Ucloud founder Ti Xinhua: Big Data has entrepreneurial opportunities than cloud computing

In a large data ecological chain, startups are one of the indispensable roles.

With the foreign cloud computing, large data field start-up companies and constantly spread huge financing, mergers and acquisitions cases, domestic this is still in the stage of development.

Among them, established in 2012, Ucloud is one of the more successful entrepreneurial cloud computing companies in China. At present, Ucloud has more than 1000 enterprise customers, and to increase the rate of 20% per month on the chain development. It is outside the bat, with the vertical field as the entry point, focus on entrepreneurial users, in the giant's shrouded market gradually grow.

"Cloud computing and big data are like the right-hand man. "Ucloud founder and CEO Ti Xinhua in an interview with the 21st century Economic report, said the two complementary can quickly help enterprises to launch large data business, more and more applications are causing profound global technological and business changes.

In fact, the most frequently used word for large data is cloud computing. And look at the structure of BAT's Big Three giants, big data and cloud computing are all subordinate to the cloud sector. Ti Xinhua said that the cloud platform for the allocation of resources, utilization, rapid expansion and other functions can greatly meet the needs of enterprise users of large data services.

This year, Ucloud has launched a large data analysis platform based on the cloud computing business. Ti Xinhua says that before big data stays on the conceptual level, say more, landing less; At present, large Internet companies have basically achieved the landing, but for some entrepreneurial companies, whether in technology or talent, it is difficult to achieve, so Ucloud launched a large data platform, so that entrepreneurial enterprises can also achieve large data use.

Unlike BAT's large data business model, Ucloud has its own business logic.

To play in a game

"21st century": In the field of cloud computing, what is the current domestic market pattern?

Ti Xinhua: The market is just beginning, last year's market size is only about 1 billion yuan, but the growth rate is particularly fast, we each month growth has reached 20%. Of course, the competition is also very fierce, the Giants are particularly many, start-up companies relatively few.

"21st century": Why did you choose cloud computing as a business venture? Ucloud How to break through the market pattern?

Ti Xinhua: The industry is immature, so there is a chance. Moreover, we have accumulated in the cloud computing, I personally responsible for Sheng business, have research and development and operation experience.

In a market dominated by giant players, differentiation is critical. Large companies only provide a foundation platform, while Ucloud can provide targeted customized products. Our core competitiveness lies in technology, customer understanding and service, because we are focused, so we can focus on the needs of users research and development of products, and to help customers to optimize the architecture before use, to provide customers with 7x24 hours of service, after the use of further communication to understand their problems and needs. This is an impossible service for a large company.

Unlike bat, Ucloud only platform, does not involve content, to ensure independence and security, while Ali and Tencent are involved in both aspects, it will lead to some of the electrical business Enterprise Server will not be placed on the Ali Cloud.

On the other hand, we had no all-inclusive in the choice of customers in the early days, but in the gaming industry.

"21st Century": Why choose the game industry into? What are the special requirements for cloud computing for gaming companies?

Ti Xinhua: First, the game industry has a strong explosive, if a game is done well, the growth rate will be very fast, today 10,000 users, tomorrow may reach 1 million, the server requirements are very high; second, the game life cycle is short, the flexibility of the server requirements higher; Third, the game company is relatively small, recruitment operation and maintenance is difficult, And the domestic game industry has developed rapidly in the past two years, the funds are more abundant, more easily become cloud users.

At the same time, the game industry also has its own special needs, including: 1, high stability requirements. Once the game server instability, resulting in downtime, the impact is large, 1-minute downtime may result in hundreds of thousands of users lost, 2, the disk read and write speed requirements, the game to smooth; 3, flexible scalability, 1 servers today, may be 100 tomorrow. For these needs, Ucloud has been customized product design.

"21st century": Ucloud now customers have expanded to online education, electricity, internet finance, smart hardware and other non-gaming areas, if each to be customized, that on a cloud platform how to compatible with different requirements?

Ti Xinhua: In a platform to meet the needs of different industries, Ucloud use of "building blocks" mode, we targeted the introduction of various products, customers can choose their own characteristics to meet their needs of the "building blocks" to combine.

Said the right-hand

"21st century": how receptive are traditional companies to cloud computing?

Ti Xinhua: Internet enterprises are relatively easy to accept, and traditional enterprises do not understand the Internet, think it is unsafe, so we have to understand their needs. For example, we launched the "hybrid cloud", that is, physical machine + virtual machine. The traditional enterprise buys own server, then, the sensitive data realizes through the physical machine, belongs to the enterprise own management, but the sensitive data can put on the virtual machine, and both in the same network environment, realizes the seamless connection.

