Invisible hand-cio behind cloud computing

From the world to China, cloud computing is an urgent proposition worldwide. Therefore, understanding the essence of cloud computing and understanding how to combine cloud computing with its own enterprise is one of the key tasks that CIOs need to adapt to the transition in the new era. At the same time, some experts believe that the total architect of cloud computing is the user, is a broad CIO community, because, the CIO is the driving cloud computing to the application of the "implicit hand." They are based on demand and service, adaptable, not just it technology, the most important is the transformation of the business model, or the ideological change, this is a big change in thinking.

We remember the economic crisis of 2008, which brought China's economy into the post-crisis era, the characteristics of global economic integration and the intensification of enterprise competition. In such a grim environment, how CIOs adjust their business model, and the existing management is faced with the need for transformation and upgrade, this is not just the CEO to consider things. For the CIO, how to lead the Enterprise upgrade transformation through the informatization, help the enterprise to tide over the difficulty, enhance the new competitiveness, is the CIO needs the key question.

In the process of transformation and upgrading, there are some problems in enterprise it. For example, the development cycle of traditional IT systems is long, enterprise demand, market response, especially the Central Enterprises Group integrated Control and operation is very difficult, the original subsidiaries are constantly merging and restructuring, joint restructuring, the subsidiaries have their own perspective, did not start from the whole, resulting in a lot of information islands, information can not be shared, affect the overall operational efficiency, it resource efficiency is not high, the cost is too high, the high cost of operations, resulting in high enterprise costs. This is the most obvious problem that leads to the transformation and upgrading of enterprises.

A technological revolution is often conceived in the course of crisis. In the post-crisis era of comprehensive, competitive business environment, information technology itself needs to develop, to form a paradigm shift to adapt to the process of enterprise transformation and upgrading, resulting in cloud computing. Cloud computing is the third revolution in the IT industry. In the course of this transformation, so far, no one comprehensive, systematic understanding and analysis, for the transformation of the technology is still messy, disorderly, so most enterprises, whether it is investment in other aspects of investment, has not shaken off the traditional technology paradigm and traditional concepts, in this sudden change in the confusion.

What is cloud computing? Is it just a technology? " As we have observed over the years, I personally think that the concept of cloud computing can be summed up in 12345, from different dimensions to create a complete concept. is a delivery model, two-tier architecture, three service forms, four deployment modes, and five features. "Revan, director of the information Department of the group.

"One" cloud computing is a subversive delivery model, an integrated information platform and operational platform. From a technical point of view, the enterprise all server, storage and other infrastructure and network integrated into the unified cloud platform. In the "Cloud World", the technology and business are combined to be delivered to the user. The enterprise's Operation management decision analysis will be based on the cloud platform, people will have a "day on the cloud." He is a systematic concept, the overall concept of integration of business and technology concept, this is important to understand the cloud.

"Two" means from a subdivision point of view, Cloud is composed of cloud computing platform and cloud service application two levels. Enterprises can deploy infrastructure including traditional servers, operating systems, storage, and so on a unified platform, this is a technical level, enterprises can not pay too much attention to the platform itself, but focus on the application. Secondly, Governments, enterprises and individuals can be deployed to different applications according to different needs, forming a ' personalized delivery model ' to form a cloud service. One is the cloud technology level, one is the cloud service level, is called "two".

"Three" is from the perspective of user experience, cloud computing can be divided into three kinds of delivery mode. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), a development platform as a service (PaaS), and a software application as a service (SaaS).

"Four" refers to four deployment configuration patterns, including public cloud, private cloud, mixed cloud, community cloud. Community clouds can also be called industry clouds, that is, industry-centric, the supply chain of all industrial groups around the cloud sharing services, business activities.

"Five" refers to cloud computing has five characteristics, the virtual resource pool, web-based access, on-demand self-service, fast, flexible, the use of cost can be measured.

Recently we have formed in the communication process six, the so-called "Six" is six words, wisdom, resources, patterns. Wisdom is as an enterprise how to put our control, operations, the formation of the business to a wisdom level, the integration of your IT infrastructure, resources, through the IT resources to consolidate other resources, to form a model, your business model, service model, innovative model, submitted to your customers, you to operate the model, And then improve your competitiveness. This is the nature of the cloud, through cloud computing itself it computing wisdom, the wisdom of enterprise operation, integration of resources, form the mode of use, this is a large system. IBM to mention the "wisdom of the Earth" to our country "intelligent City", as well as information enterprises have different formulations, all through the integration of information to form integration, rather than fragmented information islands.

Resources are not just it resources, it resources are consolidated and then all other resources are integrated, this is very important to our central enterprises and the group, how to integrate the resources of our group of hundreds of companies in the cloud platform to form a different shared service model, provide to our customers, provide to our suppliers, provide to our employees , leadership, let him play the wisdom, enhance our competitiveness, strengthen the operation of enterprises.