Current situation, problems and countermeasures of cloud computing in China

The current cloud computing application market is small

China Economic Times: "Cloud computing" is now a very hot word, but also the "Twelve-Five" plan of the key projects, the government and the industry has shown great enthusiasm for cloud computing. At present, our country's cloud computing development just started, what kind of situation?

Tianji: Currently there is no official statistics for the cloud computing industry, and more representative of the statistical data of Sadie's consultants and the world's information. Because the application of cloud computing is not the same, the two statistical caliber is different, the statistical data of the world includes search engines and online games. Although the diameter of the statistics is different, it can reflect the small scale of the application market of cloud computing in our country, and the status of software service occupies the main position. Two companies are also more consistent in their judgments about the future trend of cloud computing in the country, which is expected to reach 114.3 billion yuan in 2013. Accenture's findings also show that cloud-related activity in China will increase significantly over the next two years and that the cloud will be used more than one times.

China Economic Times: What do you think is the reason for the small size of cloud computing application market in China at present?

Tianji: The general public should be promoted to a certain extent after the large-scale use of clouds, like the Internet, if we all use, to promote faster. Most corporate users in China have doubts about using cloud computing. According to Accenture, less than 20% of respondents are using public cloud services, and most tend to create private clouds rather than entrust them to cloud providers.

Building a private cloud platform within the enterprise is beneficial to the development of the enterprise. Domestic private cloud construction speed is very fast, but more concentrated in some powerful large state-owned enterprises. Small businesses feel incapable and have no need to build their own private cloud, entrusted to operators and concerns, so the acceptance of cloud applications is relatively low, which makes our country and other cloud computing applications in the advanced countries smaller. This is a new and necessary process of introduction. CCW information is expected 2011 China's cloud computing market into the growth stage, 2015 into the mature stage.

China Economic Times: The popularity of cloud computing at this stage is not too high, but the Government's attitude is very positive, and many places will develop cloud computing to the height of strategic industries to write documents. A few days ago, Chengdu has just introduced the "Chengdu Cloud computing applications and industrial development" Twelve-Five "Planning outline." Plan to build cloud services, basic hardware and software equipment production, cloud terminal product manufacturing three industrial clusters by 2015, the industrial scale reached 300 billion yuan "the world's largest cloud services and terminal products manufacturing base." Is this a feature of the development of cloud computing in China?

Tianji: This is one of the current development of cloud computing in China, the local government shows a high degree of enthusiasm, such as Beijing launched the "Xiangyun project", determined to become the cloud center of the world; October 2010, the Ministry of Industry and the Development and Reform Commission jointly released the "On the cloud computing Services innovation and development of the pilot demonstration work," Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Wuxi as a cloud computing services innovation pilot area. But in fact, many local governments, although not in the pilot areas of the government, have already started to do this budget.

Need to further clarify the development of ideas

China Economic Times: The advantages of cloud computing are reflected in the low cost of resource concentration, which problems will occur in such a large number of construction?

Tianji: The idea of development is not unified, the understanding of the cloud is divided, is indeed one of the problems. Wave to the national dozens of cloud computing center carried out a survey, found that many centers invested heavily into the so-called "cloud" system, but less than 20% efficiency of resource utilization, became the image of the project, visit the demonstration center. Google in the establishment of its own cloud at the time most of the use of the old machine, the establishment of a process is a centralized and efficient use of resources, but at present many of the cloud platform is to reinvest and rebuild. If there is no planning blind construction, no practical meaning to repeat the construction, after the completion of the construction and not so many users enter, it actually formed a waste of resources, can not reflect the benefits and efficiency of cloud computing.

This problem needs to be further clarified at the national level the connotation of cloud computing and the development of industry ideas, in the name of government agencies issued. On the basis of local pilot, summing up the pros and cons, on the basis of drawing on the experience of foreign countries, to make full research, formulate the future years of cloud computing industry development planning or guidance, to establish a stable market expectations and policy environment. At the same time, to establish the central government cloud, leading and driving cloud computing development. The U.S. government has set up research institutions, or military research, to guide the development of cloud computing in the enterprise, also play a role in demonstrating.

Cloud computing needs government policy guidance and support, specifically is to clear the development of ideas, set standards for enterprises and users to demonstrate and guide the role to ensure an industrial operation of a good environment. These need not only a slogan, but the cooperation of many government departments, and the need for a good development environment with accurate information.

For example, the timely establishment of the central government cloud, leading and driving cloud computing development. Summing up the experience of the local government to promote the construction of cloud platform, take the public service such as medical treatment or education as the pilot, set up the society-oriented e-government and convenient service cloud platform. In the construction and operation process to explore the development of cloud computing application problems and experience, for the industry to play a leading role in the development, and to provide the basis for policy development.

In fact, when we discuss the solution to the problem, we are standing on the basis of national policy, discussing the countermeasures that the State should implement, so the prominent is the role of the national government.

China Economic Times: In addition to the discussion of the development of ideas, there are other problems?

Tianji: There are five problems in cloud computing in China, in addition to the development of ideas, there are "cloud security" problem, cloud computing key technical issues, infrastructure can not fully meet the needs of cloud computing development and industry standards lack of problems.

"Cloud Security" includes two aspects of the problem, one is the user level of information security, the second is the national level of information security. Security is the world's biggest challenge to cloud computing, especially in our country.

The key technology problem of cloud computing is mainly embodied in the difference between the technology of cloud computing and the privacy and data transmission bottleneck in the application. The ability to break through and commercialize these technologies will affect the future of cloud computing. At present, China and foreign manufacturers in the technical gap is still relatively large.

(Responsible editor: Songtao)