The domestic IaaS manufacturers compete

In recent years, cloud computing in foreign development in full swing, domestic manufacturers also aim at the big cake each exerting force, only to occupy a seat status. To 2011, the domestic Cloud express line, million nets and other enterprises have begun to take shape, this article focused on the inventory of domestic IAAS vendors in the cloud services in the difference.

In fact, many of China's IaaS service providers were born in CDN data Center service providers and Internet providers. The former are from leasing host, escrow server development, not anxious from the IaaS services to make money, including the representative of the enterprise including Cloud Express line, Blue Flood, China million net. The latter, from the Internet services to the transformation of enterprises, including Aliyun and Sheng, Sheng mainly for online games manufacturers and partners to provide traditional IaaS services, forming and the former IaaS manufacturers competition, and Aliyun for many years accumulation of small and medium-sized enterprise customers to provide vertical application services, the focus points are different.

Following the traditional IaaS vendors from the billing model, operating system, data center distribution of several aspects of comparative analysis. Finally, the vertical application of Aliyun is analyzed.

Traditional IaaS Vendors

Billing mode:

The content of IaaS charges mainly includes host configuration, network traffic and storage three aspects. Where the host configuration refers to the leased machine CPU, memory and hard disk size, network traffic refers to the flow of data into and out of the host network, storage refers to the host itself, in addition to the size of the hard disk, but also to the host extended additional hard disk space.

From the above table can be seen in the cloud fast line to the host to pay by the hour or the package annual prepaid strategy, and million network can only one year of rental mainframe, to a large extent, limited the customer's use of the time, in contrast to the Sheng billing strategy more flexible, that is, can be used on demand by the hour, You can also reduce the cost of using a monthly package year.

For network traffic charges, three manufacturers are using GB is the actual use of the amount of charge. But the Cloud Express has introduced another special way of charging--the highest bandwidth upfront fee. Maximum bandwidth prepaid is the charge by limiting the maximum bandwidth of the user, in which the maximum bandwidth value (5M or 10M) can be selected by the user, that is, by annual or monthly billing, using the prepayment system. In fact, this is equivalent to provide a fixed bandwidth of the monthly package year service.

On the storage side, the Cloud Express line and million network do not provide additional storage services, if the customer's host hard disk space, need to increase the hard drive, can only replace the host configuration. Compared to the grand to human some, to provide a GB pay for the host to increase the disk space. When a customer's application requires a large number of hard drives, it is clearly a cost-effective way to provide storage space by replacing the host configuration.

Operating：

Now the mainstream operating system mainly includes Windows and Linux, in which Linux is divided into many versions, the operating systems provided by each manufacturer are described in the following table:

As you can see from the table above, the Cloud Express supports the most comprehensive version of the operating system, providing 5.2 and 5.4 of the current mainstream Windows 2003,redhat Enterprise version 5.2 and 5.4,centos, and supports both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems. In Redhat and CentOS, the network supports only 5.4 version of the 64-bit operating system. Sheng does not support Redhat enterprise operating systems. Although these manufacturers offer genuine Windows operating systems, they are no more expensive than Linux operating systems.

Data Center Distribution:

Because access to the application may come from various parts of the country, the degree of distribution of the cloud Vendor data Center also represents the speed of access in some sense.

You can see that the data center of the Cloud Express is the most, covering most of the first-tier cities. Million Network data center is located in Beijing and Hangzhou, which Hangzhou's data center and Taobao data center together.

Data centers are places where hosts and network connections are placed, requiring a large amount of space and network resources. Due to different areas of house prices and network resources prices are different, in different data centers, the price of charges vary greatly. Take the Cloud Express as an example, in response to the host configuration charges: Jinhua double line > Zhanjiang telecom = Qingdao Unicom = Beijing BGP, because the use of Jinhua Telecom and Unicom dual-line room, the price will naturally be more expensive. In the network traffic: Beijing bgp> Jinhua Double line > Zhanjiang telecom = Qingdao Unicom. BGP (Border Gateway Kyoto, Boundary Gateway Protocol) is a routing protocol used to connect to independent systems on the Internet. This is because the advantage of using the BGP room is that the server only needs to set an IP address, the best access route is determined by the backbone routers on the network according to the route hop number and other technical specifications, not to occupy the server any system resources. The upstream routing and downlink routing of the server can choose the best path, so it can realize high-speed single IP dual-line access. This also caused the Beijing BGP machine Room network traffic price than Zhanjiang Telecom and Qingdao Unicom is several times more expensive.

Aliyun

Aliyun is a stand-alone company under the Alibaba Group, which has transformed itself from Internet services to provide some vertical cloud services. Mainly includes mobile phone cloud, pioneering cloud and development cloud.

Mobile phone cloud is mainly combined with Aliyun mobile phones, users use the mobile phone's built-in Aliyun operating system to enjoy the cloud storage services, including synchronization and backup contacts, text messages, call records, albums and notes. is actually the common cloud storage and cloud synchronization function. Similar to Apple's proposed icloud.

Entrepreneurial cloud is subdivided into community site cloud, rendering cloud, electric Shangyun and game cloud. These clouds are services for a specific area of application. The first three cloud has been operating outside, the game cloud is about to be online.

Community cloud mainly for small and medium internet community entrepreneurs, through the Community software system + software hosting platform + website operation tools, such as a package of service models, to help them grow at low cost and fast.

The rendering cloud is intended for film studios, providing rendering capabilities for movies, animations, and high-definition images. In terms of cost, it solves the problem that the production company spends large sums of money to buy hardware, hardware cost recovery is difficult, and it can meet the needs of users in a short time, which needs a lot of computing ability and real time release computing ability.

Electric quotient cloud computing is a one-stop solution for electric enterprises, which is designed to provide a rich and diverse host, storage and computing infrastructure for electric companies.

Game Cloud Computing is a cloud computing solution designed specifically for game operators. Game operators can choose to upgrade computing, storage, bandwidth and other flexible resources according to the operating target of online players. In addition, in data security, we can flexibly present unified security Service from each product module.

Development cloud refers to services that provide similar PAAs, including application hosting, relational database services, open Storage services, load balancing services, and mapping and precision analysis. The goal is to provide developers with better application development platforms and APIs.

Through the inventory of the mainstream cloud computing companies, we can find that the competition is mainly to provide ordinary bare metal leasing services. Many companies from the CDN Data Center in the transformation of the operators in the operation of host leasing has a congenital advantage, relatively Sheng this is born in the Internet industry, the enterprise physical resources rich. Host and storage is a burning money industry, especially when the user base is enlarged, so the service provider must have sufficient economic strength. Aliyun, by contrast, is more innovative in providing vertical cloud computing services for a particular industry because it is difficult to achieve success in all industries, while gaining a foothold in a niche can also generate huge revenue.