EDS won soft silver and so on 45 million U.S. dollars injected into the cloud test it real estate

After the failure of the platform mode of the Magic code online, soft silver again inject eds, the cloud Computing test keyword is "It real estate" from November onwards, Huang into the air trapeze, in the national key cities shuttle, every time in the inspection, he will ask a series of questions: the city's enterprise development level how　　, what is the need for IT services, how much companies are willing to pay for IT services, and how much it costs to build it data centers? The answers to this series of questions point to a "sunrise industry"--it Data Center found by Universal Data Services Limited (GDS).　　As the GDS CEO and president, Huang to reporters, it data center plays a role similar to the real estate developers, for all types of enterprises to provide IT infrastructure, is it property developers, "The house is built, but also provide property and other ancillary services." GDS is now the main industry is a disaster backup, in order to develop it real estate, at the beginning of this year, it set up a special EDS company to better develop this business.　　According to EDS planning, the Next three years, it will invest 4 billion yuan in 20 cities in the country to establish 40 it data centers, and these data centers leased to enterprises. It real estate logic without the original disaster backup business, there will be no current it real estate business.　　Huang to reporters that it is the GDS's disaster preparedness business base, for now EDS development It data Center brewing inspiration, accumulated experience and professional technical team. Huang that in the 90 's, the development trend of Chinese enterprises ' IT system was from scattered to concentrated, after ten years, the big bank or the big enterprise already achieved the IT system centralism or is moving toward the centralism.　　At the same time, the risk of an enterprise IT system is concentrated, and a disaster backup is necessary to prevent risk.　　GDS involved in the beginning of a disaster backup, only one customer-Shenzhen Development Bank, the entire team is only 30 people, but Huang that the disaster preparedness market is very good, but the market start-up still need some time, the biggest problem is awareness and concept education. 2005, the state office issued a disaster backup guidelines, then it became the national standard.　　Since 2006, the market for disaster preparedness has developed rapidly, and by 2008, the GDS still achieved revenue of 200 million yuan, despite the impact of the financial crisis. According to Huang, the GDS disaster preparedness business customers are mainly three kinds: one is completely self-built, the second is outsourced to the GDS, there is a joint build.　　When some customers choose to outsource to the GDS or choose to build together, the GDS gradually builds up the experience and team of building data centers.　　More importantly, the GDS has discovered a secret that existing data centers need to be upgraded because the existing data centers are based on 1992-year international standards and do not meet the current IT operational standards. Huang said that the data center is very professional, facilities, distribution sites, distribution, temperature, humidity, circuits have a set of stringent standards. In addition to a few large enterprises have the strength to build, many enterprises in order to save costs, to mentionEfficient and tends to outsource. [Page] 4 billion national layout since it is the IT developers, it is necessary to be the same as the real estate business logic. Huang Image said, for example, in the international Trade building an office building, when the start-up must not have to stay, you have to predict the completion of the settled situation, if the completion rate is not high, developers have the risk of losing.　　The purpose of his national tour is to determine whether to build a data center in a city, how many, each data center monomer how large?　　He thinks, it real estate is the product of specialization division of labor, along with the social division is more and more fine, it real estate will with the software service and outsourcing, become the next sunrise industry. Huang to reporters that the establishment of EDS is the first step, the next is to seek financial support for it real estate business. A three-year investment of 4 billion yuan is clearly not something the GDS can do with its current cash reserves. According to him, eds plans three-year equity financing of 200 million U.S. dollars, using it real estate projects. Huang said that EDS first financing will be announced at the end of this year, a total of 45 million U.S. dollars, investors include SoftBank, Everbright Holdings, the World Bank's IFC (International Financial Center) and so on.　　SoftBank has invested in the GDS twice before. More money is expected to be backed by bank loans or government projects. Huang said that it real estate is a green economy, low-carbon economy, local governments are very supportive, at present, EDS is with the Chengdu Municipal Government to discuss related matters.　　Chengdu hopes to build China's first-class it backstage and data center, after Tencent, Alibaba has announced some data centers settled in Chengdu.　　Currently, EDS has set up 9 data centers in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Chengdu to provide local enterprises with outsourcing of IT infrastructure services. These data centers were developed on the basis of the original disaster preparedness business.　　Huang that this is similar to Amazon: Amazon is also in the development of online bookstores in the process, with redundant IT resources, and decided to provide these resources to small and medium-sized enterprises and individual developers. Unlike Amazon, the GDS did not accumulate redundant computing resources in the process of developing a disaster backup, but only discovered the need. In Huang's view, the outlook for it real estate is greater and the market is growing faster than a disaster backup. [Page] Cloud path Currently, it data centers are built and operated primarily by telecom operators.　　In Huang's view, eds such a professional "it property developers" Space is, on the one hand, with the overall social information level, the market demand will become more and more; On the other hand, the services provided by the telecommunications room is relatively simple, and EDS will provide one-stop IT service solutions. "Today's data centers are the same for everyone, and third-party providers can offer different solutions, more professional and more personalized, for different industries and different businesses."　　"Some people in the industry said. Huang that IT infrastructure is the springboard to the cloud world. He believes that the current model of cloud computing is mainly divided intoTwo kinds: A variety of applications and service-driven, such as Salforce, Google, Microsoft, Ali software, etc., the other is IT infrastructure-driven, providing storage, bandwidth and other cloud infrastructure, such as Amazon, telecom operators.　　And Eds obviously belong to the latter. In fact, SoftBank is already quietly laying out the future of China's cloud computing market. Prior to investing in GDS and EDS, SoftBank has established a code online service company with Digital Shenzhou, the model is to build a platform, and third-party software providers, applications and service providers, you can put their own software, applications and services on this platform, god code online and then to provide enterprise customers.　　The profit model of platform quotient code online is divided into various providers. The path to the Magic code online is similar to that of Google and Microsoft. But its two-year quest was unsuccessful.　　Huang that, unlike Google and Microsoft, there is no magic code online that can gather core customer base applications. Similar to the Magic Code online, Ali software after four years of exploration, MA also had to make a choice.　　Ma Yun's approach is to split Ali software, personal applications, services and software stripped to Taobao, enterprise applications, services and software stripped to Alibaba.　　Huang said the experience of Ali software exploring cloud computing shows that the platform model needs to have core applications and core users. For the GDS, which has accumulated a lot of data center construction, maintenance and operation experience through the disaster preparation business, the way of Google and Alibaba cannot go, but the Amazon road can be experimented. The experiment is obviously much tougher than Amazon, which already has a ready-made, redundant IT infrastructure that the GDS needs to build through it real estate.