When does "thunder" frequently "rain"? Cloud computing calls for standards

"Ideally, all data from birth to death is stored in the cloud computing platform, and every citizen data can be shared in different space-time," he said. "The day before yesterday, the 14th session of the High fair one of the important activities of 2012 IEEE Asia-Pacific Cloud Computing Conference opened in Shenzhen, Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Committee director Lu Jian to attend the experts, scholars, representatives of the industry, described the Shenzhen Cloud Service platform Construction Blueprint.

If the cloud concept and cloud products are the 13th session of the High Fair one of the bright spots, so that many ordinary viewers feel the convenience of "cloud" but still "foggy" touch the mind, then explore cloud computing "cloud" landing plan is the 14 session of the high intersection of a big bright spot. From the technical cloud computing standard discussion, to the engineering cloud service public infrastructure, how to solve the cloud computing industry's "landing" problem, has become the academia and the industry consensus.

"Cloud computing" is not necessarily "cloud computing"

"Our products also involve cloud computing, but we don't really know much about cloud computing technology, so come to the conference to learn." Miss Zhang, who came to the IEEE Asia-Pacific Cloud computing Conference, told reporters that cloud computing is now very hot, but many companies know little about cloud computing.

"Almost all of Shenzhen's internet companies are investing in cloud computing," he said. Lu Jian said that in the cloud becomes more and more hot today, more should be rational view of the layout of the cloud computing industry, "many companies think that the original Internet can be easily transferred to the cloud, thinking that the" Internet "three words to" cloud computing "is tantamount to doing their own cloud.

In Lu Jian's view, the cloud computing industry chain is very complex, involving operators, equipment manufacturers to the many areas of service providers, especially in the capital investment in many enterprises have problems. "For example, the industry related to cloud storage, in the capital investment requirements are very high, at least 100 million, some companies with 20 million on cloud computing, only to do it architecture services, still far from doing software services and storage services to achieve the goal."

The various "clouds" that appeared at the high fair last year are inevitably worrying: is the development of China's cloud computing industry overheating? Jiang Jianping, dean of the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, said in an interview that the enterprise is very practical, in the competition will always appear in a number of core intellectual property rights, have their own brand of China's "cloud enterprise."

Over the past year, "cloud" is still the hot spot of this high fair. Jiang Jianping said that over the past year, people's understanding of cloud computing has become more pragmatic, considering the framework of cloud computing, security and other issues.

"Many factors are driving the development of cloud applications, but it also faces many challenges." Lin Weicho, deputy director of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government, also believes that cloud computing faces challenges in the reliability of services, business continuity, information security and data privacy, and vendor lock-in.

The business model of the cloud computing industry, which is the most discussed in the industry, has not yet been available for reference. "Many companies are just doing the surface of the technology, build a platform to provide mail and other services." "Many companies are already doing cloud computing services, but the business model of cloud computing is still to be explored," said the director of the Internet and mobile Computing Laboratory at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Setting standards is the premise of "cloud computing" development

Like the Internet, cloud computing is a disruptive technology and business model, a force that is preparing for explosive growth and rapid change. But without a flexible, generic framework for interoperability, technological innovation will be hampered. "If companies are interested in cloud computing, the first thing to do is to set standards." Peter Staecker, IEEE, said in Shenzhen that many governments and companies are involved in cloud computing, but the fundamental problem is to set standards for cloud computing technology, "only by establishing standards can we truly realize the information infrastructure of cloud computing".

It is understood that IEEE, the American Society of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, is an international association of Electronic Technology and information Science Engineers, one of the largest professional and technical organizations in the world. One of the major themes of the IEEE Asia-Pacific Cloud Computing conference is to explore cloud computing standards. To promote innovation and advocacy in cloud computing technology and Applications, IEEE launched its new Cloud computing pilot program last April, introducing two standards: P2301 (Cloud portability guidelines and operational overviews) and P2302 (Cloud Interoperability and federated development). Wireless technologists will also review the role of the 4th generation of LTE technology in mobile cloud computing.

"The real future of cloud computing has yet to be explored. "said Peter Staecker.

Government sets up "cloud computing" or changes the life of Shenzhen People

"We regard cloud computing as an opportunity for a new round of industrial restructuring in the IT sector and encourage Shenzhen enterprises to enter this area." Lu Jian said that the Shenzhen municipal government in recent years has 500 million yuan in the Internet industry special funds, in recent years, invested a billion of yuan to build a large cloud computing platform.

"The technology may be similar for all companies, but is it safer if the government does?" Lu Jian said that in order to avoid local enterprises in the cloud computing industry, the government actively involved in the cloud computing industry is necessary. The reporter learned that as early as May 2009, the Ministry of Science and Technology of China and the Shenzhen government jointly invested in the establishment of the National Supercomputing Shenzhen Center, the deployment of our country's first super million 6000 supercomputers. April 2011, Shenzhen Cloud Computing International Joint Laboratory officially opened, the same year in August, Shenzhen Cloud Computing Research Alliance was established.

The Government will support the development of technology, the promotion of products and the maintenance of the whole system. Lu Jian that in the cloud computing industry Division of labor, the rational use of resources, the Shenzhen municipal government has made a clear plan. "Each enterprise own investment, the cost is very high, if the government in the initial construction of optical network and other corresponding computing resources, the public and enterprises to use IT resources cost will be greatly reduced."

According to the infrastructure model to build cloud services platform, Shenzhen is the cloud computing industry vision. "We will provide a secure virtual network space for the more than 13 million citizens in Shenzhen, provide a secure virtual network space for the 40多万家 legal entity, and establish information sharing platform for more than 100 government departments". Lu Jian said that the Shenzhen municipal government will actively intervene in cloud computing services platform to build, the future will realize the public infrastructure of computing resources, so that the calculation capacity and gas, water and electricity as easy to use, low-cost goods.

"Shenzhen Cloud computing industry has government support, technology is more mature, planning is also very good." "IEEE Asia-Pacific Cloud Computing conference Secretary Liao Zhirong said that the key to the application of cloud computing technology depends on the local demand, there is demand and motivation."

Unlike Shenzhen, Hong Kong is basically a company doing its own cloud computing industry. In Lin Weicho's view, the cloud computing industry is both cheap and inexpensive, and it avoids locking in suppliers, with better portability and flexibility, "after all, cloud computing is very important, but not the only important technology."

While the future of cloud computing is still groping, it is certain that academics, industry and governments are working to get cloud computing from the cloud.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)