Tian Yang Ming is partnering for cloud computing

16 years ago, Tian met two people: one is the trend founder Zhang Ming, and the other is Yahoo founder Jerry Yang. 16 years later, one thing squeezed them together, and the friends turned out to be partners today. "This is cloud computing. "This is one of the most exciting things that happened in the IT industry over the past 40 years," Tian said. "Sits in the North works big Software Park's" Beijing Cloud base "office, Tian accepts this reporter to interview, recalls the Silicon Valley past 16 years ago, still feels that it is the life most meaningful event. 1988, Zhang Ming is in Taiwan to create trend technology, 1994, Jerry Yang founded the United States Yahoo, the same year Tian returned to create the letter. Three companies in Tokyo, Japan, the United States Nasdaq successfully listed, Yahoo become the world's largest network portal, the trend to become the world's largest Chinese software company, Tian joined China Netcom. 1995, three people Silicon Valley, the Internet is hot, the cause of start-up, is high-spirited. Ming recalls: "At that time we often in various summits to communicate together, Tian have ' industry serve the country ' ideal, and I am keen on all kinds of profitable business model, Yang is often thinking of technology forefront, we are very complementary, but has not carried out commercial cooperation." "The situation lasted until 2006. That year, Tian left Netcom to set up broadband capital. The traditional virus industry is not keeping pace with the Internet, and Zhang Ming is looking for a new direction for the trend. Jerry Yang is ready to replace Semert as Yahoo CEO, revive Yahoo. In 2008, Yang's revival of Yahoo failed, Bartz succeeded. The world is changing, and three good friends have begun a new exploration. They found a common cause, cloud computing. "The era of cloud computing, the Chinese people want to change the" coolie "industrial status, collar innovation. When this was said, the early spring sun shone through the Tian's face through the floor-to-ceiling windows. Integration opportunities in four industries Tian says that three people have either a cloud-computing gene or a cloud-computing potential. Cloud computing originated from Yahoo's Hadoop, this is an open source distributed cloud computing platform, Yahoo Portal, search, advertising systems are based on the Hadoop platform, many internet companies such as Taobao, Baidu's main business is based on the Hadoop platform. Tian at that time, the integration of industrial resources, must pull Yang Zhiyuan into the bureau. Cloud computing was first driven by two forces, the biggest power being the Internet. The internet finds that large users need to compute, and it is inexpensive to compute. Yahoo is free at first, when the user developed to 10 million, EMC, IBM, HP is too expensive, then Jerry Yang thought, can use PC server to solve large-scale computing and storage problems? So Yahoo to Lurkey led the formation of a team of 12 people, made Hadoop, became the first cloud computing software platform. Lurkey later moved to Microsoft, responsible for Microsoft Search, responsible for Microsoft's cloud-oriented business in the queue. In addition to the Internet, the other driving force of cloud computing is software virtualization. A PC used to be a personal one, and the era of cloud computing was 1.00 PCs, 1000 PCs, Google is to connect more than 1 million PCs, through the parallel computing technology for all users to share, software virtualization has played a significant role. "When it comes to software, no one is more suitable than Zhang Ming. Tian said the most successful Chinese software is Ming. In addition to American companies, software companies sell more than 1 billion dollars a year, with only two in the world: one is SAP and the other is trend. "Still in Netcom, I and Ming are beginning to discuss, what things, like the Internet, like PC technology, like mobile communications, change the future of the world?" Tian said: "The two of us finally came to the unanimous conclusion that the cloud." "Tian that cloud computing is the media, communications, it, the Internet, the integration of the four industries of a revolution." After Gutenberg (movable type), the media industry did not have a revolution for 500 years, after Bell Telephone, the communication industry has not changed for 100 years; it includes the computing and storage industries, and the Internet has not changed for 30 years; "There are four industries that have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Tian that the computer revolution began in the mainframe and ended in cloud computing. In the era of cloud computing, everyone becomes a data person, a lifetime favorite movie, photo and log, can be stored, because the vast and inexpensive computing power can be analyzed, managed. And now the internet is too expensive, too messy. In May 2010, Zhang Ming was working with Tian to set up cloud technology, and Jerry Yang promised to invest in Tian investment institutions, including the BlackBerry Fund and the Cloud Fund. The "Three Musketeers" formally teamed up to capture the four-industry convergence of cloud computing opportunities. Tian's role concept Cloud base is located in the office of a total of 12 floors, settled enterprises have 12, are the broadband capital investment, including cloud technology, YOYO (Friends), in the cloud, days, days, weather, communication, Cloud cube and other companies, investment amounted to 500 million yuan. Friends