Why is the cloud so hot?

The cloud computing model accords with the law of economics, and as it merges the real estate concept, it provides a critical path for the Internet technology innovation to return to traditional it, and it also contains a wide market space. These continue to bring hot cloud computing market.

Is private cloud the most important direction of it construction in large and medium-sized enterprises at present? Of course not. The cloud is just the hottest tool for current it construction. What's the most important direction? is integration and sharing.

Among them, "integration" accords with the economics law of scale benefit. and "sharing" is in line with the Economic law of professional Division of labor. Further, integration is the means, and sharing is the purpose. All the application-oriented technologies that do not conform to the laws of economics are "bullying", and all the application-oriented technologies that conform to this rule will be tried and tested by large and medium-sized enterprises more or less, or large or small.

The four key elements of the cloud include standardization, virtualization, automation, and visualization. Among them, "standardization" needs to integrate management norms, technical norms and construction norms, to have the premise of sharing and interoperability; "Virtualization" needs to integrate hardware and software devices to build a shared resource pool that provides a foundation for cloud sharing; automation requires an integrated management process to be able to meet the needs of the business quickly Improve it collaboration and cost savings, and visualization needs to consolidate the monitoring front-end to allow management to understand the IT status quo and reassure users to share information.

Therefore, the cloud fully conforms to the economic laws of integration and sharing, and also accords with the direction of technology construction of large and medium-sized enterprises. And that's the first reason the cloud market is so hot.

The second reason why clouds are so hot is real estate. Real estate may be the most important "core business" in China at the present stage, which has a pivotal influence on it, even in most industries. Cloud data centers need land, land is real estate, and what real estate means, I believe you understand. The real estate industry's voice is sufficient to influence national policy formulation (such as National Twelve-Five planning) and further influence the development of industry management policies (such as the Twelve-Five of Bank Management) and ultimately the climate of the science and technology sector. The climate is right. Microclimate is right, new projects can be launched. This is the second reason for the continued warming of the cloud computing market.

The third reason is the Internet's reverse attack. The traditional technology of it is moving from traditional enterprise to Internet. The technologies extended by traditional enterprises, such as Linux, promote the development of the Internet. And because the Internet to the application of technology more core, more close to the business, the Internet's technical capabilities rapid. Increasingly, Internet practitioners have found that "if I can manage data centers with more than 1 million servers, why can't I change these technologies to a data center that is not in 10,000 servers?" ”

The answer, of course, is yes. The reverse of the Internet cock has started. In this attack, we can find that the core technologies of cloud computing (such as Hadoop, etc.) are mostly derived from internet companies, and we can also find that Google's own x86 server (the so-called "cloud server") is wildly researched by users. Meanwhile, we also note that a software vendor with the most technical capability (and of course one) has, in recent years, transformed its core cloud management software from architecture to core code, abandoning products that had previously been deployed by the user on a large scale (without one) and switching directly to a technology from the Internet. This kind of reverse attack, both directly causes the cloud to have the more participants, causes the cloud to continue to upgrade the technology source to be more extensive, more durable.

Four, the cloud imagination space is huge. Because the cloud covers a wide range, the major IT vendors have to talk about, but also earn. From the application software supplier to the hardware supplier, from the consulting service provider to the system integrator, each has its own play, each has its own interests, and each has its own value. In particular, "cloud computing" is the subject of "computing" the word, calculated by the server, and the server is the largest data center procurement equipment categories. Many people, the strength of nature is big.

So, cloud, really hot.

In addition, also want to say Han outside words. If we understand this thread and then analyze the next it hotspot--Big data--there is a trail to be found. Large data to produce benefits, the first is to have large enough raw data, and the original data to be integrated to form. In other words, consolidation is still the first step. Therefore, although the core technology-artificial intelligence (Artificial FDI, abbreviation AI) No large-scale breakthroughs, but the big data will still be the next hot spot. In addition, "cloud computing" is the subject of "computing", the physical carrier is the server, China's largest hardware business; "Big Data" is the subject of "data", physical carrier is storage, China's second largest hardware business. (Mr. Wang Shi, the author of this article, is a senior expert in cloud computing, with books such as Cloud, cloud computing, cloud computing practice, etc.). ）

(editor: Heritage)