Cloud computing protectionism and international data Center investment Competition

The American computer industry has been sweeping the world over the past 40 years, making a great contribution to the international competitiveness of the United States. But the rise of cloud computing 3 years ago has brought a huge turnaround for the industry.

In response to the rapid development of cloud computing, the U.S. government has begun to adjust its economic strategy for the international competitiveness of the IT industry. One of them is the June 16, 2010 International information and communication policy of the United States State Department Ambassador Philips-Babia and Japan's former general minister of the original mouth of the "Internet Economic Ministerial dialogue memo."

Cross-border expansion of cloud computing services industry

Cloud computing will create a "new service industry". In the near future, major network/IT companies can provide IT services to businesses around the world in their own countries. As if Google's cloud computing services Outlook has begun to show its future style.

First, briefly mention the definition of cloud computing. Cloud computing has various explanations. First, cloud computing is the hardware business of virtualized servers and virtualized data centers for device vendors, and for software providers, it refers to virtual host-type applications and SaaS applications (SaaS refers to software as a service.) Instead of installing the software on your own computer or server, you can access the service using the browser, and so on. For the terminal provider, refers to the simple networking equipment, the pursuit of network applications through the lightweight terminal and personalized high-end equipment. At the same time, cloud computing can be divided into two categories based on the size of the server-"Universal cloud computing" has hundreds of or tens of thousands of servers, based on existing relational databases and other technologies, and Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Amazon using more than 100,000 servers to service the "large-scale cloud computing", is challenging data-saving new technology (hash table), post-blade server (ultra-low power chip) and other technologies beyond the existing system.

This article is mainly from the perspective of the use of cloud computing by individuals or enterprises, to analyze how individuals or enterprises use the services of cloud computing services providers through the network.

If cloud computing is pervasive, user data and applications will likely be free across borders. For example, many people now use Gmail (Google's mail Service), but the service backs up emails or attachments that are stored in Google's U.S.-built data center.

Also, video-sharing YouTube servers are in the United States. It can be said that the user uploaded video image information is completely stored in the United States territory.

In addition, some companies use the salesfoce.com company's cloud computing CRM (Customer relationship Management), also enables the user data to be kept in the overseas. In fact, we are in a state of no measure about the leakage of data that has occurred abroad.

Some European countries have banned users from keeping data overseas, and the federal government is not allowing data to flow out of government cloud computing. Cross-border use of cloud computing services is the trend, but many countries at the government level are aware that through some rules or regulations do not allow data transboundary preservation is also more important, it can be said that cloud computing in the current situation is in such a contradictory development.

As a result, America's High-tech industry has a strong sense of the rise in cloud-computing protectionism and calls for the US government to aggressively open up its cloud-computing diplomacy.

The threat of cloud computing protectionism in America's eyes

If you only buy and install the use of "software products" will not pose a major threat. However, cloud computing, from email to advanced enterprise applications, is provided backstage in the United States, and corporate activities and individual user information will be available to the United States. That is not tolerated by any government, and it is bound to promote protectionism in cloud computing services.

The retreat from the Chinese mainland by Google's search engine, which is seen as the rise of cloud-computing protectionism in the US, is unusually guarded. At the same time, the United States also believes that the Middle East countries will follow China, is likely to carry out cloud computing protectionism. This is a huge loss and blow to the US cloud computing industry.

Based on this threat, the U.S. State Department began to build an international coordination system to ensure global cloud computing markets. The first step is the memorandum of the Japan-US agreement, which is introduced at the beginning of this article.

So why does the United States choose Japan as an important partner?

First of all, from the submarine cable and other international communications network environment, Japan is closest to owning North Asia's largest information and communication market in China. At the same time, from the beginning of the Internet, Japan has played an important role in the MIME standard (the standard of Asian language used in e-mail headlines) and the development and construction of IPV6.

Now Japan is also in the top-level DNS (domain name server) operations management, in the network communication has a greater impact. Moreover, the United States and Japan have similar positions in the networked regulatory environment. From this point of view, Japan can be said to be the United States in China's best strategy partner.

On the other hand, it is crucial for Japan to establish a system of coordination with the United States. Japanese companies and individuals are also frequently using the US cloud computing services. Network and information security, privacy protection, intellectual property protection and so on, the formation of the Japanese-American Common cloud computing market for Japanese enterprises have greater benefits. Data security and privacy protection are regulated by countries that cannot cope with the global cloud computing market (the Internet economy). That is, Cross-border users are not protected by law. And, like YouTube, the same is true of copyright infringement by Japanese users overseas. Copyright owners in Japan are unable to sue the US YouTube company directly from Japanese courts, and can only make direct representations.

Japan devotes to Asia cloud computing hub Competition

Japan, on the other hand, is seriously considering the global hub strategy for cloud computing data centers.

As mentioned earlier, cloud computing is divided into large-scale types (servers over 100,000) and common types. Large-scale cloud computing services are typically built by limited Web services such as Google, Amazon, and Yahoo.

These large-scale cloud computing providers, based on their huge information processing capabilities, dominate applications across the world in specific applications. Of course, the massive cloud computing data center that supports its operation has made a great contribution to the development of the national and regional economy.

In the aerospace industry, for example, large-scale cloud computing data centers are equivalent to the role of international hub airports. Japan started late in the globalization of aviation industry, and the international hub airport in Asia was preempted by other countries, which led to the decline of Japan's international competitiveness in the aviation industry.

Japan, therefore, believes that Japan will not be the hub for providing IT services to Asian countries if it fails to recruit new large-scale data centres from companies such as Google and Amazon and Microsoft. Japan's ability to attract large data centers and make high-end cloud computing technology popular in Japan will also attract more senior talent. Generally speaking, international competitiveness means selling products and services overseas. However, in the cloud computing business, attracting large-scale data centers is the source of international competitiveness.

However, for Japan, the promotion of cloud Computing data Center construction project Landing is not smooth sailing. The first is that Japan's high electricity tariffs and high-priced real estate costs is a big problem. At the same time, strict building standards and higher human costs also make the Japanese data center in the operation of the difficulty increased. In addition, higher corporate income tax is also a negative factor. Some American companies think that "if the creation of data centers in Japan, will cost the United States more than three times times the costs", so to Japan at a respectful distance.

On the other hand, in Asia, Singapore and China, Hong Kong and other countries are enthusiastically recruiting large-scale data center projects, the introduction of corporate income tax discounts and other special concessions, and actively attract U.S. companies to build data centers. It can be said that in the data center landing, Japan's competitiveness is not high.

To this end, some Japanese IT companies have actively appealed to the Japanese Government, the implementation of corporate income tax concessions and the establishment of the data center of the SAR and other active investment policies. They also believe that if Hong Kong brings together large data centres in the United States, Japanese companies should also actively promote the construction of data centres in Hong Kong.

In short, cloud computing is a new generation of computer usage patterns inevitable. Despite the dawn, cloud-computing protectionism is on the rise. Japan believes that in order to expand future cloud computing services, it is necessary to build a multinational user protection regulations and rules to curb the rise of cloud computing protectionism. Therefore, the coordination system with the United States will become crucial.

At the same time, the landing of large-scale data center construction projects will influence the international competitiveness of cloud computing services. To this end, Japan hopes that the Government and enterprises to cooperate widely, through diplomatic efforts and investment policies and other comprehensive measures to enable the rapid development of cloud computing in Japan.

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