There are six problems in the development of cloud computing industry at present

June 30, 2011, Sadie Network joint-Sadie consultant in Beijing released the 2011 edition of China's cloud computing Industry Development White Paper (hereinafter "white Paper"). In 2010, Sadie Consultant released the first white Paper on cloud computing industry in China, which aroused wide concern of the industry and media. In the 2011 new white Paper, Sadie Consultants in the market data, industry data, cloud computing applications and typical cases have made a new comb and a lot of updates to the market development of the status quo summarized, and added to the domestic enterprises of the commentary.

Dr. An Hui, Director of software and Information Services Research Institute of China Electronic Information Industry Development Institute, pointed out that there are six problems in the current development of cloud computing industry in China. Respectively, many theories, less practice, heavy construction, light service, heavy scheme, light demand, heavy new, light transformation, heavy technology, light application, heavy standard, light coordination. He suggested that our country could put forward the development strategy of the national level, unity, unify the goal, do well the scientific plan, strengthen the supervision, thus reduce the disorderly development and the repetition development. At the same time, the use of good policy means to optimize the development of the environment, the relationship between technological innovation and service innovation, the relationship between industrial development and infrastructure, so as to promote the development of cloud computing applications.

Dr An Hui that the development goal of our cloud computing industry should be to meet the needs of industry, enterprise application and social livelihood. At the national level, the National cloud Computing data Center should adhere to the "decentralized construction, unified use, resource pooling, convenient and efficient" principle, so as to optimize the layout of cloud computing data center, avoid duplication of construction and waste of resources.

The following is a transcript of the speech by Dr. An Hui, Director of software and Information Services Institute, China Institute of Electronic Information Industry development:

There are six problems in the development of cloud computing industry at present

I am delighted to have this opportunity to share with you today the problem of cloud computing. Our institute, in particular, is the National Ministry of Industry and the Development and Reform Commission in the cloud computing industries and applications of the most important decision-making support agencies, has been to the national high-level departments to provide a variety of decision-making advice, so there are many opportunities for cloud computing in the country to carry out research, inspection, also done a lot

Today we talk about the cloud computing industry, in fact, the cloud computing industry is a very big concept, involving many aspects of the problem, if it is all clear that it may take a long time. Like today, I think, like Li Zhen said just now, cloud computing is also a long time to put forward, it can be said that the overwhelming, regardless of the industry outside of the word is impressive, and the basic things of cloud computing, such as cloud computing is to attract a preliminary and clear concept of cloud computing.

I don't think I'm going to make a full report here today, but I want to focus on some of the problems we've found during the past year while we were doing research in various parts of the country. Why would you do that? Because I have just read the consultant's White paper, which said that the current China's cloud computing industry is in the import and preparation stage, on the eve of a large-scale outbreak, I think this positioning is very good, we all know that cloud computing is good, have to enjoy the cloud computing attention and acceptance, But so far has not been very good to use up, here side of the problem may be on the one hand is the initial stage of the restriction law, on the other hand may be the middle of the problem. So today to communicate with you is the current cloud computing development in the six major problems.

Cloud computing lacks typical applications where it stays at the planning level

Simply put the six major problems into six aspects, the first problem, more theory, less practice. Because of the current society, we are very concerned about cloud computing, whether it is the word is very good or cloud computing really have a lot of good places, so many people are talking about. You can see a lot of cloud computing books on the market, you can also see many lectures and reports on cloud computing on the Internet, but after looking at it, including because I am doing research, I have collected many reports of government departments, PPT, Enterprise reports, But found in our Chinese cloud computing logic of a lot of cloud computing, we talk about what the cloud can do, efficiency and so on are talked about, such as the basic characteristics of the cloud, the role of the cloud to the information industry, and talk about the absolute right, the direction is correct. But after putting aside the theory, to see successful practice, it will find it difficult to find a successful practice, not to say that it does not, but is very scarce.