are doing cloud operating system company, founder of Yao Hongyu Original is Jerry Yang under a GAN. As the first cloud computing platform, Hadoop was not commercially successful, and those talented people later ran out of Google, part of Microsoft, and some went to Amazon. Jerry Yang became a preacher, left a person, contributed to the broadband capital, that is, friends of the Tianyu technology to create people Yao Hongyu. Last year, friends began to achieve break-even. Tcloud (Tian Yun Technology) to do open source software, by Zhang Ming is with Tian investment. Cloud computing era, no longer a single product-oriented vendors, will be the system solution to customers, and cloud technology is to provide cloud computing system solutions. "This is my old line, and this is what ya believe." "Tian said. Beijing Cloud Base production server of the Super cloud technology, is the broadband capital, Beijing Municipal Commission and Supermicro joint venture. Super Micro is the world's fourth-largest server manufacturer, producing a new generation of cloud computing servers, formerly for Yahoo and Google production servers,Jerry Yang introduced the introduction of Beijing cloud base. Tian told reporters, Super Micro is the characteristics of energy-saving emission reduction, the past 10 servers, now one is enough, used to use UNIX mainframe, with hardware software, now the user x86 small machine can be. Ultra-cloud technology has begun production in October 2010, is expected to produce 60,000 cloud servers in 2011, to achieve sales of 600 million yuan. Tian is excited, saying the server will compete directly with IBM and HP. Tian says the history of computers has gone through three stages: first the mainframe, only one company, and IBM. Later, the PC Revolution turned the pattern upside down. PC has gone two roads: one is the whole closed road Apple, the other is Wintel Road, both the Alliance and division of the road, through this division of labor, the link of high value-added to the Wintel, the low value-added links to Asia, such as the machine manufacturing links. The third stage is to enter the Internet age. As for which path cloud computing chooses, Tian thinks it's too early to talk about it, but the trend is already apparent. Its basis is that Microsoft and HP cooperate production server, soft hard combination; Intel works with Nokia to develop the Meego operating system; Apple and arm flirt, the future will be from the chip to the terminal, while facing the end user Service; Oracle and Sun Merge ... The entire computing industry is becoming more chaotic than ever before, and Tian has seen a pattern in the chaos, that is, all companies are trying to build a "combination" of software, hardware, services, and key components, and this is just a symptom, and each company has the same goal of becoming a system integrator, integrating all of the above products and facing end customers. One of the future roles of Tian is to do similar systems integrators, packaging operating systems, servers, software, applications, and helping them find end users. Tian is currently working with the National Grid to build a private cloud. On the public cloud side, Zhang's trend technology is working with China Telecom in Taiwan to launch a EC2 cloud storage service similar to Amazon, named Zhonghuaiun. At the same time, the Beijing cloud base also with China Mobile, the Chinese Unicom launched the exploration cooperation. "A lot of cloud services, users are actually inseparable from." "Tian said, for example, Gmail is cloud services, Baidu Search is cloud services, mobile SMS is cloud services, there are telecom operators on the server, to the user push, Tencent's instant messaging also calculate cloud services, Taobao E-commerce is also a typical cloud services. Tian, the cloud computing operator, believes that the massive data in the cloud computing age makes it important to run the Super database. The so-called operation of the Super database, that is, the large unstructured database management, mining, and then again, editing, the ability of the company, will become the future cloud computing operators. This is a much bigger market than today's telecoms operations, because telecoms operates only human communications, and cloud computing operates throughout society. In the world, Microsoft, AsiaMazon, Google and Facebook are scrambling to get seats for cloud operators, and in China there are three major telecoms operators, Alibaba and Tencent, including China Mobile. Tian's broadband capital also wants to compete for a seat, but the pattern of competing is different. The broadband capital is the model of "shipbuilding". Cloud computing industry chain includes two industrial chains: one is the chain of operation Industry, the other is manufacturing industry chain. Manufacturing industry chain provides software, hardware equipment, operation industry chain to provide resource integration platform for manufacturing industry chain. Microsoft, Apple and IBM want to integrate all the resources of the industry into a total solution provider. Amazon, Google from the operator's industrial chain, control end users, hope through the operation of the industrial chain integration of the hardware industry chain. Broadband capital wants to start from China's environment, integrating widgets into a big ship, and ultimately a cloud operator's seat. Tian that foreign companies in technology, philosophy has been very advanced, but the competition for cloud computing operator seats, now is not the time to win.