The choice made by China Mobile in the cloud era

China Mobile's decision to shift from "mobile communications experts" to "Mobile information specialists" means that traditional telecoms operators ' systems will be broken. The traditional operator's infrastructure is the network infrastructure construction, such as telephone, exchange, transmission, on this basis will provide some value-added services. What is the slogan "information expert" by China Mobile? Across the era of information experts, the whole society has gradually become the core of information services as a service, China Mobile.

In addition to the "network infrastructure", but also the operation of "application infrastructure." We want to make Internet facilities, the server into strategic resources, and network as important, so called "Application infrastructure." In the age of information service, people's experience of application is far more than the function of application itself, in other words, experience determines whether the service will be chosen by the user.

In this era, terminals also become very important and terminals become infrastructure. In order for the service to be effectively displayed in front of the user, the operator must control the terminal platform. We also have to operate "terminal infrastructure", so we said that terminal, application, network Three infrastructure is China Mobile as a "Mobile information experts" need to master the resources in the new competitive era, without mastering these resources can not become a good operator. Operators can not only invest to build networks, but also to do applications, to do terminals.

For example OPhone platform, now has launched the first generation of products, we will continue to optimize it, let it maintain the world's advanced level. China Mobile is involved in the Android Open Source Alliance (OHA) and will continue to work with the Open Source Alliance to share our innovative technology with the Open Source Alliance. China Mobile wants OMS to compete with Symbian and Windows for three points. Our target is that Chinese mobile users use ophone in half of smartphone users. By 2013, nearly 300 million of users are expected to use smartphones, with 150 million of them using Ophone.

By then, Ophone+mobilemarket's combination will drive the dream net the second Take-off, realizes the dream net two times to start a business, will also attract the massive developer to develop Ophone the application to put to the Mobilemarket platform sale, and realizes creates the rich.

Push cloud computing industry chain

With the OPhone platform also need to have a cloud, cloud computing and ophone as important. "Cloud" is the next generation of the application infrastructure. In the age of information service, it requires huge computational power.

Google is the pioneer of cloud computing, Google's computing costs compared to the traditional computing equipment is 1/100; storage costs compared to the traditional device is 1/60, operating costs are the use of traditional architecture of the enterprise 1/3;google all servers are more than 80%-90% efficiency, And the traditional operators of equipment use efficiency of only 10%-15%, there is a very large gap, the cost of ordinary enterprises is Google 3 times times even 5 times times more. The core of Google's technology is cloud computing, and the core of cloud computing is to connect a cloud of low-cost, large, generic PC-level computers, and then provide reliable, efficient computing services.

We can divide cloud computing into three levels, one is virtual cloud Facility (infrastructure), the other is Cloud Platform (Platform), and the third is Cloud application (ap-plication). In these three areas, Google is the most powerful platform and application, and the virtual facilities are the best Amazon. The cloud that serves the enterprise is called "Private Cloud", the cloud that serves the public is called "Public cloud".

China Mobile is ready to develop virtual facilities and application platforms, and then turn this into a service provider, and cloud applications can be developed by application developers. Last year, China Mobile in Shanghai did some data mining application test, can reduce the hardware cost to the original 1/10, improve the performance of more than 7 times times. China Mobile is now divided into 6,000 of the data volume of the system, each year also adds 2000 T. IT systems are afraid of large data, cloud computing is afraid of small data, data small economy, the bigger the better, the cloud can do thousands of T, tens of thousands of T no problem.

The China Mobile Research Institute has been studying cloud computing since 2007, starting in 2009 to build a cloud computing platform called "Bigcloud", and set up a cloud computing lab, set up a 256-server experimental cloud platform and a data-mining pilot in some provincial companies in China Mobile. "Big Cloud Plan" to release the first generation of products this year, like OMS, after the big cloud out of our hope to be able to enter from the experimental platform to commercial, and eventually to industrialization. The Institute has now upgraded a cloud of 256 servers to 1024 servers, becoming the industry's leading large cloud platform, and has now built the platform into a cloud-service system that can provide computing services remotely, experiment with provincial companies, and do data mining using cloud computing methods. We hope that after the big Cloud out, next year can be incorporated into the future of the company's IDC Construction and service system, to provide the community with cloud services, so that there is a "private cloud" and "public cloud."

It should be said that China Mobile cloud computing has come to the forefront. In May this year we are ready to launch a cloud at the second China Cloud Computing Conference, which will also contribute a version to the China Cloud Computing Commission, free of charge to the Cloud Computing Commission to build a research platform.

According to the development plan, China Mobile will be able to dominate cloud computing standards in the future, users of the use of cloud computing standards to develop applications can directly use China Mobile's cloud computing platform services, rather than porting applications. That means China Mobile can push the huge industrial chain behind cloud computing. By the time China's smartphone app developers use OPhone, cloud-computing developers using cloud, China Mobile to become "Mobile information experts" will be around the corner.