Cloud, everything is just beginning

I was born in the countryside, as a child without electricity, then finally through the electricity, with the electric light, young I think electricity can only be used to illuminate the house, and can not imagine how electricity will change our lives in the future.

20 years later, I came to Beijing, the first time in the university room to see the computer. At that time the computer was covered with velvet cloth, the room is dedicated to laying plastic hollow floor, and air-conditioning at any time to serve it. At that time, the computer monitor can only display green fonts, not even black and white, so it seems that the function is not much higher than a typewriter. At that time, I never imagined that computers would seep into our lives at such a fast pace and drastically changed the way we work.

And then there are 486, with Windows, with multimedia, I actually can see the VCD on the computer, just feel the computer this thing really amazing. From then on, I began to fall madly in love with it. In college, I often go around Zhongguancun, by helping others and schools to build computers to make some money, and then a classmate partnership to buy the first one of their own 486 computers, from then on to facilitate the computer inseparable.

Then listen to people say, computer can surf the Internet, I also immediately became the first group of netizens. To use 163 dial-up access to the Xidan Telegraph office Building to open an account; when the noise of the modem end, the first page presented in front of me, I instead of excitement, think is a little news, can use a few sites, soon visual fatigue, do not know what else to do with it. One day, the first time I have their own email address, registered but found around almost no one has email, then my email should be sent to whom? Carefully think, dial is the time charge, or the first rush off. It was totally unexpected that today the Internet would change our lives.

Today, when we talk about cloud computing with our clients, the reaction of most people is almost the same as when I was in front of the electricity, computer and Internet, and I knew it was not general, but how and to what extent they would affect our work and life, but no one could describe it accurately. There is no doubt that it will bring about a revolution.

4 years ago, we had a group of idealists together, set up a iways and started a business. We want to introduce video technology into the training industry, reducing the dependence of training on teachers, so as to achieve the scale of training. Our biggest challenge at the time was to protect the intellectual property rights of our original content at home, and then we decided to start with foreign markets, develop training courses for Westerners, and sell intellectual property overseas. The company's business model is to authorize the original courses to overseas agencies or corporate customers, for their instructor training, and then their lecturers to teach, we charge students with the course licensing fees, similar to the software license fee.

3 years ago, the smartphone did not become an arcade, pad has not been popular, domestic talk about cloud computing is not many people, netizens have not even formed the habit of watching video on the internet. But in the last year or two, with the help of cloud computing and mobile terminals, we have a new way of doing it--making video lessons that were previously dotted in face-to-face training into 7 minutes of micro-video, where learning points are simple and concise, and companies use this form of employee training to push micro-video lessons in the clouds to their employees , the enterprise can also track whether the staff watch, whether the test, learning effects, and so on. In this way, the enterprise will be able to spend time and energy to organize face-to-face training in the hands of the cloud sent to the staff scattered around, this is cheaper, more convenient and more efficient.

It can be said that without cloud computing and mobile terminals to help, video training This form can not be in the enterprise at a low cost of large-scale promotion, enterprises are not easy to transfer and the hair, the staff is not easy to learn at any time, of course, not easy to track the effect, of course, can not protect intellectual

A few years ago, an enterprise customer built an independent e online learning system to spend millions of or even tens of millions of: servers, databases, software systems, one can not be less, and it will take months or even more than a year to complete such a learning system. Now the situation has changed, and using cloud computing requires only about one-tenth or less of the original inputs to achieve similar functions and applications within a few weeks.

Starting from the end of 2011, Iways officially changed its name to Gikoo and set up a mobile training system for the first-line employees of the enterprise. Gikoo is the pioneer of cloud computing application, is the beneficiary, is also low cost, simple and convenient cloud application case.

We believe that saving money and labor, simple and convenient things must be extremely vigorous vitality, cloud computing energy has not fully played, now is only a beginning. As long as believe, try, promote, Gikoo future will certainly occupy the opportunity, become the industry leader.

Two days ago, a client asked me if the SaaS-mode learning system like ours was cloud computing? Of course, SaaS is the closest layer of cloud computing to customers, the level of customer understanding and perception. In fact, we have a more complex in the background of a PAAs platform to support. For example, a customer simply uploads the video course to the operation, behind the need for us to carry out a large number of transformation, processing video file format, size, size, clarity and so on, to fit the customer's different terminals and bandwidth status, but also in the background to use a large number of CDN distributor, to ensure a large number of video files concurrent access, In this way, even if customers scattered around, can still learn smoothly. All this is done in the background of the cloud, the process is very complex, but the customer is completely not feel. Customers use the interface is very simple, only need to click the Upload button, you can make a large number of employees access to the course at any time. In fact, the entire deployment of the system is also in the cloud, by a similar IaaS provider to provide services to us, our platform is actually a complete integration of cloud computing three-tier services.

While we are now talking to non-it customers about the three tier of cloud computing services, many customers are not very easy to understand, but they have been able to really feel that the cloud computing cost saving effort and simple and convenient.

We are the application developers who are already on the cloud Computing Express and the first batch of beneficiaries, but two years ago we never thought we could be like this, and of course we can't imagine the surprises of cloud computing for another two years now.

Cloud, everything is just beginning!

(Responsible editor: Songtao)