The biggest market for cloud computing in the future is the internet of things and smart cities

At the end of last year, the National Development and Reform Commission to allocate funds to support a group of application demonstration projects are also more seen as the central government is also encouraging all over the pilot to "watch" cloud computing. "Cloud computing is really foggy," said a government source in the West that once announced it would build a hub for millions of servers. With the cloud computing Center and cloud Computing Industry Park and other "cloud real estate" is rampant, experts have suggested that the state should be issued for the data center industry guidance.

The first in China to put forward the cloud computing value chain model of the century interconnection technology strategy and the Ministry of government affairs chief expert Dr. Li Zhijian in an interview recently said: "The concept of ' information network infrastructure ' has already been used in article 32nd of the country, and the data center's infrastructure as a support network will become a reservoir, As important as infrastructure, cloud computing also affects our daily lives like water and electricity, and the government does need to have top-tier design. And the reality is China's telecommunications network north and South two nets, internet ISP exports only three, data center topology should have a national planning. If you take into account energy prices, bandwidth, core technology and the use of innovative capabilities and other factors, high power consumption and operating costs of expensive data center industry should be ' national chess '. ”

"In fact, cloud computing is not so difficult to understand, simply summed up is ' hardware software, software services, service operation and operation of large-scale '." Li Zhijian said in an interview with China News of the press. He also pointed out that the traditional information system design to consider the main stand-alone environment, and cloud computing is mainly considered a large-scale server cluster environment, that is, data center.

In response to the technology and business logic behind the US cloud computing industry, Li Zhijian: "We can see that America's strategy can be divided into two schools." Apple,google and Amazon have built vertical ecosystems from content, apps, cloud to terminal, while Microsoft is still sticking to the platform portion of the cloud and the end, and the rest of the company is pulling partners to conquer the Shuaiqi under Microsoft. ”

"But given the potential for licensing and government regulation, cloud computing providers may be more like telecoms operators in China than traditional internet companies." So the technology and business models of Google and Amazon are unlikely to be replicated in China, and China's cloud computing industry has time to explore its path. "Li Zhijian does not think that technical backwardness will lead to the future of China's cloud computing industry will be successful multinational companies to monopolize."

The reporter also noted that the "Nuclear Shishou" national science and Technology major special "Twelve-Five" phase of the 2011 issue has involved a new network operating system and intelligent mass Data Resource center and so on. In this regard, Li Zhijian, "from the background technology, Google and Amazon should be a considerable innovation, the cloud computing technology to the high point is pass, that is, as a background development platform middleware, this will be a challenge to China's local industry." According to Morgan Stanley's assessment, there are only 5 global pass providers, including Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google and Saleforce. Of course, cloud computing will also provide new technical requirements for the ' cloud ' of basic software (operating systems, database management systems, middleware, and Office software). ”

Domestic experts have been stressing that "safe and controllable" is the bottom line of China's cloud computing, Li Zhijian Analysis: "Operating system virtualization is a new security issue because the cloud computing environment will bring new roles." The isolation of virtual machines on physical machines and the isolation of software multi-tenant can bring new security problems, both world-class technical problems and the key points of policy regulation for cloud operators. However, the ' cloud ' of the local area network does not have the bandwidth problem, if as the private cloud, the e-government cloud actually facilitates the centralized management and the security control of the document integration. ”

The reporter also found that cloud computing in China is not a foggy ground, the current market of Internet companies for cost considerations, the leasing of software and hardware and professional areas of the online use of supercomputers is a cloud model of the mature industry. In this regard, Li Zhijian that the "smart city" related to the Internet of Things is the largest market for cloud computing in the future, "of course, e-government, education, health care, security and transportation and other public areas, for the current enthusiasm for the development of cloud computing industry, the local government is more practical and obvious income of the ”

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)