The Giant's cloud experience: The fog of cloud computing

In fact, cloud computing can solve many of the most embarrassing problems in our lives: when we want to listen to our favorite songs on the way to travel and forget to download our tapes, when we have to practice tomorrow's demo at home, but the demo files are still on the office computer. When we took pictures on our cell phone and couldn't send e-mail because the file exceeded the size limit. According to a survey conducted by Http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13534.html ">forrester in the UK, one out of every five Internet users has had this annoying problem."

And cloud computing can eliminate our bad moods at such times. We no longer need to save photos, files, music to our computer, and then spread it through U disk, data cable or email. Through the cloud, they are stored in the same network--stored on the network company's huge hard disk. In this way, we can get what we want from any device that is connected to the Internet.

Once you get into an ecosystem, it's hard to escape.

Internet giants, of course, are very knowledgeable about this phenomenon, so they are touting their cloud computing services. What they follow is nothing but the principle of maximization: to win as many users as possible in the shortest amount of time. But for our users, it's about whether you want to be permanently bound. By looking at the strategies of these web companies, you may be speculating about how cloud computing services will evolve in the future. In particular, market researchers believe companies that will make a difference in cloud computing, such as Apple, Google and Microsoft.

When Steve Jobs appeared at the Moscam Exhibition Center in San Francisco in early June, the interior of Apple's new building was projected onto a huge screen behind him. In this building, there are rows of gleaming silver servers with no end in sight. Steve Jobs, who always wore a turtleneck, looked very small in front of a huge screen. The message here is: We have a lot of space to store your data!

Although icloud is the first to propose, this is not the first time Apple has tried cloud computing. As early as 2002, Apple launched an online service called MobileMe, which includes virtual memory, e-mail inbox, and schedule management software. The cost of use was eventually determined at € 79 per annum.

There may be a similar strategy behind free icloud: It has a new feature--when users upload text, music, and other files to the Web, they are automatically pushed to the ipod, IPhone, ipad, which means they are automatically transferred to those devices. So, you never have to worry about forgetting your office presentations, and you don't have to worry about showing your vacation photos to your friends. The drawback: Apple doesn't share this feature with all the other vendors ' devices-although the technology can now run on Windows computers, it's not available on other phones or tablets.

In the future, Apple will continue to optimize the match between I application and Apple products. If you have a day to buy an electronic device with a name that does not start with I, consider the matching problem with the Apple program. You will soon be tested by this relationship. In addition, many other companies also have seemingly beautiful cloud computing services.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)