Thinking behind the boom in cloud computing

From a global perspective, and the close integration of business models, so that cloud computing has been a strong vitality and the momentum of development. However, in the face of the herd of cloud computing in China, even the industry criticized as "enclosure movement", for the people involved, it is time to reflect on meditation.

November 22, "Shanghai Sea of Clouds Data Center" officially unveiled in Pudong, Shanghai, a planning area of 320 acres, which has become Shanghai's "Asia-Pacific Cloud Computing Center" added a heavy chip. In the National 12 plan to strengthen the cloud computing service platform construction proposed, causes each local government to cloud computing's wave-by-waves upsurge high one wave. From the central city of Beijing detailed cloud plan, the Shanghai Sea of Clouds plan, Guangzhou Tian Yun plan, to two or three cities in Chengdu, Hangzhou, Zhengzhou, Nanjing, Ningbo, Harbin, and so on, all will cloud computing

As the industrial transformation and upgrading and information industry development point of entry, high "cloud" banner, playing "cloud" brand.

Incomplete statistics, in China, in addition to Tibet and Xinjiang, the current has been proposed or developed cloud computing development plans of the local government has covered the remaining 30 provinces/municipalities. At the same time, especially since the 2011, the IT giants at home and abroad have invariably increased the domestic cloud computing market in the happy enclosure.

In the "Shanghai Sea of Clouds Data center" a few days before the unveiling, after nearly six months of installation and commissioning of the Dawn "Nebula" in the National Supercomputing Shenzhen Center (Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center) official operation started. The initiation ceremony was chaired by Gao, Secretary general of the Shenzhen municipal government, which attracted a number of dignitaries from the Ministry of Science and Technology and local governments, including the mayor's deputy city.

Prior to that, in early August, IBM Mondondo Cloud Computing Center was launched in Chifeng in Inner Mongolia, and in August, the Cloud Computing Center in Taian, Shandong province, was established; at the end of June, the HP Cloud Computing Solution Center opened in Tianjin Binhai New area; early June, Jiangxi Nanchang Cloud Computing project started operation ... This does not include various institutions, organizations, such as the establishment of a variety of cloud base, Cloud Park, Cloud Alliance, and so on.

From a global perspective, and the close integration of business models, so that cloud computing has been a strong vitality and the momentum of development. However, in the face of the herd of cloud computing in China, even the industry criticized as "enclosure movement", for the people involved, it is time to reflect on meditation.

Cloud computing, especially the public cloud, is the best benefit and attraction for people is that users can use the resources and services in the cloud as easily as they open tap water, and they can take it with them and pay for it on demand. From this perspective, the builders first have to consider the "user" and "How to use", that is, how to enable users to really use this service, including the use of equipment, how to obtain this service.

Jie's "personal cloud" provides such a solution. In a personal cloud, Citrix provides all the ideas for how personal devices and computing resources interact, including terminals, applications, data, social networks, etc., to integrate them and provide the ability to deliver computing resources to all users, anytime, anywhere.

Solve the "user" and "How to use" problem, and then is "with what", that is, on the Yunping to run what applications. Shanghai Super Center and Wuxi Software Park Cloud Computing Center are good examples to learn from. The former provides a large number of High-performance computing application services for local industry users, and in the meteorological forecast, drug design, life science, new materials and other applications have made a number of important achievements, fully play the role of public service platform, the latter for the park to provide a leasing business network application services, These enterprises do not need to purchase expensive professional development software, directly leased the cloud Platform for project design, development, testing and application, successfully attracted a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises and new ventures.

Here, we also suggest that the relevant decision-makers in the big purchase of servers, storage, network and other infrastructure to build a cloud computing center, you may want to think about the "users", "How to use" and "what" three problems; otherwise, your cloud platform, even if it is built, no application is in vain, In the end, it can only be reduced to an empty shell.

(Responsible editor: Liu Fen)