Cloud Opportunities for IT services

For IT services, cloud computing is no doubt the best catalyst since its inception. The IT business model, which delivers computing resources entirely in a service way, is driving the delivery model across the IT industry to the full service.

In recent years, the level of informatization in our country has been upgraded year in, whether it is the government-led information construction project or the Informatization investment in Telecom, finance, energy and other fields. In particular, "Twelve-Five" after the introduction of the plan, the State vigorously foster strategic emerging industries and the last two years a number of guiding policies, industry standards of the intensive landing, the entire IT service industry has shown a thriving situation, which, the telecommunications industry, large-scale infrastructure, government industry in the overall planning of it, finance Media and other industries to upgrade the level of software for IT service industry has brought new business growth, market prospects will also be good.

IDC data shows that global cloud services reached $28 billion trillion in 2011, and will reach 73 billion U.S. dollars in 2015, an annual growth of 27%, to reach the traditional it market growth rate of 5 times times. And in China, cloud services, which include infrastructure, it services, and different delivery models of public cloud and private cloud, created about 760 million dollars in 2011. By 2016, that figure will rise to $2.6 billion trillion, above the average for global growth.

Service-led cloud computing

Cloud computing's drive to the IT service industry is equally visible. Data show that 2011 China's total IT services market size of 148.2 billion yuan, the pace of development than the previous year to further upgrade. 2011-2012, except Beijing, Shanghai, Wuxi and other five pilot cities, many areas of China have strengthened the deployment of cloud computing, and are gathered in the "infrastructure" this aspect, will bring billions of or even tens of billions of market space for the entire IT Service market, and subsequent platform construction, software, operation and other projects, It will also bring huge rewards for the entire IT Service market.

The advent of cloud computing is bound to be a huge change in the industry's IT services and it applications, in areas such as user groups, software sales, applications, and construction patterns. In this respect, the service providers in the leading enterprises have been carried out a positive attempt.

Lin, China's digital chief executive, has had a penetrating metaphor for the profit of it supply chains: looking for a hotel in the exhibition to rent a projector to transfer the joint costs, may be more than a single to buy a switch is not much, but few people would think that the payment of this rent is not worth, because the money to solve their own urgent need. A product that is sold to a customer-specific configuration, and provides a customer with a product that solves its particular problem, can generate several times the profits of the former.

And IT service as the highest form of supply chain value, from the simple construction operation to the cloud computing environment of the on-demand services, the same can make the value of service providers to achieve a change in the way. Under the service model of satisfying demand, the quotations offered to customers will be able to get rid of the limitation of work units in traditional mode, and the service providers will receive more returns while the value of the service is further matched with the price.

Service value begins to show

In the process of converting industry user it architectures to cloud computing, the main requirements have shifted from the infrastructure consolidation that preceded the Chisa of cloud computing to demand analysis and consolidation. In order to stand in the overall layout, integrated support for different applications of it budget and management expenditure, decision-makers need to integrate the overall IT system to achieve a full range of business sharing and data coordination, the old business optimization and new business to provide information support. In the process of this conversion, the value of service is also beginning to highlight.

In the business model of providing overall cloud environment hosting for government industry users, almost 100% of the revenue generated by the IT industry chain directly from users comes from the user's service expenditure. In traditional it mode, the business expenditures generated by server, storage, software, system integration and operational services are integrated into a single service charge in the cloud mode. In most cases, service provider for the hosting cloud provided by the overall hosting operation services, the whole project is based on a fully serviced quotation form, the two sides of the service cost accounting is no longer based on the service providers of human resources and other basic resource, but according to the specific application of the situation (in the case of Intelligent city, That is to manage the geographical area, population, number of enterprises and other factors to account for the cost of services to be paid. In this model, because the project decision maker only needs to spend very little money to start the project, therefore also has the higher implementation initiative.

As Microsoft's partner in cloud hosting services, Shanghai Tengzhong Information Technology Co., Ltd. is currently providing cloud-based commonality services to solve basic problems such as communication and synergy within the enterprise, helping customers achieve higher efficiency and provide new working methods. Changwei, vice president of Tengzhong, at present, there are two types of enterprises in the purchase of cloud services have a relatively high interest, one is mental workers concentrated knowledge-intensive and service-intensive enterprises such as law firms, advertising companies, information companies and software companies, the industry's own positioning and cloud services are relatively close, It also attaches great importance to the way of outsourcing to achieve enterprise synergy. The other is large and scattered, many branches and staff limited, while there are many mobile office needs of enterprises, such as high-end manufacturing and trade-oriented enterprises. Among them, the background of foreign capital, or with foreign enterprises to deal with more users, more easily identify with the value of cloud services.

At present, the main business of Shanghai Tengzhong is to provide IT outsourcing services for the whole life cycle of the enterprise, and the future goal is to provide different cloud services according to the characteristics and stages of the enterprise. Changwei said that, on the basis of existing services business, in the future, there are two other directions that can be strengthened on the basis of existing business: the first is to include a variety of cloud service models, such as a managed cloud with a proprietary cloud from a public resource pool, and a proprietary cloud product for industry-specific industries. Among them, the managed cloud model can be closer to the domestic enterprises, the Government and other users of data security and private feelings, so as to improve its acceptance of cloud services, while the latter can be in the common service based on the development of more applications and market space.

"In the field of public cloud services, we can, as far as possible, according to Chinese enterprises to use the scene and application habits, the leading technology in the form of services localized to the enterprise, the standard price to get the standard services to buy." "In hosting a private cloud, we will provide more industrial services, include deployment services for different companies of scale, and do more customization according to the needs of the enterprise because of the use of large cloud pools and more economical IT investment patterns," Changwei. Compared to the customer's own investment in the basic hardware, network environment, have a lot of economy. ”