It workshop observation: Cloud computing future market profitability needs to be tested

May 26, according to Taiwan media reports, to provide a strong computing power of the cloud computing platform, to attract international enterprises to actively invest in the production of a huge demand for hardware and equipment, can reduce the cost of the enterprise to build their own database. However, the relevant manufacturers are still looking for profitable mode of operation.

International enterprises have put into the construction of cloud computing platform, must buy the equipment of the computer room, drive a considerable demand for hardware equipment; When the cloud computing platform was established, the enterprise that used to build the computer room and database can redirect to provide cloud computing platform vendors to purchase services, reduce the database construction cost.

The Taiwanese fund says consumers are still accustomed to using a variety of Internet services free of charge, and how to get consumers to pay for them, and create business models that are profitable enough to provide a headache for cloud computing services.

As for the provision of enterprise use of cloud computing services, compared to the general consumer, commercial value is relatively high, but because the company is equal to the confidential information in other people's home, cloud computing service providers must provide a stable flow, and improve the data security services in order to dispel the doubts of enterprises, so as to expand the

Search engine Google first entered the cloud computing platform, and the network retail service provider Amazon (Amazon) has been laying a good information technology infrastructure and resources to other companies, both are currently in the cloud layout of the most mature manufacturers.

Browsers in the age of cloud computing

In the 80 's, people were less likely to think about the concept of cloud computing before the limitations of network bandwidth and other factors. With the continuous development of network technology, and with the advent of the era of network broadband, cloud computing technology is really going to the front.

The progress of network technology, the development of cloud computing has indelible credit. At the same time, the development of network technology, but also make people gradually put the computing power into the data Center (room).

In the early stage of the development of network technology, its main function is to transmit information. In the era of cloud computing, the role of the network has undergone fundamental changes, the transmission of information is only one of the functions. Wang Peng believes that in the era of cloud computing, the network should at least deliver the following three things: one is information, one is computing power, the other is service.

The improvement of cloud services is to rely on hardware technology and equipment, also rely on the cloud of people. But from the user's point of view, there is no need to understand the cloud behind the "waiter", cloud services in the user in the use of software, the function of the effectiveness, ease of expression.

Network from the function of transferring information to provide computing services, is a sequential gradual process, is accompanied by network technology, hardware technology, software technology development gradually.

After the network appeared and developed, the browser became the ruler of the network interaction and application. Now, through the browser can do almost all the network operations: You can receive e-mail online, you can see multimedia video, you can play games. ' Browsers are now the primary tool for interacting with users and the cloud, ' Wang Peng said.

Google has all the services in the network, which is now called the "cloud". including search, e-mail, and even Office applications, everything is on the web. So when Google launched its Chrome browser in 2008, it was also interpreted as a starting point for the company's cloud services.

When Microsoft was planning the Windows operating system, it sought the cooperation of many application developers, so that users could get more applications on Windows. And now Google is taking a similar approach, actively cultivating the developer community, and opening the Application Interface (API) for external developers to build applications, but also to expand the platform to enrich the practice.

However, Kai-Fu Lee also said that the current is not likely to skip the operating system directly, an open computer is a browser, but the importance of less and less. After all, there are applications that still require operating systems, such as Photoshop, online gaming, and so on, that can't be implemented in browsers.