Who leads the tide when it is surging

Absrtact: Gartner predicts that by 2012, 80% of the world's Fortune 1000 companies will use cloud computing services in different ways, and 20% will no longer have any IT hardware assets.

The idea that cloud computing is on the eve of a massive outbreak is being recognized by more and more people. According to an international survey of 500 CIOs (CIOs), 60% of respondents believe that cloud computing will be their most important it operational channel in the next three years. Indeed, as a new generation of information technology, cloud computing is brewing the immeasurable power of it change. So, in the turbulent cloud era, who will lead the coquettish?

The government: The leader of the cloud era

In the past, the government was only a participant in information technology, and now the government is becoming the dominant provider of public information infrastructure and services, such as cloud resources and cloud platforms. Since 2010, cloud computing has been listed as a strategic emerging industry, China has been floating around the "white clouds": Beijing's "Xiangyun Project", Shanghai's "Sea of Clouds", Chongqing's "cloud Plan", Shenzhen, "South China Cloud Computing Center", Suzhou, "Clouds online" ... Many cities have launched a cloud computing industry development plans and initiatives, for example, Beijing will be divided into two phases, eventually 2015 years ago, the formation of 50 billion yuan industrial scale, so that Beijing becomes a world-class cloud computing industry base. After 3 years of effort, Shanghai will cultivate 10 cloud computing technology and service enterprises with influential annual income in China, and build 10 cloud computing platform for Urban management, industrial development, e-government and SME services, and promote the transformation of hundreds of software and information services enterprises into cloud computing services. , the new business revenue of the information service industry has been boosted by hundreds of thousands of people.

Chongqing Mayor Huang said that from this year, Chongqing plans to "cloud" as the center, with 3 years to build Asia's largest "cloud computing" data center and software development Highland. Chongqing will appear "Health cloud", "traffic clouds," education cloud "," manufacturing cloud "and so on, and the whole" cloud "system will be divided into two, one is engaged in large-scale offshore data processing business cloud computing data center, representing the brain of the age of cloud computing; the other is laptops, tablets, A variety of electronic information terminal products, such as smartphones, represent nerve endings in the brain.

Clearly, the government is becoming a powerful driving force in cloud computing: the first is to promote the cloud computing market, such as the Government's efforts to build a cloud for public information services, the second is to give cloud computing development planning, planning and measures, such as the Ministry of Industry to delineate Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Wuxi and other 5 cities first to carry out cloud computing services innovation and Development pilot demonstration work, and then gradually spread to the country; third, the data ownership and privacy rights of cloud computing, the Government will introduce forward-looking legislation.

It vendors: multifaceted

Now, every large IT company has its own strategy in the cloud computing field, it vendors are relocating around cloud computing, innovative platforms, products and applications are emerging, and more and more data and applications are migrating to the cloud. Cloud computing is an invaluable opportunity for IBM to increase device sales, as these devices are equipped with the software needed to build the cloud infrastructure (Tivoli series software, WebSphere, and other software). IBM currently has no positive performance in the cloud leasing business model and is more interested in winning profits from products and services related to the architecture of private clouds. In addition, as a large IT consulting and outsourcing provider, IBM has an additional business in cloud services, BPaaS, which implicitly means cloud computing as an outsourced service.

At Apple's Global developer conference in early June, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced: "We'll just use PCs and Macs as devices." We're going to turn your hubs, the center of your digital life, to the clouds. "Apple's icloud is officially unveiled, using cloud computing as a centralized storage of applications, music, media, information, photos, backups, etc." Apple is trying to use the "cloud" tool to lead the post-PC era.

Telecom operators: Winning

"Cloud computing" is both a strategic opportunity and a huge challenge for telecom operators looking for a transformational path.

IDC believes that telecom operators are the most promising cloud service providers. First, telecom operators not only have a strong IT infrastructure (servers, storage, network equipment, etc.), but also have large data centers. The IT infrastructure of these data centers is inefficient, and carriers can package the computing resources of these data centers into cloud computing services for the end users. This further development of computing resources will become a new profit point for telecom operators. Second, the telecom operators fully mastered the network access level of resources, which is the most differentiated advantage. Since all public cloud computing services need to be implemented via the Internet, all cloud services implementations must be supported by the network of telecommunications operators. Third, telecom operators can quickly learn how to charge cloud computing services and put them into commercialization. How to realize the on-demand billing service of computing resources has always been one of the problems faced by the public cloud computing services, and the telecom operators have rich experience in telecom value-added service, which will be recognized by many users when they combine the cloud services with the current value-added telecom service.

Of course, telecom operators in the cloud computing market is also facing a severe test. On the one hand, telecom operators must further master the system and experience of large-scale deployment, operation and maintenance of IT resources. On the other hand, as the public cloud computing service has high requirements for system stability, reliability and performance, how to build a "telecom-grade cloud service" is a long way off.

Gao Tong, general manager of China Telecom Jiangsu Company, believes that China Telecom has a "wired + wireless +3g" Three-dimensional broadband network, the world's largest broadband customer base, the industry's leading IDC infrastructure, rich scale, bulk, standardization of business operations and promotion experience, this is China Telecom to carry out cloud computing services Natural Advantages

Xi, a former deputy minister, said in Taiwan that he hoped telecoms operators would not just be pipe (pipes) and let Apple make all the money. He called on cross-strait telecoms to co-operate with each other, boldly cut into cloud computing and ICT (ICT) industries, and Apple to seize the future share of the communications market.

Looking at the development of IT industry, every technological innovation will bring about the industry reshuffle and changes in the industrial structure. At the same time, cloud computing as an open platform, regardless of telecom operators or it vendors, every enterprise can find a place, as to who can be in this "cloud tide" to stand out, now it is too early to draw a conclusion.

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