Cross-year market point: Cloud computing

December 18, 2013, the author and the titanium media another colleague is located in the Hai Ding District Small Battalion West Road 33rd Jinshan Mansion interview Jin Shanyun President Wang Yulin.

At the same time, AWS's strategy for landing in China is being held near the ground. The one-hour interview ended when we came out of the Jinshan building and heard that Aliyun had announced a full price reduction. A few days later, some other cloud-related manufacturers also more or less corresponding to the corresponding solution.

It is also a very interesting topic about how to play a game between cloud companies, how to make public relations and price wars. But to put aside some drama, we will find that in the 2013, cloud computing in the land of China has been invisible from the previously invisible concept became an unstoppable trend, began to truly take root.

2013 Public Cloud Memorabilia

If there is a wait-and-see attitude to cloud computing before 2013, no one doubts the value of cloud computing by the end of 2013. The problem has also been the use of cloud computing as a way to take advantage of cloud computing. Cloud computing has quietly become the internet's water, electricity, coal, a key infrastructure for China's Internet development.

Cloud computing is running water

The concept of "cloud computing" has been proposed for a long time, but for a long time, in the minds of most people, "cloud computing" is as foggy as his name. "Resilient", "High Availability", "cluster" these tall words are often used as a propaganda language for cloud computing. These words make cloud computing look so good, but also make cloud computing look remote.

In fact, to understand what cloud computing is, there is no need to understand the meaning of these words. You do not need to know the principle of the generator, do not prevent you to use a variety of electrical appliances;

Cloud computing is such an infrastructure that you don't need to know how he does it and what features it can use to implement the various functions you want to achieve.

To make a simple analogy, the traditional IT infrastructure is built like the country before the tap water: if you want to drink water, you have to carry it by yourself. There are a few people at home, how much water tank to need, every day to hit how many of the waters, each of these families have to guess better.

The tank is big, it can only be empty, small still have to buy a mouthful. Less water, you can only drink less, dozen more, the next day can only be poured out.

And when the tap water, each installation of a water meter after a few taps, you do not need to worry about the size of the tank, every day to hit how much of the problem, you need to open the faucet to pick up water, the monthly payment on time.

Cloud computing is actually a computing area of tap water. With the cloud, when people need to use to compute resources, do not need to think about how to configure a strong server, how much storage, how much bandwidth, but to open a "faucet", computing resources, storage resources, bandwidth resources can be as convenient as the use of tap water, control.

From high to low, cloud computing's inverse growth

People familiar with the definition of cloud computing generally know that cloud computing is generally divided into three levels: SAAS (software as a service), PAAS (Platform-Service), IAAS (infrastructure, service).

The highest level of cloud computing is SaaS, then PAAs, and finally IaaS. If, according to normal logic, things always go from low-level to advanced, presumably everyone under such a layered system would take it for granted that cloud computing should also be developed from low-level to advanced.

Interestingly, however, the trend in cloud computing seems to be exactly the opposite.

Google, the first to come up with the concept of cloud computing, its biggest cloud computing service--The search (SAAS)--has matured long ago. In 2008 Google unveiled its Gae platform (PAAS) as a banner for cloud computing. Until December 3, 2013, Google finally opened its IaaS platform GCE.

Back to the mainstream of cloud computing in the country, you will find that the situation of your growth is widespread.

For example, Jin Shanyun started to do is cloud storage services. At the same time, because of the need for millet cloud services to provide a large amount of high-speed and stable service, Jin Shanyun technology More and more mature, the scale has made great progress. By the end of 2013, Jin Shanyun had been able to open up for public service.

Jin Shanyun's president, Wang Yulin, explained the context in which this situation arose, saying:

"The cloud is a giant business, like Amazon driving the entire Amazon cloud;" Taobao led to the development of the entire Aliyun; Tencent's game let Tencent to make the cloud platform, do the cloud is to have a huge scale, the original business scale is very important, only the original scale is large enough to support your business and costs. ”

Tencent Cloud has also experienced almost the development distance. Due to the rapid development of QQ space and QQ games, Tencent needs to build a convenient infrastructure platform in the interior so that the upper application can be invoked at any time. Tencent Cloud in such a business requirements gradually formed.

It is also the characteristics of cloud computing, the dominant manufacturers of cloud computing are the Internet manufacturers, rather than the traditional IT equipment manufacturers.

Specializing in the operation of the industry, the size of the players live different

Note: Amazon AWS Service is not suitable for use in the traditional way of division, so it is not reflected in the table, view Amazon cloud service click here

Microsoft Azure because of too little information and not reflected in the table, please click here

Cloud computing as a scale game, the larger the player to provide the more comprehensive services, the provision of service level is sinking. The services offered by Ali, Tencent, Amazon and Microsoft are almost all covered from IaaS to SaaS.

Of course, this does not mean that only the traditional giants can enter the cloud, in many areas of subdivision, there are small cloud manufacturers opportunities.

Seven cows and another cloud storage is the domestic relatively early start to do cloud storage of PAAs manufacturers. With a special understanding of storage, especially the accumulation of image processing and access acceleration, these two image cloud storage vendors have a good market share.

At the SaaS level, it's more of a thriving landscape. Network disk, cloud notes, online albums, corporate collaboration office, project management and so on cloud applications have made considerable progress.

On the whole, however, most SaaS projects are still in the early stages of exploration, with no stable patterns and business models, and there is no enterprise-and personal-oriented SaaS service that has been formed in the country for the time being, as Salesforce or Dropbox. and IaaS and PAAs in the 2013 has made considerable progress.

Challenge Traditional IT

Cloud Computing's defensive potential

If the competition between Internet cloud makers is flirting, the game between traditional it vendors and Internet vendors can be said to be a life-and-death battle.

As the scale of cloud computing firms expands and the requirements for equipment become more and more refined, the standard equipment provided by traditional IT vendors is increasingly unable to meet the needs of cloud vendors.

Wang Yulin to the titanium media, because the traditional common hardware can not be applied, Jin Shanyun Storage server has been designed and customized production.

January 2013, Baidu in Nanjing's cloud Computing data Center for the first exposure. The entire Nanjing Cloud Computing data Center Most attention to the ARM architecture server-side scale application is also developed by Baidu itself.

Large cloud-computing vendors are turning to their own-designed server systems and providing services through these infrastructures. This is completely different from the traditional it vendors to sell equipment and charge maintenance fees business model.

November 27, Aliyun held a press conference, a high-profile release of financial cloud services, and the theme of the meeting is the use of Aliyun to "IOE" (IOE representing IBM's small machine, Oracle's database, and EMC storage equipment).

Ali Group hopes to open up large-scale cloud computing cluster resources to the financial industry users, so that it can get a safe and convenient cloud computing services to get rid of the shackles of traditional ioe, the traditional financial industry to achieve the Internet.

With the development of cloud computing, the original upstream and downstream of the Internet manufacturers and IT equipment providers have gradually stood on the opposite side of competition. And this kind of competition will be intensified in 2014.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)