Hardware makers save profits compete with soft power PC big guy for cloud computing

Mergers and acquisitions war smoke rolling, PC bosses compete for cloud computing "The network is the computer!"　　"Sun co-founder Gage 20 ago, is now becoming a reality, and cloud computing is the engine that drives this revolutionary transformation." For the PC industry, it is clear that the meagre profits of the hardware will not support its future development. And the pressure from Apple, but also to traditional PC manufacturers everywhere passive. Therefore, the use of cloud computing to software and services transformation, it becomes inevitable. In the third quarter of last year, Hewlett-Packard, Dell's two big PC giants in the cloud computing area to accelerate the acquisition process to improve their hardware and software integration capabilities; Last week, Acer bought $320 million trillion of US companies with advanced cloud computing capabilities, are W. The ASUS computer also said it would increase its investment in cloud computing.　　"Mobile terminal + Cloud computing Background" for a time to become major P C manufacturers Wrestling Center battlefield, the Cloud war. PC Giants increase cloud computing mergers and acquisitions in the three quarter of 2010, HP and Dell, the enemies, launched a takeover battle against 3PA R, a small company with an annual revenue of around 240 million dollars. Hewlett-Packard eventually beat Dell in September 2010 at a high price of $2 billion, bringing 3PA R into his arms. The two big PC giants are scrambling for 3PA R because 3PA R has a core technology in the cloud computing world that can help users dramatically reduce IT management costs.　　So, who gets the 3PA R, who's IT service capabilities can be significantly improved. The failure to compete for 3PA R has not affected Dell's massive mergers and acquisitions in the cloud.　　Dell has acquired 12 companies in the past 20 months, half of which involve cloud computing, according to Artin Y Ates, director of Dell's cloud computing solution architecture. Acer, which has been on the decline in PC business since last year, has also begun to fully layout cloud computing. In Thursday, Acer announced that it would enter the cloud services market with a 320 million dollar acquisition of IG W are, the US cloud computing company, and the development of its own cloud services a CER Cloud. The reason Acer's acquisition of IG W are is to offset the decline in consumer PC profits in response to the trend of Low-cost, portable PCs in the personal consumer PC market. Industry insiders pointed out that Acer's move is far-reaching, its a CER cloud cloud computing services are designed to take Acer's general PC, laptop and tablet computers and other devices to complete platform integration. "The acquisition is the right choice for Acer, who no longer relies solely on the hardware business to bring new value to users by providing applications and software services to boost their profitability," said Artner analyst Trecy Cai. "After Acer announced the acquisition of IG W are, Asustek immediately said it was actively looking for partners to join the fast-growing cloud computing sector, and did not rule out the creation of a dedicatedDoor subsidiary of the possibility.　　ASUS emphasizes that the cloud computing application market will be an important battleground in the near future IT industry, and Asus is now doing its best to enhance its infrastructure, including the network, computing, storage, and, in turn, operating systems, application platforms, and network services. Tablet, smartphone into the main battlefield in the cloud era, "cloud" for users to do the work of storage and computing, users as long as there is a mobile terminal, through the cloud platform, you can achieve their needs. In other words, "mobile terminal + Cloud computing Background" mode, will become the cloud computing era major IT giants wrestle the main form. For PC manufacturers, only to build their own cloud computing background, can open hands and feet in the mobile terminal force. More importantly, the PC Giants must find a powerful response to the aggressive "invasion" of Apple's ipad.　　With the help of cloud computing, it is the hope of PC bosses to fully exploit the application potential of mobile terminals. Faced with the current situation of PC hardware sales, PC leader Hewlett-Packard announced in June this year, will be rid of the hardware-oriented old image, and gradually turn to the cloud consulting services, the introduction of a variety of public cloud, private cloud software and hardware integration solutions. HP has also fully applied cloud computing to its Tablet PC touchpad, with soft and hard integration to create customized applications for businesses, and to launch more business tools to become a platform for corporate cloud connectivity.　　For Apple, the business market is its Achilles heel, and HP is hoping to compete with Apple in a differentiated way in areas that it specializes in. ASUS Group CEO Shen Zhenlai also pointed out that the future of the world's tablet computer will have three camps. The first camp is the Apple camp, it is a closed camp. The other two camps were open: A ndroid Camp and W Indow s camp.　　The strategy adopted by ASUS on tablets is also closely linked to cloud computing, creating a satisfying user experience with a large number of cloud applications and cloud storage services pre-installed. In addition, in the smartphone sector, many emerging forces are also borrowing cloud computing to challenge Apple. Recently, Aliyun mobile phone official exposure, the reporter learned that the latest mobile phone will be available at the end of this month. The Aliyun handset will be a mobile operating system developed independently by Aliyun, which is fully compatible with Android applications. It is reported that Aliyun for the operating system with a lot of cloud based applications, the biggest bright spot is, will use Cloud a PP way to access the application, the user only needs to register a cloud account number, can use the many cloud service and the cloud application which the Aliyun provides, including Ali Browser, Ali Mailbox, Ali Search, Mobile phone, such as Wang Wang.　　Clearly, this model of Aliyun's phone is a direct challenge to Apple's iphone. Reporter Gao Lingyun