IDC: The national policy will further promote the cloud computing industry

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November 2, 2010, October 18, 2010, the Ministry of Industry and Information technology and the National Development and Reform Commission issued the "to do a good job of cloud computing service innovation and development of the pilot demonstration work notice" to determine in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Wuxi and other five cities first to carry out cloud computing services Innovation pilot demonstration work. This news once disclosed, immediately triggered a a-share "cloud computing concept stocks" rose sharply, a few related stocks even once trading.

In this regard, IDC China Enterprise-level Systems Research manager 周震刚 that the country's support for cloud computing services will better promote the development of cloud computing in the country. This kind of fostering will be mainly embodied in the national relevant laws, regulations, national standards of the formulation, as well as the cloud computing industry chain Research and development investment and policy tilt, its social and economic benefits will be reflected in the next few years. But the short-term performance of the cloud computing concept Unit will not have a significant boost.

In IDC's view, cloud computing is one of the manifestations of the next generation economy and an image of industrial service. Service is the inevitable trend of the development of the next generation economy. From an IT perspective, service, i.e. EaaS (modifiable as a service) or XaaS, is a concept developed on the basis of SaaS, that is, the final deliverable of the industry's production processes is a web-based and information platform based service. Therefore, the country for the cloud computing industry to nurture, will greatly promote the development of the national economy.

Overall, IDC believes that cloud computing has a broad space for development in China, and the country's policy will further promote the development of the industry. China has the largest number of small and medium-sized enterprises in the world. China's economy took the lead out of the trough of the financial crisis, and the business of these small and medium-sized enterprises has developed rapidly with the rapid growth of China's economy. For these growing SMEs, their investment in building IT infrastructure has a low return on investment and it is difficult to match the rapid growth of the business. At this point, the business model of cloud computing is just the right solution for these SMEs. The needs of these end-users have become the cornerstone of the rapid development of China's cloud computing market in the coming years. IDC expects a large number of SMEs to migrate their IT infrastructures to the public cloud computing platform. At the same time, there will be more micro-enterprises (fewer than 10 employees) through the use of cloud computing operator Services, the first time to have their own IT platform, embarked on the road to information. In turn, cloud computing will push the informatization deeper into China. With the help of user's demand, the public cloud computing operators will have a bigger development.

But while cloud computing has been widely publicized in the country, several typical users and cases have emerged. The vast majority of enterprises and end users still lack of understanding and understanding of cloud computing, especially in specific businesses and applications, cloud computing can bring about how the changes and benefits, the prospects are still not clear. In this case, cloud computing really landed into a successful application, there will be many difficulties.

For cloud computing, most people have an understanding of the misunderstanding, that cloud computing is introduced by foreign advanced technology, how to solve technical problems, the construction of cloud computing platform is the only work focus. In fact, building a cloud computing platform is just the first step in providing cloud computing services, and how to operate a cloud computing platform to serve the enterprise and end users is the most important environment. "Rather than a new technology, cloud computing is an innovation in business models," he said. Essentially, the core of cloud computing is to provide users with services in the form of leased computing resources after virtualization of computing resources for one or several data centers. This service is not really a technological innovation, but a business model innovation. "周震刚 said.

From the present point of view, most of the domestic cloud computing centers focus on the construction of infrastructure platform, mainly including a large number of servers, storage, network equipment and other platforms to build; In the application software, the domestic Cloud computing Center provides limited content; the operational aspects of public cloud computing, including application deployment, System and software management, on-demand pricing model, etc. are close to the blank. Due to the lack of a series of supporting measures for cloud services, some domestic users are sceptical about whether cloud services can meet their own needs.

Therefore, the national policy for cloud computing, the most important is to put aside a large number of theories and concepts, in the application and business aspects of marketing and user education, so that cloud computing is operable. Do not blindly invest in building cloud computing data center, but ignore the specific cloud computing application deployment and related operations management. The National Cloud Services Innovation Development plan can be truly successful only if the application software provided by cloud computing meets the business needs of end-users and allows cloud services providers to effectively run cloud services.