The value of cloud computing to the knowledge society

Cloud Computing-

The source of power

Cloud computing is not a simple technology, but a change in the nature of computational structure and information revolution. Looking back at the mainframe era, all the information to be obtained from the host, the mainframe is basically monopolized by IBM; In the personal computer age, information can be placed on its own desktop, the PC revolution has produced Apple, Microsoft, Intel and other first-class enterprises, but also to promote the United States 20 global economic prosperity and technological leadership. However, the development of PC is still facing a big problem: that is, each computer's function and ability to use is not sufficient, information can not be fully shared, the cost is also high. With the development of the network, especially the broadband network and the appearance of "virtualization software", people can put the computing ability and storage ability together again, put it in the "network", and take it out through the network when needed, which catalytic the birth of "cloud computing".

3 years ago I saw the change in cloud technology. Starting from 2010, this fuse has been ignited, become the prairie of the Great Revolution: the specific performance in the past it architecture at every level there are new companies in the emergence of chips have a generation of chips, whether it is arm open source of the road, or a new generation of x86 chips have broken the traditional Intel architecture, New SaaS companies began to emerge, as did the next generation of server companies, which were not a simple standard server, but a custom cloud server. We see that the data center can be built in a container, so that the traditional data center construction time and cost greatly reduced, the whole industry has changed dramatically.

The core of change is three points: the first is cheap. Why the PC era became a revolution, because its price is much cheaper than the host. The end of the cloud-computing revolution should be in the thousands of dollars below or even lower price of the audience, and storage costs are also significantly reduced. The second is simple and convenient. We see why it's so popular today from complex desktops to tablets, because it's convenient and controllable. We enjoy the vast information on the internet today, but the information is not organized, it is fragmented, why is it better to use the App Store? Because many applications have been selected. The future in the cloud in the final era, information to become knowledge of the process of control, management, editing, mining process. The era of cloud is like the invention of printing, the core is to make the entire computing environment and knowledge more affordable, knowledge can be centralized analysis and processing, and in the context of centralized processing, the so-called data into information, the information into wisdom, such a process to the whole knowledge and production efficiency greatly improved.

Cloud Computing-

The Soul of Innovation

Why do many Chinese love apple and love the jobs that have never been to China? Because he represents the most scarce element of our land for thousands of years. And in the transition from "Made in China" to "creation in China", he represents the spirit that we need.

China's past High-tech and Internet development is the fundamental driving force is the courage to risk, innovation, persistent dream, not afraid of failure of the "entrepreneurial spirit", the story of Apple and jobs are inexhaustible spiritual food. The iphone and ipad are the ideal "empower arranges" for the start of his personal computer-"Let everyone have power". This May, he launched icloud, seems to be the end of his ideal shore. "Cloud" will enable unlimited knowledge storage, knowledge can be cheap and easy to obtain, and this is his ideal, but also the progress of human civilization mark.

APP store, icloud are typical cloud applications. Cloud computing is a fundamental disruptive innovation in the entire IT industry, idealism, adventure and innovation are the things in the cloud gene, only with these spirit, China has the opportunity from the basic level, such as chips, operating systems, servers and so on to build their own industrial system and IT systems. Now the host and the PC for the American invention, the future of cloud applications and large-scale market application of the greatest hope is to fall on the Chinese people. China's customer base is big enough, so the uniqueness comes out, Baidu, QQ is such an example, China online games, the business model of the audience are also so innovative. And from the perspective of Chinese history, it is now very much like a half-century or two centuries ago in the United States, full of momentum, full of opportunities. In the next 15 years, it is possible to create a unique innovation in China like wireless communications, the Internet, semiconductors, a process from 0 to 1, which takes courage, vision and vision, and idealism. Cloud computing is such a big real opportunity that the technological revolution is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Chinese people to embrace with open arms.

This change has also brought some challenges to our industry, as well as policy and management. In the past IT industry technology is to introduce primarily. Today's question is whether the "core information" can be put on the international "cloud" in the "cloud age"; another aspect of the problem is how to deal with issues such as "technology introduction" and information management when software, hardware and services are in conflict with companies like Google, and these new problems require Government, Enterprises and scholars in a timely and forward-looking exploration, we can become the leader of the cloud era. In the process of promoting the development of cloud computing, the government should also become a strong supporting and driving force of industry. In the promotion of the market, the government needs to build information disclosure, the cloud of social Public information service; At the level of policy planning, it needs the government's forward-looking legislation to deal with the data ownership and privacy of cloud computing. At the planning level of the industry, the government needs to cooperate closely with the enterprises, support the industrial park and promote the development of the strategic industries.

Just as the real use of electricity awakens the full vitality of the industrial Revolution, the results of "cloud innovation" will make "computing" an ubiquitous infrastructure like water and electricity. Today's personal computer (PC) will be replaced by a variety of simple terminals, the future end price will be as cheap as "book", Easy to use, ubiquitous, but it has the information storage capacity, will be more than we today's largest "library", human society will enter a large-scale "knowledge production" era. Today, the information industry, which has made many contributions to the modernization of mankind and China, is entering a new period of growth. In China, which has limited resources and large population, it is the core or technological innovation to adjust the economic structure and achieve long-term and efficient economic development. We can only grasp and apply the latest technology to solve the contradictions and problems in modernization, fortunately we are in such a "creative" era. "Cloud computing" is bringing us from the industrial society into a "knowledge and wisdom" of the society. When people acquire the cost of "knowledge" to reduce massively, the whole society will be more efficient, more energy-saving, more progressive and more civilized.

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(Responsible editor: Liu Fen)