The future of cloud computing has fallen, but it has been different

The global cloud computing market has started to grow at a rapid pace in 2008, with the market scale expected to reach $241 billion trillion in 2020, according to an analysis by Forrester Research, an independent institute. Windows Azure, the publicly-owned cloud computing platform that focuses on platform and infrastructure services, is also becoming more and more outstanding in the market.

But what is cloud computing? Such a huge market is clearly not just a web-service that every day "cloud computing platforms" promotes on Twitter, nor is it a proprietary term for PaaS, IaaS, SaaS, BPaaS, NaaS, etc. Cloud computing must be an industrial revolution that permeates the lives of everyone in the future, or it is part of the future.

Today, IT systems made up of computers, servers, networks, and software have become an essential infrastructure for any commercial operation--just like power supply. Different companies use electricity for different purposes, IT systems are the same: you go to the bottom of the sea to eat hot pot, waiting and ordering will eventually be distributed through the IT system; you play "Plants vs Zombies" on the tablet, from the Popcap game Studio server; you go to the cinema to watch "The Brave Tales", every shot inside, Are the result of thousands of computer operations. Even the company transferred to your bank account of the wages, it must also be inseparable from the IT system.

The difference between the use of electricity and the IT system is that companies generally don't have to worry about which power station they're using, whether the cables are buried under or on a telegraph pole. But they have to worry about IT systems, such as replacing damaged hard disks, patching the operating system, handling network failures, and spending a huge amount of money on hardware upgrades every once in a while. All these costs will eventually be passed on to consumers.

Public cloud computing, or Windows Azure, is to make IT systems as simple as electricity, leaving companies no longer bothered to manage what CPUs each server uses, what operating systems or databases are installed. Cloud computing centralizes the management of software and hardware. Users can at any time call any size of resources, after the use of timely release for redistribution, so as to avoid waste of resources, reduce the cost of IT operations.

If the traditional IT system is the company prepared its own dozens of generators, laying wire, cloud computing is like a professional power company, the construction and management of infrastructure. Companies using cloud computing are like electricity, how much money to pay is more efficient and economical than laying down the infrastructure, thus putting limited resources and manpower into the core business – ultimately bringing more innovative, cheaper but better products and services to consumers, although consumers may not know it is the credit of cloud computing.

As consumers, we see more and more cloud services like Office 365, SkyDrive, and outlook.com, but these are just the tip of the iceberg. Over time, all industries will embrace cloud computing more or less, just as the industry has been using centralized power and tap water.

In fact, more than 200,000 Windows Azure paying subscribers from 109 countries, including Boeing, BMW and Pixar, are already embracing the future. Quote William Gibson, a science fiction writer, said a few years ago: "The future is coming, but it is different." (The future is here.) It ' s ethically not evenly distributed verb.) "