Comments: Cloud computing-the future sustenance of the Internet

For the obsessed with online shopping, Liu Yang, just launched the Aliyun mobile phone is very attractive. Like many Taobao fans, July 28, Aliyun mobile phone launch day, Liu Yang is eager to participate in the cloud mobile phone shopping experience.

Using the camera on the smartphone, aiming at the two-dimensional code that comes with the product, the desired product will automatically join the user's phone Taobao order, after the completion of the mobile phone payment, the merchandise will soon be sent home. Known as the "sweeping wall" of the new shopping way, by the cloud mobile phone interpretation is very magical.

Cloud mobile phone will be offline entity shop experience, anytime, anywhere to buy, mobile online payment methods and logistics system connected together function, let Liu Yang quite excited: "Shopping is too easy!" "Aliyun mobile phones are a way of using cloud computing, and cloud computing has already entered people's lives."

Living in the Cloud

Often beat in the user desktop 360 cloud antivirus is cloud computing in the field of anti-virus applications. Users do not need to download antivirus software, do not need to hang a machine antivirus, only need to click the Optimization button, you can achieve the function of anti-virus.

National Informatization Advisory Committee member Ningjia told our correspondent, Cloud antivirus working principle is by client software and cloud Security data Center Server work together, use cloud computing Technology and Server Shanghai volume file Knowledge Base kill malicious program, not only solve the antivirus software occupy huge resources problem, But also solves the traditional anti-virus software to lag behind the Trojan virus the limitation.

139 mailbox is the application of cloud computing in expanding user storage capabilities, that is, cloud storage. Ningjia Introduction, 139 mailbox is currently provided to customers of the network disk, is the application of cloud computing, through the network disk users can be in the computer storage, access to 10GB and more storage space.

Apple is also cloud computing, the Apple series is called the Cloud Terminal.

Ningjia said, into the cloud era of personal computers, the system will no longer have system software, application software, as long as the click on the icon can be directly linked. Guo, an expert member of the China Internet Association, said that in the era of cloud computing, no one cared what kind of chips and hard drives were used in the cloud box. User perceptions can change radically: from "buy a product" to "buy a service", because they are not directly facing the complex hardware and software, but the ultimate service.

At the same time, the use of cloud computing in the public domain will be convenient for people's lives. Ningjia, currently in foreign countries, cloud computing has been used in hospitals and other public areas, patients in any hospital shot CT and other films can be easily paged out in other hospitals, and do not need to repeat the shooting.

Industry "Cloud" application

July 21, the Obama administration announced that the federal government has planned to close about 40% of the computer data center in the next 4 years, that is, 800 of the 2000 data centers in the United States, spending savings including the annual billions of U.S. dollars in direct spending and a large number of released Government property.

This is the latest news of cloud Computing's application in the government sector. In the federal cloud Computing Strategy white paper published by the federal government, cloud computing is defined as a model for accessing shared computing pools on demand and for rapid deployment and release with minimal administrative costs. In addition to saving office spending, the US government hopes to provide more modern services to its citizens after cloud computing enters the office space.

The Federal Bank of Australia is the leader in introducing cloud computing into the banking system. In recent years, it has purchased the Bank of Western Australia, New Zealand ASB Bank, and shares in China's Qilu Bank, Hangzhou Bank, opened village and township banks in Henan.

At present, Ningbo is building the world's leading "intelligent logistics" industry is the application of cloud computing in the logistics industry.

Ningjia said that the most promising areas of cloud computing are applied to the process of enterprise and government information processing. Cloud computing's pooling and pooling of resources in infrastructure, application platforms, and applications can save a lot of money. "At present, each enterprise built a set of IT systems, the need to invest in computer rooms, equipment and hardware and software, the construction cycle is long, coupled with the cost of operation and maintenance, to the enterprise caused a great burden and waste." ”

For some service organizations, but also often faced with low computing resources, and the business peak is not enough to use the dilemma. Ningjia said that through cloud computing, enterprises to the cloud computing operators to purchase services to the use of IT resources, pay by the amount, computing resources can be expanded or reduced according to business needs, can effectively avoid the above resources idle and inadequate.

A thriving "cloud" investment

Many investment bankers interviewed by the reporter said that cloud computing and mobile Internet is the industry's most promising future of the Internet.

Corresponding to this is, in the capital market, in late June, Huasheng-day into the non-public issue of A shares to raise more than 500 million yuan application through the SFC audit, become the first "cloud computing" concept of financing a A-share enterprises. After it, the wave of information, coastal energy, the CLP and other enterprises are active in the financing of the concept of the market.

The industry has seen cloud computing as the fourth wave of information industry following mainframes, personal computers and the Internet. Sina revealed that the wave group to the cloud computing investment will reach 1 billion yuan level. Ali Cloud Computing says it has invested more than 1200 engineers in Aliyun OS development over the past 3 years.

The "2011 China Cloud Computing and Cloud Services Summit Forum" was just held according to IDC's latest analysis, cloud computing will continue to affect the entire IT industry over the next 5 years, and it is expected that by 2015, public it cloud service spending will increase from 21.5 billion U.S. dollars in 2010 to 72.9 billion dollars.

At the national level, in October 2010, the Ministry of Industry and the National Development and Reform Commission jointly issued the "on a good cloud computing services innovation and development of the pilot demonstration work," The move marks the national layout of cloud computing has been gradually spread out. Since then, Shanghai's "Sea of Clouds Plan", Beijing "Xiangyun Plan", Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Wuxi and other places have launched cloud computing planning.

The latest China Internet Development Report, which is provided exclusively by China Internet Association, shows that in the next 3 years, cloud computing applications will focus on the government, telecommunications, education, medical, financial, petrochemical and electric power industries, and gradually be adopted by more and more enterprises and institutions in the Chinese market. Market size will also increase from 2009 to 9.223 billion yuan to 2012 of 60.678 billion yuan, the annual compound growth rate of 87.4%.

For the booming "cloud" investment, Huigelen, a computer industry analyst at GF Securities, said that the concept of cloud computing, the company's short-term profitability is less likely, the key depends on market demand.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)