He Baohong: Large data must end data island

Big Data. On the afternoon of August 14, when he entered the door of the two-storey conference Room of Beijing National Convention Center, fresh nouns such as "Big Data", "cloud computing" and "internet marketing" broke into the ear.

"2013 China Large Data Development forum" is being held here. Although this is the first time that big data appears the influential China Internet conference, but is similar to the scene that talks about the Internet in early 2000, the meeting room that accommodates hundreds of people is packed, the speaker on the stage is enthusiastic, the audience is lofty.

Almost everyone realizes that big data is changing people's lives, and that it will bring about a complete revolution, including technology, products, industries and even the entire economic model.

A government-issued policy is just the right way to encourage people to develop big data. On the same day, the State Council issued "on the promotion of information consumption to expand domestic demand," made clear that by 2015, the scale of information consumption over 3.2 trillion yuan, an average annual growth of more than 20%, Led the relevant industries to add more than 1.2 trillion yuan, of which the new information consumption based on the internet reached 2.4 trillion yuan, an average annual growth of more than 30%.

The face of such a tempting and huge cake, whether it is a traditional IT companies, or in a variety of data for many years of the internet companies, and even telecom operators can not help but the excitement: IT companies such as Oracle, IBM sits in advanced technology, internet companies such as Baidu, Alibaba is in advertising push, Personalized marketing and other aspects of the first practice of large data technology for many years, the three operators also grasp the other enterprises can not match the real and huge data sources, the parties with their own advantages to compete in large data, have made a piece of the idea.

In fact, the development of big data has long been the focus of the Ministry of Industry think-tank, the Telecommunications Economic Experts Committee. Caixin reporter learned that at the end of 2012, an internal communication, dozens of from academia, industry, government departments of experts focused on the topic of only one-big data.

In the discussion, the big data from the theory to the practice of innovation is booming, we need to pay attention to this emerging areas from where, in the end, how to develop the situation, how to widen the large data plate? To this end, the Caixin reporter interviewed the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Institute of Telecommunications, Dr. He Baohong, director of the Internet Center, in his view, under the impetus of technology, the former humble data suddenly become a resource, but also a can create great value assets. Only the application of this asset is still in its infancy, and there is no corresponding policy to guide these applications.

Big data must be successful.

Caixin Reporter: Now the market is talking about big data, what is the definition of large data?

He Baohong: Frankly speaking, there is no clear concept for big data. In Wikipedia or other web interpretations, "data that cannot be processed by traditional tools" is referred to as large data and some attributes are added, such as "in Effective time".

In my opinion, the big data focus on how to deal with "big". "Big" means large capacity, memory, rapid change, relatively speaking, also refers to the ability or tool to deal with this data, since it is large data, it means that the analysis, processing, application of irregular and has been changing data.

Caixin Reporter: At present, the big data has developed to what extent?

He Baohong: Big Data is not an industry now, it is embedded in the cloud development, the scale is still very small. Its development is still in the initial stage, has not yet grown to be able to be independent from the cloud computing. It will take at least 35 years to separate from the cloud.

In contrast, cloud computing has passed the concept of a period, is at a rapid growth stage, and now the big data, like 35 years ago, the cloud is still in the incubation period, we are talking about exactly how to do products, how to have a market. In short, big data in the bubble stage, cloud computing has blown the bubble, pragmatic development. However, although the large data is just the beginning of the technology, but this technology to meet the needs of society, will certainly succeed.

Caixin Reporter: What is the relationship between big data and Internet of things and cloud computing?

He Baohong: The Internet of things can be seen as a collection of large data, cloud computing provides a common processing platform for large data, but it is not enough to rely on the cloud computing platform, it is necessary to do some work on the platform of cloud computing.

The relationship between the internet of things and large data is far from the same, as for cloud computing and large data, like operating systems and database management systems. Large data is based on cloud computing infrastructure services, almost every large data processing to rely on the cloud platform.