Future cloud and data services competition, will become the data center competition

A few days ago, Microsoft CEO-Steve Ballmer announced that the total number of servers in Microsoft's data centers around the world was 1 million units, less than the search giant Google, but more than Amazon. In the end market is not ideal, Microsoft stepped up Focus on the cloud. The Prism Storm also hid in a canyon of Utah in the central United States, where a 11 million-square-foot ($ 10.2 million) data center of the U.S. National Security Agency worth about $ 1.9 billion has drawn attention, though Not yet comparable to the size of Microsoft's largest data center, but the scale is already horrible when it comes to the likelihood that it will be used for nationwide call and network monitoring and analysis of information and data.

Aircraft carriers and missiles can decide a big battle, the hardware rejuvenation is not only at the terminal level. It is said that Baidu recently have great interest in hardware talent. Lin Shi-Ding, Baidu's chief cloud computing architect, also revealed that the key project he is preparing to make is related to "the next generation of data centers." And for financial institutions, telecom operators, and even those government agencies who have data on credit, spending, health, travel, and even social relationships and geographic information for a large number of users, it is even better for them to tap the data base if they are lawful and compliant The premise of service or operation is to use a large, efficient cloud computing data center, as well as the ready-made data processing pipeline. This in itself is also a necessary process for entering a knowledge society and preparing for mass production of knowledge.

Therefore, in recent years, relatively hot, in addition to the tumultuous competition at the terminal level, it is Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook all over the world have built their own large-scale data center. Why? Basically, there are at least a few things to judge:

First, the rise of big data, real-time storage and processing of large data, services, the need for storage computing power, and further, the power of big data and cloud computing, will require smarter networks and data centers and even this trend Without human consciousness, technology alone will drive this process;

Second, the cloud must be associated with the data, the terminal is actually the same, the terminal level of competition, ultimately depend on cloud computing and service capabilities.

Third, seeing the huge market demand for data storage and processing in the future, first of all, large institutions and government departments, followed by some innovative services or commercial applications.

Fourthly, as bandwidth upgrades, new intelligent terminals such as smart cars and wearables, and various application innovations and upgrades, the demand for cloud storage and computing power may have to multiply in the future.

Fifth, the data center is not too much at present, but is too scattered. The scale and service capabilities need to be consolidated and upgraded.

It can be said that many future competition between cloud and data services will translate into competition at the data center level. In addition to stability, scalability and customized services, service response, storage and data processing to the second or even millisecond level Generate service competitiveness. According to the new data released by Netcraft, by May 2013, Amazon had 158,000 networked computers, used 164,000 IP addresses, provided hosting services to 11.6 million websites and the number of cloud computing servers increased by 4 years 30 times. The U.S. government's "Cloud First" strategy has proposed to close 800 government data centers by 2015 and gradually put government IT capabilities into the cloud platform. Just two days ago, according to Reuters, the CIA's $ 600 million bid for cloud computing forced Amazon to beat IBM and other traditional giants such as ORACLE to win the bid. Large-scale, low-power, highly intelligent and modular data centers will become Future information labs and data smelters, data center functional innovations and service capabilities will become more and more important, and "hardware simplification, programmable interfaces" and "software-defined data centers" will lead the trend.