Development trend and life prospect of cloud computing industry

In today's world, the information technology industry has become the multiplier of economic growth, the converter of development mode and the booster of industrial upgrading. With the innovation and development of information industry and the rapid growth of the global amount, traditional IT technology has been difficult to meet the requirements, and the cloud computing technology which can store and deal with massive data efficiently and cheaply has emerged.

Cloud computing, known as the fourth it Industrial revolution after mainframe computers, PCs, and the Internet, has complied with the need to integrate computing resources and service capabilities globally, and has met the demand of high speed data processing, which has become the main force leading the new generation of information technology reform, and is the trend of IT industry development, In the future, the important mode of Internet and mobile interconnection is the nerve center of the next Generation Internet, IoT of things and mobile Internet, and the major manufacturers in the global electronic information field are re layout around cloud computing.

Cloud computing is the strategic commanding point of the international information Technology competition at present. Breaking through the technical barriers of the relevant industries, brought about the change of IT industry pattern, the change of the SME and the big Enterprise competition ability, brought the change of the charging mode, service mode and organization mode, will cause the manufacturer, the operator, the system integrator, the software service provider, The great integration of information resource providers and information consumers has brought new development opportunities for the global information industry and brought profound influence to the world economic development.

Cloud computing is highly valued by many countries

As a promising new technology to reduce costs, cloud computing is increasingly popular with industry manufacturers, cloud computing market has become a battleground for many it giants, the main internet companies through the open platform to provide cloud computing services, the construction of ecological chain, forming a new focus of competition. At present, some developed countries and multinational companies have invested heavily in the active deployment of cloud computing technology infrastructure, operating systems, application platforms and services, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Amazon, Yahoo, SUN, EMC, HP, DELL, INTEL, ORACLE, Apple, Large IT companies such as SALESFORC have already dabbled in this area, developing different cloud computing solutions, launching cloud-related applications and driving cloud computing technologies and products.

Google's search engine, e-mail service, etc. is a typical cloud computing application, the main application of hosting, enterprise search and other application services, to provide users with public cloud services. Google 2006 proposed cloud computing strategy, Google launched Google App engine cloud infrastructure for enterprise development and use, to provide users with development platform for the use of Google's cloud computing resources. Google allows third parties to run large parallel applications via Google App engine in Google's cloud computing, using apps such as Google Docs, where user data is stored somewhere on the Internet, This data is easily accessible through any Internet-connected system, and Google Earth, maps, Gmail, docs, and so on, use the same infrastructure.

Microsoft has invested a lot in cloud computing and has a full range of products from operating systems, databases, middleware to application software. Microsoft launched Windows Azure operating system in October 2008 by creating a new cloud computing platform on the Internet architecture, Microsoft launches Windows Azure, SQL Azure and Windows Intune Cloud computing platform and Dynamics CRM Online , Office 2010, SharePoint Online, and more. The bottom of Azure is Microsoft's Global infrastructure service system, made up of fourth-generation data centers around the world, and Azure lets Windows run from PC to Blue sky. Cloud computing is reflected in Microsoft's 80% product line, such as search, mail, gaming communities and other platforms built on cloud computing, and the cloud computing process in other sectors is rapidly advancing. Microsoft plans to devote 80% of its resources and research and development power to the cloud computing project, and in October 2011, Microsoft released a new generation of cloud computing PC management and security tools, Windows Intune 2.0.

IBM is able to provide full support for cloud computing, and the cloud Computing Services Management Center contains a set of products that can jointly provide customers with a platform for building and delivering cloud services to help customers achieve computing cloud deployment and management automation.

IBM has an integrated solution for the private cloud and public cloud for the enterprise, with a leading edge in high-performance parallel cluster technology and equipment providers, and reservoir cloud computing projects in collaboration with 17 European organizations. In November 2007, IBM launched the "game-changing" "Blue Cloud" computing platform to bring customers to buy-and-use cloud computing platform. In August 2008, IBM invested about 400 million dollars to transform its cloud computing data center in North Carolina State and Tokyo, Japan.

(Editor: Duqing first)