Cloud Leap

A world-wide cloud "revolution" has brought countless new businesses. More and more Chinese cities and enterprises are desperately squeezing into the cloud computing industry feast.

How to leap in the industrial revolution, rather than the fog of the fun, is the real test.

"Cloud" Chung

Beijing is Xiangyun, Shanghai is a sea of clouds, Shenzhen is Kun cloud, Chongqing is clouds, Hangzhou is Cloud Supermarket, Ningbo is the nebula, Wuxi is Cloud Valley, Suzhou is called Choi Wan, Harbin is called Cloud flying, Guangzhou days cloud, Huizhou Huiyun, Qinhuangdao called several valleys.

"Cloud" is becoming a foggy feast in China.

Whether or not it's clear what the cloud is, whether it's a "cloud" of the information industry, more and more cities are rushing to put on the fashionable hat of cloud.

For example, Beijing is Xiangyun, Shanghai is a sea of clouds, Shenzhen is Kun cloud, Chongqing is clouds, Hangzhou is Cloud Supermarket, Ningbo is the nebula, Wuxi is Cloud Valley, Suzhou is called Choi Wan, Harbin is called Cloud flying, Guangzhou days cloud, Huizhou Huiyun, Qinhuangdao called several valleys.

The most ambitious is Chongqing. April 2011, Chongqing's Jiang River New area opened "China's largest cloud computing experimental zone," The River International Cloud Computing Center, the total investment of 40 billion yuan. Only more than 10 days later, the "largest" was built by the local construction of another project overtaking-Jiangjin area cloud computing industry base Planning area of 15 square kilometers, the total investment of 50 billion yuan.

The feast is so lively, some smaller cities do not want to be absent, Hebei's Zhuozhou also announced to invest 5 billion yuan to set up a cloud computing base.

Countless companies are also crowding into banquets.

In Zhuozhou, a company called "Hongmeng International" claims to be the world's first platform for cloud computing applications. The company, a state-owned printing factory, has developed a complex cloud-cloud system that provides a separate web site for every township in China.

"There is indeed a cloud leap in China. "Moist Technology Development Co., Ltd., chairman of the Zhou man, some worried to tell the South weekend reporters."

Her company is Hebei Langfang Moist harbor investment construction side. The moist information port is known as the largest cloud storage data center in China, and is now more than twice times more than the world's largest data center (in Chicago, USA).

"Revolution" and business

In the industry's view, cloud computing is expected to become a mainframe computer, personal computers, the Internet after the fourth time it Industrial revolution.

The so-called cloud computing is the public power plant that wants to build information-just as many factories have bought their own generators to generate electricity, and then a public power plant has become the only way to buy electricity in the same degree.

In the cloud, businesses and consumers need to buy the services provided by others without having to "generate electricity"-buying software or forming IT teams.

Take an online account management system For example, a year's rental fee is only 300-500 yuan. And buy a software, often need millions of dollars.

For consumers, for example, the simplest cloud computing application is to save money for hard drives and store large amounts of data in the cloud with a small amount of money.

To do this business enterprise, cloud era, is to sell "computer" not sell "machine", sell "calculate", sell "memory" not sell "device", sell "store". In short, the cloud era, do not sell "server" sell "service".

Because of these huge changes, in the industry's view, cloud computing is expected to become the mainframe, personal computers, the Internet after the fourth time it Industrial revolution.

In order to seize the opportunity of the industry subversive change, at present our government has planned five cloud computing demonstration cities in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Wuxi, the task is to explore the commercial operation, break through the core technology, establish the standard and set up the Industrial alliance.

More coveted is the "revolution" that will bring wealth.

China's cloud computing services market has reached $320 million trillion in 2010 and will grow at a rapid rate of nearly 40% a year, up from $1 billion trillion by 2014, according to a study published by IDC, the US market research firm. The most optimistic estimate in the market is that by 2015, cloud computing will account for 15% to 20% of the size of emerging industries.

A pioneer or a martyr

In the US, where cloud computing is maturing, the number of data centers has been slashed from the past 1100 to around 300 since the surge in demand.

The cloud industry chain, the first is the infrastructure, namely the data center.

Data center and cloud computing relationship, Moist Technology Development Co., Ltd. Chairman Zhou Man has an image of the analogy: cloud storage is the basis of cloud computing, cloud storage is a sea, through the formation of some clouds of photosynthesis, that is, cloud computing. Clouds gather to a certain time it will rain, that is the internet of things. Therefore, moist in doing "seawater" business.

Zhou male, female, Hunan, 51 years old, in the early years of the Hunan food system worked, and later do the transport trade and management of state-owned taxi companies. 1996 the Sea business, in the Changde road began to prosper. 2000 to Beijing development, to kill into the field of communication network, the current "monopoly" of the Beijing Tongzhou District Pipe network construction.

Now, the Zhou man's new target is the cloud storage data center. She told Southern Weekend reporters that 35 of the time, each Chinese need to store data is a TB (1TB=1024GB), 45 period is 10TB per person.

She said that now Beijing's data center, building a full one. As a result of micro-blog data explosion, so that Sina found her to talk about cooperation, hoping to be settled in the moist information port before June 30, 2012.

The moist harbor relies on renting the computer room and the cabinet to make money. At present, the more mature such service provider Amazon data per gigabyte is one months of 12-15 cents (equivalent to 9 cent), and the moist price is 5 cents. A seat can save 200 TB, that is, 1.2 million yuan a year-moist next year can be put into use is two data building, 8,000 seats.

But how long can this high growth last? You know, in the US, where cloud computing is maturing, the number of data centers has been slashed from the past 1100 to around 300 now, after a surge in demand.

Zhou male is not so optimistic. "We may be pioneers, perhaps martyrs." "she said. She tied her business to the government of Langfang to reduce the risk, "this thing is done by the government late in the morning, I just run a few steps ahead, and finally the government to do." Because the security of information data is very important. ”

There are already companies down in the hot market.

At the end of October, a company called the Cloud-Express line terminated its service. An unnamed Shanghai Cloud insider told Southern Weekend reporters that the Beijing Cloud Express Company originally used the U.S. Sun technology, there is no independent core technology.

According to Southern weekend reporters understand that a group has submitted to the State Council a research report on Cloud Leap. The report recommends that the construction of data centres be centrally managed to avoid duplication of construction.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)