21st Century: What do you think of the relationship between cloud computing and big data?

Ti Xinhua: Big Data and cloud computing are like one's right-hand man. Cloud computing is responsible for large data storage and computing, large data is analysis and calculation, cloud computing for large data to provide storage and computing capabilities, large data to help cloud analysis, is a process.

Ucloud found that most users will start using "Big Data models" to open large data applications after 2-3 months of setting up a cloud platform. Cloud computing has several features, such as the scalability of multiple servers, can store and compute massive data, can be very good support for large data needs, so the enterprise will be based on the cloud platform to build a large data platform.

On the other side, because of the flexible scalability of the cloud platform, the enterprise can successfully carry out large data business in the early stage, but it does not need to wait for a large amount of resources. Cloud Platform for the allocation of resources, utilization, rapid expansion and other functions can greatly meet more enterprise users of large data business needs.

Cloud computing makes big data lighter, the essence of big data is all, the use of cloud computing, whether a gross user or small volume users, can easily operate with large data-related business, cleaning up the past need for complex physical resources to build the platform of obstacles, large data business is no longer "high handsome" enterprise patents.

"21st century": many large enterprises have basically realized the use of large data, SMEs in this respect in what stage?

Ti Xinhua: Startups, in fact, have long been aware of the importance of big data, such as gaming companies, that need to analyze their users ' logins, growth, and buying behavior. But no matter from technology or talent, there is no suitable platform for the company to build and use tools to make data analysis. This year Ucloud launched a large data mobile platform, so that small and medium-sized enterprises can also use large data to solve the problem.

But unlike big companies, Ucloud only provides data analysis capabilities because we don't know the customer's data analysis logic. Ali does both the underlying system and the application level of large data analysis, and we only provide basic capabilities, applications to some partners to do.

"21st Century": cloud computing involves a lot of data, how to ensure the security of large data?

Ti Xinhua: There are several issues that companies worry about, such as data being taken away, one being taken away by operators and the other worrying about leaking data to rivals. Therefore, for the first worry, Ucloud does not do content; The second concern is that through technology and management, we prevent hackers from entering and now work with security agencies both at home and abroad to help users improve their security.

Cloud and ordinary IT systems, a platform is multi-tenant, to ensure that the isolation between different users, including network isolation, data isolation and system isolation, such as data-level isolation, to ensure that other users can not see.

Big data, lots of entrepreneurial opportunities.

"21st century": Ucloud to enter the overseas market is relatively early, in the development process, and the domestic difference?

Ti Xinhua: To sum up there are several aspects: first, the legal culture is not the same; second, the supply chain is different, in the domestic we have become familiar with IDC, server and so on how to buy, and foreign countries need to make a new choice to suppliers

"21st century": In the cloud computing and large data, the current domestic and foreign development situation?

Ti Xinhua: China's internet is 3-5 years behind the U.S., and cloud computing is similar to big data. In the United States, traditional companies and governments are used, while the domestic is still relatively backward, technology, the United States is relatively mature.

But the big market pattern aspect is similar, the foreign main player is Microsoft, the Google, the Amazon and so on the giant, the domestic also to bat mainly, regardless of domestic and foreign, the entrepreneurial company are relatively few.

"21st century": What are the opportunities for entrepreneurship in cloud computing and large data?

Ti Xinhua: The cloud computing business will become more and more difficult, when the industry pattern is stable, later it is difficult to join. Because the industry threshold is relatively high, such as the technical threshold, the current domestic can do is not many people, there are funding thresholds, cloud computing involves servers, computer rooms and so on, investment is very high, the operating threshold is also very tall, to find customers, build ecology, and another is to face the competition with Giants

Large data areas there are many entrepreneurial opportunities, such as finance, search, video and other industries combined, can find innovative points.

"21st century": What kind of ecology will be formed around cloud computing?

Ti Xinhua: Cloud computing must do the ecology, and related areas of enterprise joint, such as security monitoring, domain name resolution, and other companies, but also to do some incubation projects for the start-up companies to provide funds, but also with large manufacturers to help transform traditional enterprises.

Large data is a good entry point, nearly two years, all over the establishment of large data industry alliance, based on cloud computing and large data relations, we will participate. For example, Shanghai Big Data Industry Technology innovation Strategic Alliance, can use capital, technical personnel and related companies, together to build an ecological, industry is gradually forming a complete system.