How we need to prepare for cloud computing

Human beings in an era of information, digital floods are fast approaching-to meet the challenge, is a new computing architecture, known as "Cloud Computing" (Cloud Computing). 2010 is known as China's cloud computing development year. In mass media and public discourse, cloud computing looms large as a buzzword. From traditional hardware and software vendors, to it solution providers, to internet companies, almost every business has launched its own cloud computing strategic planning.

China's blueprint for cloud

Although large it vendors are hanging on their lips, every technician seems to want to surround "cloud computing," but it's hard to say in a word what "cloud computing is." The name "cloud computing" alone is romantic enough to be changeable. Imagine, if the daily tap water, the public electricity called "Cloud hydraulic, cloud electricity", I am afraid that understanding will also be a layer of ambiguity.

However, this does not prevent our brain to enjoy the "cloud" of the service--in front of the computer, we can from the "slave" to "general": do not have to download the updated software non-stop, do not worry about killing the virus, do not take pains to buy the memory, not to call the maintenance staff We will discard storage media such as CD-ROM, u disk or even hard disk, all data, software in this romantic "cloud" inside, you need only a browser, anytime, anywhere connected to the "cloud" on the use of, according to the amount, on-demand pay.

The blueprint for China's cloud computing is on the horizon. As a new generation of information technology, cloud computing has been included in this year's national conferences and meetings of the "Twelve-Five" planning program, become one of the ten key areas of development. The survey shows that 2010 China cloud computing Market size has reached 16.731 billion yuan, compared to 2009 growth of 81.4%, is expected to break through the 2012 60 billion yuan.

But when cloud computing becomes the key to national development strategies, there are two voices that always exist, Ziffdavis Media Group (China) Strategic Development Research Director Chiong The two voices are defined as "appeal" and "questioning faction": The call to urge the establishment of cloud computing and the National Development strategy of the Internet of things as soon as possible; The questioning faction is concerned about the monopoly, exclusivity and pilot discourse power of the future information society after the data is highly exposed.

Shadow under the Cloud

"Hello, excuse me, I am ..." I believe every Internet user will receive such a call, text message or e-mail "friendly disturb". Perhaps, you have been online registered alumni, applied for a chat identity number, registered shopping account, opened the securities software, every trace of your legacy, may become a variety of business harvest personal information. Fortunately, we also have their own hard disk, as well as their own U disk, as well as their own many external memory equipment, the most privacy, the most "safe" personal information can be locked in these "safe", do not surf the Internet, but biography.

However, the coming cloud world, the "safe" opened. It lures people out of the ubiquitous "hardware shackles", storing their information in the cloud without reservation, in order to use any display device anywhere to use this information, seems to be extremely free, the entire network is your largest memory, but the next question is: "My things are online, you can see, there is privacy?" ”

Google's "Gmail failure Gate", which broke out at the end of February, pushed cloud security issues to the public. About 150,000 of Gmail users found their email and chat records deleted on February 28, and some users found their accounts were reset. Google's explanation for this is the software upgrade, but it cannot dispel concerns about the security of Gmail Mail cloud storage based on cloud computing systems. Such worries even spread to sensitive defence and military fields.