Cloud computing "cloud path" beautiful, the road is not smooth sailing

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Cloud computing has been a concern for the industry since 2006, when Google Schmidt first proposed the concept of "cloud computing" at a search engine convention. Over the past seven years, from the imagination to the practice, from the concept to the application, cloud computing has become the pioneer of creating the Internet ecology. 2011 Cloud Computing was listed as the National Twelve-Five planning key projects, the news in the whole of China blew up the pot, the government, operators, IDC service providers, internet companies to work together to promote the Chinese great strides into the Internet cloud era. And this year, December 18, Amazon cloud AWS hand Nets technology landing in China, a stone stirred thousand layers of waves, before already in the Chinese market, Microsoft, IBM and other foreign-made clouds almost at the same time exerting force, invariably issued the alliance cooperation; at the same time, Ali, Tencent led the domestic cloud launched a promotional counterattack, a foreign cloud , domestic cloud coexistence of the cloud war kicked off.

Cloud computing market prospects are broad, has become the industry recognized as a new growth point. According to Gartner data, the 2013 Global cloud services market will reach 131.7 billion U.S. dollars, annual growth rate of 18%, is expected to exceed 244.2 billion U.S. dollars in 2017. "Cloud Way" is beautiful, but the application of cloud is still in the initial stage, the future road is not smooth, for now, some potential problems are obvious to all:

1, the concept of overheating

After several years of development, cloud computing has moved from the concept to the application, but the current concept of speculation is still overheating, far more than practical significance. Many traditional IDC service providers turn into cloud service providers, the service content lacks the technical innovation, after wrapping the old product together presents. At present, cloud computing is the development of the traditional data center in the Internet era of 2.0 upgrades, the use of the Internet on demand to provide software, provide a platform for the provision of infrastructure, the so-called clouds of the beautiful outlook is not as magical as imagined. In fact, cloud computing technology is not new things, is the grid computing, parallel computing, utility computing, storage technology, virtualization, load balancing the traditional computer technology and network integration of the product. To Amazon, Microsoft, IBM-led foreign-owned cloud using similar technology, and even did not form a stable business model, and to Ali, Tencent-led domestic cloud for reference, the convergence of resources led to service and quality has become the only key to market choice. Therefore, the cloud industry model innovation is more than technological innovation, the concept of heat continues to be obvious.

2, investment overheating, overcapacity

In the "Smart city" construction strategy driven by the cloud in the name of the Daxing base and industrial Park, a new round of data center upgrading and investment construction. In fact, the data center has been in the domestic overcapacity state, in the traditional data center digestion is insufficient, enterprise users of cloud computing knowledge and adoption of the premise, the large-scale construction of cloud infrastructure to expand capacity, there is a duplication of construction. According to relevant aspects of the survey this year, 95% of corporate customers have a certain understanding of cloud computing, only 38% of corporate customers are using cloud computing services, compared to last year only increased by 0.5%, slow progress. Cloud computing as a new industry is in the growth stage, the market demand is not completely released, coupled with technology, model has not yet stabilized, and thus can not form the full competition in the sector. This period of overheated investment and repeat construction, will only brew cloud computing industry in the middle of the risk of overcapacity.

3. Uneven development of the three I/P/S

As a cloud computing service supply Model IaaS, PaaS, SaaS Development is not balanced, market differentiation is large, regardless of market size or procurement weight, IaaS and SaaS are far higher than PaaS, the cloud industry appears in the middle of two heavy between the light of the situation. In particular, domestic consumers have always had the habit of building light services, thus favouring investment in infrastructure. In fact, i/p/s as a cloud industry, a uniform supply chain, the level of service supply from the bottom of the gradual ascending, three indispensable, rational choice of the appropriate service model or use to maximize the effectiveness of cloud computing. Another phenomenon is that the application boundaries of PAAs and IaaS tend to blur, and many enterprises don't even know the difference between them. In fact, PAAs as a developer platform and enterprise platform to deploy the service model is still the mainstream of cloud products, generally with IaaS or with the use of SaaS more, its potential is still to be excavated.

4. Lack of standardization

At present, the industry's standardization of cloud computing from architecture to service has not yet been unified, the real implementation is premature, and difficult, the whole process is still industry organization-led, enterprises are lack of participation. The standardization of Cloud Computing focuses on two aspects. One is the technical point of view, said before cloud computing the existing technology is from the grid computing, parallel computing, utility computing, storage technology, virtualization, load balancing, such as the evolution of the traditional computer technology, the current standardization of these traditional technologies has not been completely unified, It is a challenge how to realize the interoperability and multi-integration of various technologies on the Internet platform. The second is the service form of cloud computing, from the IaaS, PAAs and SaaS in their respective fields, in accordance with the "urgent first, mature before the" principle, in turn, the development of hardware, platform, software level model standards, strengthen the interoperability of all parties. At the 2013 Cloud World Congress held in Beijing in mid-December, Sheidu, Deputy Inspector of the Ministry of Software Services, said that the Ministry of Industry is actively carrying out integrated cloud computing standardization work. It is of great significance for our country to enter the International cloud computing standardization system as soon as possible and obtain the right of speech.

5. Security issues

Security remains the biggest problem with cloud computing. While the vendors are overly touting the convenience of the cloud, people are always skeptical about the security of the data in the cloud. In particular, corporate customers are extremely sensitive to the privacy of the public cloud, although the use of cloud services before the vendor has a corresponding commitment to data privacy, but still can not eliminate the customer's suspicions, which is reasonable, because the data leakage incidents do occur. Although the world of clouds has changed the service pattern, the traditional network security risk still exists, so it is urgent for the cloud industry to accelerate the cultivation of information security industry and promote the cloud legislation to establish the system.

In general, although cloud computing is not yet truly mature, it cannot be denied that it is a huge strategic value to change the future of the information industry pattern. The current application of cloud in the industry is only temporary, the future we have more expectations of the cloud, especially with the internet of things, the combination of large data cloud industry will be traditional manufacturing, energy, medical, financial, e-government, science and technology, telecommunications and even personal consumption areas to provide more opportunities and value. Another typical example is that cloud computing gives them a chance to recover from the old manufacturing giants Hewlett-Packard, Dell and so on in the post-PC era, and cloud computing is a vast blue ocean for upstream giants such as Microsoft, Google and Amazon, which are still fighting. In the cloud computing this brand-new industry chain above, each party is destined to usher in the situation which wins more.