Internet companies should slow down "cloud computing"

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When international giants such as Microsoft, IBM, Google, Hewlett-Packard and Amazon invest heavily in "cloud computing", where do Chinese internet companies go?

Tencent joint CTO Xun Minghua predicted that in the next 5 years, in the face of bandwidth, storage, power, room and other costs of a large increase in the profits of Chinese internet companies may be eaten, if not to deal with the "cloud" challenges, the Chinese internet may face a "crash."

In fact, Chinese internet companies have their own understanding of "cloud computing", but their understanding and response is still simple and reactive compared to the international giants.

Future challenges

When you upload the photos to NetEase albums, in Youku to see the film, a large number of data into the QQ mailbox, unconsciously, "cloud computing" is affecting our lives.

According to the "22nd China Internet Development Statistics Report" released by Cnnic, as of the end of June 2008, the number of China's internet users reached 253 million, the first significant surpass the United States, leaped the world's first. According to the forecast, the number of Chinese Internet users should be doubled in the next 5 years.

Google global vice president, Greater China CEO Lee Kai-Fu, said in the face of such a large-scale user base, as well as video streaming, E-commerce and other agents of the processing economic era, data volume and five years ago is a geometric growth, the requirements of the terminal computer is very strong, if there is no "cloud computing", terminal processing capacity will not be considered.

"In the past, all applications were installed on the client side, run independently, and today are implemented through Internet services, large-scale data centralization." "Kai-Fu Lee said that in the past only large enterprises can use the data center of the application, now small and medium-sized enterprises, individual consumers are also beginning to use, with the current data processing capacity has not reached the requirements."

Internationally, companies such as Google, Microsoft, Intel, Hewlett-Packard and Amazon have started to invest heavily in "cloud computing". Chinese Internet companies, for the past 10 years, are relying on localized services to win, but no technology of Chinese Internet companies in the "cloud computing" era, will not lag behind again?

"If Chinese Internet companies don't have a good grip on the costs of individual users and individual businesses, the company's profits will be eaten up in the near future." "Xun Minghua predicts that the most important cost to the Internet and software companies before is human resources, but this is relatively fixed and controllable, and is not controlled by bandwidth, storage, power, and engine rooms."

Xun Minghua said that if the "cloud" could not be used to reduce the cost of Chinese Internet companies in terms of hardware, perhaps in 2013 China would be similar to "the United States 2010 the Internet will collapse" situation.

In fact, not only in the video, such as a large number of unstructured data conversion process, the need for a large number of servers and bandwidth, now, the world is facing a disaster-prone situation: security, disaster preparedness, emergency and enterprise production management, business management, such as the integration of applications also become High-tech companies new challenges

Chengchi, vice president of GDS Universal data, said that with the increasing complexity of the international environment and business environment and the growing risk awareness of enterprises, some large enterprises began to set up senior management positions such as the chief risk tube to control enterprise risk, which is very high in the data center.

Urgent layout of Chinese Internet enterprises

In fact, in the "cloud computing" sector, Chinese companies, although not as big as the international giants have a huge investment capacity, but also in the layout, and SaaS (note: Software as a service) and other areas to start a practical step.

Alibaba CEO David Wei told our correspondent, in fact, Alibaba Group is already in the layout of "cloud computing", Ali software to launch SaaS Services, that is, to comply with the trend of cloud computing action.

"Small and medium-sized enterprises can not do, then how to do?" Small and medium-sized enterprise data ' cloud ' here we are, and we've done the math to give them the data. Mr. Wei said that although Alibaba does not want to put a "cloud computing" the great label, but Alibaba actually do is "cloud computing."

Xun Minghua that "cloud computing" is just a saying, Tencent also has the ability to do the business. "Tencent's networked storage already has ' cloud computing '. "Xun Minghua example, Tencent offers a QQ photo album service, QQ users upload photos of about 50GB a day, before Tencent to take a single save, now there is a unified storage platform, any business unit want to use this storage space, just tune this module, the platform can be optimized to provide.

"For users, if it is in Beijing, we try to put its data on the server near Beijing, and if it is in Shenzhen on a business trip uploaded, we will transfer the Shenzhen data to Beijing." Xun Minghua said, the turn of the time in the evening 12 o'clock to 6 o'clock in the morning, in this regard, the so-called "cloud computing", Tencent has actually done.

It is understood that in order to deal with the huge amount of data in the future, Tencent also has a vision, "if 30 million of QQ users are willing to let the CPU rental a little out to Tencent, Tencent will be able to rent the extra computing power to the need for its enterprises."

"As long as you see the" cloud "trend, and then the transformation, enterprises can survive. Lee said.

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