Mao: Can today's cloud computing support any application?

September 16, 2011, IBM Outstanding Engineer, China Development Center Chief Technical Officer and new technology Research and Development Center General Manager Mr. Mao in micro-blog to explore the current user in the process of cloud computing in the common misunderstanding and solutions, the following is the full text of micro-blog:

Yesterday, at a ministerial invitation to discuss the development of cloud computing, one of the hotly debated view is whether today's cloud computing can support any type of application, such as the core bank.

This is a common misconception that everything can now be solved by cloud computing technology. Today's cloud computing basically relies on "partition" large-scale data and processing, not all systems can meet this requirement.

The second issue is the value orientation of cloud computing, it has two aspects, one is to let it use the same hardware and software through virtualization and automatic intelligent scheduling to do more, faster, to obtain economies of scale, the second is the IT service, through the Internet to access, combined with mobile and IoT, Provides opportunities for all industries to offer new business services, including IT service outsourcing. IBM summarized as "Rethink IT, re-invent Business"

The third question is the implementation of the actual cloud, more public cloud or private cloud? The current statistics are the majority of the private cloud, or a single specific application, such as the development of test clouds, data analysis cloud, Virtual Desktop cloud, or a number of applications and systems to focus on a cloud to dynamically share software and hardware resources, is the category of rethink-it. Business innovation is a big decision, re-invent business will be difficult.

The fifth issue is the future innovation of cloud computing, IBM's innovation has many levels and aspects, including computer architecture, high speed network, new storage media, and how to integrate them, new data center construction and Operation Technology and practice, new system and middleware technology to support new application types; Intelligent automatic scheduling of workload, workload optimization, cloud programming model and language, etc.

The sixth problem is the interoperability of data and applications in the cloud. Cloud computing mainly allows hardware infrastructure and software platforms and applications to become flexible and scalable on demand and dynamically shared, solving the problem of computational resource configuration. It does not solve the problem of interconnection of applied data, which involves the grammatical, semantic representation and understanding of functional interfaces and data, as well as the protocol issues of handshake interaction, which should be resolved by SOA.

After discussing these six questions, I am deeply afraid and anxious to explore the various misconceptions about cloud computing that are common among customers, which may lead us to make inappropriate decisions and implementations in the cloud computing boom. To be able to benefit from cloud computing, an enterprise and region must have a deliberate strategy, combine their own characteristics, develop a reasonable implementation roadmap, and then choose the right technology to implement progressively.

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