IBM launches cloud strategy five deployments into cloud era

August 23, IBM convened "IBM to take you into your cloud--2011 IBM Cloud Computing Summit", the same time the launch of IBM's cloud computing strategy, that is, IBM will combine the global customer and their own cloud computing field of best practices, integration of their strong resources, with partners to jointly promote in the region, industry, The five deployments of customers, ecology and it push cloud computing to the ground in China.

IBM proposes that cloud computing is the third Trans-era change in information technology that has undergone the changes in personal computers and the Internet. The economic attributes behind cloud computing determine that cloud computing is actually a new kind of productivity, how it will manage the complexity of it, and revisit the importance of it to society as an unprecedented level. More importantly, cloud computing will trigger business models, industry ecology, and even the entire social ecosystem changes, like the advent of computers and the Internet has changed the human civilization process, cloud computing will profoundly affect the enterprise, industry, and even the whole society's progress and development. This leads to the transformation of regional economic model, industry ecological model, enterprise business model and it operation mode. Governments, enterprises, and even the community should correctly understand the importance of cloud computing and actively participate in the exploration, implementation and promotion of cloud strategy.

As the leading manufacturer of cloud computing, IBM has become the only company that offers four major areas of infrastructure, service (IaaS), Platform Services (PaaS), software as a service (SaaS), business process as a service (BPaaS), At the same time provide business consulting services and information technology consulting services, a full-service cloud computing services solutions provider.

"Cloud computing has become a trend and the application of cloud computing represents the future of business," said Mr. Chanda, chairman and chief executive officer of IBM Greater China. In the Chinese government, industry, enterprises embrace cloud computing today, we can clearly see that occupy the cloud can lead the future market development. IBM and its partners will work together to use our global experience, technology and resources to work together to develop a cloud computing path that is consistent with China's development. ”

Cloud computing is not just a change in it technology, but a radical change in the entire business model

Cloud computing is a major transformation of the information industry, bringing about a series of changes in service, scale, standardization and popularization. Personal computers allow computing power to spread to individuals, and the Internet makes these pervasive capabilities, and the computing power needed to make these interconnected worlds more affordable, simpler and more powerful than in the past. The changes brought about by cloud computing will permeate all levels of today's society. Cloud computing allows users to get ' information and processing ' from the Internet, just as we get electricity through the grid, which is available at any time, anywhere, on demand, and according to how much it costs. This is the first of the new model of information industry, like the power industry in the great concentration Revolution, cloud computing will bring the information industry service and centralization of the subversive process. What cloud computing brings is a new allocation pattern for computing resources. In the restructuring of the industrial chain, cloud computing will bring about a radical overhaul of cloud operators, the technology providers needed for cloud services, and the business model. The economic attributes behind cloud computing determine that cloud computing is actually a new kind of productivity.

IBM five deployment strategy for advancing cloud

Based on a profound understanding of the opportunities for change brought about by cloud computing, IBM has put forward a strategy to fully integrate its own advantage service resources and promote the landing of cloud computing in China through five deployments. Through IBM's integrated service team, this strategy will help different customers grasp the transition opportunities brought by cloud computing according to their specific situation, and promote regional transformation, industry transformation, customer transformation, ecological transformation and it transformation.

Ø Deployment One: Help regional to build urban cloud to promote transformation

Cloud computing will bring about the transformation and take-off of the whole regional economy. China is now relying on local advantages to vigorously develop regional economy, a large number of urban economic circle, regional economic circle formed successively. The formation of these regional economic circles often requires the cooperation of various industries and enterprises to complete. It will involve logistics enterprises, manufacturing enterprises, trade enterprises and other enterprises of the large synergy. This large synergy requires a platform that can support large synergies, and this platform is not cloud computing. The unique flexibility of cloud computing, on-demand access, and the characteristics of automated management will help governments to coordinate effectively and collectively across industries and enterprises. IBM has a deep insight to help the region realize the transformation of the urban cloud, and to promote the establishment of "intelligent City" in cloud mode.

Qinhuangdao Economic and technological development zone, based on the IBM Cloud computing platform to build China's first "three-dimensional (3D) Internet Technology application incubator platform" to foster network game development enterprises and three-dimensional Internet application development enterprises. This is the cloud computing in the domestic entry into the practical application, promote regional industrial upgrading and regional economic development of important milestones, but also Qinhuangdao Shi further to the data industry as the core, to achieve the Bohai Rim regional economic deployment, leading the economic transformation of Hebei Province key projects.

