The low cost is the cloud

When the time into the second decade, "Cloud computing", "Internet of Things", "Big Data" and other new technologies, new ideas, is set off a new round of more magnificent wave of change. The 2012 Global CE0 Survey, launched by IBM for more than 1,700 companies around the world, found that the technical factors were among the CE0 in the key external factors affecting the organization in the next few years listed by CE0. This is the first time since the survey was launched.

in this era of upheaval, it is more important to find the frame and direction of thinking than to seek the conclusion itself. So, in the face of this increasingly complex business world, can we find a low-cost framework for modern business? The answer given to us by cloud computing is yes, because it is the most central technology in the current community of new technologies. With the rapid development of the cloud Computing Center as a commercial infrastructure, the role of the (large) data is being enhanced, and the rapid synergistic evolution between cloud computing and (large) data is being achieved.

The business panorama of the cloud era is a grander picture than the C2B business model. No one can imagine its full picture, only more than 2 billion of the world's Internet users, is to make this huge picture clear day by day and finally shape the ultimate push. We should temporarily leave the accustomed world of the earth, imagining and perceiving the scenery in the clouds.

A wire to move a company, "shell company" may become a common phenomenon, this is the cloud business to our imagination. Three years ago, when the economy entered its coldest winter, Boston's Aquent company began compressing costs and trying to maintain strategic flexibility.

The company migrated file classes, data-class applications to cloud mail, and replaced the internal phone system with cloud-based voice services, put the ERP system on the Amazon's cloud service system AWS ... "Think about the various problems of the previous relocation of the office, now we only use the equipment to move over, connect the power, connected to the Internet on the line." The company's head is so sentimental.

But after many years, the Aquent company again faces the relocation time, perhaps even the equipment has not been "moved". Bulky mainframe computers will be discarded, virtual master opportunity to make Office into a "light assets" operation, a variety of mini terminal equipment can be carried in the pocket, in the office can be viewed from the cloud, as the monitor can be the mini light projections to replace-agility, cost reduction behind is the efficiency of ascension.

And the impact of cloud commerce in China on Chinese industries is even more pronounced. We can move our eyes to a livelihood issue. When it comes to the Spring Festival, it is difficult to buy tickets. At the train station in the middle of the night, men and women huddled in the dragon in the probe to stomp, the face if the Ashes but also worried. But booking online is more painful than that--the internet is busy, refusing to log on makes people nervous.

Years later, the Ministry of Railways still said "we have the ability to solve problems" – in fact, solving the problem of Web servers is really simple, with the help of cloud computing services, the Ministry of Railways can support more robust API services, supporting flexible expansion without buying expensive hardware equipment, with the help of a similar to Ali, Tencent, a large internet company with a large number of unexpected access to resources, can ensure that services do not go down.

Another example, telecommunications enterprises in various types of festivals, the need to deliver a large amount of text messages, in order to cope with the resulting peak, telecommunications enterprises have to invest heavily in the acquisition of high computational capacity of equipment to deal with this huge pressure. However, if you use the cloud computing platform, you can at the peak of the arrival of some unimportant or idle computing resources reasonably allocated to support the SMS business, so as to avoid a lot of unnecessary investment.