US | Cloud computing: A spark has been a prairie fire

"Every time in the last few years, 10 pages are needed to explain what cloud computing is. "Hechinying, director of software and communications services, said in an interview with the China Economic Times," after recent government departments to promote cloud computing in China is a "spark has started a prairie fire." Prairie based on cloud computing, IT consulting includes a large cloud computing center package consulting and data processing services growth faster, faster than 30%, beyond the overall growth of the IT Service market.

The overall layout of China's cloud computing is divided into four parts: the Bohai Sea, the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta and the West Triangle. The central cities of the four regional plates have different positions-Beijing wants to become a world-class cloud computing industry center, Shanghai want to become Asia-Pacific Cloud Computing Industry Center, Shenzhen is South China's cloud computing Center, Chengdu is the West Cloud computing Industry Center.

Sadie consultant predicts that China's cloud computing market will grow by more than 90% a year in the next three years, with a market size of over 100 billion in 2013. China's cloud computing industry is about to enter a high-speed growth period and full integration period.

Hechinying explained that the layout of cloud computing in China was initiated and driven by local governments, the central level government did not participate, but the central level of cloud computing planning is brewing, in addition, the current local governments to form their own cloud computing industry Alliance, there is no China cloud computing industry Alliance. Hechinying revealed that "Sadie Consultant is brewing the establishment of China's cloud computing industry Base Alliance." ”

In the process of rapid development of cloud computing industry, Hechinying thinks a series of new changes will take place. First, the application-driven development model will gradually replace the policy-driven infrastructure construction model. Now the situation is that the state-level cities are in the establishment of cloud computing center, which is obviously contrary to the original intention of industrial development, "the future central government will certainly introduce some corresponding normative policies, from the strategic industrial development perspective to promote the development of China's cloud computing industry, rather than fragmented."

Secondly, cloud computing resource pools and applications will gradually disconnect and separate from the geographical space. The main cost of a large cloud computing center is bandwidth and electricity, so large cloud computing centers, such as Ordos (600295), can be built in places where electricity is cheap, and applications can be "elsewhere".

"If you're not bullish on cloud computing, don't be bullish on mobile internet," he said. Hechinying stressed that cloud computing and the mobile internet industry are now tightly integrated.

In the era of cloud computing, China's IT service providers ushered in a good development opportunities, but also face the transition, "for the original IT services, whether you want to move your services to the cloud, whether to increase the complexity of your IT services?" How to deal with this change? For third party IT service providers, do system integration, consulting may no longer be singles alone, no longer only to provide a single hardware product or software products, customers need a packaged solution, this is a winner-take-all market, if you can not provide a high-end service, you are out. "Hechinying, for example, because of the rise of the cloud computing era, last year or two years ago there were several IT companies to attend the Sadie IT Services annual meeting, this year no longer seen," This may be the latest reflection of industry trends. ”

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)