Domestic cloud computing construction enthusiasm high or into enclosure circle money camouflage

"I am very cautious about the emerging cloud computing boom in China," he said. "Chinese Academy of Engineering academician Li January 10 in the" First financial daily "telephone interview, said at present, the common problem of domestic cloud computing centers is how to distribute the information resources gathered through practical application and become" timely rain ", which brings real benefits to the masses and enterprises. The application of cloud to rain, but not yet. ”

"Since the business model of cloud computing is still in the process of being explored, we should not rush it." Although the domestic cloud computing can not be denied, but also not sure, I am also in the study. "Li said.

If Li's stance is cautious, then chairman and CEO of Innovation Workshop, Microsoft's global Senior vice president and Microsoft China Limited, the first to put forward the concept of "cloud computing" in China, Zhang the underlying problems behind the cloud computing boom.

"The core of cloud computing is data, software, services, not IDC," Zhang wrote in Weibo. A number of local governments invested heavily in enclosure to buy servers to build data centers, is a new version of real estate business, cloud computing to market-driven, application services-oriented, software as a tool. "Kai-fu Lee with microblogging humorous reply:" Cloud computing, ' fog ' networking, become two big bluff funds land tools. ”

The above statement seems to have failed to stop the cloud computing boom in the domestic provinces and cities continue to ferment.

"Cloud Leap"

January 7, Guangzhou Municipal Party committee secretary Wanqingliang at the Guangzhou Municipal People's Congress Tianhe Group symposium revealed that Guangzhou will invest 1.8 billion yuan to build a supercomputing center, is now actively advancing. At the same time, the Guangzhou technology and Informatization Bureau also officially released the "on the rapid development of cloud computing Industry action Plan (2011-2015 years)", referred to as "Sky Cloud plan."

According to the information previously published, Guangzhou "Tian Yun Plan" will implement a number of cloud application demonstration pilot projects, e-government, health care, cultural education, urban management and other key areas, will be demonstration-driven, vitalize to build cloud computing public service platform.

By contrast, Guangzhou's "Sky Cloud Plan" is still lagging behind. October 2010, the Ministry of Industry delineated Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Wuxi 5 cities first to carry out cloud computing services innovation and development pilot demonstration work. Subsequently, the domestic entered the "cloud" Chung era, Beijing is called Xiangyun, Shanghai is called the Sea of clouds, Shenzhen is called Kun Cloud, Chongqing is called clouds, Hangzhou is called Cloud Supermarket, Ningbo is called the nebula, Wuxi is called Yun, Suzhou is called Cloud, Harbin is called Clouds Fly, Huizhou is called Huiyun, Qinhuangdao

The amount of investment and planning land area of cloud computing around the world also seems to be rising in comparison.

Last January, Hebei Ministry of Industry and Letters and IBM, moist technology companies jointly announced in Langfang, Hebei "Moist international port" to build Asia's largest cloud computing center, covers an area of 1.34 million square meters, the total investment amounted to 9.8 billion yuan. Last April, Chongqing's Jiang River New zone opened the "China's largest cloud computing experimental zone," The River International Cloud Computing Center, the total investment of 40 billion yuan. Only more than 10 days later, the "largest" was built by the local construction of another project to catch up, Jiangjin area cloud computing industry base Planning area of 15 square kilometers, the total investment of 50 billion yuan.

For a time, "cloud leap" also began to play in a smaller city, Hebei Zhuozhou, Henan Luoyang announced the investment of 5 billion yuan to establish a cloud computing base, as well as Xinjiang Changji, Inner Mongolia, Ordos, etc. are joined in the ranks of cloud computing. The first financial journal, from the initial statistics of public information, has 31 cities in the construction or planning of cloud computing centers, investment and footprint has become an impossible figure.

The "money" of the cloud-computing boom seems to be only described in a recent white paper on China's cloud computing industry, released by Sadie's consultant. The Chinese cloud computing market will reach 60.678 billion trillion yuan by 2012, the consultant predicts. "Twelve-Five" period, China's cloud computing industry chain scale up to 750 billion to 1 trillion yuan. Interestingly, the report released by Sadie Consultant in early 2011 shows that China's cloud computing market in 2010 is 16.7 billion yuan, about 31.6 billion yuan in 2012.

