Constructing cloud ecosystem to perspective Microsoft Cloud Computing China layout

Cloud computing has a variety of definitions, it is not a pure product, nor a new technology, but a new way of generating and acquiring computing power. Its emergence has a great impact on it's application and deployment patterns as well as business models, and it's inherent ecosystem changes as well, so the upstream and downstream of the industry chain needs to give far-reaching consideration to cloud computing.

Microsoft has come up with the idea that it is service. That is how the concept of cloud computing can be truly integrated into the IT level, the realization of users, partners in the field of computer more innovation. Bob Muglia, president of Microsoft's server and development platform, said in an interview with the 51CTO reporter about the detailed strategy of Microsoft in the Chinese market during the transition to cloud computing.

Under Microsoft's global layout, the Chinese market has always been strategically significant. Microsoft recently established a cloud computing innovation Center in Shanghai. "Microsoft China Cloud Computing Innovation Center will deploy an experienced team of engineers to work closely with customers and partners to fully realize the potential of cloud computing," said Bob Muglia. At the same time, Microsoft's China Cloud Computing Innovation Center's exclusive laboratory can help governments, partners and customers to implement rapid modeling, concept validation, cloud computing solutions testing. , the Microsoft engineering team will continue to focus on product and technology development in the Microsoft China Cloud Computing Innovation Center to meet the needs of the Chinese market for cloud computing. ”

Currently, Microsoft Asia Pacific Research and Development group plays an important role in cloud computing product development strategy, participating in the development of cloud services products including Bing, Windows Live, Live Messenger, Microsoft Dynamic Online, business transaction platform and so on. As one of the key departments of Microsoft Asia Pacific Research Group, the China team of server and development tools has also been working on the development of core platform products in public and private cloud, including Windows server, SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, Products such as Windows HPC server. Bob told reporters that 70% of Microsoft engineers, including those at Microsoft's Asia-Pacific Research and Development group, are working on cloud computing, which will continue to grow in the future, with Microsoft fully engaged in cloud computing.

Three operating modes to clear the ground for cloud computing

Microsoft's cloud computing strategy offers three different business models, which are very different from other companies ' cloud computing strategies. The first is Microsoft's own business model of building and operating public cloud applications and services, providing cloud services to individual consumers and corporate customers. The second is isv/si, a variety of partners based on Windows Azure platform development such as ERP, CRM and other cloud computing applications, and services for end users on Windows Azure platform. In addition, Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), which operates on its own cloud computing platform, can also be entrusted to partners for hosting operations. BPOs includes services such as Exchange online, SharePoint online,office Communications online and livemeeting online, which belongs to the partner operating mode. The third customer can choose Microsoft's cloud computing solution to build its own cloud computing platform, Microsoft provides comprehensive support including product, technology, platform and Operation Management, this is the customer builds the operation model. Bob Muglia thinks it is very important to help the second partner operating model as soon as possible Windows Azure platform successfully landed in China.

Windows Azure Platform is a new platform capable of delivering thousands of servers. It includes a cloud computing operating system and a collection of services for developers, namely Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and Windows Azure platform AppFabric. Applications created by developers can either run directly on the platform or use the services provided by the cloud computing platform. Windows Azure Platform continues the features of Microsoft's traditional software platform to provide customers with a familiar development experience, and many of the applications that users already have can be migrated relatively smoothly. It can also be scaled up on demand in a cloud-computing way, saving time and expense for deployment during commercial development.

Windows Azure can be viewed as an operating system for cloud computing services; SQL Azure is a database in the cloud; AppFabric is a web-based development service that makes it easier to connect and interoperate existing applications and services with the cloud platform. AppFabric allows developers to focus on their application logic rather than on the infrastructure to deploy and manage cloud services.

Microsoft Services for enterprise users is a set of corporate communications collaboration solutions that are hosted by Microsoft to provide subscription services to users, including Exchange Online, Sharepoint Online,office Communicator Online,office Live meeting,dynamics CRM Online, it helps businesses of all sizes improve their business efficiency without the need for the enterprise to maintain and manage complex IT infrastructures.

"The Windows Azure platform platform first took full account of interoperability at the beginning of the build," said Bob Muglia. The goal is to provide developers with more choices that not only support Microsoft's products and technologies, but also support a variety of languages and development tools such as PHP, Ruby, Python, Java and other development tools such as Eclipse, Applications built on different languages and tools can be seamlessly run on Windows Azure platforms. At the same time, its data access is also based on open standards that support multiple Internet protocols, including Http,xml,soap and REST. Not only does Windows Azure itself have access to this data, but third parties can access it through standard protocols, which is a key support for data portability. From a development perspective, developers can easily integrate the services provided by Windows Azureplatform and build applications on other clouds. They can also use visual Studio 2010 development environments,. NET Framework or other familiar development environments and technologies that have been mastered to build and extend applications on the cloud platform. ”

Building the ecosystem of cloud computing

In the process of transition to cloud computing, the whole ecological chain will certainly produce corresponding changes. "In the field of cloud computing, the ecosystem of our partners is as important as ever, and the success of Microsoft's platform must be built on the needs of service applications," said Bob Muglia, "in the ecosystem of cloud computing, The most important point is how to reduce the investment in infrastructure and management, through cloud services can achieve a rapid reduction in this demand. This is more important to the partners in the industry, the end user related to a series of services, to achieve further business innovation and expansion. ”

The wide application of cloud computing will fundamentally change the way of information acquisition and knowledge dissemination, promote the transformation of information industry such as infrastructure operation and software to service, and give birth to a new type of service industry integration. Bob Muglia that every partner in the Chinese market will play a different role in the cloud. For example, the cooperation with the telecommunications industry, or with the hosting of the cooperation of more bearer is how to bring the cloud services quickly into China. Cooperation with ISVs is how to provide more online services on the cloud platform.

November 2008, Microsoft and Suzhou Industrial Park, Jiangsu Wind and Cloud Network Services Co., Ltd. together to create the SaaS service platform launched online officially; Meanwhile, Microsoft built the Hangzhou Cloud computing Development training platform to help enterprises improve software research and development innovation capabilities, reduce enterprise software production costs; by the end of 2009, Microsoft and Taiwan, China Telecom signed a cloud computing technical cooperation Memorandum (MOU) for client-side device software application services and cloud services to cooperate. Microsoft provides an end-to-end range of applications for the entire cloud-computing architecture, from infrastructure (IaaS) to platform-Service (PaaS) to Software-Service (SaaS), which covers the construction of private, public and mixed clouds in deployment mode.

Microsoft will have more cloud computing solutions in the future. Microsoft, for example, is developing a migration tool for cloud computing, which can smoothly migrate traditional applications to the cloud computing platform. Users can make full use of their existing systems to experience the application of cloud services. At the same time, Microsoft will launch an integration tool and management platform, Microsoft's cloud and Third-party cloud or traditional applications to integrate, and through the Microsoft Management platform to achieve these deployments in different areas of the application of centralized management. Cloud computing will not only be in the IT, Internet and telecommunications services industry has a long-term development, its application will gradually expand the entire industrial chain of the upstream and downstream have far-reaching impact.

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