Cloud computing Transformation Cloud services three major problems highlight

If, in 2008, "Cloud computing" is a very fashionable term, 2009 is called Cloud Computing application surging year. At the beginning of 2010, South Korea has proposed its own cloud computing strategy from the national level, after 2009 years of close attention to cloud computing, China's telecom operators will have a new strategy in 2010, what kind of development environment is cloud computing facing?

Industrial chain needs to be reconstructed

January 18, reporters in the carrier cloud computing status of the interview found that cloud computing in China is facing industrial chain restructuring.

Sun Shaoling, of China Mobile Research Institute's Business Support Institute, said in an interview that cloud computing is facing the traditional industrial chain has been broken, and the new industrial chain urgently needs to be reconstructed process, in this process, telecom operators should play an important role. Cannan, Vice general manager of China Unicom's IDC Operations center, also told reporters he believed that when developing public clouds, telecom operators needed to lead a cloud service industry chain around operators, leading more vendors to serve customers.

When it comes to the specific landing of cloud computing for telecoms operators, Cannan said that China Unicom has been closely monitoring and tracking the development of cloud computing and virtualization, "on the one hand, we hope to use virtualization technology to enhance the efficiency of IDC, green energy conservation, but also look forward to the use of cloud computing, derivative cloud services to provide customers, We will focus on the SME service platform in advance. ”

Cannan also believes that, from the current situation, the provision of cloud services is still a relatively long-term topic, operators if the establishment of cloud platform, must be to build a public cloud platform. "The problem before us, first of all, is the need to do a good job of virtualization technology and IAAS (infrastructure services), on this basis, further explore the cloud computing business model, and how to lead the cloud computing providers, innovation and cooperation, together to create a cloud services information industry chain." ”

Bubbles have been produced

In the interview, the reporter found that although the cloud computing industry chain is not perfect, but the current bubble has emerged, need to arouse the attention of the industry.

From the current situation of the development of cloud computing in China, some local governments and some it manufacturers have been operating on the landing of cloud computing. In the interview, some people in the industry believe that this phenomenon has many factors. For example, it manufacturers for cloud computing "software as a service" concept, hope that the software will be carried on the original IT hardware platform, in order to serve the original hardware software, hoping to be able to get long-term benefits; for example, the local government in the promotion of small and medium-sized enterprises in the informatization of green GDP and other factors considered more, While the concept of cloud computing is catered to from a national policy perspective, local governments are very active in pushing cloud computing.

Although some parts of the country, such as Shenzhen, Dongguan, Jiangsu, Wuxi and other places have established data centers, but in fact, these already launched cloud computing projects by some industry insiders think is "mostly lack of overall planning." ”

By interacting with a number of people in the industry, the representative view still comes from Sun Shaoling. In an interview, Sun Shaoling said that, through observation and research, although the industry chain has not yet been perfected, there are already many signs of horse racing in cloud computing services.

On the one hand, traditional it manufacturers want to rely on cloud computing to change the original mode of selling software products, in turn to provide SaaS services, to reduce marketing costs, gain long-term benefits; On the other hand, local governments have built up cloud computing IDC in the light of boosting local economy. These cloud services often lack the overall planning, the future of business models, management models lack of mature consideration. "Will the future cause bubbles?" I am personally worried about that. Cloud computing cost savings, energy saving and emission reduction is the premise of the whole society concentrated construction of computing resources, resource sharing, if the whole society blindly construction, the result will be a lot of waste of energy, and resulting in idle resources. Sun Shaoling said.

Calling for regulatory oversight

As an innovative technology application, it vendors have been the first to occupy the market share, showing a kind of horse race enclosure situation. In the face of this situation, the reporter found through the interview, experts on "Whether should be unified supervision of the National Cloud Computing" issue is also more concerned.

At present, cloud computing is the main application of the scope of the user's data application and hosting, so face "how to ensure the security of user information and privacy protection" problem. This also requires that cloud computing service providers must be strong, highly reputable, with commercial capabilities.

"Cloud computing is now in the pilot phase. If there is no policy of access from the government, and there is no rigorous scrutiny of the providers of cloud computing, cloud computing will still be limited in the future. Sun Shaoling pointed out that some people in the industry believe that cloud computing is the data bank, without strict qualification review and access control, it is easy to create user information security and privacy risks, will harm the long-term development of the entire industry.

Therefore, the cloud computing sector needs to develop access credentials and audit mechanisms from the government level. It is understood that the relevant ministries have been several times to investigate the cloud computing security and privacy issues. China telecom operators have repeatedly called for more laws and regulations to strengthen cloud computing, and expect government-level regulation to be implemented as soon as possible.

Through inquiries, the reporter found that the current international cloud computing has no relevant laws and regulations can be used for reference, in the global scope, including the United States, cloud computing operations, but also only from the perspective of it vendors to implement the Internet management. Once China has formulated and introduced relevant provisions for the regulation and regulatory aspects of cloud computing, it can be called "management innovation on a global scale".

Industry insiders believe that the biggest problem with cloud computing is management and security issues, and industrial policy is more challenging.

The interview learned that China Mobile and other telecom operators in full cooperation and support of the country to carry out relevant actions. It is understood that the China Mobile Research Institute since 2007 launched the "Big Cloud" cloud computing research project, the project in the cloud computing technology and application research and development, but also actively engaged in cloud computing related industry market and policy control and other aspects of research, the future will actively cooperate with the formulation of relevant national policies and regulations.