Microsoft Zhang: Four challenges and coping strategies in cloud practice in China

When the data is more and more complicated, the terminal is more and more diverse, the computation is more and more big, the cloud computing comes into being, this is the trend for the industry, it is a kind of challenge.

According to statistics, there will be 25 billion networked devices by 2015, including smart meters, smart cars, smart buildings, smart TVs, tablets, smartphones, mobile health-monitoring devices and traditional PCs. As a result, industry must rely on cloud computing to develop.

The government has plans, companies are moving, people are talking, cloud computing, and unknown people are already familiar with the word. Recently, Microsoft Global Senior vice President, Microsoft Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group Chairman Zhang also write the Chinese cloud practice in several challenges and countermeasures, we may wish to read:

Microsoft Global Senior vice President, Microsoft Asia Pacific Research and Development Group Chairman Zhang

Challenge one: To solve the "who to build the cloud infrastructure" problem-with the pace of reform and opening up, the Chinese enterprises in recent years, the global competitiveness has been greatly improved, but in general, the vast majority of Chinese enterprises are still lack of sufficient resources and strength to build a large cloud computing platform. This is because the cloud computing infrastructure needs huge capital investment, long time resources deployment and continuous renewal maintenance, the domestic small and medium-sized enterprises generally do not have such resources, strength and strategy. Large state-owned enterprises generally lack the flexible mechanism and the impetus of innovation.

Coping strategies: To establish a "cloud computing fund" in which government and enterprises join together and follow market rules to support and help the domestic cloud computing industry to form as soon as possible. It is the government's responsibility to invest, assessment and incentives, such as the provision of seed funds, the formulation of a number of clear policy tilt and support measures (such as tax-level concessions) to attract domestic and foreign enterprises to invest and participate in the Chinese cloud industry, but do not have to the fund and the resulting industry do too much intervention-that is to say, The investment of Cloud computing fund should be open, internationalized, market operation.

Challenge two: How to ensure the reliability and security of the cloud computing platform. While users do not have to know where their data is stored in the server, they are very concerned about whether these "digital assets" will be lost, damaged or even stolen.

Coping strategies: The Government should encourage scientific research units and domestic enterprises to actively participate in the development of international cloud computing standards (especially data standards) and norms, and seek the leading position of international technical standards in this field. However, while striving for dominance, it is important to realize that openness and cooperation are of paramount importance. So in the cloud computing standard research and development process, should ensure that the data exchange is internationally compatible, cross vendor, Cross-platform, so as to ensure that China does not become the cloud era of information islands.

Challenge three: How to achieve the Cloud Platform's scalability, data format and standards of unity, information and application portability.

Coping Strategies: Start building national data centers-but also respect market-oriented laws. For now, the best way is for the government to entrust big telecoms operators to build such a large data center, but in the process, priority should be given to energy-saving emissions and renewable clean energy (like wind, hydro, solar) and state-of-the-art green IT technology. This is like building a real "information superhighway", the government and large enterprises are responsible for the construction of the physical platform and "driving rules" of the development, while the repaired highway on what car, pull what material by small and medium-sized enterprises in accordance with market demand decision.

Challenge four: The challenges posed by cloud computing infrastructure deployments. The need for millions of high-performance servers in a large data center requires a high demand for the location of such large data centers-at least in areas where natural disasters are less likely and have stable and reliable power supplies.

Coping Strategies: Support and promote international cooperation in the field of cloud computing, encourage domestic and foreign academic institutions, enterprises to reach strategic partnerships, share resources and business opportunities. While attempting to intervene and even dominate international cloud computing standards, enterprises (especially small and medium-sized enterprises) should be allowed to develop competitive cloud applications and services based on existing, mature international cloud computing platforms.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)