Enterprise-oriented cloud computing terminals and personal handheld computers will dominate

Freeing terminals in the cloud at the just-concluded 2009 Beijing Science Fair, Wevey, vice president of Lenovo Group and Dean of Lenovo, said that with the gradual maturation of cloud computing products, markets and business models, PCs would be endowed with many innovative applications. In the next 3-5 years, enterprise-oriented cloud computing terminals and personal handheld computers will dominate.

The remark was silent. Cloud computing, with its mystical charms, has once again taken its toll. Antivirus fire need cloud, enterprise office is inseparable from the cloud. Many ordinary users can not understand what is the cloud, but still will care about this cloud will bring us what convenience?

At the same time, the industry's big predators are taking action on cloud computing, with Google, IBM and Dell scrambling to launch cloud computing strategies, and Dell has even applied for cloud computing as its registered trademark. For a time, cloud computing seems to make people smell the smoke.

Because of this, in the recently sponsored by the Electronics Association, IT168 co-organized the 2009 Cloud Computing China Forum, the reporter was privileged to interview the Lenovo Group senior Vice president and CTO He Zhiqiang, and the cloud to the terminal equipment and Lenovo business brought about by the innovation.

Freeing terminal equipment in the cloud

More than 20 years, has been the development of technology-driven PC industry, now finally because of the arrival of cloud computing, return to the source.

Cloud computing era, most of the calculation is done in the cloud, thus liberating the user's terminal, and the terminal computing power does not do too high demand, so the PC industry to move forward Moore's law began to gradually lose its magic.

Lenovo, the most influential provider of local terminal equipment, believes cloud computing's push for terminal devices is mainly in two areas.

First of all, based on the cloud computing platform, users can combine a real-time dynamic social database with the application, no need to install any application software. This is where the cloud plays the role of a dynamically changing intelligent knowledge Base and service provider. For example, Lenovo input method. Previously Lenovo input method of the database is immutable, before using users need to install the software first. And now the new type of input method based on cloud and internet came into being, which is a typical case for the company to implement productive data based on cloud computing. It not only saves the user terminal resources, but also eliminates the maintenance link. Just like 1.5 months ago when people beat pigs, the word "swine flu" must not appear on the screen. Now, pigs will be generating swine flu immediately, but they don't need to maintain the database manually.

The same example reminds reporters of a small demo software that is now highly utilized online. It is similar to PowerPoint in Microsoft Office, but unlike traditional demo software, it has a graphics library of group maintenance. Users can contribute to the graphic materials, data and other users on the Internet to share the use. With the cloud, users can connect to the corresponding server through the network directly invoke the software, which will effectively reduce the cost of terminal software use, but also to avoid installation and updates at any time trouble.

The second is through the cloud computing platform, users can use the Internet real-time information. such as the weather Report plug-in. On a modern, traditional mobile internet, it takes a lot of time to see a simple behavior like weather forecasts. The user takes the effort to install the plugin and open it. But if you can make a combination between the terminal requirements and the server, you can save a lot of intermediate links.

He Zhiqiang revealed that it was for this reason that Lenovo would release a number of new terminal devices by the end of 2009, while optimizing its own hardware and providing users with new products more suited to cloud computing services.

Kshitij A.doshi said: "Cloud computing originated in the IT department, it is highly virtualized, automated and deployed and used as required, so the so-called" enterprise cloud "is essentially" building a unified enterprise underlying IT infrastructure. " In particular, the enterprise cloud can integrate enterprise IT resources into services for the enterprise itself and other enterprises to share the use, thereby increasing the use of enterprise IT resources. In addition, the enterprise cloud can meet it's requirements for security, reliability, and manageability. Finally, the enterprise cloud can also help the enterprise to develop new system operation mode.

Corporate cloud, self-interested altruism

Cloud computing is an application model, and as Intel's global software chief architect, Kshitij A.doshi that cloud computing delivers value to both users and providers. Specifically, for users, through the use of cloud computing services, save money, reduce the power consumption of enterprises, and can be such as ERP, CRM and other management software dynamic management and configuration, so that it is consistent with the business development. To the provider, the cloud computing platform is the efficient management of the system, can open up new business model, so as to achieve the enterprise segmentation of New Market, to find new business opportunities.

Intel's cloud computing strategy this year will be centered on new servers using Nehalem technology, and the new "Nehalem" server technology will establish a cloud strategy focused on Intel's large data centers. For Intel, large data centers represent the growth of large enterprises. By 2012, Intel expects shipments of 20% to 25% of the world's servers will fall into large data centers. Currently, large data centers account for only about 10% of the overall server market.

Kshitij A.doshi that cloud computing can better provide computing power, provide stable system stability, so that more enterprises can come to the cloud. Cloud computing supports the SaaS model, offering more selectivity, including supporting the creation of proprietary models for customers, end-user choice of application modules on demand, and flexible service level agreements. From IT management, the cloud architecture implements different strategies, flexible business services, and fast dynamic application deployments.