Cloud computing is a bubble in the hidden worries or energy-saving intentions run counter

The 16th China International Software Exposition closed in Beijing recently. The soft Bo will be the biggest bright spot is to cloud computing as a new form of a grand to the public, Ufida, China Software and other well-known domestic software companies in the General Assembly has shown its latest achievements in the field of cloud services.

The soft Expo, the major exhibition hall "floating" a variety of related company stock trend

"The current cloud computing market belongs to emerging markets, and it is understandable that companies are chasing each other," Xiaohuijuan, an economics and management college at Beijing Forestry University. However, I hope that the government can make a reasonable layout for this segment of the industry, so as to avoid the tragedy of disorderly competition of group buying websites. And I checked the energy Efficiency Test Guide, released this March 16 by the cloud computing development and Policy forum, and worried that its fast, unregulated growth would be inconsistent with the country's policy of energy-saving and emission reduction. ”

Listed companies are flocking to cloud computing

According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's Telecommunications Institute in April this year, the "cloud computing white paper" shows that the global cloud computing services in 2011 around 90 billion U.S. dollars, of which the U.S. cloud services market size of about 60%, far higher than Europe's 24.7% and Japan's 10%. and the overall size of China's cloud computing services, accounting for about 4% of the global market, but annual growth can reach 40%.

According to the same flush IFind financial data Terminal Provides data shows that there are 24 listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen are involved in the concept of cloud computing. There are like wave information, founder technology, Great Wall computer, ZTE and other as cloud computing software and hardware providers, there are Chinese software, Donghua software, wave software, Huasheng Tiancheng, guardian, such as cloud computing system integrators, as well as Dr. Peng, network Technology, China and Thailand, such as cloud computing services provider and Ufida, business treasure, Focus technology, such as cloud computing application software developers.

And when the reporter interviewed Lenovo Group exhibition representative why Lenovo Group in the field of cloud computing has not taken more action, the company's data technology Management Department of the regional manager Li Li the current situation of cloud computing enterprises. "Many companies are currently doing cloud computing services, but there are a few who blindly follow the policy," he said. Although the policy guidance will promote the cloud computing to become the future information processing main way, but the enterprise should realize the profit growth as the starting point, under certain condition satisfies the situation may further implement the emerging technology. ”

Cloud computing Development Please "compute" energy consumption first

The former director of the National Energy Bureau, Zhang Zhang, said May 26 in the 2012 China-US Clean Energy Forum, the data center as a "cloud computing" the physical basis of energy consumption.

Zhang stressed that the energy consumption data of the China Unicom Data Center, which he personally holds, shows that the center consumes 9.9 billion-kilowatt times a year. With China's current coal efficiency, 920,000 tonnes of coal will be needed to provide enough power for China Unicom's data center to consume energy. Corresponding to China Unicom, the Chinese Telecom Data Center in the annual consumption of 11.2 Billion-kilowatt, total annual consumption of 1.0295 million tons of coal.

According to Gartner, a global authority, the IT industry is emitting about 35 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, with the data center becoming a big carbon emitter. By 2020, global data centers are expected to reach 205.9 billion tonnes of carbon emissions. According to a Greenpeace report, by 2020, the world's leading IT operators "cloud computing" (including data processing and telecommunications network) energy consumption of nearly 2,000,000,001,000 watts, more than Germany, France, Canada and Brazil and other 4 countries combined energy consumption.

In China, the energy consumption of IT industry is equally alarming. 2011, China's data center total power consumption of 70 Billion-kilowatt, accounting for the total consumption of the whole society 1.5%, the equivalent of the 2011 Tianjin, the overall use of electricity throughout the year.

When the reporter on cloud computing the current outbreak of development and energy-saving policy between the friction of the interview industry and Information Technology Department of Telecommunications Institute of Communications Standards, senior engineer Gao, he told reporters that from a single point of view, cloud computing energy consumption is indeed very large, but through relatively easy to find, using cloud computing technology, The energy consumption of unit information processing is obviously reduced, which is the fundamental driving force for the development of cloud computing, and the single consideration of energy consumption does not hinder cloud computing development.

In China's current cloud computing practice, the country has not yet established a unified data center Energy Efficiency Index System. Standing in the day-to-day business management level, if ignoring the development and utilization of green energy, the domestic cloud computing industry will be in the future international competition in trouble.

Therefore, software companies want to take a piece from the cloud, should be energy saving as an important economic model of sustainable development, through the establishment of green data center, increase the energy consumption monitoring of cloud computing, reasonable reduction of idle server energy consumption, and thus achieve the industry's low-carbon development.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)