Cloud computing: The commanding heights of Internet transformation

Cloud？ This is nonsense. Now the IT industry is more than fashion industry chasing trends and fashion. "In 2008, Oracle CEO Ellison's attitude towards cloud computing was dismissive and even annoying. He thinks cloud computing is a myth, and no company can profit from it. Interestingly, with cloud computing's successful application in many areas, and the smooth advance of cloud computing strategies such as Google, IBM and Microsoft, Oracle eventually sat still, announcing its cloud computing strategy early this year. For their own this record "Oolong", Ellison Laugh Way: "Haha, if there is any industry than apparel industry more trendy, then it is not the IT industry." ”

Indeed, there is no shortage of concepts in the IT industry. In Carr, author of "It No longer important", it technology, like power technology, belongs to the basic technology. In the early stages of technological innovation, most of these technologies came in the form of proprietary technology. However, as the environment, property rights, costs and standards to solve the problem, it technology will eventually complete from private technology to the great transformation of basic technology. And cloud computing is the catalyst for this shift.

"Cloud computing allows users to buy and use IT services as much as they buy water and electricity, which is not only a technological revolution, but also a revolution in thinking mode." Wu Yingcai, general manager of At&t China, said, "The current trend towards a global economy is very clear, which also makes IT systems and applications play an increasingly critical role in the operation of the enterprise, especially in cost control and process establishment and management." But the IT system itself is an investment black hole, and many companies are unwilling to devote too much time and energy to it as a non main business. The advent of cloud computing has ended this paradox, and businesses can buy all IT resources they need on demand. In addition, the world is now concerned about the environment and climate change, cloud computing if widespread also means that the number of data centers or investment significantly reduced, which will greatly reduce carbon emissions. From these two points, we can see how much the business and social value of cloud computing will be.

The cloud computing, hailed by Carr as "the commanding heights of the Internet", has been quickly accepted and put into the plan or product. With the continuous development of technology and the continuous improvement of the industrial chain, the price of services is also declining. But, after all, cloud computing is a novelty, enterprises in the face of it, there are many worries, the most important thing is security, especially the leakage and loss of information. As Carr points out, personal data is more and more exposed as the system becomes more centralized, and when data collection software becomes more professional, the control hands will prevail and the system will become the perfect machine for monitoring and manipulating humans. In addition, users want to have good interoperability between different cloud computing platform environments so they can migrate freely in two different cloud environments. However, the Enterprise cloud computing Buyer's Council (ENTERPRISECLOUDBUYERSCOUNCIL), an organization dedicated to the security, reliability and interoperability of cloud computing, was established last December and Microsoft, IBM and At&t are members of the board. Last year, Microsoft published a document called "Securing Microsoft's Cloud infrastructure," detailing the steps Microsoft will take to protect its infrastructure and the security of its users ' data and applications.

In any case, cloud computing will be the mainstream of the future IT industry is an indisputable fact, IDC also believes that cloud computing will soon be from the early phase of the trial into the mainstream. If your organization's it and storage are far from being market-changing and business-development, the system is backward, the storage capacity is insufficient, the physical space is limited, the electricity cost rises dramatically, but you do not want to invest more financial resources and energy in it construction, upgrade and maintenance to affect your core business. Then think about cloud computing services.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)