How big is China's existing cloud-computing market and how big will it be in the future? Even the manufacturers involved in cloud computing architecture are a smoke and mirrors.

Building enthusiasm is soaring

One months ago, Yangzhou Merchants also invited us to participate in Yangzhou Cloud Computing Center construction project. "The head of a system integrator revealed that in fact, not only Yangzhou, there are many local merchants have sent a similar invitation to their company, but the real check to find out that many local cloud computing center project is only its investment in attracting the gimmick," cloud computing center built, how to make money, how to operate, Many local governments are not thinking clearly. ”

The leaders pointed out that in many places only the cloud computing Center as a face-saving project, built, and did not put cloud computing it assets really operational. The promised government information platform has not really shifted to the cloud computing center.

Perhaps based on this, the media in October last year reported that the construction of Langfang Moist international information port on May 18, 2010, only two data centers are being built, most of the project land is just growing corn. This newspaper tried to contact the project Investor-Beijing moist technology company, to understand the project progress, but was told that the company does not accept media interviews.

"In Beijing, Shenzhen and Chongqing, the maximum utilization of cloud computing centers is about 25%," the conservative estimate said. Tian Feng, director of ZTE's wireless integrated program, said that the 25% utilization of equipment is essentially a primary cloud computing application of virtual machines, virtual software and public storage.

Tian Feng pointed out how the current use of cloud computing, cloud computing can generate much social value, still in the academic discussion and research stage, the real success in the business sector is also rare. There are only a handful of companies in the world, including Google, Apple and Amazon, who want to be aware of some of the applications of cloud computing and do not have the possibility of widespread promotion. And Google, Apple and Amazon are also secretive about the core of the success of cloud computing.

According to the introduction, if the enterprise to use the Cloud computing center, not only requires enterprise data in the cloud computing center, but also requires the core business operations, key applications should be placed in the cloud computing center. Based on the current cloud computing and network environment reliability and security uncertainties, the smaller enterprises will choose their own architecture private cloud. A number of Internet companies reply to this newspaper interview, said the company is biased to build private cloud, user data security is more secure.

"From this point of view, the domestic promotion of cloud computing centers are some rash, the actual commercialization process has encountered many problems, and can not be resolved." "Tian Feng said.

Trading Tool Hot

Still, the boom in building cloud computing centers has been a thrill for the international IT giants and domestic systems integrators who sell tools. Because, the cloud computing center constructs, besides the civil engineering, is it equipment, the electricity and the network construction and so on.

"The cloud market does have a new bottle of old wine. "Shenzhen AO Crown Vice President Yi Yijun pointed out, whether it is IBM, HP and other international manufacturers, or domestic IT system integrators, are still in the calculation of their own sales server, CPU and other hardware and software products. Hardware and software investment, but also the Chinese cloud computing boom concentrated embodiment.

For example, the blue flood and the domestic integrated television program production Center Starlight Film Park to create a new Media center, the number of planned servers reached 80,000. A Shanghai cloud-computing industry said he had visited Intel and AMD, the two-year global server sales of 2.1 million, of which there would be no more than 600,000, but only Chongqing's goal was to build a 300,000-server cloud computing hub.

"It's the heat of selling tools, the advanced tools for buying tools, the carving of some primary products, and not necessarily someone who wants to." Tian Feng pointed out that according to Moore's law, it products two-year performance doubled, the price fell by 50%. It also means that the built Cloud computing center, if not fully utilized, will soon depreciate, "the only room for appreciation is the possibility of building and land investment." ”

Perhaps the data is more descriptive of the logic above. In the US, where cloud computing is maturing, the number of data centers has been slashed from the past 1100 to around 300 since the surge in demand. China currently has 588,000 data centers and nearly 6,800 new data centers in 2011, including the cloud computing data centers that are being planned, according to the Institute of Industrial Research.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)