Although cloud computing has many good roles in all aspects, but can display the cloud computing application role demonstration very few, at all levels of government cloud computing development at present we say still stay in planning, may already have a plan, plan, but the implementation is very slow, at present it is difficult to find use up, continue to operate, take the shot.

This problem has a lot of problems, because in theory, there is a lot of cloud computing, so some people think of cloud computing as a panacea, where I would like to emphasize that, if there is cloud computing but if not properly used does not necessarily solve the problem, no cloud computing has the right way to solve the problem.

For example, you know that cloud computing is web-based, like the Internet, about whether the Internet can improve productivity and quality of life? Now there are a lot of statements, Affirmative said, such as cloud computing can facilitate social communication, work, life are good, but the negative, if not used, such as the spread of work energy, Playing games addiction and so on work, life, social problems are many. So the cloud also, in the publicity, we can go to emphasize the role of cloud computing, but these roles must be used well, if the use of bad will not be able to solve the actual problem, must be related to the actual.

Local blind construction cloud data center or a new round of invalid investment

Question two, construction, light service. On the internet to see everywhere in the cloud is doing a lot of work, investment is very high, often tens of millions of or billions of dollars, but we carefully to comb the discovery that their input at least at the present stage is mainly into the data center, such as infrastructure construction. This construction is reflected in the many places we went to, they said that the provision of many infrastructure services IaaS, what is the service, how the model, and later found that the so-called IaaS is only the traditional IDC change signs, it lacks many value-added services in cloud computing.

Cloud computing, the construction of such a data center, must take into account the future application needs, if the various places like now blindly to build cloud computing data center, can only lead to a new round of ineffective investment. From the reality, we have to grieve to say that each place herd has been repeated construction.

We know that cloud computing is based on the Internet, the Internet has no geographical characteristics, cloud computing also has the characteristics of resistance, so it does not need every place, every city to build their own cloud computing center, there are many big cities, the government directly proposed to build several specific cloud computing data center, At the job meeting, I asked them if your cloud computing data centers were related. They say no, they want to market the data center to each other, we do not agree with this approach.

What do we think it is? We think the soul of cloud computing should be service, without service there is no cloud. In the cloud may involve the server hardware, will involve the cloud above the support software, but also related to cloud computing vendors to provide services, which we think the hardware is consistent, just as people use computers, if not these hardware devices may not use, but the software can let them live, But ultimately cloud computing can be used, welcomed, and played its part because service is its soul.

Here we say innovation is the characteristic of cloud computing, service is the soul of cloud computing, the innovation ability of cloud computing and the quality of service determine whether cloud computing can be accepted by the users and the market, and it determines the continuous innovation of cloud computing.

In reality we have to see that the first characteristic, successful IaaS suit is difficult to enumerate, including SaaS services.

Second, there is currently a lack of cloud computing services for corporate users and individual users, and many cloud computing is geared toward governments, which, as everyone knows, is different for governments and market-oriented mechanisms in our country.

Local development of cloud computing needs to be combined with local economic and social characteristics

Third, the plan, light demand. Now we can see the nouns of many beautiful clouds everywhere. For example, e-government cloud, tourism cloud, medical cloud, manufacturing cloud, etc., but according to We have visited a number of places, and their each cloud of the construction unit to carry out in-depth exchanges, Shanyun is what is going on, the provision of service services, function is what, how to practice, After a very detailed investigation, finally concluded that the current Chinese cloud computing program at least 80% is not a real cloud.

There is a very important reason, these cloud computing when the construction of the market needs, many medical clouds, community clouds want the government to pay, the government to propose to build the cloud, the government paid to maintain it, did not think of how to carry out revenue, cloud continue to play a role, The cloud, which only enjoys government pay, is not the cloud that the country needs, nor the cloud that society needs.

