Three reasons that led to the proliferation of domestic minicomputer applications

When I had a senior IT friend who spent some time in Australia talking about his feelings about domestic IT, I think he was most impressed by the over-dependence of minors by domestic users, which caused the proliferation of minicomputer applications in China. The Australian users trust the x86, a large number of applications are running on the PC server. Although there are occasional applications running on minicomputers, few users use minicomputers or clusters. In addition, he thinks the proportion of Australian users to applications and services is far greater than that of domestic users. Domestic users' investment in hardware often accounts for 65% -70% of the total investment while Australian users invest about 65% of the capital into software And service.

My friend's feelings make me think deeply: why the domestic IT industry and the Australian IT industry have such a big difference? Do we often excuse the "Chinese characteristics" and caused the Chinese IT industry "corruption"?

Three major reasons for the proliferation of domestic minicomputer applications

Many users have always placed too much emphasis on minicomputers. The reason is actually very simple. First, some users use minicomputers to find an excuse for themselves. In the event of any failure, they can tell their leaders that I have used the most stable and reliable solution in the industry and myself No way. This is entirely a practice of evasion of responsibility through minicomputers, which is a hidden corruption. Second, some users do not have the technical accumulation of their own needs are vague, can only rely on the service provider's recommendation. Many service providers driven by the interests, first of all recommend the most luxurious luxury programs. An important reason that minicomputers are widely used by Chinese users lies in this. In the case of very tight budgets, companies tend to be inexplicably become IT luxury users, resulting in a huge waste of resources, into the misunderstanding of spending big money to do small things.

In order to better understand the market trend of minicomputers, I made a summary of the sales of the most prominent minicomputers in the industry in the past nine quarters. As can be seen from the table, after 19% growth in the first quarter of 2011, sales of minicomputers dropped sharply. The first quarter of 2013 has dropped 32%, which is a good illustration of the minicomputer's own market trend that minicomputers are slowly getting out of the IT market. Third, do not rule out some users have their own "corrupt" attempt to deliberately bigger budget, of course, this can only be completed through the consumption of IT luxury goods.

Cloud computing provides technical support for anti-corruption

In recent years, cloud computing is gaining prominence in the IT industry. Cloud computing is bringing unprecedented opportunities to the business development of enterprises. More and more enterprises are becoming beach-goers in cloud computing and enjoying a series of benefit. Of course, cloud computing has also found a strong backing for us to contain "corruption."

First of all, cloud computing can make the business more intelligent, help us plug the loopholes in some business corruption.

Today, more and more enterprises carry out intelligent analysis of business data to promptly identify various potential loopholes such as costs and projects and timely warning so as to provide a barrier to anti-corruption. Take the recent talk of each room sister, Fang Ye events, there is no intelligent data support, rely on the public to report the anti-corrosion does not fly. If we can use cloud computing technology, real estate data will be put on the big data platform, such things must have been able to early warning in advance, completely out of control will not burst out by the masses. Of course, such anti-corruption is not only a technical issue, but also a system issue. However, if the system moves forward, it will be very difficult to achieve without strong technical support.

Second, cloud computing can provide the IT industry with a more transparent coat, so that all users can understand their needs more clearly and understand the utilization of all resources so that they can clearly see the true nature of service providers and avoid IT resources The use of corruption.

Through virtualization, all the hardware resources can be pooled. Through the automated management of cloud computing, the utilization of all resources can be clearly seen and the balance of services and resources can be clearly understood so as to more accurately plan their own business needs and avoid Corruption of resource utilization. I once conducted capacity planning on the site of a user and discovered it through a simple tool for resource research. Because some intermediate projects such as planning and testing have led to the fact that nearly 15% of server resources of users are idle Wasted in vain Not only do these servers run without any tasks, they consume power and air conditioning resources in vain, and nobody else dares to move these machines to use or shut down because they do not know their actual use. Automating cloud computing can force each server to set its own life cycle, with each project having its own specific auto-switch program. By the specified time, if you do not continue to apply for renewal, these server resources will automatically return to the resource pool, can serve other projects and applications, thus saving a lot of physical resources and reduce hardware investment. And we can devote more budget to software and services to further improve the overall level of China's IT industry.

Third, cloud computing can help us break the traditional monopoly and achieve resource sharing and platform-level services.

The basis of cloud computing is to break the local, corporate protectionism, so that more ordinary businesses, talent to stand out through the cloud computing platform. The cost of IT startup in the cloud computing era has dropped dramatically, and more and more individuals can work through the cloud computing platform. WeChat provides a free platform for self-media; Taobao provides a trading platform for individual entrepreneurship; Sina's SAE provides an entrepreneurial platform for individual developers, etc., which provide opportunities for small businesses and individuals to defeat big businesses and promote Industry and society as a whole.

In the end, cloud computing originated from open source and the Internet and gradually infiltrated the traditional enterprise data center based on the free and share spirit, providing a new catalyst for the evolution of the traditional enterprise data center and accelerating the traditional expensive and closed enterprise data center Crash.

It should be noted that cloud computing is absolutely not another revolution in the IT industry. Instead, the traditional IT industry's gravedigger pushed the traditional IT industry to a historical crossroads: the traditional "corrupt" "And waste? Or out of boudoir, out of the deep, never fight for their own individual interests, but with a more open-minded embrace the future? I believe everyone's answer is self-evident. Even today, you are still attached to yesterday, the era of waves will push you to the magnificent beach in the future, in order to perfect the floor, it began to exercise today.