Experts estimate cloud computing potential: Will boost operator network value

Cloud computing boom has swept through the IT industry, the three major domestic operators also increased investment, and software, hardware manufacturers, information applications and service providers, as well as platform and terminal providers, together to form a cloud platform, the National Information Security Engineering Research Center Director Wenzhonghui clearly pointed out that the cloud computing change, will be a great integration of the entire social resources, overall improvement of the overall information level of the whole society. For the information technology consultancy, the cloud market is expected to maintain a 27% per cent growth rate over the next few years, and Wenzhonghui says the overall market will be much larger than the most optimistic estimate. But in the process of propulsion, what is the breakthrough point for operators? To this end, the reporter interviewed the China Telecom Group Guangzhou Institute of Sang researcher.

New technology triggers industry craze

The cloud computing concept has brought more and more IT companies, telecoms operators and even government departments to the cloud computing team, and even the report by Ovum, the top international market analyst, has shown that cloud computing must be part of the national ICT industry policy. Recently, Microsoft, held in Los Angeles WPC Conference, launched its cloud game, Japan NEC and China's large IT companies to build a joint venture, opened the cloud computing overseas Services prologue.

As for the current cloud computing boom, and why cloud computing is causing the industry to pay close attention to the phenomenon, sang points to three major reasons:

First, the industry's high focus on new technologies has proven that the application of new technologies will bring about a disruptive industrial revolution. Cloud computing depth across the IT, the Internet, telecommunications three major areas, depicting a new information production and consumption services. The utility of an innovative model is often subversive, its commercial value is difficult to measure, mainframe computers build IBM, computer software, Microsoft Empire, search engine to create Google ... In the It internet age, the adoption of a follow up strategy has been widely used by IT companies, internet companies and telecom operators for all possible reasons.

Second, Google's strong appeal, the people naturally focus on cloud computing. August 9, 2006, Eric, chief executive of Google. Schmidt first proposed the concept of "cloud computing" in the search engine conference, Google proposed that "cloud computing" is based on the company's Internet genes, in line with Google's corporate culture and corporate strategy. At the end of 2008, IBM put forward the concept of "intelligent earth", the intellectual earth derived from the Internet of things need to be highly correlated with cloud computing. The leader of the IT industry, IBM and the leader of the Internet, Google's dual-male force, finally set off a wave of cloud computing sweeping the world.

Third, explore the business model stage to nurture unlimited business opportunities. The business value of cloud computing is highly attractive, and companies in all sectors of the industry can see their own golden shadow in cloud computing. There is a rule of market competition, when people know how to make money (that is, the business model from a flowering exploration stage to a single stage of maturity), the industry has been difficult to make the new company to make money, only a new round of innovation to break the deadlock.

Operators should learn from the cloud industry

Operators to accelerate the pace of cloud computing industry layout. At present, China Telecom has officially launched the Nebula Program, in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Chengdu and Nanchang four cities to carry out cloud computing field experiments, specifically related to the IDC upgrade, business platform, capacity open platform, internal IT applications and other fields. After 1.5 of practice, the use of Shanghai Unicom cloud terminals are mainly thin terminals, Shanghai Unicom 80% of the terminal has been replaced by a thin terminal. At the same time, the call center has completed the customer service system full IP to build, and on this basis to carry out the whole business of seating. At the end of last year, China Mobile, Microsoft's cloud computing operator, plans to focus on research and applications in 8 areas, such as cloud computing.

Operators have increased investment in cloud computing industry, for the three major operators in the development of the topic, sang pointed out that the operators of cloud computing services will be a step-by-step process, especially through the integration of industry applications, intelligent city construction, such as platform optimization and upgrade. Telecom operators have been providing IDC services and network connectivity services (including broadband access services, digital circuit rental, data circuit rental and optical rental, etc.), with cloud computing infrastructure services experience. But telecom operators lack the ability to develop software, so most telecom operators work with professional software companies. For many years, telecom operators have been exploring the field of information service, especially for the enterprise customers, the industry application of increasing concern, for SME customers to provide web-based in-depth information services, has been the field of telecommunications operators.

According to Mr. Sang, at this stage, the cloud computing services provided by telecom operators are mainly focused on the storage area and SaaS (software as a service) field, mainly for enterprise customers. Telecom operators have many years of corporate customer service experience, with a large number of enterprise customers, have a certain industry application experience. Telecom operators in the provision of cloud computing services, the basic first to gradually migrate existing business services to the cloud platform, so that the impact on customers the least. But at present, telecom operators to realize the difference of business products, difficult or relatively large, and industry applications, intelligent city, Internet applications will be an important entry point.

Security issues are the primary consideration of development

In 3G era, operators push cloud computing vigorously, which will have positive significance to the development of pipeline intelligence, traffic management and mobile Internet.

Mr. Sang's understanding of this problem is that the network value of telecom operators will be further enhanced by the huge network connectivity platform of cloud computing, on the one hand, telecom operators provide high quality data transmission service through the continuously upgraded wired network and wireless network, and obtain the revenue from traffic flow. Telecom operators themselves provide cloud computing services, will be more deeply involved in the activities of customer production and life, is conducive to customer retention, to facilitate the telecommunications operator to understand customer behavior, thus mining business opportunities, innovative business.

In addition, for the current cloud computing development, Mr. Sang said that the biggest threat to cloud computing is customer information security, because the customer's own information storage and information consumption based on the "cloud", which actually put the customer's important information exposed to risk. The potential threat to customer information security, including personal information and behavioral information, has plagued the internet and is an important driver of interest for rogue software. If cloud computing does not solve the information security challenges, cloud computing will be difficult to develop, at best, in closed private cloud, and in the public cloud of unimportant information, so that cloud computing becomes a shallow application that does not change the way existing Internet Information services are available.

In short, as a concept of cloud computing, these two years are beginning to enter the application of the transition period, the enthusiasm of operators has been ignited, but in the application of cloud computing and industrial chain integration, small and medium-sized applications, industry applications and so on are only part of the test water phase, for operators in the cloud computing industry, but also more through the cloud ' End ' embodies the application, is the user experience, to achieve the cloud wins altogether.