Review Asia Pacific Cloud Computing Alliance: Fruition

From a global point of view, the advantages of telecom operators in the cloud is not obvious, in North America and Europe, bandwidth is not scarce and monopolized resources, network access is the same. But in the Asia-Pacific region, telecoms operators have broad control over bandwidth and international access networks, paving the way for telecoms providers in the Asia-Pacific region to gain a high share of the cloud computing market.

Cloud computing and the growing mobile internet are on the same path, with ubiquitous clouds and ubiquitous mobile terminals realizing a huge change in the front-end (mobile terminal) impact on the back end (data center) Telecoms operators are among the most promising and embarrassing roles: cloud computing offers golden opportunities for services, but it forces telecoms operators to get out of the old patterns of access ports, network bandwidth, and data center leases. Change itself and seek transformation.

It's not easy, telecom operators sniff out the opportunity, but also see the challenge: selling cloud services and providing bandwidth is a completely different business, as is the sales model, especially the cloud computing service model is more flat-telecom operators need to directly face and tirelessly improve service levels-more abstract, Ubiquitous service requirements, coupled with the demand-for-pay model, telecoms operators are also worried about embracing cloud computing: are telecoms operators really good for the transition?

But the general trend, the right to choose is not in the hands of telecom operators, with the cloud boom, telecoms operators decided to move from passive to active, but that did not allay their worries: limited by the operator's own operating range and service area, telecom operators found themselves encountering "regional thresholds" for the first time.

It's like we need to use roaming services in the United States, telecoms operators cannot "roam" their cloud-computing services to the region by signing protocols and bandwidth--like bandwidth--and we can use "China Mobile Hong Kong" in Hong Kong but we can't find "China Mobile" in San Francisco, GSM, CDMA, WCDMA or CDMA2000, can not be achieved.

Cloud computing, which was supposed to be floating around the world, encountered a natural bottleneck. Public cloud can be realized through more popular internet, but what about private cloud of enterprise? Private cloud architectures are more private, more complex, and more demanding for availability, reliability, and scalability than public clouds such as "online storage" or "Instant Messaging" (or Internet utilities).

Whether companies choose to use the network of telecom operators to build their own corporate private cloud, or simply use the cloud services of telecommunications operators, if the telecommunications operators can not export their services outside, across the country, and even to the vast ocean area, is confined to a certain physical region of cloud computing, Not to mention the ability to meet the cloud requirements of multinational companies, but only as a wide-area cloud computing is unqualified.

From a telecom operator's point of view, the cloud computing Service (or platform) it has built up, once it loses its "borderless" network of operators, is at least half as sharp as its value, if not non-existent. Want to get a slice of the cloud market? Telecom operators are afraid to be the first to die before the body.

As a result, telecom operators think of cooperation and win--this is by no means an empty talk, like our mobile phones can roam to the agreement of the country, why cloud computing can not? Why enterprise users can not rely on telecom operators, in the Cross-border, cross-regional scope, to achieve a non-discriminatory, borderless enterprise private cloud?

It is on this basis that PwC and Oracle and the entire "Asia-Pacific Alliance for Cloud Computing (hereinafter referred to as the APCA Alliance)" have decided to establish a framework for the interconnection of cloud computing standards serving the Asia-Pacific region through the establishment of a "wide range of telecom operators and industry partners in the Asia Pacific region" Regional cloud computing Cooperation Alliance.

Of course, promoting the healthy development of the cloud market for corporate users represented by private clouds will obviously benefit every telecom operator in the alliance.