Ø deployment Two: Promote industry cloud transformation

Industry cloud refers to the cloud computing platform built for the information needs of the industry as a whole, often providing a wide variety of applications or business processes that the industry needs. Industry cloud not only can integrate the whole industry's upstream and downstream enterprises into efficient processes, but also can provide users with the application of the entire industry process. Many industries in China have changed because of the advent of cloud computing, which has penetrated into various industries.

For the characteristics of the industry, IBM will continue to launch with Chinese characteristics of the industry cloud solutions, to help users not only to enjoy the convenient coverage of the entire business process services, but also to effectively monitor the entire process, increase the transparency of the process to achieve continuous optimization of business processes. On the other hand, for specific service providers, the IBM industry cloud platform can effectively coordinate the resources between the various service providers to maximize the utilization of resources, and the efficiency of this service resources will further enhance the overall service quality, thus forming the whole industry's benign development of the ecology.

This May, the IBM China Development Center (Ningbo) and IBM China Development Center Logistics Industry Solutions Center officially announced in Ningbo National High-tech Industrial Zone. As "Ningbo International intelligent Logistics Software and Information Service outsourcing industrial Park" project operation of the core base, IBM and Ningbo will be the platform in Management services, technology research and development, personnel training and other areas of in-depth cooperation, and the introduction of IBM "Logistics Cloud" based on the world's top cloud computing, IoT technology, To promote the development of Ningbo's modern logistics industry, and Ningbo together to create the world's leading "intelligent logistics" industry.

Ø deployment Three: Promoting business model transformation

Cloud computing is no longer a simple it tool, it is an advantageous means for business change in enterprise industry area. Cloud computing can break through the existing business model, on the basis of the implementation of innovation. Combining IBM's insight into various industries, providing cloud solutions in line with enterprise characteristics and exploring the path of business model transformation with customers, Guizhou Mobile is one of the models, with the help of cloud platform to construct innovative service mode and explore a new way to build, operate and service through cloud computing platform.

The traditional data center's single system construction way has caused the huge waste to IT resources, in the past, operators often for a single system and buy a lot of servers, resource utilization only 10%~20%, once the system for business expansion needs to expand, operators will face a long equipment procurement cycle and business interruption and other threats, These will directly affect customer satisfaction. In the face of this challenge, Guizhou Mobile has been trying to find a way to crack, and cloud computing has become its core business ability to build new service model of the best way. At the same time, the new agricultural and rural projects in Guizhou province to promote more quickly and widely, for the majority of farmers to seek more welfare health care, we must use a strong Third-party support platform to achieve. It is based on this opportunity, Guizhou Mobile and the new rural Cooperative project has carried out deep cooperation, will be a large number of new agricultural application system deployed in Guizhou mobile IBM cloud platform above. After more than a year of system operation, Guizhou Mobile Cloud Platform Project has successfully on-line 36 information service systems, these business systems not only embodies the advantages of cloud computing resources reuse, but also for Guizhou Mobile brought a pragmatic economic benefits.

Ø deployment Four: Work with partners to promote the transformation of cloud ecological structure

Cloud computing is a new computing power distribution and service model, the implementation of cloud computing model can not only rely on the enterprise itself, but also need to integrate the forces of society to advance together. IBM will work with all levels of government, organizations and a wide range of partners to push cloud computing to the ground through its powerful cloud computing service capabilities and deep industry insights. On the one hand, IBM will help customers through the purchase of IBM Cloud services in the way without IT resources to enjoy the services of IT resources, on the other hand, IBM will help more traditional it enterprises and organizations, the active use of cloud platform to provide professional services, Realize the transformation from traditional it product and service provider cloud service provider, and finally realize the establishment of China cloud computing industry ecosystem. In the future, IBM will work together with the government, partners, associations and other organizations to promote cloud computing in China's Landing, the building blocks for China's economic take-off.

This April, China Electric backbone enterprise Great Wall computer and IBM jointly released the "Wisdom Cloud Great Wall" strategic cooperation program, the world's leading cloud computing innovation technology and business model with the local information industry leading enterprises, a comprehensive upgrade of both the impact of cloud computing and cloud computing related solutions service capabilities. The program's core "cloud Intelligence Side" (Cloud Smart Foundations) Set the Great Wall of traditional hardware strength and IBM software advantages in one, integration of local and international technical strength. This strategic cooperation relies on IBM and the Great Wall computer and its group parent company China Electronic Information Industry Group (abbreviation: China Electronics, CLP) long-term strategic partnership, creating a new business cooperation model, the overall upgrade of the Great Wall computer enterprises themselves and the group's "cloud Strength", based in south China to build "cloud base", For the country to expand the "cloud business."

