Shaanxi strives to build China's largest data gathering ground

"When you read this line of text, Google has completed 2 million searches, Taobao has sold 60,000 items, Sina has sent 20,000 micro-blog." 2011, Global data volume has reached 1. 8ZB. This is the equivalent of 3 micro-blogs per minute for each person in the world, more than 1200 consecutive years. Big data times, raging! ”

At the opening of the 17th session of the China East-West cooperation and investment trade Fair on 5th, the above words as a big data item in Shaanxi Xi ' an district, the advertisement words, especially eye-catching. Related to this, Shaanxi is the first in the country to raise the banner of large data industry.

Last December, Xi ' an new district in Beijing held a "Large Data Summit forum" to launch the construction of China's first professional large data industrial park-Fengtai New Town large data industry park. Park area of 5 square kilometers, divided into the basic data accumulation area, data application research and development areas and data superposition expansion area of the three major sections, focus on data storage, analysis, application, value-added and other key links.

The goal of the XI ' an new district is to build 100,000 racks, 1 million servers in the west, and gather the authoritative data of at least 300PB (1PB equals 2 20 times GB), drive more than 20 industry development, produce 60 billion yuan comprehensive economic benefit, create the largest data gathering place in China.

"In a new era of information technology convergence, big data is a new kind of economic asset like gold, an important strategic resource like oil," he said. "said Hequan, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

What is "Big data"? When we use smartphones, computers, tablets to search for food nearby, find traffic lines, buy items online, and log on to social networking sites, we are sending data and getting data to servers that are distributed around the world. These services rely on the "big Data" technology support, which involves a series of complex data processing, such as positioning, data retrieval, storage, data exchange and so on, which has a far-reaching impact on the field of information technology.

In 1998, the average global Internet users used 1M of traffic per month, and 2014, the figure is expected to be 10G, growth 10,000 times times.

"This is a profound change, and Shaanxi, as a western province, should seize this opportunity tightly," he said. "Shaanxi West Salt New District Management Committee deputy director, Feng XI Xincheng Management Committee director Liu Yubin said." In people's traditional impression, Shaanxi and loess, farming, resource mining and other traditional production patterns linked, but the large data industry overturned the impression of people.

At present, Chinese Unicom, China Telecom, China Mobile, Shaanxi Radio and television group operators have settled in the park, the three major telecom operators will be the regional data Exchange Center layout in Shaanxi province, to enhance the level of information industry in Shaanxi and the development of the upstream and downstream industrial chain will have a significant impact.

According to the relevant people, cool faction, the future international, the West Shadow Group and other domestic leading enterprises have signed with the park, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and other international business giants have also expressed strong investment intention to the park.

Of particular concern is that the national Health and Family Planning Commission under the National Population Information Processing and backup (xi ' an) center, the State Forestry Administration, National Bureau of Mapping and other ministries of disaster recovery Back-up Center also officially entered the park, which is of great significance for the protection of China's national information security.

"Future development of large data will present a variety of patterns." such as gender, age these are structured data, and personal shopping preferences, browsing habits, such as semi-structured or unstructured data will become the focus of business development. "Shaanxi Provincial Ministry of Industry and Letters Deputy director Cai Suchang said."

According to the introduction, Xi ' An is one of the eight communication nodes in China; the National backbone network interface and 10T above bandwidth, data exchange, caching, feedback time is not more than 20 milliseconds; Xi ' an every year 280,000 college graduates, professional talent gathered. All these provide favorable conditions for the construction of large data projects.

Last year, South Korea's Samsung Electronics put the 12-inch flash memory chip project in Shaanxi, the first phase of investment 7 billion U.S. dollars, and planning three lines a total of 30 billion dollars of investment.

Provincial Governor Lou Thrifty told reporters that Samsung's more than 200 supporting enterprises have more than 100 in Shaanxi settled, these enterprises can provide services to Samsung, but also to other customers to provide services, very easy to form an industrial chain. such as semiconductor integrated circuits, equipment industry, silicon materials industry and consumer electronics industry, will bring development opportunities for Shaanxi