Where is the "domestic cloud"?

Six years after Google first proposed the concept of "cloud computing" (Cloud Computing), cloud computing has not only launched a new round of it competitions around the world, but has also spread across the sea in China. In particular, through the first year of China's cloud computing 2012, not only the Ministry of Science and Technology issued a ministerial-level cloud planning "China Cloud Technology Development" Twelve-Five "Special Plan", the cloud computing development to a new height, and there are several predicted, during the "Twelve-Five" period (2011 ~2015 years), The domestic cloud computing industry chain scale can reach 750 billion yuan to 1 trillion yuan.

China's cloud computing development no two, not only to get local government support, industrial chain parties are also motivated to create "domestic cloud", accelerate the cloud landing. However, in the domestic cloud computing booming momentum, the industry began to smell a trace of "smoke" flavor, this flavor from the foreign it giants with products, technology in the Chinese market, and local enterprises in the "domestic cloud" manufacturing process of friction.

Although in the interview process, from the local equipment provider, top of the service providers have said that the current domestic cloud computing development is still in the early stage, domestic enterprises and foreign enterprises in the cloud computing market is not just competition, more cooperation, but the industry has a general consensus, domestic enterprises in the technical products compared with foreign and 2~ 3 years of Lag. According to the Law of market development, although in the initial stage, the technical problems will not become the main contradiction of the development of domestic cloud computing, but whether domestic enterprises can seize the development window period, successful catch-up, in the cloud computing market can still gain a par with foreign manufacturers or more prominent competitive advantage? That's the worry of a whiff of smoke, and it's not alarmist about the current performance of Chinese companies in some key technology areas of cloud computing.

The virtualization of giant entrenched

In the past IT resources belong to the "household", one of the advantages of cloud computing comes after the realization of resource dynamic and sharing, and its foundation is virtualization, and virtualization is also the industry seems to be a necessary step towards cloud computing.

Global server virtualization and Desktop virtualization sales will grow by 43% in 2012 and output will reach $2.7 billion trillion, according to a recent report by Gartner, a market research institute. By 2013, 60% of the world's servers will deploy virtualization solutions that will reduce the number of physical servers to the existing 10% by consolidating physical servers.

And in the context of global large-scale deployment virtualization, the reality of the current domestic virtualization is "low prevalence". Jin, Gartner's chief analyst, said that while most enterprises used virtualization technology, in terms of usage, at present, domestic large enterprises have almost no virtualization of key applications, core applications, the actual degree of cloud is low.

Such a situation, on the one hand, with the domestic enterprises cautious attitude, on the one hand, and the market to choose products related.

Currently in the virtualization market, almost all of the presence of foreign manufacturers, including VMware is the monopoly of most of the virtualization market, and has been leading the development of virtualization technology.

VMware Trends in the field of server, storage virtualization, its main focus on the virtualization market has more than more than 10 years of history, technology accumulated deep. Both storage Area network (SAN) vendors, server vendors, and network vendors are associated with VMware. VMware since 2007 in the Chinese market, as of May 2012, VMware Company in China's market share has been as high as 80%.

Another virtualization plant Shangshijie is focused on desktop virtualization, and Microsoft's Hyper-V provides a holistic set of virtualization solutions for users, and IBM continues to provide virtualization solutions for minicomputer. At the same time, open source products Xen and KVM split up the rest of the market share, the former Yusijie firmly mastered, the latter by Red Hat sponsorship.