Cloud computing, the emergence of a new industry, by IBM, Mircosoft, Google and other IT giants launched by the cloud meter revolution has spread around the world, today's it competition is not the competition of enterprises, nor product competition, but into an unprecedented industrial chain competition. In the past, due to the low start of China can only participate in international competition from the manufacturing sector, in today's global inflationary economic environment suffering, how to from the industrial chain perspective of early layout is a top priority.
NI, academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, said in a recent "China Cloud High-end forum", cloud computing as a new computing model, the top priority should be built around cloud computing independent controllable industrial chain, promote from "Made in China" to "China to create", and rely on cloud computing to promote reliable, low-cost information.
Now cloud computing industry is emerging from the traditional IT industry and the internet industry, in a new form in the eyes of the people. This new model allows users to not invest in expensive computer equipment, do not have to wait for one or two years of project implementation cycle, not to bear the risk of project development and online, not to worry about maintaining the system, not to worry about the business needs of the changes caused by the equipment idle or inadequate.
More important is that the changes brought about by cloud computing are not limited to it technology, but to the IT, communications, media and entertainment industries, and even traditional industries, bringing about disruptive changes. Cloud computing has the advantages of high performance, versatility, dynamic resource sharing and business innovation, which is very helpful to the development of new business and new business model. The ultimate value of cloud computing is making computing a socialized service, integrating large, decentralized computing resources into computing resources that can be serviced, increasing the utilization of it facilities, reducing the cost and the threshold of user use.
Therefore, it is necessary for us to locate the cloud computing industry chain and layout key links.
What is cloud computing? First from the technical point of view, cloud computing is through the provision of virtualization, fault-tolerant and parallel processing software to transform the traditional computing, network, storage resources into flexible services; from the business model, cloud computing provides a service pattern paid by consumption; Cloud computing builds infrastructure resources to deliver large-scale services by sourcing inexpensive servers rather than high-performance servers. Therefore, at the same time have these three characteristics is the cloud computing. According to popular parlance, cloud computing is a set of technology and business models that make cheap hardware software, software service, service operation and operation scale.
What is the industrial chain? The integrated definition of industrial chain is the industrial organization which has the competition and cooperative relations among the enterprises according to the production flow and value distribution of products and services. Industrial chain has a variety of forms, the product as the link between the content of the industrial chain, the material flow in the industrial chain is often called the product chain, the form of the industrial chain, which is linked to the price or the capital, constitutes the industrial cost chain and the value chain, and the industrial chain form of the value-added process of the product and service as the link content, which forms the activity chain or business process; Product and service upstream and downstream supply and demand relationship to the content of the industrial chain form, constitute the supply chain, the enterprise's Strategic Cooperation and Alliance for the content of the industrial chain form, constitute the ecological chain, and in the production and consumption of products and services in the process of transmission of knowledge, information feedback as the contact content of the industrial form, it constitutes an industrial information chain.
Cloud computing is technology innovation, product service innovation, and more importantly, business model innovation. Cloud computing is in the traditional it, communication, radio and television media and the integration of the Internet, with a distinct industrial chain expansion, crossover, integration characteristics. A number of emerging industries such as the internet of things, triple-net integration is also naturally integrated into the cloud industry chain.
Li Jiang, vice president of CICC data, said: In the process of reorganization, expansion and integration of cloud computing industry chain, data center has become the key node of convergence and blending of cloud computing industry chain. The large-scale dynamic computing resources, storage resources, network resources, and power, water, oil and other driving infrastructure resources required by cloud computing are provided by the cloud Computing data center, and the data flowing in the cloud also finds its final destination in the data center. The data center is the carrier of cloud computing, providing a cloud background to support the cloud computing industry. The most important feature of cloud industry chain is the function and value of information flow compared with traditional industrial chain.
Many people liken cloud computing to electricity or oil, in fact, the biggest difference between cloud computing and electricity or water is that people do not pay special attention to the direction of electricity or water after the use of electricity or water, while in the service of consumer cloud, the data of information still has high value, still need to have proper storage, access and security. These data can provide a basis for real-time decision making in a rapidly changing market, as well as a basis for customer behavior analysis and business Insight Discovery. Processing these massive data must consume computing resources, storage resources, energy, water and other resources. Therefore, the green energy conservation has become the cloud computing era of sustainable development as the biggest challenge and drive in the industrial transformation of an important factor. According to IDC survey in 2010, China currently has 519,990 rooms, of which 70% of the room is less than 100 square meters. According to the National Data center of the 2010 National Data Center Layout Survey report shows that the current domestic room Pue value of 2 to 3, that is, it equipment every 1 degrees of electricity consumption, computer room environment will consume 1-2 degrees of electricity. We can foresee more reorganization and consolidation in the data center industry in the coming years. The modular, high-density container-centric applications of Google and Microsoft will also inject new elements into the data center's transformation. and the promotion of Low-power servers, low-power chips, energy-efficient power supply, distribution, air-conditioning and other industries change and development, thus forming a green industry chain, and will extend to the cloud equipment, such as thin client, tablet computers, smartphones and so on.
China's cloud computing industry chain is a green industrial chain, more should be autonomous controllable industrial chain. NI said: "Cloud computing accelerates the change of it architecture, China and developed countries on the same starting line." If you can't control yourself, you can't have cloud security. Although many of China's cloud computing is still dependent on foreign it technology, cloud computing gives us a chance. ”