The DT era is coming, the top ten trends of cloud computing

In the era of DT (DataTechnology), Jack Ma is keen on the new concept of walking. This is another technological change following IT (information technology), the main purpose is to explore the value of massive data, making data a new engine of economic growth. Data and finance, and platform are listed as the three major strategies of Alibaba. Ali’s data strategy is based on Alibaba Cloud. Recently, Alibaba Cloud Sharing Day × Yunqi Conference Beijing Summit was held, combining the disclosure information at the summit with the weekday observation. The author summarized the X development trend of cloud computing in the DT era.

1. Big data infrastructure

Faster startup companies can mine the vast amounts of data they have mastered. Government departments and large enterprises that have been mastering massive data gold mines have begun to value and use data values. These organizations are not good at technology. There is no infrastructure for storing and analyzing massive amounts of data. The ability to “eat big data” is precisely because of the rapid development of cloud computing in recent years. Governments and state-owned enterprises such as Zhejiang, Guizhou, Haidian, Sinopec, and Customs I have already settled in Aliyun to enjoy the big data feast. Through the cloud computing platform, organizations can collect and store massive amounts of data at low cost, and mine their own data based on dedicated APIs or personalized solutions. Cloud computing platforms have become the core infrastructure of big data.

2. Standardization of data usage

Some people think that the essence of big data is selling privacy. In the past, cloud computing platforms also have the problem of ambiguous data ownership and usage rights. Alibaba Cloud launched the “Data Protection Initiative” this time: “Data is a customer asset, the cloud computing platform must not be used for other purposes, and has the responsibility and obligation to help customers protect the privacy, integrity and availability of their data.” This is the domestic For the first time, the clear definition of data ownership and usage rights of cloud computing platforms, eliminating data security concerns of users and customers, this initiative was responded by giants such as Intel. At the same time, the "People's Republic of China Cyber Security Law (Draft)" was recently published in the full text of the National People's Congress Online, and publicly solicited opinions from the public. A very important part of it is the protection of the privacy data of netizens. Whether from regulation or industry, data usage will be standardized.

3. One-stop and vertical dispute

Alibaba Cloud advocates a one-stop service, from domain name, filing, analysis, computing, network, storage, database, security, massive data analysis to Internet middleware, all the services customers need in the computing infrastructure field. Ali cloud found, no need to face multiple services. Alibaba Cloud has introduced more than 200 large-scale partners through the “Cloud Integration Plan” and has expanded its global partners to 2,000 in the next three years. Corresponding to these are some vertical cloud services, such as Jinshan Cloud, which is the main storage. The future outcome is likely to be that the platform such as Alibaba Cloud becomes a unified window. For cloud computing services, it is the portal, and various vertical cloud services serve customers through Alibaba Cloud.

4. High performance computing

Data is exploding, and some areas have higher requirements for fast, real-time processing of massive amounts of data, including operations on data, reading and writing, and transmission. For the read-write intensive industry, Alibaba Cloud has released an SSD cloud disk that supports 20,000 reads and writes per second and 256MB of data throughput. It will release SSD local disks with 200,000 read and write operations. At the same time, it also released batch calculation of 100,000 core concurrent processing, which can be applied to industries such as gene sequencing, new drug development and film rendering, visual computing, etc. The GPU-based high-performance computing service and accelerator will be launched to support deep learning. Alibaba Cloud's new services are all pointing to "high-performance" computing. With the rise of the artificial intelligence industry, the demand for high-performance computing has become stronger. In addition to Ali, Baidu has also released a big data engine and gradually opened up Baidu's brain. .

5. From calculation to architecture

The technical problems faced by enterprises are not only the inability to support the development of the business and the hunger for data, but also the shortcomings of the soft power of the technical architecture. Most enterprises lack architects, especially the architecture that satisfies the characteristics of Internet applications. For example, it needs to support high concurrency, need to have sufficient security, and need to balance computing network storage. Alibaba Cloud has launched an enterprise-class Internet architecture solution to provide application framework, message queue, distributed database and other services. This means that cloud computing not only outputs computing power and resources, but outputs "intelligence" and "experience", sharing the architectural experience that the Internet giant is good at. Along with the architecture offering, the cloud computing platform is becoming more and more active in the open source movement, opening up some key components to the industry.

6. From software to hardware

The cloud computing platform used to be a customer of hardware vendors such as Intel, IBM, and ARM. It is a customer of IDC providers such as China Mobile. It purchases other people's hardware and network infrastructure, deploys its own software system to provide services to customers, and the core is software. As the cloud computing platform grows, they sink to the hardware, start to customize and even develop hardware, on the one hand to save costs, on the other hand better to meet the business. Alibaba Cloud is about to release an SSD local disk that supports 200,000 reads and writes per second. Baidu Cloud also has an ARM-based server tailored for its own.

7. From resources to talent

If you only provide a platform, you still can't solve the pain points of the company, especially some large enterprises and fast-growing startups. They face various unexpected problems in their daily business. At the same time, they need professional guidance on important matters such as architecture. . Therefore, the cloud computing platform began to provide consulting talent services to some important customers, and stationed engineers who understand cloud computing, big data and the Internet to meet the needs of customers. This is a new direction for the future of cloud computing: not only output computing power and resources, but also export professional cloud computing talent. This will be a new business model for cloud computing platforms, and will also create a career like cloud computing consultant engineers.

8. The tide of internationalization

The world is getting more and more flat, Chinese companies are increasingly going out, and it is easier for foreign companies to expand into the Chinese market. Cloud computing is also catering to this trend. Alibaba Cloud has established overseas data centers such as North America and Dubai, and data centers in Japan and Singapore are being established. At the same time, Amazon, Microsoft and other overseas cloud computing giants have also accelerated their pace of entering China, which means that Aliyun and Amazon and other overseas giants are fully competing on the international stage. The cloud computing platform goes out to sea, helping overseas companies to better serve Chinese users, helping Chinese companies to better serve overseas users, and relying on China's local cheaper labor costs and other advantages, is expected to become a big player in the world.

9. Industry program templated

The cloud computing platform is not an outsourcing company, not a labor-intensive business. However, the needs of customers are indeed ever-changing. Different industries and different customers have different needs for cloud computing platforms. For example, social security, financial and other industries have extremely high security requirements. For example, entrepreneurs need relatively little service and are sensitive to price. The best way to meet the specific needs of a large number of customers is to abstract out different types, and no such type of customer provides a templated solution. Alibaba Cloud has gathered more than 50 industry solutions covering eight areas of games, multimedia, government, medical, Internet of Things, and finance. At the same time, Alibaba Cloud's open ecological approach allows third-party cloud computing services to meet certain personalizations. Customers with outstanding needs. Industry template + the introduction of third parties, a good solution to the complex diversity of cloud computing needs.

10. Customer rights protection

The cloud computing platform cannot completely avoid sudden disasters, and once it happens, it will affect the customer's business and cause losses. In the past, the processing of this block has always been a vague zone. In the future, there will be clearer terms of responsibility between cloud computing platforms and cloud computing customers to protect the interests of cloud computing customers. A better solution is to share the risk through insurance. Alibaba Cloud launched cloud computing insurance, providing each customer with additional protection. Alibaba Cloud is insured for every customer for free, eliminating worries. Future cloud computing insurance will become the standard for cloud computing platforms.