On the other hand, the development of cloud computing in various places is very similar, not with the local economy, society, characteristics, development needs. Like last year, we all know that the NDRC has a cloud computing development innovation, pilot demonstration, then selected five cities, please five City newspaper program, the initial plan of these cities there are many things, it can be said that every place reported the same thing, but we want to know what is it? If the project is to implement cloud computing at our national level, Cloud computing services, I hope that your service will ultimately be able to provide services to the entire country, rather than only to develop in every place. Moreover, there are many proposed to the cloud computing project is not the same as the local integration, such as local tourism itself did not develop, itself is not a tourist city, not to develop cloud computing.

For example, Beijing, we all know that the traffic in Beijing has a lot of problems, in the traffic is not the way to solve the traffic problems in the cloud, whether you are redundant or not enough are not based on the characteristics of the development needs of the combination.

This problem extends to what I said just now, everyone is playing cloud signs. At present, we see two phenomena, one is that most of the current cloud computing applications is actually a traditional web-based remote application, the second is that many of the cloud applications are only based on IaaS traditional services, the lack of value-added services, here extended to explain why this problem, because with the requirements of the disjointed.

Cloud computing is not a new round of information construction but information upgrade

Four, rebuilt, light transformation. Cloud computing is not a new round of information construction, but should be the upgrade of information. Today, however, most cloud computing solutions are based on a completely new system, new acquisitions of hardware, new acquisitions of software, and cloud computing through these newly acquired IT infrastructures. If this is the case, it is impossible to talk about the savings of the IT infrastructure that cloud computing should have, and we need to buy a new set of things to achieve cloud computing, which is unreasonable, and what questions do we have to answer in cloud computing?

We think there are three most important questions, one is your organization's existing information center or data centers in the future cloud computing environment How to use it? The second is that you now have a lot of scattered computer equipment, how can these devices make it work in the cloud environment? The third is how to reduce the application of cloud computing through software transformation? This is the three questions that must be answered.

Five, heavy technology, light application. Now our country has been worried about industrial hollowing out for a long time. But in the field of cloud computing, with this kind of thinking, many enterprises have been stressing their own in the development of new technologies, in which areas have made a lot of new breakthroughs, and even which aspects than international enterprises are good, every time we hear some enterprises to emphasize a simple algorithm how well, But in fact, we think that the cloud has not yet epoch-making new technology, we can say that Google, Microsoft big companies in the Global cloud computing field is leading, but they are mainly in the algorithm and technology leadership, but not completely epoch-making, disruptive technology, so say for our country, If only the emphasis on technology research and development, excessive emphasis on these programs in some areas of technology leadership, and in the market application has not landed, it is only narcissistic. In particular, the current large and small enterprises are doing cloud computing research and development, are doing the basic technology, but finally did not execute, so this is not combined.

Six, heavy standard, light coordination. As you can see in many places, the most common issue for cloud computing is security and standardization, with a consistent standard that makes cloud computing more widely available. Now whether there is a lot of international and domestic organizations to carry out cloud computing standards, in a positive sense, this proves that our country more and more emphasis on standardization work, more and more touch to seize the commanding heights, but now the problem is that the domestic cloud computing standards organizations are very many or even too much, Mutual between these organizations are also not ventilated, not unified, resulting in the enterprise at a loss, the user is overwhelmed, that is, you do not have the standard, if the standard too much confusion is not the same. Above these standards, we feel that the core problem is still lack of effective guidance and lack of normative environment.

The Government should effectively guide the construction of an excellent and standard development environment

Cloud computing is a very new thing, it needs the effective guidance of our Government, but also need the government to create a good, normative development environment, which can be done? One is the national level can propose development strategy, unity, unified goal.

The second point is the development of the national level, in what areas should be hard, in which areas first to launch?

Third, the government-led application model, such as the original said the Ministry of Public Works, the development and Reform Commission has launched the cloud computing Services demonstration pilot, whether this thing can be pushed down, whether it can make effect, these need the government to lead.

The second is to adapt to the policy measures of industrial law, because cloud computing is a novelty, so it has a lot of problems, such as cloud computing related software statistics and certification issues, such as cloud computing will involve service centers, operating license issue, etc., for these need to adapt to the industrial rules of policy measures to change.

