"Exclusive" one-week cloud: cool enough VS sued

In the past, the most common example of cloud computing is Amazon's EC2, S3, which seems to be outdated; the cloud, and what is often said, is Google, Eric Schmidt, who first proposed "Cloud computing" in 2006- This dizzy and cool concept, even today there are many people will be on the "cloud computing" a lot of questions are blamed on the name above, too difficult to explain, and anything can be installed, will inevitably be treated as a cheat, even now applications are everywhere.

And whenever we talk about cloud computing, we can't help but talk about the existence of Silicon Valley, the It shrine. Last week an IT columnist portrayed Silicon Valley on his microblog: a 30-mile, 10-mile-long strip nestled under Santa Cruz Mountain. With its towering eucalyptus trees and verdant hills, the cool Pacific Breeze blows the most restless breath on Earth. Silicon Valley is the essence of entrepreneurship. The credo here is very simple: if not new, it is not cool, if not cool, it is not worth doing. Now, the cloud is undoubtedly the coolest, and certainly the most provocative of the enthusiasm and the topic of Silicon Valley.

But if you're not cool enough to surprise others (as Steve Jobs did), you could be in trouble, Mark Zuckerberg has such trouble, Samsung and other tablet manufacturers have similar troubles, now it is Eric Schmidt. Apple has sued HTC for the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) during the creation of an Android system founder Rubin Andy Rubin, the company said September 3. Said HTC violated Apple's many patents. So far, Apple has not filed a lawsuit against Google, but mainly aimed at Android device manufacturers. Industry insiders believe that if Apple filed a lawsuit against Google for the patent infringement, it could force Google to stop publishing the Android system. On the same day, Oracle v. Google Tort Trial judge proposed, hope to mediate the case. At the heart of the patent dispute is the way Android handles Java apps, and Oracle accuses Dalvik Java virtual machines in Google's Android system of violating the company's patents and copyrights.

There are a number of similar examples last week. In Friday, for example, WiLan Inc., the Canadian Technology Patent licensing company, announced lawsuits against six companies, including Apple, Dell and HP, on patent infringement issues. WiLan said the companies violated their patents on telecoms, Wi-Fi and LTE technology. WiLan also issued a hostile takeover of Mosaid Technologies, another patent-authorized company.

Patents were originally meant to protect innovation, but at some point, patents may become the razor that kills innovation and even industry monopolies, even in the software industry, where innovation is the basis for survival, and industry development is bound to suffer as the patent wars get worse. To speak of the patent issue, Mr. Schmidt also said last week at the Dreamforce annual meeting of the Salesforce company that the problems facing the US patent market were "terrible". Although the same day, Schmidt also stated that Google spent 12.5 billion of dollars to buy Motolola Mobile is to obtain products, not just patents. But there is no doubt that the 17,000 patents that the deal would bring to Google will help protect the Android operating system and even allow Google to wield a stick of patent litigation against others. Another interesting detail is that Schmidt, who was also a director of Apple during his tenure as CEO of Google, was officially the Apple director in August 2009 after a competitive escalation of the two companies.

And even if Google has enough money and power to deal with the patent wars, it does distract the company's energy, waste valuable time, and even make it impossible to focus on products that users really like, which is the most important thing. "When Hewlett-Packard, a big company in Silicon Valley, turns to the size-oriented and operational-driven, it is increasingly far from being innovative in Silicon Valley," one analyst said of HP's problems. "Hopefully this will not be a prophecy to stifle the soul of Silicon Valley, or it would be a disaster for Silicon Valley, for the entire IT community and for all of humanity." At present, many innovative products, such as hardware, terminals, applications and software, which are based on cloud computing architecture have been published. For domestic IT companies, the signals from Silicon Valley will not be stories or legends, we will not/can be an insulated spectator, we need to be close enough to the forefront, enough to understand the dangers, but also to be cool enough to participate in the game enough strength.

There is also the risk of acquisitions in addition to the risk of patents. Last week, IBM will spend $387 million in cash to buy Canadian risk analysis software company Algorithmics to strengthen its financial services business. Is it not clear that IBM is constantly acquiring, Microsoft is buying, Intel is buying, EMC is buying, Oracle is buying and VMware is buying? The war is impending, we need to be cool enough to be strong This requires sufficient openness, sufficient talent and sufficient support.

Google recently announced that Google Cloud computing services "APP Engine" service will be completed in September preview period, formally put into commercial. Google is also the first to launch the "Google Cloud Service" (Google Cloud service) brand. With cloud computing services, such as Google and Amazon, Web application developers can avoid the hassle of hardware maintenance without having to build their own stations and then deposit them in Google's data center directly after the program is developed. This cloud-computing service is increasingly popular with individual developers and business users. and September 2, "Baidu World 2011" held in Beijing, Baidu also officially launched its mobile terminal software platform-"Baidu Easy", the platform integrates the Smart box search, a strong cloud services and many of the characteristics of Baidu application, and with terminal manufacturers, operators, mobile internet service providers, such as upstream and downstream industrial chain to open the depth of cooperation.

Industry participants are duty-bound and government support is crucial. The federal government's support for cloud computing is strong, and let's recap: in March 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama created a new post, the federal CIO, began to focus on cloud computing and set about policy planning for cloud computing. In September 2009, the federal government launched a new website, apps.gov, to showcase and provide government-approved cloud computing applications. The Web site's cloud-based software can be used in a variety of devices, including business applications, cloud computing services, Office applications, and social media software. The move is designed to encourage government agencies to embrace the idea of cloud computing. The White House announced in December 2010 that it plans to restructure the government's IT infrastructure by consolidating federal data centers and applications and by using so-called "cloud first" policies.

From cloud computing industry policy, standard formulation, to basic research and development, application support, all need the government to reach a strong hand, even in the server, chip, operating system and other key links, the government can directly input. In addition, behind the patent war and the takeover battle, the competition for talent is also a problem, this aspect of Silicon Valley is a vane, but we still have hope to catch up, or we have the accumulation of resources, and then the key is to attract and use of talent, still share last week saw two micro-blog:

VMWORLD2011 has released a series of new products, which contains the wisdom of VMware China Research and development team: vsphere 5 has nearly 200 new features, of which 11 are directly or in the development of China Research Center; View 5 client is also enhanced, where IPAD/ANDRIOD clients are developed by China Research and Development Center, Vfabric Data director is the crystallization of China Research and Development Center.

"Google search by the map, the Chinese team completed more than half of research and development:" When you go on an outing, suddenly found an unknown floret, would like to carefully understand its name, type and characteristics. What are you going to do? Five petals "," half a foot high green leaves white flowers "? These words will not help you accurately describe the details of the features, you are not likely to rely on these words in the search box to get accurate answers ...

The accelerated innovation of cloud computing from product to application, is at unimaginable speed to change the entire IT industry, changing the world we live in, we should warmly embrace the world, we must warmly embrace the cloud, time and attitude are critical, we need policy support, industrial cooperation, we also want to call for innovation, There is also a real user-oriented attitude.

(Responsible editor: Liu Fen)