Nanjing Cloud City Life: "Dream into Reality"?

Let's imagine a life scenario like this: Every morning, we wake up in a soft alarm clock, and all the electrical work in the home is in control with just one click. After grooming, smart home appliances are ready for breakfast. Enjoy a delicious breakfast, gently, a day's journey will appear on the phone screen. After breakfast, no longer with the heavy notebook for company, walking lightly out of the house, along the green lawn, into the office area not far from home. Whether it is personal office, departmental meetings, remote video, simply through a Web login interface, can be online at any time access to personal data. And through the mobile phone, even in the office, can also real-time monitoring of various smart devices in the home.

In Nanjing Hexi District "Channel City", relying on the emerging "cloud computing" technology, such a life is about to be realized.

With the spread of cloud computing as a new technology around the world, more and more Governments are aware of the need to develop "cloud computing" industries. However, with the "cloud computing" investment boom in stark contrast, the "cloud computing" industry is still like "smoke and mirrors", China's cloud technology is still in the "paper" stage, practice to promote a few.

"Life on the Cloud"

In theory, cloud computing refers to a new computing model that relies not on personal computers or stand-alone servers, but on the "cloud" that users don't care about their internal structure. Cloud computing centralizes all computing resources and is automatically managed by software without human involvement.

In the basic structure of cloud computing, the main part is a cloud composed of multiple servers, and in order to maximize its computing power, it is common to use technologies such as virtualization. The goal of cloud computing is to "use calculations like water and electricity." The basic idea of cloud computing is that all services and applications will be available online.

According to the "Channel City" Planning, in the future of the straits, all households will be able to use a variety of equipment anytime and anywhere to obtain fast and convenient "cloud" services. Both "Characteristic office cloud", "Business Cloud", also has the life the "entertainment Cloud", "the Health Cloud". "Cloud technology" is spread over all corners of the Strait city.

With "characteristic office cloud" as an example, the future in "Cloud Valley" enterprises, will enjoy a series of special services, such as ISP/ICP online storage and backup services, flexible Web application hosting services, mobile Desktop intelligent Terminal Services. In addition, "Cloud Valley" will also provide rich SaaS software services for small and medium-sized Enterprises, to provide software developers with low-cost and efficient transport and sales platform, enterprise users do not need to be equipped with IT operations personnel, only to pay the appropriate costs, you can realize the "bag is stationed."

These services also enable the implementation of "Office system virtualization" and "Personal office mobility". Whether in the office, units, or at home and the different terminals on the road, can be remote access anytime, anywhere, the desktop immediately present. By running and storing data and desktops centrally, users can implement hot-swappable replacement terminals without disrupting application operations.

Application is a challenge

Although "Life on the Cloud" is wonderful, it is still difficult to achieve. The biggest problem facing the cloud computing industry is the lack of market applications.

The author learned that at present, most of the domestic cloud computing centers focus on infrastructure platform construction, such as building a large number of servers, storage, network equipment, and in the application software, Cloud Computing Center provides limited content, in addition, in the public cloud computing operations include application deployment, system and software management, On-demand pricing model is almost blank.

"Inadequate application does not mean that demand does not exist." Yun's characteristic is to guide and create the demand, let the application for cloud computing industry development Open Road. "Channel City" related project leader said, in fact, in the country "structure, transfer Mode" under the environment, small and medium-sized enterprises urgently needed transformation and upgrading, improve the way of development, cloud services for small and medium-sized enterprises, especially with the application of significance.

According to the 2010 global SME IT and Managed Services Index report, 67% of small and medium-sized enterprises are now more or less using managed service software, which is as high as 77% in China, while 80% of the remaining SMEs have already considered using managed services software, and in China there are already up to 97% Enterprises to begin to prepare.

"Enterprise information construction needs capital, system operation dimension also want to understand technology talent, this to large and medium-sized enterprises may not be a problem, and for small micro-enterprises, is precisely the threshold of information." Capital, management and myopia are the current problems faced by small enterprises, and lead to 15%-20% of the failure ratio. said the person.

The people also said that the full application of personal and family life to cloud services would also create huge demand. This will make the company settled in the Cloud Valley, there is a huge demand for the market to rely on.

Build the whole industry chain

And the application of the other case is that, because the cloud computing industry rich in content, industry chain long, combined with the concept of promotion period, for local governments, only one or several of the force, it is difficult to form a clustering effect. How to focus on including enterprises, government, finance, capital and other advantages of resources, to create from facilities, operating platform to the application services of the entire industry chain of cloud computing, the current domestic cloud computing industry is critical.

"Cloud computing industry is very special, the development of this industry is not one or several enterprises can be completed alone." We must combine our efforts. "Channel City" related project director said, so in the construction of Cloud Valley, "channel City" attaches special importance to the building of industrial alliances, industrial chain and the development and utilization of cloud industry.

According to the source, "Cloud Valley" channel city with Huawei, Microsoft and other cloud computing areas of the leading enterprises to further negotiations, and the High-tech industry to gather capacity of the Chinese soft silver has become the Straits strategic partner. In the policy, the Nanjing municipal government will adopt tax, talent and other preferential measures, encourage more enterprises to settle in. And the financial aspect, "The Cloud Valley" will with the international well-known venture capital and the financial institution cooperation, provides the financial support for the settled enterprise.

Industry experts believe that in the early development of cloud computing, the channel city's "Cloud Valley" model can promote the development of a high degree of hardware and software combination of "cloud system software" and three types of cloud service applications, while promoting Nanjing to become cloud computing technology innovation base.

(Responsible editor: Liu Fen)