Future Internet OS will inevitably adopt cloud computing mode to solve problems

What can we do to open a Web browser? Browse news, watch videos, search for information, socialize online, network games ... The content and application of Internet is more and more rich. Netizens also increasingly need a large platform to more easily and quickly access resources.

China's Internet wide open platform to a certain extent to assume such a function. Baidu to box calculation for technical support, launched the Baidu Open platform, webmaster and developers can be structured data and third-party applications submitted to the platform, and displayed to hundreds of millions of netizens. Tencent's q+ also implements similar functions, bringing together a large number of third-party developers. Telecom operators, including China Mobile (Weibo), have also broken closed thinking and built mobile phone applications to accommodate third party applications. The future of Chinese Internet access is no longer a separate application, but an open platform.

From the user's point of view, they do not want to face a monotonous PC operating system, do not want to be in different content and application between frequent switching. The rise of the open platform shows that on top of traditional operating systems, a new layer of operating systems is being created, providing services to groups such as netizens and third-party developers. This is the Internet OS.

The Internet OS presents new opportunities and challenges. The most obvious problem is how the Internet OS is available after eminence. The future of the Internet OS is bound to adopt the cloud computing model to solve the problem of computing power. Terminal computing power will be greatly reduced, and cloud computing will be greatly enhanced. The development of the Internet OS must be premised on the development of cloud computing.

Awkward telecom Operators

"Internet OS is one of the most typical and most popular cloud computing models, ' cloud + end ' means that all data and operations are done in the cloud, and the client's access device only bears the function of ' input + display '," Analysys International analyst Cangian said in an interview with The economist. In this cloud-based Internet OS system, the most important thing is the computing power of Cloud server group. "She said:" The Internet OS to local hardware requirements lower, less load, but the bandwidth, the server put forward higher requirements. ”

The most important role in solving these problems is telecom operators. Google, IBM, Microsoft, although in the field of cloud computing in the leading position, but in the Internet access area, the advantages of telecom operators can not be replaced. Genbing, executive Dean of the 3G Applied Research Institute in China and Japan, also believes that telecom operators should take up this responsibility. Because "the Internet OS for telecom operators of the good is obvious, users will generate a huge flow of traffic, telecom operators of the flow package product sales will increase significantly, so as to bring more substantial revenue." "But he thinks internet companies like Baidu, Sina and Tencent may also be involved in this area, and follow Google to compete with telecoms operators by buying a large number of servers and providing back-computing capabilities in the form of cloud computing platforms."

Can telecom operators win in the end? In the great development of the Internet OS, telecom operators are likely to lose opportunities as they do in the mobile internet sector.

The Internet OS will go a step further than the open platform, gathering more content and applications, and will be able to more accurately analyze the needs of users through more powerful data processing capabilities in the background, and to meet user needs through technological innovation. This requires a more comprehensive tracking of the user's online behavior, the user's purchase behavior more accurate analysis, and the control of these data is not telecom operators, but Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, such as internet companies.

Although the telecom operators control the bandwidth, server and other key resources, but these factors have not become the Internet OS development of the driving factors, but become a constraining factor. Telecom operators in the field of Internet access to the monopoly of broadband prices are relatively high, and broadband level does not improve, which will inevitably lead to the cost of Internet OS development.

In the server sector, though, telecoms operators have large data centers, but most of these data centers have not been transformed by cloud computing technology and are unable to provide public cloud services to the general public. The end result of Internet OS access to telecom operators ' data centers is likely to be congestion and paralysis of the network.

Telecommunications operators themselves lack the internet gene, no killer Internet applications, and thus lack of user behavior data control and analysis. The data center of telecom operators is to provide computing support for enterprises in the Internet and other industries, rather than data mining and Analysis Services, facing enterprise customers, so it is impossible to provide corresponding service to users according to user's behavioral data. In this regard, Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba and other companies have a clear advantage.

In foreign countries, the introduction of Internet OS similar products such as Google, and so on, have no choice of telecom operators to provide computing power. Google launched the Chrome operating system, using the browser interface, the user needs of the functions are provided through the app, can be said to be the embryonic form of the Internet OS. But the computing power it needs is Google itself, which has nearly millions of servers and has enough power to provide computing resources.

The telecom operator, who should have been a positive lead, has become the villain, and the telecom operator is an embarrassment.

Formalism of cloud computing base

Cangian that the planned distribution of the country's distributed cloud computing base will be a strong support for the Internet OS. But it remains to be seen whether the local government-led cloud computing base can take on the task. Some insiders believe that the local governments set up a cloud computing base of the construction boom, which is certainly to promote the development of cloud computing will, but also do not rule out the use of cloud computing base for the name of "Happy Enclosure", is still real estate projects.

From a positive point of view, the future with the development of the Internet OS, the cloud computing capacity must be higher demand, cloud computing base has a lot to offer. But the development of the cloud computing base needs to be coordinated with the development of the Internet. The construction of cloud computing base also requires a combination of specific Internet applications, to ensure that after the completion of a sufficient amount of users, so that investment will be rewarded. and local governments do not hesitate to invest in return, in fact, violating the law of market development.

Now most of the cloud computing base in the location is focused on the IaaS level, the provision of hardware resources such as servers, data analysis and processing capacity does not pay enough attention, and the latter need a lot of intelligent software resources to achieve. What the Internet OS needs is not just computational power, but intelligent computing power. Not only need to respond to users ' needs passively, but also need to drive content and application to users actively. This is not simply through the server can be solved.

Can internet companies that have the advantage of data accumulation and analysis assume this responsibility? The conclusion is still questionable. Internet companies are not as powerful as telecoms operators because of Internet access and server resources. The future does not exclude the government will come forward, in order to protect user privacy and national security in the name of the establishment of a new company for the development of Internet OS, and further weaken the monopoly status of telecom operators.