So we're in the second part of the problem we found in the above, how to solve them? The paper puts forward the optimization of the development environment and the application and development of cloud computing. This country should do a good job of scientific planning, increase supervision, reduce disorderly development and repeat development. That is, in the cloud computing infrastructure construction and promotion projects, we must do a good job in advance research and planning, strict implementation of project evaluation, not blindly investment, over-investment.

Second, the use of good policy means to optimize the development of the environment and promote the application of cloud computing. First of all, the state and the Government should introduce a clear policy on the development of cloud computing as soon as possible to plan the rational layout of cloud computing, but also to be pragmatic to promote the establishment of cloud computing projects, investment guidance, financial support and other aspects of the work. Looking for such a demand, we put forward the development of national thinking, we suggest three aspects, one is the industrial chain cultivation as the focus, in the core of the key areas to achieve supply breakthroughs. Second, the pilot demonstration as a breakthrough to promote service to the center of gravity development. Third, the environmental construction as the starting point, speed up industrial development and management mechanism innovation. In terms of principles, we feel that there are a number of principles to be proposed, the first is to seize the position of development and steady development of the combination of cloud computing is a new, we are afraid not to seize the opportunity, backward, this is a good phenomenon, but we can not because of this bubble, we must be steady, solid advance.

The second is to clarify the relationship between technological innovation and service innovation, although we say that so far no epoch-making new system, but technological innovation, we can not deny that in the development of cloud computing still plays a big role, so we on the one hand to do a good job, on the other hand more to combine the service business model innovation, Adhere to the application and market-oriented.

Third, do a good job of industrial development infrastructure relations, can not blindly throw money to build large quantities of infrastructure construction, but to adapt to industrial development needs, to strengthen the integration of resources in various places to avoid blind duplication.

Five pilot cities should choose key industries and areas to focus on breakthrough

In specific proposals, we propose the following suggestions, the introduction of cloud application demonstration applications, and gradually do a demonstration of pilot work, such as the country has proposed five cities to do cloud computing services Innovation pilot demonstration, for five cities, they should focus on the choice of some key industries, focus on the application areas to focus on breakthroughs.

For example, Beijing's traffic problem is very serious, Beijing must first do a good job of traffic clouds, the use of cloud computing good traffic. For example, Beijing has very good enterprises, such as Baidu These enterprises are here, Baidu these enterprises are also in the use of cloud computing, Beijing How to connect with these enterprises to develop it. There is a bit of Microsoft's leading multinational companies in technology, products, many of the headquarters in Beijing, but how to use reasonable mechanisms, timely steps to bring these international companies into our country or Beijing's cloud computing construction inside, play their positive role, these are innovative demonstration pilot should do.

Second, the various places to do their own cloud computing demonstration. Especially in the selection of demonstration projects, attention should be paid to demonstrating the role of demonstration and enhancing their radiation role. For example, Guangdong Province to do pilot demonstration, Guangzhou which unit to do what the cloud, it should be considered is only the enterprise or only Guangzhou role, at least to consider is that we use this cloud for Guangdong and even the country to provide what services.

Third, the demonstration of the pilot is very important, so do a good job of key projects, this project is not only put forward, but to actually make the project, do it well. This pilot is not proposed, but to do the project.

Our goal is to explore the development and application of cloud computing, which is suitable for different regions and different industry characteristics. In the key areas to form a number of major application demonstrations, to give birth to a group of cloud computing industry leading enterprises and cloud computing typical application demonstration enterprises.

There are many enterprises in China, including big international companies like Microsoft, we see that they have some good cloud computing success stories at home and abroad, and I think at this point we should join hands with these big companies and ask them to tell China how they did it. Concrete is how to implement, is the new way or transformation of the way, with a new way to invest how much, with the transformation of the way is how the steps, and actively learn from Microsoft's advanced experience to do our cloud computing.

