If the cloud is aware of cloud computing in the eyes of it practitioners

Language is a standard, a standard of human communication, and when such standards are numerous and fragmented, chaos arises. Babel is the reason why people resonate, the key is to find the human social communication crux. After the unification of China, the Qin dynasty put forward the three strategy of governing the country which has far-reaching influence on China, that is, "the car is in the same orbit, the book is the same, the line is the same," and "the book is the same text" is the problem of language. In the present, I can add a "net with Cloud", in my opinion, cloud computing is the Tower of Babel of IT industry.

Cloud computing, the Tower of Babel in IT industry

Cloud computing is most often likened to waterworks water, gas company gas and power plants, and as long as the switch is turned on, these things will flow into homes, offices and factories, becoming an integral part of human production and life. What cloud computing needs to do is to turn the computer and network resources into a resource that is as convenient as tap water, and one day in the future, like buying water for electricity, we buy a unit of CPU, bandwidth, or even an overall packaged it resource.

Babel, may never be built, but the road to the clouds, people have not stopped exploring. The "cloud concept" of the IT industry can be confusing to many individual users, even those in the it circle, sometimes unintelligible. And in my opinion, the IT era of cloud computing, just as the historical Tower of Babel, is a vast and magnificent project, the difference is that cloud computing is more reliable. In fact, many people are already standing on the broad cloud.

The rapid development of the Internet in the last more than 10 years has made many information services into cloud services. People open Baidu Search, you can find information all over the Internet; open Taobao, take the goods you need, perhaps less than one weeks will be sent to your hands, open QQ and MSN can be found to 400 million netizens. Your computer's hard disk may be blank, but as long as the Internet, you have the entire Internet, the Internet as a water plant, and content, goods and netizens like the flow of water into every user's computer.

Cloud computing and cloud concepts, strictly speaking not the same thing, they are like the spire of Babel and the tower base. It architecture is divided into many tiers, the bottom is hardware and network, above is the operating system and middleware, application software and browser is a higher layer, and the content of each website, such as our daily use of Baidu, Taobao is already located at the top of the IT framework, has achieved such as the water-like cloud content, so said, The content of the Internet is already in the cloud.

Several layers below the content layer, such as browsers and applications, have implemented varying degrees of "cloud" architecture. Apple Iphoneiosapp store software stored on the Internet, downloaded and purchased by users, has implemented the "cloud software"; Android, Symbian and more than 10 companies began to dabble in software stores, browser and web-level application software Open has become a trend, Firefox and IE opened the plug-in platform, Facebook, Twitter, QQ and other SNS sites open the Web interface.

Now in the line of the cloud is more in-depth, even involved in the IT industry framework of the bottom, that is, CPU, network, storage layer grid computing, so that a large data center into a computer, so that the entire Internet into a large computer. Yesterday watching the news network mentioned cloud computing has no need for mainframe boxes, all the applications are placed in the cloud, the terminal computer only needs a monitor, and will soon be available chrome system, has implemented the network operating system.

However, ordinary users are not interested in these basic layers, and do not feel the value of the underlying cloud computing, but this is important for Internet sites, future enterprise IT deployments, and it startups.

Cloud computing in Microsoft's eyes

December 22, Microsoft China's vice president and marketing strategy of the general manager Sun Jiandong and media peers chatted about cloud computing, Sun Jiandong in the Chengdu Municipal Government Cooperation Cloud project "pork quality safety traceability supervision system", also talked about the Microsoft definition of several cloud characteristics:

1, the benefits of the cloud is: let it people focus on what they do best to do, to help promote business, and Microsoft in the cloud computing architecture as the architect of the underlying platform, to do cloud computing generator;

2, the cloud computing two mistake, either is the pure private cloud, or is the public cloud; Microsoft Sun Jiandong that the future will coexist and complement each other, rather than some kind of cloud dominating the world;

3, cloud computing is not to save money: If someone advised you to hurry to deploy cloud computing investment a lot of money, this is not cloud computing. Cloud computing is saving money for businesses, and deploying cloud computing does not mean stopping existing businesses, but gradual, step-by-step transitions;

4, Microsoft has been "cloud" for a long time. Microsoft's MSN and Office365 are already built into the cloud, and there are cloud elements in Win7. Microsoft has been "cloud" for 15 years, the annual research and development funds of 9 billion U.S. dollars 70% and cloud-related, Microsoft's global cloud users have more than 300,000.

The meaning of cloud computing

A foreign company called Zynga produced a game like the Happy Farm, very popular and the number of online people soared. Zynga's start-up server needs to rise from dozens of to thousands of in a short period of time, and their operation will soon be unbearable.

Amazon's cloud computing helps them get out of trouble. Zynga has completely handed over their happy farm operations to Amazon, subsequent development of the game is also the first place on the Amazon platform, whether the game with a machine or 1000 machines, Zynga do not care about the underlying operations, do not need to worry about the same as before the room, bandwidth, they just according to business forecasts, Buy bandwidth, server, and CPU memory on demand for Amazon, and then pay the fee.

In the day-to-day services of the enterprise will also encounter the need for cloud computing places. November 11, Taobao and several e-commerce sites have been found to visit the speed of a huge slow, and some even when the machine. Originally, this day is a Singles day, many netizens online to friends to order gifts, sudden visits to increase the number of individual E-commerce Web site server unbearable. Such situations are more prevalent in startups, and sometimes a holiday like Singles Day can have disastrous consequences.

Cloud computing also has a good performance in local government projects. Chengdu Municipal Government in order to detect the trend of pigs, especially the establishment of a "pork quality and safety traceability supervision system", so that most pigs through the binding RFID traceability chip has the only "ID number", uninterrupted information collection, inquiries and data supervision, to ensure the safety of pork production and circulation.

This is a fairly large IT project, only Chengdu's 10 million pigs in the IT infrastructure investment, experts estimated that the total cost of 6 million or so, which is equivalent to each pig equal to 0.6 yuan, pork safety of it cost is not low. But the final solution, in keeping the computing power unchanged, reduced the total cost by as much as 2.7 million. In this scheme, the Chengdu government has used Microsoft's private cloud computing program.

Summary

Social division of Labor refers to the division of society and its independence and specialization in all kinds of labors. The continuous development of mankind is based on the continuous socialization division of labor. Engels ' writings refer to the three social divisions of humanity in the latter part of the Primitive Society: the separation of nomadic tribes from the rest of the savage population, the separation of handicraft and agriculture, and the appearance of merchant class. Eventually spawned human civilization.

The Tower of Babel in the Bible has not been built, but the tower of Human society has not ceased. Every social progress is accompanied by a new division of industry. Modern history of the three industrial revolution, so that electricity, water, information technology as a basic industry, human activities can no longer be inseparable from the water and electricity, but also increasingly inseparable from the computer, the Internet and mobile phones. The process of human development is a continuous construction of human society Tower of Babel process, each new level means social progress.

IT industry, software industry, the Internet is a new industry, but also into the same as water, electricity, gas, the same basic industries, IT industry itself is also in the industrial Division of labor and efficiency promotion. Multinationals such as Microsoft, Google, and Amazon are consolidating Internet resources into resilient-calling infrastructure to serve people on the top of the tower--a term "cloud computing".

Today, when ordinary users use Internet resources, they can already feel that the network information is becoming similar to the water and electricity gas cloud resources, and the real meaning of cloud computing is the integration of the lower basic resources. Their significance to the IT industry is no less than the birth of hydro-gas in the three industrial revolution.

From this perspective, I think cloud computing is the IT industry Tower of Babel, they may not enter the cloud of the spire, at least the solid foundation.