Cloud computing: From "technology" to "mode"

From birth to the present, cloud computing industry has been puzzled, cloud computing is a new technology or a new model?

In March 2012, in the State Council's work report, cloud computing was given an official explanation by the government as an important appendix:

"Cloud computing: The growth, use, and delivery model of internet-based services, often involving the provision of dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources over the Internet." is a product of the development of traditional computer and network technology, which means that computing power can also be circulated as a commodity through the Internet. ”

In 2010, more than 80 cloud computing industry and technology experts have come together to propose whether there is a need to give an accurate definition of cloud computing, after heated discussions have been agreed that it is not appropriate to give a precise definition of cloud computing, the reason is that the cloud is a technology or a model is not certain understanding.

From "Technology" to "mode"

The delivery of services via the Internet will profoundly influence the market structure of the information industry, and the invisible resource of "computing power" will "circulate" in the form of "commodity" on the Internet.

In the 1961, the father of artificial intelligence, McCarthy predicted that "computing may one day be organized into a public utility", the master's prediction of the new model became a reality in the era of cloud computing. Coincidentally, the MapReduce method presented in the Lisp language invented by McCarthy in 1958 has also become an important method of computing parallelization in the current cloud computing technology, and the view that cloud computing is a model has actually been put forward by McCarthy half a century ago.

In the definition of government work report, cloud computing is identified as a "pattern", and cloud computing is based on the "Internet" bandwidth improvement. In 1986, the Chinese Academy of Sciences High Energy physics to the European Nuclear Center issued our first e-mail when the network transmission speed is only 560bps, this period of network status is not possible to propose cloud computing "model", because this cloud computing "model" is based on the development of network technology as a prerequisite, "service" and "use" and "Delivery" needs to be done through the Internet, and this way of delivering services via the Internet will profoundly affect the market structure of the information industry, and the invisible resource of "computing power" will "circulate" in the form of "commodity" on the Internet.

The definition of cloud computing affirms the position of the Internet in cloud computing, and there is no cloud computing without the development of the Internet. Service "use" and "delivery" are based on the Internet will profoundly affect the technology research and development model, industry delivery model, marketing model, cloud computing will become the information industry in the network era after another major change. Cloud computing in the industrial model of the changes to the information industry in China has provided unprecedented opportunities for development, to avoid China's technology and market with foreign direct competition, and cloud computing resources are provided through the integration of applications, the ability of individual resources is no longer the impact of cloud computing services, the decisive factor in the ability, But the traditional Internet industry single server's ability is an important technical index, the cloud computing pattern in the thinking change makes our country's chip industry, the core system software industry obtains the precious development time and the market space.

The industry will show an olive-shaped structure

The emergence of a new model is bound to form a new industrial ecological environment, cloud computing industry This "olive" in the middle part of the cloud industry is the future of hope

The emergence of this new model of cloud computing will inevitably form a new industrial ecological environment, and different enterprises will find their own industrial position in the era of cloud computing. Cloud computing industry will form two small (number of enterprises), the middle of the big olive-type structure, the industrial division of labor is very clear, application developers will be the main force of the entire industry and innovation, and resource operators and application services integration provider will focus on a few enterprises.

Cloud computing industry The two ends of the olive structure are the operators of basic resources and the integration of the delivery of applications, a need for a large amount of capital investment, a need for a strong user resources, so the number of olives at both ends of the enterprise will not be too many.

Some people think that the emergence of cloud computing will make small and medium-sized enterprises lose their living space, in fact, the emergence of cloud computing will greatly reduce the entrepreneurial threshold for small and medium-sized enterprises, and because the resources to achieve the flexibility of the provision of the application of innovation to provide a greater space for imagination.

In the era of cloud computing, application developers will be the main component of the entire industry, using the resources provided by the cloud computing center to encapsulate applications that meet the needs of users through application consolidation deliverables to users, and cloud computing's truly innovative burst point in application developers. Just as the advent of electricity, the emergence of electricity is only the first impetus for industrial development, but the next more than 100 years of innovation is focused on a variety of electricity based applications.

The middle part of this "olive" cloud industry is the future of cloud computing. We know that olives are also called "Remonstrance", Yuan. Wang in "Nong Book" Volume Nine Record: "Olive born Lingnan and Fujian Canton County ... Its taste bitter sour and astringent, eat long taste side back Gan, therefore, Xiren name for the fruit ", Olive has the first bitter sweet after the special charm, indicating that the cloud computing industry will undergo a first bitter after the sweet industrial development process, we must go through the early stages of industrial development of a variety of tests, in order to usher in the" blow to the golden sand "moment.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)