The development of cloud computing past and present life

This article is an article about the past and present of clouds.

To come in, keep hope first - Dante

All software vendors should clearly remember the downturn in the entire software industry in 2012. The macroeconomic recession and the weak demand for IT by enterprises have greatly reduced the performance of domestic management software in that year. Some people say that cloud computing is like the last straw of all manufacturers of the year, so overnight, almost all sizes of IT vendors are in the "cloud" cross plug. Regardless of the media and manufacturers, have given a very high appraisal of cloud computing, cloud computing was once regarded as the next generation of revolution in science and technology. On May 10, 2008, IBM was put into operation in China's first cloud computing center established in Science and Education Industrial Park in Taihu New City, Wuxi, China. From this moment on, the cloud computing drama kicked off in China and slowly staged. In the IBM drama staged, various types of manufacturers come on stage. Overnight cloud computing vendors and products like mushrooms have emerged. More convenient, cost-saving, physical space savings, enterprises have greater flexibility and so on, those "cloud" benefits already in the industry climax after another, all this not only excite manufacturers abnormal, but also make companies groan endlessly. Cloud computing also really baffled the software vendors who seek a hint of new opportunities. There is a set of data that shows that in 2010, the market scale of China's cloud computing was 16.731 billion yuan and that of 2013 was 117.412 billion yuan. In three years, the average annual compound growth rate even reached 91.5%. This unexpected set of data, in addition to manufacturers fantastic, but also accelerated the pace of cloud computing in China. We went too far to forget why. - Gibbonon "cloud" overnight, with a large number of fans, the attractiveness also increased simultaneously, but the type of risk increased by the business also increased at any time. We know that cloud computing is a result of the convergence of traditional computer and network technologies such as distributed computing, parallel computing, utility computing, network storage, virtualization and load balancing. Therefore, the cloud is bound to be closely linked with these technologies. Public cloud data security, the definition of cloud center management authority, the vulnerability of private cloud in a single platform, etc., will undoubtedly not become a question mark in the heart of each business. At the same time, for McKinsey's report, foreign media columnists also listed some very representative issues: For example, due to its inherent dangers, companies should refuse to use the cloud? What is the amount of investment in the cloud? How much business enterprise resources management will be placed in the cloud? What returns will your business get through using the cloud? Where is the risk of using the cloud? ... In addition, the industry is also clear, it seems that every major cloud providers have experienced cloud failure, Google App Engine, Azure, Rackspace, SoftLayer, GoGrid, etc., although individual interruption event for each supplier, the impact However, the frequent occurrence of this series of incidents can not help but make enterprise users have doubts about the cloud, and let the cloud computing manufacturers forget why they started out. The pain is forced to leave the place - Kant despite all the above mentioned, it does not prevent IT manufacturers have one after another restructuring, and even some manufacturers are "forced to restructuring." So when the manufacturer has not figure out how to solve and face all kinds of questions, they have gone too far. And in this fight the outcome of the grading standards, it seems that began to become blurred. Those cloud computing vendors who have not been very prominent have gradually become the mainstream of the market. Once-out cloud computing has gradually gone down and started to fall by the way. We see that through the cloud computing, IBM, Oralce, SAP and other foreign manufacturers have introduced big data hardware and software all-in-one, these coincidental practices only shows a trend: the future, cloud-based platform, hardware and software will be integrated together. However, leaving aside their own research and development and operational pressure to make those software vendors feel under pressure or those eye-catching cross-border bigwigs. Whether it is IBM, Microsoft, Intel, VMware and other foreign manufacturers, or Huawei, ZTE and other traditional telecom service providers, or Baidu, Alibaba and other Internet vendors, have also to expand their own cloud computing market, all of this quickly The cloud computing from a blue ocean into the Red Sea. "Do not transition is to die." Because of this, these software companies have to join the cloud computing investment. According to statistics, in 2013, cloud computing, big data, social networking and mobile are gradually being integrated into one kind of application and service. We understand that in the past ERP was just structured data, and now we need more unstructured data in languages, sounds, pictures and ideas. Therefore, the integration of private cloud and public cloud has also become a trend. "Transformation" imminent. There is sunshine behind every ugly go. - Gilbert Inventory In the first half of 2013, frequent failures in cloud computing circles gave rise to endless worries. January 10, 2013 Dropbox service outage January 28, 2013 Facebook website outage January 31, 2013 Amazon Home Page Failure February, February 1-2 Microsoft Service Outage February 22, 2013 Microsoft Service Down Again 2013 3 CloudFare website crashes on March 3 March 18-19, 2013 Google Drive May 30, 2013 Dropbox breaks down again on June 3, 2013 Twitter service breaks However, after the accident was frequent in the first half of the year, there seemed to be some quietness in the second half , Is plowing, or ready to go, we do not know, just the calm surface let us see the hope. In fact, no matter what the cloud computing world, we can predict: cloud computing is already essential, it has developed from paper blueprint to become a real industry, by pressing harder and harder, has also been a revolutionary big data, large Broadband, large platforms, large services bundled together, deeply pregnant with a broad industry change, a profound change in the development pattern of the information industry and our way of life. In 2013, cloud computing services from international manufacturers fell into the country one after another, while the construction of the cloud computing infrastructure of domestic Internet companies was positive. The impact of Amazon AWS into China on the public cloud market was also positive. Therefore, in the forecast of China's ICT market released by IDC in late 2013, for the 2014 cloud computing market, IDC believes that the focus of China's cloud computing service market in 2014 will shift to a hybrid cloud-based model and users will also focus on solving the problems of external purchase Of the public cloud service products and their own infrastructure integration issues. In the private cloud architecture, how to build a software-defined data center will become a hot spot. In fact, from the beginning of 2014, we have seen some signs: Lenovo completed a continuous acquisition, the re-integration of the business sector cloud computing sector as one of the four main business; Microsoft co-handsome, cloud computing background Satya Nadella take over the CEO position IBM will invest 1.2 billion U.S. dollars in 2014 to build 15 new data centers around the world. More data show that by the end of 2015 China's cloud computing services market will reach 136 billion US dollars. 2014, is also destined to be an extraordinary year, perhaps this year, we will witness the cloud computing step by step into a pillar platform for IT.