Education industry is one of the first "landing" fields in cloud computing

Chongchong (Director of Shuguang Information Cloud computing products) Remember a story more than 10 years ago. At that time he was a new engineer, once received a task: to 80 kilometers away from a rural secondary school maintenance room. "But then I realized I just broke a fan. Now maybe we're going to feel weird, but it was. Fault location in remote areas is a very troublesome thing, the pre-contract is to repair this, and then found that is broken, you have to go back and forth several times. He said with a wry smile. "This is our ' education cloud ' to do the most basic thing, one of the simplest description is ' fat Center, thin school ', that is, backstage completely in our here, the school end only need to simple terminal equipment is good, do not need to build servers or anything." "In the case of the Wuxi Audio-visual Museum, the dawn through the deployment of 10 enterprise-class servers, completely broke the restrictions of the region, to achieve the city education information resources centralized storage and integration." "Even relatively developed areas such as Wuxi need the cloud so much, not to mention those http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/32570.html" > Western regions. "Chongchong said.

The education industry has become one of the first "landing" areas in cloud computing, but it is not difficult to understand. The scarcity of quality education resources, scattered areas, so that less developed areas of the education level is extremely low, the degree of education information is miserable. "Some schools do not have a computer room, even if there is no professional management staff, but their demand for information is very large." "Chongchong said.

There is also a dimension is the hierarchy of educational needs, in addition to the traditional education path, the current also spawned a lot of special educational needs, such as the already widespread distance education, online education. "The first is ' Open University, many people do not necessarily pass the college entrance examination to get higher education, with the cloud, he can enjoy the same education environment as college students; second, the vocational education, cloud computing is particularly suitable for this type of training, students can be more intuitive in the video tutorials to understand and learn; the third is sustainable education, which is for everyone, and after a few years of work you may need to learn an economist or MBA, ideally, the education cloud could cover all areas of education. "In Chongchong's view, cloud computing has brought unlimited expansion of resource services and application capabilities to the education industry."

Only these two dimensions determine that education is destined to be the first burst of cloud computing, "even without consideration of costs, there is absolutely two concepts of cloud and cloud." "The dawn has undertaken the Guizhou hope Net and the provincial resources storehouse backstage constructs, this project is sufficient to explain the question." The complexity of Guizhou's geographical environment makes IT infrastructure in many areas almost zero, if the traditional network model to build, is bound to be a very expensive and construction and maintenance of a very difficult project. After deciding to adopt the cloud, the outline of the project was simple. According to the relevant person responsible for the project, after implementation, the provincial resource pool reached 3,500 courseware storage scale, and Guizhou hope that the network can support 1000 people at the same time online on-demand and download courseware resources, the day to withstand more than 1 million visitors. "The key is that the customer uses the minimum cost and the shortest period, completes each city County auxiliary education system interconnection." ”

Of course, ideally the country should have a unified cloud management platform rather than multiple regional platforms. From the point of view of data processing, scale and standardization will make the cost of data lower, but the reality is that this vast project will slow down some of the need for cloud computing in the field of rhythm. Therefore, in the twilight "Education cloud" case, most of them come from the private cloud of some educational institutions.

There are many common problems that plague these colleges and universities. For example, with the popularization of modern education technology, school management and e-mail applications are becoming more and more important, how to provide data storage for these applications is a major challenge. Moreover, even without considering the market-wide distance education, the enthusiasm of the teachers to use multimedia to assist teaching is also unusually high, but this will involve a large number of graphics, images and audio and video data. Data volumes are multiplying, and the original server storage capacity is clearly far from enough.

As a result, in cooperation with Tongji University, Sun Yat-sen and Wuhan universities, Dawn tried to use the concept of cloud to interpret a campus local area network.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)