IBM's first "cloud computing" roadmap

August 23, IBM held a grand "IBM take you into your cloud--2011 IBM Cloud Computing Summit Forum", and in the General Assembly started the cloud computing roadmap. Mr. Chanda, Chairman and chief executive officer of IBM Greater China, led IBM's expert team from global and greater China to cloud computing experts, industry leaders, and more than 800 CEOs, CIOs, and professionals from different sectors of the world to attend the event. As one of the first organizations to promote and practice cloud computing in the world, this is IBM's first time to integrate cloud computing with software, hardware, services, research and development and other cloud computing elite teams. IBM is the first time in China on the "cloud computing" concept, practice and strategy of a comprehensive exposition, showing IBM in the cloud area with strategic planning, system architecture, service support of the overall integration capabilities, but also expressed IBM's efforts to promote China's cloud computing development confidence and commitment.

At this conference, Mr. Chanda shared the best practices of IBM's cloud computing and the latest ideas and reflections on cloud computing, and academician NI of Chinese Academy of Engineering made a speech titled "Cloud Computing promotes China's informatization and information industry development", and comes from telecom, The heads of emerging industry companies such as the Internet have also shared their cloud practice experiences.

IBM points out that cloud computing is the third Trans-era change in information technology after the evolution of personal computers and the Internet. The economic attributes behind cloud computing determine that cloud computing is actually a new kind of productivity, how it will manage the complexity of it, and revisit the importance of it to society as an unprecedented level. More importantly, cloud computing will trigger business models, industry ecology, and even the entire social ecosystem changes, like the advent of computers and the Internet has changed the human civilization process, cloud computing will profoundly affect the enterprise, industry, and even the whole society's progress and development. This leads to the transformation of regional economic model, industry ecological model, enterprise business model and it operation mode. Governments, enterprises, and even the community should correctly understand the importance of cloud computing and actively participate in the exploration, implementation and promotion of cloud strategy.

"Cloud computing has become a trend and the application of cloud computing represents the future of business," said Mr. Chanda, chairman and chief executive officer of IBM Greater China. In the Chinese government, industry, enterprises embrace cloud computing today, we can clearly see that occupy the cloud can lead the future market development. Cloud computing is a step-by-step journey, each enterprise needs to choose their own path wisely, but also to choose a good partner, together to take this journey. IBM is willing to be a good partner of China's government, industry and business, using our global experience and practice in cloud computing to help the Chinese community to successfully embark on the path of cloud computing. ”

Cloud Computing Roadmap: Starting with strategic transformation, based on industry change

According to IDC estimates, by 2012, cloud computing will have a global market of 42 billion dollars. "Cloud computing" itself has become a popular word from technical terminology. The exact concept of cloud computing has always been a topic of controversy. IBM believes that cloud computing should have three features, first, dynamic, shared, configurable pool of resources. Due to the advent of cloud computing, the form of IT resources is one of the past, the boundary of a clear fusion of orphaned state into a resource pool, and this resource pool is dynamic, shareable, through configuration to drive, cut and configurable. Second, on-demand access via the Internet. It's a completely different experience to get access to computing resources on demand anytime, anywhere. Third, automated management. Regardless of resource allocation, use, demonstration is automated, do not require the user to pay too much management costs.

IBM based on the world's rich experience in cloud computing in this Conference on the development of China's cloud computing roadmap, that is: cloud computing must be brought about by the transformation opportunities to start, while highlighting the industry and enterprise characteristics, according to the region, industry and enterprise characteristics, choose their own cloud solution; The IT architecture for cloud computing is divided into six phases, includes standardization, virtualization, dynamic architecture, automated deployment, all services, or service, business model innovation; Finally, it is necessary to fully realize that cloud computing is a step-by-step process, the need to choose their own path wisely, more experienced partners need.

As users and beneficiaries of cloud computing, Governments, enterprises and institutions should consider and embark on cloud computing strategies from the transformational opportunities that cloud computing technology offers. Specifically, can be divided into regional economic model transformation, Industry ecological transformation, business model transformation, it operation mode transformation four aspects.

The transformation of regional economic model

China is now relying on local advantages to vigorously develop regional economy, a group of urban economic Circle, regional economic circle formed successively. The next round of China's economic development is the era of great synergy, regional synergy, such a large synergy will be able to support a large synergy platform, and this platform is not cloud computing mo number.

The unique flexibility of cloud computing, on-demand access, and the characteristics of automated management will help governments to coordinate effectively and collectively across industries and enterprises. Through the efficient Network cloud computing, the whole society, the economy of all levels of organic integration, interaction, which will greatly enhance the overall economic efficiency of operation. In this kind of cooperation, the Government can effectively use the cloud computing station in the whole region to coordinate the high level of economic management, the scale of cloud computing benefits, network benefits and personalized value to maximize the play.

Ecological transformation of the industry

Cloud computing has begun to penetrate various industries, the market of various industries cloud solutions emerge. Industry cloud not only can integrate the whole industry's upstream and downstream enterprises into efficient processes, but also can provide users with the application of the entire industry process. Through the industry cloud platform, customers can not only enjoy the convenient coverage of the entire business process services, but also effectively monitor the entire process, increase the transparency of the process to achieve continuous optimization of business processes. On the other hand, for specific service providers, cloud platform can effectively coordinate the resources between the various service providers, maximize the utilization of resources, and the efficiency of this service resources will further enhance the overall service quality, thus forming the whole industry's benign development of the ecological.

