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.

An era of On demand

There is a popular saying about the possible changes in cloud computing: There will only be five computers in the world, one for Google, the other for IBM, one for Yahoo, the other for Amazon, and one for Microsoft. But that doesn't prevent you from traveling in the cloud, because cloud computing will turn everything into reality.

In fact, it almost became true, "cloud computing is not a concept, I can very clearly feel that more and more information on the Internet, but the computer needs to install less software, when things go to the next step, the computer itself does not exist, you can use a calculator to the Internet, from the ' Cloud ' leased memory and processor. I've always wondered what would happen if this era really came along. Now many things are not done by hand, we can decompose the process into different ' clouds ', the new technology will always change the product and the shape of the work. "Warner Bros., the game designer, said he was working on the principle of cloud computing to complete the creation of a magazine called" 48 Hours "in 48 hours, a magazine that has been hugely successful.

According to related forecasts, once the scale of cloud computing and put into use, will provide people with a new consumption, life model, at the same time, the traditional IT industry will also have a huge impact, people no longer care about which company the software is produced, just as people do not care about the current mailbox is which site mailbox.

In this connection, the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the European and Asian Academies, Professor Li Deii, a renowned computer engineering and artificial intelligence expert, said: In the era of cloud computing, computer hardware, input equipment, software and other traditional IT industry will change dramatically, then, such as computers, televisions, cameras, mobile phones and other modern digital devices will gradually integrate the functions, More and more electronic devices "Sibuxiang" will be produced. Moreover, traditional laptops will soon disappear and be replaced by multi-function terminals.

In short, cloud computing will make the future of the Internet a supercomputing paradise. "The basic principle of cloud computing is that the Enterprise data center runs more like the Internet by distributing computing across a large number of distributed computers, rather than on a local computer or a remote server." This allows the enterprise to switch resources to the required applications and to access the computer and storage systems as needed. "At the IBM Innovation Forum in Shanghai in mid-November, Willy Chiu, vice president of IBM's High-performance on Demand Solutions team, explained to reporters.

Zhang, Microsoft's global senior vice president, also said future cloud computing will be more open, and as the computing needs are delivered to the far end of the cloud, terminals will become more diverse: PCs, netbooks, smartphones, automobiles, electrical appliances--as long as the charged objects can enjoy the cloud services like "power".

This will be a revolutionary move, just as it has shifted from an ancient single generator model to a centralized power supply model. It means that computing power can also be used as a commodity circulation, like gas, water and electricity, easy to use, low-cost.

Let the cloud compute everything

Last year, "Plants vs Zombies" rage on PC and mobile terminals, the game can be popular because it does not need to download packets, no need to install the client and CD-ROM, the player can only open the page to enter the game, the reason for this casual game from the source to achieve the changes in the traditional game, Thanks to the maturity of cloud technology.

In addition, search engines and ipads have changed our lives in the form of cloud computing. Cloud computing technology has given the search engine powerful information processing capabilities, our life has been inseparable from the search engine, when we encounter problems can not solve, the first response is to ask the search engine. Of course, the ipad does not use cloud computing technology, but it is the best terminal device for cloud computing. Its portability, good network support, and a wide range of software applications are not the future direction of cloud computing technology. So the ipad is quietly bringing cloud computing technology into every corner of our lives.

At present, the global cloud computing speed has been accelerated, some domestic manufacturers have identified their own development plans in the cloud computing, the introduction of cloud computing products and solutions, and more and more companies, government departments and education industry are exploring how to use cloud computing to save money for themselves, improve profitability. It is expected that in recent years, cloud computing will be more widely used in many industries, such as government, finance, telecom and logistics.

As a branch of cloud computing technology, cloud security technology has achieved great success in identifying viruses and trojans through a large number of client participation and a large number of server-side statistical analysis. Rising, 360 security guards, trends, etc. have launched a cloud security solutions. With the "cloud security" architecture, antivirus software can collect virus samples faster, process the virus faster, and can stop the network before it threatens to reach the user's computer, anti-virus efficiency greatly increased.

At the same time, cloud applications and cloud services are also growing in variety, compared to PAAs and Iaas,saas is currently the main use of cloud computing applications, research found that in the future to consider the deployment of cloud computing users, hire mailboxes, online anti-virus, web conferencing, online office is the most user-considered applications. But these are just a handful of them compared to the colorful cloud services.

Industry analysts said, in terms of cloud services, "scalability" is a sticking point, cloud service requirements can not only meet the personalized needs of users, but also requires it to meet 1 million or even more requirements. If it vendors provide the security, performance, and availability of cloud services, they will be exposed to potential crises. Therefore, maintaining the best performance and scalability of user-critical business is not only the demand of users to purchase cloud services, but also the great challenge of cloud service providers. Therefore, cloud services are more likely to be widely used by users only if they are committed to delivering services that guarantee performance, availability, and responsiveness.

This shows that it is not important who can really become the spokesperson for Cloud computing, and it is important that with this series of it giants behind it, there is no doubt that cloud computing has a bright future, and the blueprint for cloud computing has come to light: In the future, you just need a laptop or an iphone, We can achieve everything we need through Web services, even tasks such as supercomputing. From this perspective, end users are the real owners of cloud computing.