The construction of cloud computing in China should avoid the mistaken idea of "Luliang"

June 7, the application delivery maker F5 NX President and Chief executive officer John McAdam, said in an interview that a few months ago when he visited a client in a cloud environment deployment in Beijing, he found that China's cloud computing project is significantly larger than the United States. China has many regional clouds of cities, but in the United States, large cloud computing projects are often the public cloud built by a large enterprise and then sold to smaller businesses.

Earlier, China's cloud computing expert committee member Peng has said that China is a strong "cloud computing" upsurge, but the Chinese city "cloud computing heat" planning can not pursue scale, but should avoid low-level repeat construction and blind planning. The aforementioned F5 NX Company has been involved in a number of industries in the industry as a whole, the results of the observation, may just provide evidence.

The Great Leap forward movement of the Chinese government's cloud computing industry began in 2010. Guided by central policy and financial support, this year's cloud computing industry park in China. October 2010, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a joint "on the implementation of cloud computing Services Innovation Pilot Demonstration work of the notice" to determine in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Wuxi, five cities in the first development of cloud computing Services Innovation pilot demonstration work, The general thinking and strategic layout of the national development of cloud computing are clarified. The government-driven cloud computing industry has kicked off

"From the point of view of energy alone, we have made a statistic, a cloud computing server consumes about 5000 yuan per year of electricity, if the construction of a 1 million-machine cloud computing Center, only electricity costs will be 5 billion yuan, this is a big problem in China's energy-intensive." Peng to the reporter to calculate a debt.

For all over the "cloud computing heat" peng bright yellow card. "Hope that the Government will guide the pursuit of Cloud computing center of the scale, but also to consider cost-effective, energy-saving emission reduction and application effects of the problem." The scale of the cloud can be dynamically extended, and the best approach is to expand as the scale of the application expands to avoid idle and idling. ”

According to the forecast, 2012 global Cloud computing market scale will reach 42 billion US dollars, the related industry output value will surpass 450 billion US dollars. The global cloud computing market will reach 148 billion trillion dollars by 2014. Looking at the huge potential of the cloud computing market, China in October 2010 identified five cities in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Wuxi as the pilot model city for the domestic development of cloud computing, which also marks the beginning of the country's cloud computing in the state-led, from the concept gradually to the application level. At least 20 cities in China have announced plans for cloud computing, and almost all IT equipment and software vendors have announced their entry into the cloud.

The US is the cradle of the "cloud computing" concept, and cloud computing has been on the U.S. government's agenda in 2009 after President Barack Obama appointed Kundera as the U.S. Chief information officer. The U.S. federal government's cloud computing development plan is divided into three steps: opening the official Federal Apps.gov website (opened September 15, 2009), integrating business, social media, productivity applications and cloud IT services, and building a federal cloud computing demonstration project. In the 2010, cloud computing has been widely used in federal, state and local government agencies, and the federal government is buying cloud computing services in large numbers (2012).

The actions taken at all levels are primarily to assess and develop cloud computing standards, develop cloud computing solutions, sign procurement contracts with cloud computing providers, and promote cloud computing applications within government agencies.

It can be seen that the U.S. federal government has no intention of leading the direction of cloud computing, the main point is to adopt better technology to reduce its IT costs, specific measures are to create market demand for government procurement to stimulate the development of the cloud computing industry, by the government IT system security requirements, Performance requirements such as written procurement contracts to standardize the content of cloud services, to urge cloud service quality improvement. As for the construction of IT infrastructure, it is left to all providers to solve their own problems by market means to promote their development.

Examples from the United States may be useful for reference.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)