There's a computer cloud on the ground

The fourth wave of information industry is coming

The first three times are mainframe, PC, internet

This time it's "cloud computing."

What does this cloud mean?

What does it mean to the average person?

14th, in the domestic cloud computing industry leading wave group to join hands with Henan Public security, health, telecommunications and other industries in Zhengzhou, opened a cloud computing technology development and application seminar, should be gathered.

Last year, Hewlett-Packard's China chief came to Zhengzhou, saying that HP's cloud computing center was expected to build in Henan. HP, IBM, Microsoft and other foreign giants to China's pace is a step closer.

Zhengzhou recently also asked to further broaden the internet of things, cloud computing, Digital Earth and other High-tech research and development areas, enhance the capacity of independent innovation, accelerate the pace of science and technology strong city.

At present, it has regarded "cloud computing" as the fourth wave of information industry after mainframe, PC and Internet, and "cloud computing" has been recognized by the industry as the gold panning area of the future Internet.

For a while, cloud computing in the Internet area is no two, it is a what kind of cloud? How does it relate to our lives? What about the days on the cloud?

What is cloud computing?

Computers are like gas canisters, and cloud computing is like pipeline

Every day, we look up and a cloud floats. Never thought that today it would be associated with computers in High-tech fields-cloud computing, what it sounds like, how to explain it to make us understand?

Can you explain what cloud computing is in a popular language or an analogy?

Yesterday, reporters with a pile of cloud computing questions visited the wave, Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard and other computer companies technical personnel.

These IT engineers invariably lift the most common example of hydro-electric heating around us: you just have to pay to open the valve and use it, and don't care where they're stored.

Cloud computing is such a service, you want to use what software and hardware or information services, it is good to use.

Watching reporters or confused, they give an example of what the industry usually tells outsiders.

In the past, many people in the home with liquefied petroleum gas, every household needs to buy a gas tank, the air is used up need to go to the nearest gas station to breathe. Now, almost all new neighborhoods have piped natural gas, and you don't have to carry them to breathe.

So, you don't have to use gas canisters in your home, are these gas canisters not there?

In fact, these gas canisters still exist, only in places where you can't find them, the gas canisters are concentrated together, or changed to a different way of dressing, or large gas canisters exist. And then through the pipes, the gas in these large cylinders is transported to millions of households.

Cloud computing is the same as the gas cloud, which centralizes thousands of supercomputers or servers together to form a cloud computing datacenter that you don't know about.

The data centers of these computer groups provide all the hardware and software services we need, also known as computational resources, and these concentrated computing resources, like pipeline gas, are used by users, how much they use, and how much they pay.

And cloud service providers are equivalent to gas companies, power companies.

Why not call it "rain calculation"?

Cloud is a concept, a service

Well, does that mean that as individuals, we do not have to buy a computer in the future, do not need to buy a variety of anti-virus or operating system, such as hardware and software, just a browser, such as netbooks, 3G mobile phones, through the Internet, connect to the remote cloud data center, what resources to send a directive on the line?

The answer is yes, that piece of "computer cloud" will provide you with a variety of services.

Can "cloud computing", Why Call "cloud", not call rain or fog?

The industry's explanation is: Clouds have floated, can be small characteristics, it can float from anywhere, and not just stay in one place, the shape is more changeable, in this regard, it and the characteristics of the cloud more similar.

The cloud is a concept, a service, not a technology, and we just need to use it and don't worry about where it is. Like water and electricity, you can pay for it.

What can cloud computing bring us?

Using cloud technology, triple-net integration is no longer a dream

A few years ago, the state put forward three nets fusion, it's beautiful vision is: TV, computer, mobile phone three nets in one, door-to-door only a line to fix.

But this technology after a period of time, can only do to watch TV on the computer, through the Internet, to make both generic, it requires a new transfer equipment, such as set-top box, Zhengzhou High-tech companies vcom is to produce this can be transferred to the set-top box well-known industry.

However, if the use of cloud technology, triple network integration is no longer a dream.

Wave group Henan District Consultant Liang An example of an image:

You get up 7 o'clock in the morning to watch CCTV news, 7:30 you go out to work, walk on the road you can continue to watch the same program on the phone; when you get to the office, you turn on your computer and you can still watch it if the same program continues.

