The trend of cloud computing in China

Analysis of the general trend, the first thing to understand the problem is that the whole cloud computing at what stage, and where to go?

The ecosystem of American cloud computing

Last March, when I went to the United States to visit a number of cloud computing companies, the biggest feeling is that Amazon's AWS and Rackspace, such as IaaS services are very popular, it supports engine Yard, Heroku and many other PAAs platforms, Together for more XaaS services and other social, mobile Internet and other fields of pioneering companies to provide the soil, the formation of a vibrant ecosystem, driving the United States currently unusually active and prosperous it innovation tide.

Before the Spring Festival, I visited Iron.io in San Francisco on business, they specialize in the development of message-oriented middleware services, still in the early days of entrepreneurship, less than 10 employees, but the technology is very distinctive. The site is a hatchery base run by one of the founders of Heroku, a small base, but has already settled in several heroku for Third-party vertical service companies. The number of such XaaS companies is often the founder of technical personnel, specializing in a little, each with characteristics, representing the entire ecosystem one of the most dynamic part. (This issue of Guo Liijing's "Foreign cloud computing innovation and trend" has made a more comprehensive introduction. ）

While the major US cloud platforms have had some accidents and problems over the past year, the overall user satisfaction is high, and it has become a natural thing for SMEs and start-ups to choose IaaS and PAAs public cloud platforms. And the government has been pushing the IT infrastructure as much as possible to cloud computing since Obama started. The CIO of a large company still likes to say that cloud computing is unsafe and not to be used lightly, but on the other hand uses SaaS software like Salesforce, workday to manage the most sensitive information, such as customers and employees, using Yammer, Chatter and other internal collaborative communication has been very common. Compared to the mobile internet, a 700 million-dollar Instagram is a delight, with CRM, HCM, and socialized SaaS companies valued at more than $1 billion trillion, either by IPOs, by multiple rounds of financing at high valuations, or by the perceived threat of Oracle, Microsoft, SAP and other companies acquisitions. The focus of entrepreneurship has now expanded to health care, education, retail, payment and other fields. (This period of Tan Lin "Look at the tide from the sea to see SaaS" has a very wonderful analysis. ）

September again to the United States, coincided with the Salesforce of the Dreamforce Congress, is said to have more than 90,000 participants, even more than the next Oracleworld, the cloud of the momentum of the entire San Francisco is one of the earthquake, but also let me the first night almost booked a hotel. On the subway to see another industry-renowned cloud computing conference Cloudexpo ads, which emphasize dreamforce participants of the preferential information, this ecological awareness, I was impressed.

US cloud computing has entered a crucial phase

In mid-November 2012, Cloud computing leader Amazon held its first global client and partner conference in Las Vegas. Amazon's focus is not on startups but on larger corporate clients. Whether it's a product at a conference, such as a redshift data warehouse, integration with VMware images and Microsoft Active Directory, support for mixed clouds, and other new features, AWS gets a variety of certifications, or has been invited to the platform by NASA, Nasdaq, the United States Government and other key customers, Amazon is emphasizing business. Amazon's cloud computing department has recently begun a massive hiring of salespeople, and of course, for big-business customers. Amazon's 10-year 600 million dollar bill from the CIA in March this year should be the most iconic event in the cloud industry's recent history.

From developers, entrepreneurs to businesses, Amazon's cloud computing seems to have entered the second and crucial stage: to get more cakes from global it purchases, which are worth nearly 3 trillion dollars.

And unlike the general it exhibition, in this conference partner Pavilion, traditional it giant manufacturers booth is often small, and some emerging cloud technology and services company's booth is stylish and eye-catching.

In this view, cloud computing is actually Amazon's representative of the Internet companies through a large-scale platform to transform their technical and operational capabilities into a new generation of products and services, coupled with the other emerging ecosystems, and traditional it vendors to compete directly in a process. Another layer, cloud computing will also promote the innovation wave of all walks of life, there will be more emerging enterprises, break the industry pattern, threatening the status of the original leader.

Of course, the traditional it enterprise on the defensive, its strength still cannot ignore. Abundant capital and talent reserves, not at a disadvantage compared to the internet and start-ups (gang, who had worked at Amazon and Microsoft's research and development teams, said that the level of one of AWS's main technical backbone, Microsoft could find hundreds of), coupled with factors such as patents and customer inertia, cloud warfare, winner , but it's hard to say. "We are still in the very primitive assembly language stage of cloud computing," said Hasting Reed, the number one user of AWS. "But the trend towards this extinction has been very obvious. To survive, traditional giants have to learn to play even beyond the challenge.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)