Song, president of VMware Greater China: Cloud computing still has three big worries

As a technology hotspot for several years, cloud computing is still the top of the 14th session of the High Fair. But unlike in the past, cloud computing is moving from illusory concepts to landing, and is localized in the four core areas of "Yunan", "Cloud terminals", "Clouds Meeting" and "Cloud Home".

During the Shenzhen High Fair, Beijing also hosted a cloud computing forum-vforum 2012. The "VMware Annual Cloud Maturity Survey Results" released by the Forum on China's cloud computing industry shows cloud computing will have greater potential in 2013, but cloud computing still has three major concerns in China: the three major barriers to cloud adoption in China are data privacy, cloud applications and data loss control (70%), Integration with existing data center internal systems (67%) and regulatory and compliance issues (67%).

"Cloud computing in China has become a ' leader ' project, which is very beneficial to the development of cloud computing," November 20, Times weekly reporter in the interview with Song, the president of VMware China, in the face of cloud computing currently exists "cloud worries", he pointed out very pointedly, "hung" Cloud computing's name is useless, cloud computing to be pragmatic development, to first determine ' cloud computing can solve what problem ', this is the key. ”

Cloud Concept Landing

Times Weekly: According to the "VMware Annual Cloud Maturity survey results," cloud computing in China's penetration rate is accelerating. Can you give some examples?

Song: I am optimistic about the growth trend of the cloud computing market in China. 81% per cent of China's respondents believe they will grow in 2012 and 2013, or at least some expansion, the second largest in the Asia-Pacific and Japan-surveyed countries. From the company I contacted, Cloud computing has become the "top priority" project, which is an important driver of cloud computing popularization.

Times Weekly: You have been in the cloud market line, this year, China's cloud computing market changes?

Song: Over the past two years, many companies have wondered whether cloud computing is just a buzzword, but now most customers know what's going on with cloud computing. We do research feedback back to more than half of the enterprise planning cloud computing is already the "leader" project, it's not just it engineering, it's because they understand that cloud computing is not just an IT system, but how an enterprise can use technology to increase productivity and innovation, which I think is a big change over the past year.

Times Weekly: The Shenzhen High Fair, cloud computing is moving from the concept to landing applications. How do you think cloud computing really landed?

Song: In the past, the game Maker's activities, also known as cloud computing, which is the largest "conceptualization", but now the change is that more and more mobile office business and access to corporate applications and data through a variety of mobile devices, people began to pay more attention to cloud computing security and potential technical vulnerabilities. At the same time, more and more companies are starting to consider the return on investment in cloud computing.

Solving Cloud worries

Times weekly: Cloud computing has been facing security problems, which is also the http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13638.html "> Cloud computing development process in the face of the hidden worries, many companies do not dare to put the core system on the cloud, How to solve the security problem?

Song: Cloud computing is divided into four phases, the first is in the development of test environment, the second is in some non-critical production applications, the third is in the key applications to start, the fourth phase of our call it full cloud. Now most of China's customers are in phase two or three, and the fourth stage is very small.

In fact, today's cloud computing development is not a technical barrier, security issues have been resolved, but companies because they do not understand, so still worried. From this point of view, cloud computing needs more promotion.

Times Weekly: What do you think is the biggest problem facing cloud computing today?

Song: The first is the concept, the correct understanding of cloud computing, cloud computing is not "face project", it is really able to solve the problem of the project. Second, the construction of ideas, first think of what they need to solve the problem, and then the right medicine, step-by-step design of a pragmatic enterprise cloud computing development process.

Times weekly: Some time ago, I saw the media in the United States to choose a subversive enterprise-level companies, VMware ranked first, it has some evaluation criteria, you think VMware subversion where?

Song: Traditional It has a lot of physical principles, VMware is disruptive virtual technology and software Center management. For example, through VMware Management, the cloud computing Center can save more power, this is a major breakthrough.

Times Weekly: What should cloud computing be like in the future?

Song: Although I have no crystal ball in my hand, I can predict that the future data center will be dominated by software. This August, VMware released the VMware vcloud Suite 5.1 Suite, the industry's first to support the building of "software-defined data centers," the goal is to simplify the cloud computing era technology landing.

The old data Center construction mode is that the user first selected hardware platform, database, middleware, management software, and then select a solution to implement. In the software definition Data center model, the user first considers the application-which application patterns are similar, which are core applications, which are secondary applications, and then builds the hardware platform based on these applications. Therefore, "Software definition data Center" can also be understood as "application definition Data Center", after the application is determined, hardware provisioning is realized through software.

Time Weekly: What technological changes will the cloud computing era bring?

Song: The future hardware vendors are still important, but the importance has been reduced. The hardware will be completely commercialized and standardized. In the U.S. market, hardware and software services share 3:7, in China this is the opposite proportion. However, the future Chinese market will certainly change, in the cloud computing trend, the protagonist will become a supporting role, the role will become the protagonist. Look at the European and American markets, the Chinese market is unlikely to become the world's only exception. It is clear that x86 is and will dominate the market to a greater extent.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)