Similarly, now you need to take a laptop when you go out for a meeting, but after using the cloud service, you can use any cell phone or tablet to open your original application desktop.

Why is that?

Because all your operating systems and other software are installed in your computer, cloud computing services let these systems drift to the cloud, you can always click on it.

In addition, cloud computing's ability to perform in many ways, for example.

You buy a box of cigarettes, in the handheld terminal to enter the barcode, you know which cigarette factory from which plant, which driver, which car transport, distribution to which logistics center, and then to which tobacco Monopoly Bureau, and then into which store.

In the same way, you buy a ham sausage, enter the code on this bowel, you can trace back to the intestines with which pig meat, the whole production and sales process.

Cloud computing is a combination of various information technology integration, it integrates a variety of technical services to provide thoughtful and meticulous, you can take on demand.

Of course, the changes brought about by cloud computing also cost.

Wave Group, general manager of Henan Region, Ming cited an example, Hubei province, the State administration of Internal revenue to set up a wave for them to establish an industry cloud, the original Hubei state tax with more than 150 servers to support the operation of the entire system, but the use of cloud computing, 13 servers can meet the requirements. Ming uses this example to illustrate the cost of hardware, management, and power that can be reduced when a unit upgrades its original functionality after using cloud services.

How does cloud computing protect our privacy?

There are "public clouds" and "private Clouds".

It seems that the days on the cloud are getting closer to us, but is it safe to put our personal data or company top-secret data in a place we don't know about?

This is the question of many ordinary netizens. Although the journalists interviewed by the IT community have shown that the days of the cloud is safe, it will be faster and easier to use, but in order to solve this part of the customer's query, the cloud service providers are dedicated to some units launched a "private cloud" services.

The big difference between a public cloud and a private cloud is that the cloud of public cloud is built in the distance we don't know, and that's the cloud provider. The cloud of private clouds, generally set up in the unit's computer center, the computer center and the external network also has a firewall. It is more like the current unit of the local area network, in the private cloud, everyone's data can be stored in the enterprise database. Compared with the local area network, private cloud users spend much less on hardware and software purchases.

Public cloud and private cloud, is two extremes, Google and Amazon provide are public cloud, and private cloud only for a unit to build, the scope is very narrow.

As a domestic cloud computing infrastructure provider, the main cloud landing services to the wave also raised the concept of the industry cloud. That is, in the same system, an industry, so that can share resources to achieve sharing. For example, in public security, taxation, medical systems, etc.

How long will it take to walk in the clouds?

It takes 5-10 years to form a massive cloud service.

At present, it has regarded "cloud computing" as the fourth wave of information industry after mainframe, personal computer and internet, just as humans are unstoppable in the internet era, the days of human "walking in the Clouds" seem unstoppable.

The most promising application of cloud computing is to transform the information processing process of enterprise and government. Currently in the foreign "cloud computing" has been used in hospitals and other public areas, patients in any hospital shot CT and other films can be used in other hospitals to easily pull out the network, and do not need to repeat the shooting.

In 2010, with the introduction of a series of cloud projects in China, five cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Wuxi were officially identified as the cloud computing pilot City by the National Development and Reform Commission and Ministry of Industries, people began to believe that we really want to walk in the clouds.

How long does it take to upgrade from today's data centers to cloud computing data centers and form large-scale cloud services?

Yesterday, the IT industry's many engineers said that 5 to 10 years.

Predicting that the PC will be out of the way

Computers are not needed at home, and the number of computers used in units will be reduced. Users only need a terminal can be connected to the Internet, 3G mobile phones, tablets, monitors and so on can be.

Of course, all the hardware and software, such as anti-virus software, audio-visual software, operating system also do not need to buy, they are in the place you do not know where to float, you need to use it will float on their own, you will be used on the line.

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1 trillion according to the relevant company forecasts, 2015 national "cloud computing" industry chain scale may reach 750 billion to 1 trillion yuan, is expected to account for 2015 strategic emerging industries more than 15% of the output value scale. Over the next 15-20 years, cloud computing will be a key technology that affects the entire IT industry.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)