Office 365 is coming to China! Microsoft cracked public Cloud qualification puzzle

October 31 Exclusive News, the reporter learned from reliable sources, Microsoft in the "Public cloud qualification" has made breakthrough progress, will be implemented in China next month public cloud Landing project. This means that Microsoft products, including Office 365, will soon meet with Chinese users.

Microsoft's approach is simple, by partnering with "the largest Internet infrastructure service provider in the country", it solves the problem of operating licences, and then, by partnering with telecoms operators, buys the servers and rents the operators ' cabinets and bandwidth, which is equivalent to building up its own "data center" at home.

Office Office software and Windows operating system are the most profitable products in Microsoft's history, but Microsoft's Office 365 products are facing an embarrassing reality in China: as a cloud-based product, Microsoft has integrated social yammer on Office 365, Skype, but since Microsoft has no public cloud in China, Microsoft's cloud-computing product cannot be landed.

For cloud computing in China's Landing, as a multinational enterprise, the first thing to face is the issue of licensing, the current situation is in China's public cloud sector is not yet issued licences. Leung, chairman and chief executive of Microsoft's Greater China region, complained in an interview that "despite running around, I haven't figured out what kind of license to take and how many processes to go."

How does Office 365 achieve landing in China? As a foreign company, how will Microsoft solve the problem of public cloud qualification? Sohu It through the survey, trying to help readers a little bit to restore Microsoft's approach to China.

Microsoft executives said: Office 365 is really coming

Dr. Zhang is the first Microsoft local executive to talk publicly about the public cloud credentials. May 2012, Microsoft Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group chairman Zhang in an interview with the Sohu it revealed that Microsoft is in China to apply for public cloud qualification, Office has made substantial progress in China, I believe will soon meet with Chinese users.

Dr. Zhang's point of view has attracted the attention of analysts in the industry. As a foreign company, it is impossible for Microsoft to build data centers for commercial use in China, so it is inherently difficult for Microsoft to apply for a public cloud, a number of analysts have said.

On the eve of Windows 8, another Microsoft executive, Microsoft Greater China Vice President and marketing strategy director, Microsoft Greater China Chief Cloud Computing strategy officer Shenwey, told Sohu it during the Windows Server 2012 conference that Microsoft will introduce Office 365 this year.

So how does Microsoft get around the public cloud credentials to get into China? Why is Microsoft so eager to introduce Office 365 into China?

Sohu it learned through the exclusive channel, Microsoft has locked a telecom operator and an Internet infrastructure service provider, with the help of these two companies, Microsoft has solved the problem of the public cloud qualification threshold.

A Microsoft executive, who declined to be named, revealed to Sohu it that the two companies behind Microsoft, one of China Telecom and the other, are the country's largest telecommunications-neutral Internet infrastructure service provider.

Microsoft, through its cooperation with "China's largest telecommunications-neutral Internet infrastructure service provider", first resolved the issue of operating licences under the framework of policy and regulations. At the same time, it solves the problem of operational efficiency of data center under the operation of public cloud.

In addition, Microsoft's cooperation with China Telecom is mainly to use the telecommunications room and bandwidth services. According to sources, Microsoft itself in the United States procurement of servers, and then placed in China Telecom's room.

Through the above two cooperation, Microsoft smoothly evaded the license issue, and solved the data center operation problem. Since then, Microsoft's public cloud landed on the logical.

Secrets of Microsoft Cracked public cloud Puzzle!

To figure out how Microsoft cracked down on the public cloud credentials, the first thing to understand is why Office 365 is slow to enter China. The reason for Office 365 's delay in China is that Microsoft does not have its own data center in China to provide services to its customers, which means that Microsoft offers Office 365 services, but does not guarantee that the service will bring a better user experience to customers.

Another stark example is that Microsoft's MSN has repeatedly encountered signal instability. MSN is Microsoft's Instant Messaging tool, in Europe and America has a large number of user groups, but it was in China by QQ defeated. Analysts say that one of the reasons for MSN's failure is that there is no data center in China to support services, resulting in servers not providing stable data services.

So, whatever the company's online business requires support from back-end servers, Office 365 is an online product, and new Office 365 integrates Skype and business social software Yammer. As a result, reliance on servers and data centers is even more severe.

By working with domestic companies to circumvent licensing problems, another issue before them is how to make operational services secure. Official data from "China's largest telecommunications-neutral Internet infrastructure service provider" show that the company has more than more than 10 years of operational operations experience, providing SLA commitments to 1600 blue-chip customers in the country, and managing the largest data center server cluster outside the three major carriers.

The reporter tried to restore the reasons for the cooperation between the two sides, Microsoft public cloud in the interoperability of no one can be compared, and eventually realize from the public cloud to the public cloud, public cloud to the private cloud, as well as the public cloud to the user side of the three fusion. The advantage of Internet infrastructure service providers is to provide the best SLA to users in the cloud computing framework and become one of the core competencies of cloud operators.

In addition, as one of the three major operators, China Telecom has a great advantage in bandwidth access and computer room, and Microsoft chooses operators as cloud computing partners for granted.

It was based on these factors that led to the cooperation between Microsoft and the parties.

Microsoft public Cloud landed, what changed?

The public cloud services of multinational corporations have been slow to enter China. What changes will be brought about by the public cloud services of these multinationals when the issue of qualification before these companies ' business comes to China is easily resolved?

Microsoft's cloud changes the IT service model, is based on business model's subversive innovation, Microsoft's public cloud comes in, will give more enterprises and enterprises customers, Internet customers to provide more flexible resources to use options. Since then let the enterprise's technical leaders are not for procurement, operations, deployment, use of more managers, can put more effort on business innovation and process innovation.

Ballmer stressed that Microsoft's future positioning is "hardware + services". In the past, Microsoft's two big cash cows, windows and OFFICE,WIN8, will undoubtedly boost windows, but revenues from cloud computing and services are also growing.

Some flexible, pay-as-you-go cloud services can also be introduced. For example, we mentioned Office 365. Office 365 has a flexible pricing strategy that can be paid monthly. Microsoft's 2011 Office 365 product, which includes a full version of Office 2010, has a relatively low price, such as a $6 per person monthly payment scheme that allows access to office Web apps and Exchange e-mail systems; $18 per person per month , in addition to access to this right, you can use the full web version of Office, including

In addition, many previous Microsoft online Services in the physical Foundation is not at home, such as MSN, the face of China's huge online service user market and complex telecommunications network configuration, interconnection and stable services, become a limiting user experience of the primary factor. Microsoft, through its collaboration with Internet infrastructure service providers, can deliver truly reliable cloud services.

(Responsible editor: Schpeppen)