The age of Cloud computing: dreams and reality overlap

Cloud Computing is an information technology resource delivery and usage pattern, the user obtains the hardware, the platform, the software service and so on through the network resources. Cloud computing is not only a technology but also a business model, which aims to manage and dispatch a large number of network-connected computing resources to the user on demand through unlimited and reasonable control and allocation of resources. The network that provides resources is called "cloud", but its core is still the data center, the enterprise and the individual user obtains the computation ability through the high-speed Internet, thus avoids the massive hardware investment.

A different calculation

Since Eric Schmidt, Google's chief executive, first proposed the concept of "cloud computing" (Cloud Computing), the term is now almost everywhere in a cool rhetoric and fashion trend. Oracle chairman Larry Ellison jokes that cloud computing now contains almost everything we need to do-you can't even find a company that doesn't claim to be a cloud.

Cloud computing, however, does not stop at a fresh concept or a packaging-chic technology concept, and today cloud computing has become a service, a computing that exists as a service.

In 2008, cloud computing like a whirlwind, sweeping the entire Chinese IT industry, when the cloud computing development to 2009, from the original concept of opinions, to the relevant enterprises to propose the landing plan, this year, in the cloud computing development process is of great significance, so the industry also defines the year as "cloud computing business year." But in the Chinese market, the development potential of cloud computing market is more interesting, as Microsoft Global Senior Vice President Zhang in the "First China cloud computing conference," said: "In the next five years 10 years, with mobile phones, netbooks and other new smart devices, the development of the global 6 billion people can benefit." In the past it centers were in the United States, in Europe, and now the focus shifted to China, Asia. ”

With the globalization trend of cloud computing, there is cloud computing everywhere in the life, we have to sigh, this will be a very huge market. Therefore, in order to win fame in the cloud computing field, the world's leading companies are chasing the pace of cloud computing, the development of their own cloud computing platform, and strive to fully meet the needs of the market. At present, IBM is the only one to provide the full range of cloud computing support-hardware, software and services manufacturers, its cloud footprint has been deeply rooted in China's land, IBM and Wuxi together to build China's first cloud computing center. All of Google's architecture and applications are based on the cloud, in with the Chinese institutions of higher learning, academia to carry out a lot of cooperation to promote its cloud computing concept, Google Greater China President Lee Kaifu once more than once to the young people to describe the beautiful "cloud" of the world.

Inevitably, the heat wave warms the hearts of local businesses, they are also starting to itch, not only Baidu is in the "Aladdin" program, designed to solve the existing search engine can not crawl and search "dark Net" information, its essence by the outside world as a manifestation of cloud computing, even the traditional IDC manufacturers are not to be outdone, Century interconnection also low-key in two years ago launched the cloud Computing project--cloudex, "Our cloud computing commercial layout, degree, speed, etc., are in accordance with the previous expectations." "Hu Guangbin, Vice general manager of the Internet Cloud computing division, said.

Chinese Academy of Engineering 10 NI to domestic enterprises in the field of cloud computing prospects have a lot of confidence, he believes that the cloud computing technology is very new, in the construction process, the domestic enterprises do not have the shackles of the past development model, so can be "light". Huang, dean of the China Mobile Research Institute, also agreed that the country is now moving from industrialization to informatization, in the process of moving beyond the traditional it model directly towards cloud computing.

At present, China's cloud computing industry ecological chain construction is underway, under the government's supervision, cloud computing service providers and software and hardware, network infrastructure providers and cloud computing consulting planning, delivery, operation, integration service providers, terminal equipment manufacturers, etc. together constitute the cloud industry ecological chain, for the government, Business and individual users to provide services.

Although there are still some concerns about cloud computing, but with the popularization of the concept, the industry has gradually formed a consensus on cloud computing: if we ignore the future technology represented by cloud computing, China will lag behind the world in the new wave of technological development, China needs to seize this round of industrial change, occupy the commanding heights of International industrial Division.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)