The era of cloud computing only opened the curtain

First, the story of a mainlander fisherman going to the seaside to fish.

There are a group of fishermen in the mainland for many years of fishing, although the lake around the fish can be caught, but the eyes tell everyone, far away there is a larger "lake", the name is called the sea, where the water is very broad, there must be more fish. Because the concept of the sea is too hot, many fishermen take the fish from the lake as a "fish" sales, anyway, customers are not clear fish and freshwater fish, so the fish city, "marine fish" everywhere.

At the same time, the fishermen with a strong spirit of adventure set out in the direction of the sea, and they got the "venture capital" of the wealthy old fishermen in the village--the old fishermen who had long been out of work, but were willing to use their earned money to fund young fishermen and profit by it. The fishermen who are moving toward the sea are a mixed bag, with young fishermen with real horizons and strength, as well as Pathfinder, who are mingled with the followers of fish in troubled waters. "Go to sea to catch big fish" is their unanimous slogan.

In the face of the vast sea, we are excited, but because they do not understand the temperament of the sea, how to fish in the sea is lack of confidence, methods and tools. So, they shout very much every day, the movement is many, but no one really fished the big fish. Finally, one day in 2012, a young man named Zuckerberg, with a honed long name for Facebook, fished from the sea a sea fish that was bigger than any freshwater fishes ever caught.

Facebook is not a traditional enterprise, its business philosophy, business model, hardware and software implementation of the framework, and other traditional IT companies, it never claimed to be a cloud computing enterprise, but it is just about to pull off the cloud computing era of the first successful enterprise.

Everyone at the seaside saw, the news to all the fishermen at the seaside excited, the news back to the mainland immediately attracted more mainland fishermen to come. "Go to the sea and catch the big fish!" "The slogan is loud, and in this demonstration, the venture capitalists who make their living by investing in fishermen are investing more-and everyone wants to get a slice of the next big fish from the sea."

Are not all excited voices, some in the mainland to watch a lifetime of fishing observers, touch white beard, with a trembling voice said: "Crazy!" It's crazy! The widespread madness of the fishermen heralds a huge bubble in the fishing business that will soon lead to a slump and doom in the fishing business. ”

Because according to the experience of white beard watchers, every time in history from the lake fished out the big fish, the next period of time it is difficult to hit the fish, and even starve a group of fishermen. This is indeed a little effect, scared a few fishermen ready to go to the seaside, but more empty pockets of fishermen regardless of these, they are only want to get to the seaside as soon as possible, to find a good way to catch a fish belonging to their own sea, and thus wealthy ...

The above story is ongoing, the end of no one knows, but I think that cloud computing represents the expansion of the IT world, is the story above the sea relative to the lake. The world and China's academia are still studying cloud computing, trying to understand the business model, software architecture, and implementation methods of the cloud computing era, but have not yet reached a conclusion. It is like the fishermen of the mainland to the seaside, they will find that their familiar fishing methods and tools are no longer applicable, need to understand the temperament of the sea, the need to invent new fishing methods.

The sea, who now catches the fish? There are only a handful of Facebook, Twitter, Google and Apple, and it's exciting that only Apple is a veteran fisherman from the mainland, and the rest are young fishermen from the past penniless. The fishermen who had caught the fish did not rest comfortably, but were constantly gongchenglvede and expanding their territory, trying to turn themselves into a generation of sea fishing.

In the past, the lack of creative fishermen could have lived by imitating other clever fishermen, relying on the geographic fragmentation of the lakes. In the sea fishing era, these have become the past, many of the rules have been completely overturned, the IT world in the rapid increase in capacity, but also become very flat, winner-takes-all phenomenon more and more obvious.

In the mobile operating system market, Apple and Google, in a few years, have basically filled in the past in the area of the smart phone. Facebook and Twitter are everywhere, and in addition to the high level of firewalls in individual countries, they are basically sweeping across the globe, deep into people's political, economic and personal lives. The winner takes all the phenomenon makes each to the big sea fisherman all very anxious, because relies on the imitation to win the possibility to be very small, the price is very huge, but oneself is a momentary Jiwuso, can only envy anxious.

In the author's eyes, the era of cloud computing only opened the curtain. In China and other developed countries, cloud computing standards have not been developed. In this regard, I am optimistic that, if the cloud computing era of business exploration to a great map of the Empire era game, then, although many players, but for this resource-rich larger maps, the exploration work has just begun.

From this year onwards, with the help of cloud computing, smart terminals in the post-PC era are about to start replacing PC battles in personal applications and commercial applications. Forrester, a consultancy, surveyed 10,000 companies across 17 countries, and 1/5 of those surveyed used Apple products at work, while another survey showed that most of the top 500 companies in the US have already deployed or are considering deploying ipads in commercial applications. As for the author's personal experience, the PC role can be completely replaced by the current intelligent terminals, which will be a market volume of more than a trillion dollars in the development market.