At the same time, IBM has launched a series of plans to help partners to the cloud computing, has been in Ufida, digital China and other partners to promote the cloud landing has made substantial progress.

Ø deployment Five: work together to promote it operation mode transformation

Faced with the huge changes in cloud computing opportunities, traditional IT companies have started to enter the cloud computing market. But the lack of successful transition forces these companies to move cautiously, which has greatly constrained the development of China's cloud computing industry. As a century-old store with deep accumulation, IBM will continue to lead IT industry in the transformation of the cloud computing tide, while actively promoting the transformation of IBM itself to promote the landing of cloud computing. Through close cooperation with other IT vendors to promote the transformation of China's IT industry.

In fact, IBM itself has benefited from the implementation of cloud computing. IBM worldwide, more than 35,000 IBM marketers across 6 continents routinely use IBM's cloud-based marketing Operations solution for cross-regional collaboration, with over 109,000 IBM employees using the Blue Insight, This is the world's largest business analytics private cloud technology that can help them gain new insights to meet the needs of global customers. The Blue Insight integrates nearly 100 different information warehouses and databases, has access to more than PB of data, currently employs 41 applications, and 95 applications are being planned, saving IBM $ tens of millions of; using LotusLive Meetings, IBM has held more than 200 million minutes of web conferencing, a total of 8,000 registered users with LotusLive Engage internal or with the customer file sharing, using the IBM internal development/testing cloud to reduce the time, from 5 days to 1 hours; IBM China Research and Development Center, IBM The United States and India call Center team of more than 1,200 users have migrated to the desktop cloud environment, client configuration cost savings 20–30%, security is enhanced while improving the system management level, from the implementation of storage cloud to meet storage requirements, cost savings 30–40%, while maintaining a 25% annual compound growth rate, The configuration time is shortened from several days to several hours.

IBM: A full-service provider of cloud computing services

IBM is the only industry with the ability to implement the four major areas of infrastructure-services (IaaS), platform-as-service (PaaS), software-as-service (SaaS), Business process-service (BPaaS), At the same time provide business consulting services and information technology consulting services, a full-service cloud computing services solutions provider.

As a pioneer and leader in cloud computing, IBM has cooperated with government, enterprises and partners to help the National Bureau of Statistics, Guizhou Mobile, China Group, Great Wall computer, Shanghai Telecom and many other enterprises and partners to successfully build cloud computing platform and join hands to push cloud computing to the ground in China. After years of efforts, IBM has accumulated rich experience in cloud computing through close cooperation with customers in various industries, which will provide a strong guarantee for other enterprises to apply cloud computing. On the other hand, IBM strives to integrate its own strengths in hardware and software and services to provide customers with a comprehensive solution that includes private cloud, public cloud, and mixed cloud. At present, IBM has successfully integrated hardware and software products, business consulting, IT services and other business units of the service resources, set up an integrated cloud computing services team, to provide Chinese customers with the most comprehensive global leading cloud computing solutions. At the same time, IBM attaches great importance to partners in the cloud computing industry's important role in the ecosystem, and actively with the global partners, including China, in cloud computing products, technology, innovation and many other areas of in-depth and sustained cooperation, with partners to expand the local cloud market. It is based on the importance of partners, IBM has with many domestic and foreign manufacturers and certification and research institutions have established a wide range of cooperative relations. It is relying on the strong support of partners, IBM can extend its own service system to the enterprise, industry, society at all levels, to provide customers with the most suitable cloud computing services and products. IBM will work together with partners at all levels to promote the establishment of the cloud computing industry, which is IBM's solemn commitment to the Chinese market.

The launch of the IBM Cloud Strategy will be a landmark. In the future, IBM will provide Chinese customers with the most comprehensive and global leading cloud computing solutions through its powerful service resources, deep industry insights and rich and successful practices. Cloud computing to China is a change and Take-off opportunities, IBM is willing to through professional services to enable everyone to enjoy the cloud brought about by the convenience and intelligence, and become you into the cloud era of the guide.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)