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From a branch of the early IT industry to an independent industry today, IT service industry has become a hot spot in the application of information and communication technology and a high profit blue ocean with the most market potential. In particular, with the advent and application of new technologies such as cloud computing and Internet of things, the rapid expansion of the IT service area and market scale has been promoted and new business opportunities have sprung up.

Speaking of IT services, IBM, the Flying Elephant, has been transformed from a declining hardware maker to an IT service giant after 9 years. Today, countless IT companies are also transforming from traditional it to share IT services this piece of cake.

In the telecoms industry, Huawei has unveiled a cloud computing strategy that will no longer simply sell telecoms equipment but provide cloud computing solutions for corporate users; in the IT equipment industry, Dell is advancing its cloud services expert strategy by providing users with a customized cloud-computing infrastructure to grow; in the software industry, Ufida launched the cloud computing PAAs platform, has begun to build a commercial value of the cloud services ecosystem ...

The next step in the development of IT services is actually the next step in the upgrading of the service provider's system capability.

IT Service market space is huge

February 9, 2011, the Chinese New Year after the first working day, the State Council on "further encourage the software industry and integrated circuit industry development of a number of policies" officially issued.

For the first time, the new policy extends tax concessions to standardize IT services and outsourcing, benefiting the entire IT service industry, including operations, integration, consulting, testing, and other IT services. In addition, the new policy for product innovation and outsourcing services to guide, but also for IT service providers in the future development of the direction.

And six months ago, by the Ministry of Industry and Information technology, Shenzhou Digital, medium and soft, diligent intelligence digital, Shanghai Bao Xin and other systems integrators involved in the preparation of the "IT Service Standards (ITSS)" white Paper, the first edition of the official release. The national IT Service standards in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong and other provinces and cities launched a pilot promotion. Among them, the important relationship of it operation and maintenance service standards to become the industry norms of the fixed Poseidon needle.

"Two of documents have become a booster for the development of IT services." "Beijing Zhi Xun-Dimensional Technology Co., Ltd. general manager Dong Jun said," the previous operation of human factors, the service is difficult to measure, now has a unified standard and norms, can be a clear distinction between high-end services and low-end services, while clearly measuring the service value and quality of services providers. ”

"It services have grown from one branch of the early IT industry to an independent industry, which is enough to show that the market is promising." "Dong Jun pointed out that, especially with the major companies in recent years have been transformed and invested heavily in IT services, these have further promoted the rapid expansion of the domestic IT Service market scale, but also make this area become the industry's new application hotspot and high profit point.

At this year's Boao Forum for Asia, Lamadole, vice chairman of Tata Advisory services, India, said that even in the face of economic volatility such as the international financial crisis, the global IT and technology services market remained stable for nearly 20 years. Industry analyst Gartner Research shows that 2010 global IT service terminal expenditure amounted to 793 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 3.1%. The same year, the overall scale of China's IT services also broke through the hundred billion mark.

The "cloud" road is broader.

It system's large-scale and the integration intellectualization, has raised the unprecedented challenge to the software, the system and the resources, uses the cloud computing and the IoT and so on new operation dimension pattern to become IT service upgrade main choice.

"At present, cloud computing and IoT have become one of the most important strategic deployments of national ' Twelve-Five ' planning." In finance, telecommunications, manufacturing, education and other related fields, cloud computing market demand is beyond doubt. At the same time, a group of local information technology companies with strength are working with the international leading cloud computing enterprises to actively explore the potential of China's cloud computing market for the development of domestic cloud computing industry to contribute strength. Zhou, chief economist of the Ministry of Industry and Information technology, said that with the change of the global information industry, cloud computing has become an important development direction of the global IT industry, becoming the representative of the new generation of information technology in China's strategic emerging industries, leading companies are actively exploring and layout the development of cloud computing.

The "IT Infrastructure Cloud" is the best antidote to traditional it dilemmas. Xiaodong, director of the Technical Advisory division of the Greater China region, said that Chinese companies urgently need to accelerate the transformation of business and operation models to cope with the increasing uncertainty and changing market demand in the context of the post-international financial crisis.

88% of respondents plan to use cloud computing in the next two years, according to a China Cloud computing survey published in 2010 by Accenture and the China Electronics Society. This suggests that more and more local companies are aware of the enormous potential of cloud computing in providing agile, flexible IT resources, and reducing it costs.

"Domestic it enterprises to seize opportunities, innovation and development." "At the 15th session of China International Software Exposition, the president of Beijing Aerospace University, Professor Huaijin Peng, said it enterprises in the" cloud "opportunities, enterprises in IT technology changes in the era of the trend to" both inside and outside "to do their homework. "We should think deeply about the opportunities that the new technology and application model bring, find the essential law, and hold the development opportunity of China and the world." ”

In fact, large-scale data computing and storage has become a trend for IT industry practitioners, and the demand for business and personal cloud-based Services has begun to emerge. For enterprises in need, cloud computing brings not only the upgrading of IT technology, but also the innovation of organization and operation mode. This change, but also in the profound impact of the entire IT industry chain.

Alibaba set up a new company engaged in cloud computing business "Aliyun", will build a number of "E-commerce Cloud Computing Center", China Mobile is developing and experimenting with cloud computing platform "big Cloud", and hope to enhance the future of mobile Internet information services capabilities; century interconnection built container data center, "Cloud Cube" Large data centers, "Cloud Express Line" services, such as multi-level cloud services products.

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