Cloud era Tan Lin: China needs open cloud computing development environment

The wave of cloud computing is sweeping the world, and the pattern of the Internet industry has changed, and traditional rules have been hit and even overturned. Take Cloud era CSO Tan Lin in the interview with the Speed network, said the domestic cloud computing industry chain is incomplete, lack of ecological environment, small and medium-sized enterprises lack of funding support, China needs a more free and open cloud computing development environment.

When asked about the gap in cloud computing between China and Europe and the United States, Tan Lin has a very clear understanding, "Chinese and foreign cloud computing starting point is different, foreign purpose is to reduce IT costs through cloud computing, so they use some new virtualization technology, advanced services and forms; An opportunity for the next round of the manufacturing economy to transition to a modern economy. At present, the biggest problem is the entrepreneurial environment has not formed, the application is relatively short, the lack of cloud computing start-up enterprises, and innovation is precisely from entrepreneurial enterprises. ”

It is understood that the foreign IaaS platform has begun to integrate, enterprises began frequent mergers and acquisitions, can be said to have entered the right track. Compared with foreign countries, the lack of upstream core technology has always been a mishap, if not paid attention to, it is likely to lead to the domestic development of a large number of applications, but because there is no upper-level technology and become a large-scale multinational enterprises to work in the situation. In addition, Tan Lin also to the domestic cloud computing environment expressed a certain degree of concern, "the domestic industrial chain is incomplete, the ecological environment is missing, small and medium-sized enterprises lack of financial support, but also lack of innovative power." Tan Lin believes that China needs a more free and open environment for cloud computing development.

Cloud computing is not just a technological innovation for China, it has changed the traditional economic structure to a large extent, the national government regards cloud computing as an inflection point of economic transformation. Tan Lin is deeply agree with this, "cloud computing will provide a good opportunity for the second economic transformation, now China is the world's second largest economy, to ensure the speed of economic development, and then rely on manufacturing, real estate, such as the extensive economic model is not right, enter the science and technology economic model is the general trend, And cloud computing plays an important role in increasing productivity in various industries.

China's cloud computing is booming, but the direction of development has also been tilted, the domestic main focus on the construction of private clouds, while the construction of the public cloud is relatively slow, for this problem, Tan Lin gave its own view, "First of all, China's interoperability does not good enough, In addition, I think the most important problem is that the bandwidth cost is too high, data show that China's bandwidth cost is 28 times times that of South Korea. The biggest cost of foreign data centers is energy consumption, while China is the cost of bandwidth. If bandwidth costs and interoperability problems are not addressed, China's public cloud cannot be developed. ”

What kind of changes cloud computing will bring to the enterprise, for the problem Tan Lin believes that "cloud computing is still in the concept of a light outcome phase." "China's It overall application level, although less than Europe and the United States, but small and medium-sized enterprises have begun to pay attention to information, large enterprises, the proportion of IT investment is also increasing." Tan Lin revealed that there are data that China's top 500 companies in the IT investment budget accounted for 56% of the industry, but these big companies remain in the virtualization applications, the core technology is not deployed in the cloud. "Now deployed in the cloud is mainly OA, HR and so on relatively minor applications, corporate awareness of it is weak, the big environment is still not ideal." ”

Although there are many problems in the development of cloud computing in China, the prospect is still full of bright. "The slogan of the cloud era is the integration of the world's wisdom to achieve corporate cloud, the application of China's potential for a lot of innovation, the next 5 years we plan to introduce 30 cloud computing Internet companies to strengthen the domestic basic research and development of weak problems." We will use these 30 as seeds to spread innovative genes to more companies in China and shorten the gap between Chinese and foreign companies in innovation and technology development. "Tan Lin's business philosophy is full of confidence, now the community began to pay attention to public development platform, personal development environment in the improvement." But there is no enterprise-level development platform for the industry, we have to do is to build a platform to choose the appropriate industry to carry out in-depth excavation and development.

Tan Lin: Tan Lin has a double bachelor's degree in biochemistry and biochemistry Engineering from the University of Ottawa in Canada, and an MBA from the Cheung Kong Business School EMBA. He has been a general manager of the U.S. CA company in Greater China, and the chief executive of the U.S. Oracle Company, China Channel Sales director and other major positions. Incumbent executive Director and chief strategic officer of Cloud era. (FEI)

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)