Decoding China Telecom's cloud computing company: The first chief's "Speed logic"

Beijing Time April 18 News, no doubt, cloud computing has become the three major telecom operators to deal with the trend of ICT convergence, to get rid of the pipeline service providers. And for cloud computing investment, three operators are also unambiguous, covering from the bottom of the large-scale data center construction, to the top of the cloud management platform, to the direct user-oriented cloud host, cloud storage and flexible computing and many other service patterns.

But these are only in the original system of product innovation, telecom operators have to play the "gene" in the ICT market? As one of the most resource-rich operators in the data center and Infrastructure network, China Telecom set up a separate professional cloud computing company after last year's spontaneous cloud computing strategy. Governs the cloud computing business in all provinces of the country. Clearly, China Telecom is hoping to gain new impetus from the cloud computing era through institutional innovation.

But also known as China Telecom's "eat crabs" around the company positioning, business types and staffing and other hot topics, cloud computing company's speculation has been rampant. However, in the recent "2012 China Data Center Industry Development Conference", along with the official appearance of Sheichaoyang, the first CEO of Cloud computing Company, China Telecom Cloud computing company began to unveil its mysterious veil.

Arrival

For those familiar with the domestic telecommunications market, the name Sheichaoyang is a little unfamiliar. "This name has not been used for more than 20 years, I came back from the United States, is responsible for the operation of China Telecom set up a separate cloud business unit." Sheichaoyang said. Although he has been away from China for many years, Sheichaoyang can still write good Chinese characters.

There have been media reports, the cloud computing company general Manager of the position will be introduced by a thousands of senior talent, and deputy general manager of the post will be a retiring headquarters of the two-level female general manager. And with Sheichaoyang, the key issues surrounding how cloud computing companies are positioned, how they work, and how they relate to other sectors are all over.

In Sheichaoyang's view, the development of China Telecom cloud computing business in the industry is still relatively early. "We officially launched the Sky Wing Cloud computing program in 09 and completed the pilot and resource pool deployment of six cities in Shanghai, Guangzhou and Sichuan by 2011." There will be built in Inner Mongolia, probably the largest cloud data center in Inner Mongolia. Under the new framework, the main business of China Telecom Cloud Company includes IDC and CDN, as well as cloud host, cloud storage and other services based on these it basic resources.

"Although we are a new company, we are already on the back of the index," he said. "Sheichaoyang said. In the case of China Telecom's traditional IDC business, the business earned 4.3 billion yuan in 2011 and is estimated at 6 billion yuan this year.

Operation

"Income is not our goal, profit is our goal." "Sheichaoyang said. Because in the traditional IDC service model, operators are more rental cabinets, bandwidth and other basic physical resources, belong to a relatively extensive business model, "its profit is very thin, so we have to take the intensive route." ”

This centralized route is not the first. Especially for the IDC business, China Unicom began to operate in accordance with the national chess for many years. At that time, China Unicom set up an IDC operations center, Unified coordination of customers in the trans-provincial business landing, to achieve a point of acceptance, unified settlement. "Only, China Telecom is further, ' unicom mode ' under the provincial branches or have a greater autonomy." Insiders say. "China Telecom has already had an omen, and in the last year China Telecom Group has received a provincial data center planning and construction right." ”

As early as August 31 last year when the cloud computing strategy was released, China Telecom said 2012 launched Cloud host, cloud storage and other series of Sky cloud products, and to this end to develop a "three-step" strategy: The first step to unify the construction of the deployment of the National cloud Computing data center; the second step is to build a unified network of cloud management platform; Relying on the optical network covering the whole country, realize the high-speed interconnection of cloud data center and user high-speed access, and integrate broadband and cloud computing.

For the first step, China Telecom is taking a solid step; for the second step, the China Telecom Beijing Institute of Cloud Computing Research Center Autonomous Construction, as the head of the project, Beijing Institute deputy Dean, Cloud Computing Research Center Director Huiling has said that the management platform for the overall management and deployment of virtual IT resources indispensable, The current progress has been largely completed. And for the third step, relying on urban optical network and broadband speed-raising plan, also in the orderly development process.

"The introduction of such a specialized company is very simple, to be able to adapt to customer requirements, the product speed will be faster, the content of the technology will be more, but in the actual operation, the operation must be better slow not fast." We hope to eventually become such a professional company, which integrates sales, operations, products and research and development, which may lead to the professional operation of other traditional telecom services. Sheichaoyang finally said

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)