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Cloud computing, which is used by large data centers to host network mail, search results, unified communications, or paid computing and storage, has recently become the focus of concern for CIOs in the corporate sector. But whether the future of cloud computing can be recognized is ultimately not determined by the technical aspects involved, but by strategic and economic factors.

On the one hand, "The big Switch," the editor of Nick Carr, thinks that all calculations will go to the cloud, just like the development of electric energy applications a century ago. As Carl explains, companies in the early stages of industry are using localized mechanical power generated by steam engines and water tankers to boost productivity by generating power transmission within the local area network via conveyor belts and gear drives. At the dawn of the electricity age, companies began to upgrade to the use of power-driven, so-called generators-and then the "cloud transition" was like generating power to super scale, free from geographical constraints, paid for by the use of demand-oriented service transfer: the power industry. Carl's predictions seem to be evolving, knowing that the largest cloud service providers have broken 1 billion of billions of dollars.

Driving cloud computing applications to the ground

Relative to the private cloud deployed by large enterprises, Wu Yimin said that it was "only the world's top 500 companies have the ability to do", because small and medium enterprise users do not have the ability to build their own branch companies around the world. Bird's cloud computing strategy looks at the application level, and is designed to provide SaaS (software as a service) model to meet customer demand, market-accepted cloud computing application products.

Differentiated from enterprise-level computing, birds cloud computing products users can expand to the entire ecological circle, the industry's customers, agents, distributors, suppliers, the entire ecological chain of the upper and lower travel, are cloud computing system users. In this respect, Wu Yimin said to reporters: "Cloud computing is around the business purposes of the service, in the past, the enterprise from equipment to business objectives have a layer of barriers, now the cloud has turned it into a service, when enterprises need services, only to go to the Internet procurement, not as traditional way to purchase equipment. Enterprises to think about what kind of services they need can be said that cloud computing for the operator has brought many benefits. ”

Including bird itself has been the beneficiary of the cloud computing model, in the past its products to successfully deploy to end users of the computer, must go through the system Integrator's checkpoint, they need to tailor the product tailored to the transformation. After a layer of changes, the user becomes exhausted and has forgotten the original business purpose of purchasing equipment. In the cloud mode, bird can directly provide customers with standardized online download products, "Now we can put the idea of the operators want to put in the software, operators can directly see the value of the software, if no effect can be directly replaced." IT services are wrapped into cloud computing, and for bosses, they can be centered around business purposes. ”

The 2010 "Cloud computing" development strategy, bird plan will increase sales by five times times. To drive more cloud computing applications to the ground, Wu Yimin said: "The current application of cloud computing is too little, as the emergence of new things like the law, we will be more than the old things to achieve greater market space, so we will continue to develop more applications, for the government, major customers and small and medium-sized enterprises to provide services that meet their characteristics." ”

On the other hand, experts in more than one technology industry say the cloud is "completely unintelligible", with an industry-respected consultancy claiming that the rise of the cloud has reached the peak of expectations and that the number of enterprise users actually receiving infrastructure as services is lower than expected. Karl himself admits that "all historical references and analogies have their own limitations".

So enterprise-class cloud computing is becoming a low-key transformation or niche technology? At the upcoming Businessesflat-out Annual conference in Gigaom receptacle in June this year, the author will Forrest to attend the seminar, with a partner and famous report from McKinsey, "The Sky for Cloud computing", Stanger, chief analyst and public Cloud and private cloud computing expert at Forrester Research, and Deloitte Consulting's Center for the Edge's director and chairman and 9374.html "> John Hegel, a member of the World Economic Forum, conducted an in-depth discussion. We may not all share the same view, but mutual discussion should inspire everyone, since enterprise decisions and architectures should ultimately be based on several key elements:

Drivers and barriers: these should include increased flexibility and mobility from on-demand scalable resources, reduced overall costs by optimizing hybrid solutions, accelerated time-to-market through existing application software and innovative platforms, limitations and requirements for application software architecture, security, and more.

Development and configuration options: The solution should be built from scratch, using pre-installed software on its own dedicated infrastructure, all using the cloud, or a combination of ways to outsource.

Measuring and modeling: from Finance, a comparison of risk, compliance, user experience, and competitiveness is necessary because the factors that need to be taken into account are determining cost and depreciation assets, migration costs, marginal cost investments or use for deployment and associated energy consumption, refrigeration, footprint, management, administrative expenses, The key role of certification and training, as well as phased solutions--the new capabilities of the reserves should be taken in the first place by tapping underutilized computing resources, or the need for additional computing power to drive new data centers to build--complicating the situation further.