From cloud gene to cloud root.

From the gene to the root, and then to the public platform, Shanda out of a unique "cloud" way.

Author: Shi Zhiwei

As a college student, Chos never thought that his first bucket of gold would come so fast. In the recent Grand Cloud computing competition, this fledgling young guy unexpectedly defeated many contestants, won the monthly Outstanding Creative award, won 10,000 Yuan bonus. His ingenious design of the "Gem Valley" project won the unanimous praise of the judges.

In fact, "Gem Valley" creativity is not complicated, it is only through the provision of online game engine, external APIs and other convenient interface, to help users to simple code design their own game, learn programming principles, to achieve online operation, the development of the game of civilians, popular.

But because of the identity of students, Chos lack of venture capital, has been unable to put their ideas into practice. "Until I found the Grand Cloud Computing Competition, the award-winning ideas will be Sheng platform 1000 yuan resources support, then decided to participate." At that time just hope to have a free cloud platform, have the opportunity to realize their dreams. Chos said, the result finally got the wish. Now, with the help of the Sheng platform, Chos is gradually putting his dream into practice.

"This is the meaning of Sheng, is to Chos such innovative small and medium-sized enterprises to provide all kinds of cloud applications, reduce their entrepreneurial technology to achieve the threshold, cost savings." "Shanda Online CEO Tuoc Luong told reporters.

As the leader of the Sheng program, Tuoc Luong has a remarkable resume, has been in Microsoft, Oracle, Yahoo, such as the top IT companies, with more than more than 20 years of technical and management experience, the cloud is familiar with the heart. Therefore, when cloud computing in the domestic booming, Shanda group decided to push cloud computing strategy, he became Chen Tianqiao Force invited object.

At the beginning of 2011, Tuoc Luong became the CEO of Shanda Online, and in less than half a year, he built IaaS and PAAs platform to provide cloud resources to the subsidiaries of Shanda Group, and also become a cloud resource provider for SMEs. According to his statistics, less than 9 months, the Sheng platform registered more than 20,000 users, paid users thousands of, in the same kind of cloud platform, only Alibaba group Aliyun can match.

From the cloud gene to the root of the cloud

As early as last year, when Sheng just set up, Chen claimed that Shanda has the natural advantage of cloud computing-the innate cloud gene. In his eyes, the grand game in the beginning, then half of the program on the server side, the other half of the program in the hands of users, to avoid the Nintendo such a stand-alone game of doom, not be overwhelmed by piracy. Although this is not, in the strictest sense, cloud computing, "The big thing is that it buries the genes of the cloud." ”

And with cloud computing in the domestic popular, its high intensity, low-cost scale economy concept is widely accepted, Alibaba, Jinshan and other internet giants have launched cloud-based applications and services. At this point, Chen mind the "cloud" picture is beginning to become clearer, it goes without saying, for the increasingly large diversity of grand, a unified, safe and economic backend cloud platform is now essential.

As Chen at a conference, Shanda as a provider of content, it is necessary to establish its own logistics system. Cloud computing can let the grand digital products stored in digital form on the server, and then through the cloud service digital pipeline to the user's terminal, safe and efficient to allow users to enjoy the content. From this point of view, if the grand to sell the content of the electric business platform, then cloud computing is equivalent to the platform of the logistics system, the system will be Shanda games, literature, film, music and other commodities in a centralized warehouse management, and then in accordance with end-user demand for rapid circulation distribution.

Moreover, "little guys" like Sheng are likely to grow fast, and they also need "cloud" moisture. After obtaining a payment licence issued by the central Bank, Sheng was held in high hopes, because of the online transaction of prepaid card business qualification, its prepaid card can not only pay for Shanda's products, but also to break the barriers for other platforms to provide payment of products. In this way, the rapid expansion of business scale requires strong service backend support. and cloud computing cluster efficient, is to accommodate such rapid growth of the prescription.

Thus, 2010 Grand cloud computing into a "ten-year strategy", began to mobilize technical backbone from each subsidiary, the formation of an independent cloud computing team, the application of the past to do product, technical transformation. Then, the introduction of cloud computing experts from the United States, under the leadership of Tuoc Luong, combined with the Grand Innovation Institute cloud Computing theme courtyard and the Grand Online Security Operation Center resources to build a new cloud platform. Up to July 2011 Grand Cloud Platform officially launched products, including computing, storage, network distribution, acceleration, monitoring of the one-stop cloud product chain.

Thus, Shanda's games, literature, film, Sheng and other subsidiaries were able to peel off the background and concentrate on their business. Tuoc Luong said. Undoubtedly, this also for the Grand present strategic transformation adds the important weight.

For example, as a grand layout of the future of innovative engines, Grand Innovation Institute will use the cloud backstage, launched the "Marcum" private cloud notes. It can help users to computer, mobile phones, tablets in a variety of notes, Web extracts and documents in the cloud to do synchronization, backup. Similar to the innovation, there is cloud computing rich in the bottom of the technology to ensure that, therefore, Shanda in the commercial hot innovation, only ability not because of technical barriers and lag behind people.

Second, the Grand game, literature, film and television content as the core of the copyright chain, will also be integrated by the cloud platform more efficient synergy-whether it is good games, good novels, or good film and television, can quickly from the cloud backstage to obtain analysis results, faster completion of the mutual script, common momentum process.

Undoubtedly, from the original cloud gene to now rely on the "cloud" operating system, Sheng is becoming the whole grand "root", it is to promote the grand-owned business individuals to an ecological community integration, innovation process.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)