upgrade the cloud computing services requirements, without upgrading their own equipment, you can meet demand.

Dr Chan pointed out that operators should not be afraid of becoming a conduit, only the operator to build a strong and stable pipeline, to provide a strong guarantee for cloud computing. For the operator's pipeline construction, it is necessary to have the characteristics of large capacity, high performance and high stability.

Second: To provide a variety of access to the "cloud" means

For users, regardless of the type of cloud computing services, must be in the following conditions to achieve, that is to allow users to use the terminal access to the "cloud", which is often said the "last kilometer" access problem. If the "last kilometer" cannot be solved, even if the cloud is more powerful, the user will not be able to use it. Dr Chan suggested that for the "last kilometer" solution, telecom operators would be better able to provide multiple access options. In-room, wired access is available. In the outdoors, wireless access is considered, and both wired and wireless access provide the same service to the user. For the last kilometer of the solution, this is the operator's strengths, and currently only operators can provide users with a variety of access means.

Third: The key task of telecom operators--building private cloud

For telecom operators, the key task now is to build their own cloud computing. For example, the introduction of cloud computing into the construction of the company's information system to achieve effective integration of IT resources to reduce the cost of IT systems construction and operation, while increasing the operational efficiency of IT systems to a new level, so as to improve the user's business experience and so on. By building the private cloud, telecom operators have a clear understanding of cloud computing and a clear understanding of the various processes and operating costs of cloud computing, laying a good foundation for the next open cloud.

Four: Promote public cloud

It is understood that most small and medium-sized enterprises do not have enough funds to invest in the construction of efficient information systems, often through the rental operators of data centers to support the construction of the enterprise's information work. Therefore, for operators with network advantages, the use of cloud computing for SMEs to provide information services is undoubtedly the blue sea market. Without a doubt, Dr. Yous admits, using cloud computing to provide information services to small and medium-sized Enterprises is an opportunity for telecoms operators in the cloud computing environment and can attract large enterprises to use the cloud computing provided by operators.

In short, cloud computing services is a trend. Telecom operators layout Cloud computing industry needs to better than "four", "cloud" is conducive to reducing IT support system operating costs, improve operational efficiency, enhance their own business capabilities, reduce terminal requirements. At the same time, through other enterprises to use their own cloud, bring good benefits. Telecom can also take the opportunity to introduce external development and innovation, form a new ecosystem, out of the current low speed growth situation.