Comments: cloud computing is now worrying enclosure

This year is a year of cloud computing. Apart from traditional hardware and software vendors, IT solution providers, and Internet companies, the competent authorities and local governments have also joined this “feast”. Local governments all claim to build cloud bases. The cloud center will simply add an addition. If these government investments in cloud computing are to be concentrated, the total amount will be hundreds of billions and trillions.

You may wish to count your fingers first. The first is the Chongqing Liangjiang International Cloud Computing Center, which was opened in April. The slogan is to build the largest cloud computing base in Asia with a total construction area of ​​2.07 million square meters and a total planned investment of 40 billion yuan. The purpose is to create a "cloud computing" base with a production value of hundreds of billion yuan, and become a global data development and processing center.

Followed by the four major cities of Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen and Guangzhou, they also joined the "Cloud Computing" competition. The goal of Shanghai is also the "Asia-Pacific Cloud Computing Center." To create ten cloud computing companies with annual revenues of more than 100 million yuan, and to drive the information services industry to increase operating revenue by 100 billion yuan; Shenzhen is a "cloud project" and will strive to Shenzhen is known as the "Asia Information Hub"; the name of the "Cloud Center" in Beijing is very good, called "Lucky Cloud Plan." The goal is to form an industry scale of 50 billion yuan by 2015; Guangzhou is called the "Sky Cloud Plan," and it is also to create a world class. Cloud Computing Industry Base...

In addition, there are still many second- and third-tier cities, Lanzhou, Langfang, Quzhou, etc., that have to build a cloud center list. Some people have statistics that more than 30 provinces, municipalities, autonomous regions have proposed or have already formulated a cloud computing development strategy. Or some regional cloud centers.

However, after many ambitious goals, the reporter’s heart has loomed out of concern. Is it really necessary for these “cloud centers” in the staking area?

Li Deyi, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, was outspoken at the inauguration ceremony of China’s “Cloud Computing Development and Policy Forum.” Although many local governments define cloud computing as a strategic emerging industry, they still use the original land acquisition, house building, and investment promotion. Cloud computing became the second real estate. In the case of industrial policy misguided, the government does not do better or even better.

In addition to building cloud centers and cloud bases, state-level authorities have also launched a series of supportive policies. After the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the Ministry of Finance jointly allocated a special fund for the cloud computing demonstration project of the National Strategic Emerging Industry, the amount of funds reached as high as 1.5 billion yuan. Currently, the first batch of funds allocated to qualifying enterprises has exceeded 600 million yuan. It is reported that the "12th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Cloud Computing (First Draft)" with greater support is also being solicited for comments.

In fact, “cloud computing” is not mysterious. For individual users, information such as emails, contacts, etc., mobile phones and online synchronization, various network hard disks, and network image storage can all be regarded as cloud computing.

If you mention enterprise cloud computing, you are outsourcing your own large-scale, Internet-based decentralized applications to specialized cloud computing companies, and cloud computing companies can centralize the needs of N companies in one place for unified resource deployment. management. Enterprises can ultimately reduce costs. An analogy is that companies originally needed to bring their own generators and generate electricity on their own, and now the power companies have unified power generation. Enterprises simply need to buy on demand.

However, judging from the current situation, for enterprises, the adoption of cloud computing also needs to overcome security and leaks. On the other hand, there is no conclusion on cloud computing standards. Whether Microsoft (microblogging), IBM, HP, or SAP, the cloud computing strategy it pushes is somewhat self-inflicted. Many small and medium-sized companies involved in cloud computing in China are all singing each show. The company has used A's cloud computing solution and would like to try B's products, and it will encounter compatibility issues.

Under such circumstances, the large-scale enclosures in the cloud computing in various parts of the country appear to be a bit of a hurry.

In the end, I ended up with a joke that may have been seen by many people: A Chinese student studying in the United States worked as a newsboy without a calculator. The customer was greatly surprised and had to verify with the calculator. They were all correct. They also looked up at the sky and were panic-stricken and asked: “Cloud computing?” I hope this joke will not become a prediction of the cloud bubble.