Enterprise Business model Transformation

Cloud computing has gained widespread recognition for the promotion of enterprise business model innovation. Cloud computing mainly promotes the transformation and innovation of business model from three aspects. The first is to establish an IT support environment without boundaries to help business activities unfold in a completely new way. No boundary is not only to break through the company's internal branches or departments of the setting, but also to break the overall boundaries of the enterprise, and upstream and downstream enterprises and customers more effective integration. The second is innovation in the service of the enterprise. Some enterprises have brought together social media, mobile phones and other resources, through the use of these resources to the user behavior information, the user's behavior analysis, so as to provide users with the most targeted services, to achieve the overall service model and service product innovation. The third is to build new services, often based on the expansion of existing services. Some traditional it manufacturers, not only sell their own hardware products, but also through the cloud model of a variety of digital products recommended to users, to create a new digital life for customers, and thus achieved great success. This new business model becomes the object that the successor will imitate constantly.

It operation mode transformation

The IT industry is facing huge changes due to the advent of cloud computing. IT services, information services industry has been a major subversion. What cloud computing brings is the separation of ownership and use rights of IT resources. Enterprises will enjoy the services of IT resources without IT resources. The subversion of this service model means the redistribution of global information services. This will involve all aspects of the IT industry. For example, due to the large computational power required by cloud computing, this will require that the CPU needs to be more power-saving and less energy-efficient, and that middleware needs to shift from today to serving a variety of businesses. Cloud computing brings not only the change of technology direction, but also the change of the relationship among various it enterprises, the whole ecological pattern of IT industry will be changed completely by cloud computing.

The development of cloud computing is a journey

IBM also pointed out that, first, enterprises need to realize that in order to ensure the implementation of cloud computing strategy success, cloud computing is not an overnight, but a step-by-step journey, each enterprise should find the most suitable for their own development path. Now some of the enterprise cloud Strategy implementation is not smooth, because they equate the deployment of cloud computing strategy with a common IT project, not to protect the successful implementation of cloud computing, such as the management, business innovation and other mechanisms, such a concept and practice will only for the successful implementation of cloud computing strategy to create obstacles.

After establishing the right concept, cloud computing It deployment needs to go through 6 phases, namely: standardization, virtualization, dynamic architecture, automated deployment, all services, or call service, business model innovation. At present, the implementation of cloud computing in China mainly for the virtualization phase, there is a long way to go. Of course, for the common cloud, the private cloud, the path of different enterprise development will also be different. Some may span a certain stage, and some may merge several phases into one. This requires the enterprise and experienced partners together to explore their own development phase, so as to avoid detours.

IBM, leader, and catalyst for cloud computing

IBM is the most comprehensive provider of cloud computing. IBM is the industry's only provider of IaaS (infrastructure as a service), PaaS (Platform-Service), SaaS (software as a service) and BPaaS (business process as a service), spanning design, deployment, implementation, and management of a full range of solutions.

IBM also has the best practices for global cloud. So far, IBM has invested in 11 Cloud labs, 5 cloud centers and 12 backup clouds around the world. Of the world's Fortune 500, 80% use IBM's cloud computing technology, products, solutions or services. In 2010 alone, IBM implemented 2000 private cloud projects worldwide. In the public cloud, IBM built a cloud platform that already has 19 million users. IBM's Cloud project currently manages 1 million virtual machines. IBM has helped thousands of customers deploy cloud models.

To provide insights to the sales team and developers to better meet customer needs, IBM developed the Blue Insight: A world-wide private cloud computing environment for Business Analytics. Blue Insight integrates and analyzes customer and market content from nearly 100 different information warehouses and databases, with a total of more than petabytes of data: equivalent to 300 billion ATM transactions. Currently, cloud computing supports nearly 110,000 users and 41 applications, and in 2011, another 95 applications will be deployed, and IBM expects the system to eventually support more than 200,000 salespeople and developers.

The Blue Insight is expected to save IBM $ tens of millions of for the first five years. In addition to cost savings and insight, this system environment offers IBM new opportunities. The Blue Insight is the foundation of IBM Smart Analytics Cloud to provide customers with Easy-to-use business intelligence services, systems, and software. This new product can help customers to effectively provide shared business intelligence services within the enterprise.

In addition, IBM manages billions of cloud-based transactions per day. We have cloud computing key technologies, deep process and industry expertise, a wealth of cloud service product lines and solutions, and a global Delivery center network.

IBM is also actively engaged in open source, open standards and other organizations, Governments, application vendors, channel partners to work together to promote cloud computing in China landing.

IBM joins Chinese customers to push cloud roots

As the most comprehensive cloud computing solution provider and the most experienced cloud computing practitioner, IBM's business partnership covers telecommunications, finance, healthcare, energy, government, public affairs, transportation and other industries throughout China's coastal and inland cities. At present, IBM has helped many industries in China to achieve cloud computing applications, including Guizhou Mobile, Ningbo Logistics port, Qinhuangdao economic and technological Development Zone, Shanghai Telecom, the Chinese group and the National Bureau of Statistics.

IBM believes that cloud computing will form a very complex industrial environment that will include participants from government, industry, business and research institutions. IBM is willing to become the most open and cooperative cloud computing innovator and partner, and actively cooperate with global partners including China in cloud computing products, technology, innovation and many other fields to develop deep and lasting cooperation, build a win eco-circle, and promote the healthy development of cloud computing in China.

"IBM's global practices in cloud computing involve a wide range of sectors, industries, different stages, and some are helping customers step into the threshold of cloud computing, and some have rushed to the forefront of global cloud computing," says Mr Chanda. So we know the most about the journey of cloud computing. As a global integration enterprise, IBM's commitment to customers and partners is long-term, responsible, and able to integrate global experience to serve local customers. ”

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)