What is the way for companies to improve their cloud computing capabilities?

To improve computing capacity, it vendors continue to launch new products, while it equipment buyers are also continuously invested in IT equipment optimization upgrades. But is it the only way to increase computing power for new products that are more powerful in computing? The advent of cloud computing, so that enterprises have a better choice: in the case of not buying new products, through virtualization and other technologies can improve their use of IT resources efficiency, in an intensive way to achieve it utilization growth, thereby reducing IT investment costs, improve the competitiveness of enterprises.

With the cloud of IaaS, PaaS, http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/8759.html ">saas mode of gradual formation, enterprises or individual consumers can even use leasing and other ways to buy IT resources, More cost-effective. Leasing mode allows users to choose the type of IT resources, grade, service life, and so on, completely around their own needs, rather than passively accept the IT vendors to give the solution.

Obviously, this is a profound industrial change. As one of the important providers of it basic resources, telecom operators have a basic position in the whole industry chain. However, because of telecom operators in a variety of value-added services in the weak, it is gradually reduced to a "dumb pipeline." A variety of IT resources to the use of telecommunications operators to reach the enterprise or individual users, most of the value of the industrial chain by IT vendors occupy, telecom operators are marginalized, and its development space is increasingly limited. It is a key step to the future development of telecom operators to make use of cloud computing to transform.

"Hitchhiking" mentality

Before the concept of cloud computing came into being, there have been grid computing, utility computing concepts, grid computing is a group of loosely coupled computers, a super virtual computer, commonly used to carry out a number of large-scale tasks; Utility computing refers to the packaging and sales of IT resources, as well as the use of public facilities such as electricity. Cloud computing can be said to have both the advantages of the IT industry is the future trend.

Relative to foreign countries, the domestic telecom operators started relatively late, but also heavy construction, light application. The first telecom operator to cloud computing in foreign countries is the at&t of the United States, which began the planning of cloud computing as early as 2006, after integrating 5 super IDC in the US, Europe and Asia, and built a at&t cloud service network containing 38 IDC, On this basis, in August 2008, the introduction of cloud computing products synaptic, to buy and pay the mechanism to provide users with virtual servers, IDC escrow architecture, large-scale operations and the use of the selected application services.

And the domestic telecommunications operators, the earliest launch of cloud computing planning is China Mobile, July 2007, China Mobile used idle 15 computers, based on open source software to build a massive data processing experimental platform, launched a series of experiments in cloud computing. But it was not until May 2010 that China Mobile released its version of the Big Cloud 1.0. According to Zhengmao, vice president of China Mobile, the current "big cloud" of China Mobile has formed a perfect cloud computing product system, which realizes the core modules of cloud host, cloud storage, cloud network, massive data storage and management, large-scale system management and scheduling. But these research achievements have not yet achieved large-scale commercial, China Mobile cloud computing is actually "thunder big, Rain".

China Unicom in the field of cloud computing is also not very well, the 2009 developed a long-term cloud computing development strategy, external business to IaaS and PAAs, in the April 17 this year, the fourth session of CCS Cloud Computing Summit, Cao Ru, a cloud computing project manager at China Unicom's IDC operations center, told China Unicom's cloud computing practice that China Unicom would soon launch cloud computing services, but would be similar to the products offered by other telecoms operators.

China Telecom has started late in cloud computing, but it has moved more quickly. February 22 this year, during the tenth session of China International Software Cooperation Fair, China Telecom's Sichuan company launched eight cloud computing products and solutions, namely cloud host, Cloud computer, cloud security, Cloud call, Cloud Software supermarket, wing disk, Enterprise cloud storage and Virtual cloud data center, for enterprise and individual users to provide cloud computing services. The news revealed that at the end of March, China Telecom also registered to set up a dedicated cloud computing company, and the appointment of more than 20 years of overseas work experience Sheichaoyang as the general manager of the Telecommunications cloud computing company. China Telecom also developed a "three-step" cloud computing development Strategy: The first step is to unify the construction and deployment of the cloud Computing data center covering the whole country; The second step is to build a unified network of cloud management platform, the third step, relying on the optical network covering the whole country, realize the high-speed interconnection of cloud data center and user high-speed access, Fusion broadband and cloud computing.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)