Cloud computing development should meet industry needs, business needs, social needs

Second, to promote the development of cloud services, especially for the market-oriented cloud services, we believe that the development goal should be to meet the needs of the industry, enterprise application needs, social and livelihood needs. In the development of the time, we should pay attention to continuously increase the type of service, enrich the content of services, support the development of market-oriented services. Specifically, the service content is simply the provision of information services to the development of software services, in the form of services should be from offline services to internet-based services, at the same time to continuously improve the information level of cloud computing services and quality of service.

Here we think, first of all, where can the country start? Strengthen, improve social management, through cloud computing, cloud services do like community services, such as logistics and other business management functions.

Second, to actively guide the expansion of cloud services, especially in the service of traditional industries and industries, we have to focus on traditional industries, the typical enterprise application needs, the development and provision of professional cloud services. Yesterday I listened to 863 expert lectures, his lecture is with the industrial software domain software development is more fit, I think like the industrial manufacturing field of cloud services, we should be vigorously developed, which is very helpful for our country to take the information industry road.

Third, focus on the application of cloud computing guidance, should be more support to the existing information systems cloud transformation, rather than completely new, not to be a lot of new investment, so I think should be more development and application of cloud computing infrastructure software, through the use of cloud computing infrastructure software, the existing information systems are modified to minimize the cost of implementation of cloud applications.

Like a few big companies, Microsoft, for example, proposes a cloud computing platform that, through our understanding, is primarily based on your existing infrastructure, the application of their software, and the integration of it into a cloud computing platform, such as software, our country should be developed, like this, this software, Our country should work hard when building cloud computing, so as to minimize the cost and maximize the benefits.

Local should co-ordinate existing data centres to avoid duplication of construction

The next concrete suggestion is to optimize the layout of cloud computing data centers and not build cloud computing centers everywhere. At the national level, we believe that the national cloud Computing data Center should adhere to the "decentralized construction, unified use, resource pooling, convenient and efficient" basic principles, you can choose several places are built, after the establishment of mutual contact, unified operation, this idea can be combined with the five major junction cities.

Second, to ensure the network bandwidth based on the choice of cost, energy, environment and other advantages of the region. Like Inner Mongolia, for example, electricity is cheap. Like Harbin, they say, there are domestic companies to build data centers in Harbin, because the climate change in Harbin can save electricity, air-conditioning, we should encourage these areas to build cloud computing data center.

For local, their cloud computing data centers, we do not think blindly a pat on the head to build new, but should co-ordinate the existing data centers to avoid duplication of construction. For the already built data center, first requires it to integrate and make use of the existing resources, without the integration of good use do not build new, and indeed to build a new data center must be combined with existing data centers, not to say that the new and the old completely does not matter.

To say a little more, for the Enterprise cloud Computing Data Center layout, should give full play to the role of market allocation. There are enterprises and business needs of the autonomous layout, the need for national investment in the Enterprise cloud Computing Data Center, because our country is more special, there are many SASAC or many telecom operators, for them to build cloud computing data center, should be strict review and management. In particular, we have to actively encourage enterprises to use the already built national cloud or local cloud computing center, already have such data center to use, do not build on their own.

Finally, we should optimize the policy environment to support cloud computing application development, and implement various policy measures to optimize the development and application environment. Like preferential tax policies, to encourage the development of cloud-related enterprises, such as fiscal support policy, in which countries set up special financial resources or subsidies to encourage the application of cloud computing, the third is the policy of talent cultivation, to strengthen the cultivation of professional personnel to strengthen the attraction of leading talent, the four to improve the relevant institutional mechanisms, To combine the characteristics of cloud computing industry, development needs, adjustment and optimization, existing industrial management methods, such as the issuance of operating licences, data center licensing, and cloud based product identification, are indispensable to their management, but we must have some new ideas, we can no longer look at their problems in a traditional perspective, But also in the new form to give them a more relaxed development environment.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)