Electronic Commerce Stroll "Cloud" End

"Clouds will be more important than nets."

Georgetown University Professor

What is "cloud"?

When Bill Gates talked about the past and present of Computer Science in 1989, he said: users need only 640K of memory.

At that time, all the programs were very small, and 100MB's hard disk was almost endless.

Now, with the emergence of the concept of "cloud", this little

For example, we used to have a gas tank at home, and we used the gas supplied by this pot to cook and boil water.

Now there is a pipeline gas, directly connected to the gas station, no longer need the gas tank.

The gas tank is equivalent to the personal PC, which is the cloud.

The director of the electronic service research center of Zhejiang University and Chen de people, a well-known e-commerce expert in China, have a more vivid explanation: an e-commerce company has many servers, Alibaba has at least twenty thousand servers, and Amazon has at least thirty thousand stations.

These servers are distributed all over the world, and many of their data are stored in it.

But the server also has free time.

Thirty thousand servers, its capacity and computing function are idle for many times.

What shall I do?

Rent space or spare computing functions to other companies or sell them to other companies.

The most important thing is renting, so that other companies can use its servers to come to its computing tools and receive cheap rent, which is a very big revenue for Amazon.

But how to do this requires an environment that we define as a cloud environment.

Cloud construction mainly includes three aspects: first, cloud devices, such as servers, storage devices, network devices, and customer terminals, retail terminals and other physical devices; secondly, the cloud platform, which is a management center, is a service center that opens and converged numerous resources; and the application is cloud software.

Cloud computing is born with the development and maturity of virtualization and high-speed network. From this perspective,

Cloud computing industry drives enterprise pformation

For enterprises, cloud computing brings them not only a new concept, but also an important part of the new generation of information technology pformation.

With cloud computing, enterprises do not need to invest a lot of money in hardware devices. Cloud computing can provide e-commerce enterprises with virtual resources for self maintenance and management in the cloud server group, and can use cloud computing resources instead of internal computing resources to reduce the cost of e-commerce infrastructure.

Because applications are running in "cloud", all kinds of software used by enterprises can be obtained from "cloud", and enterprises do not need to provide software programs for each computer, so as to reduce the cost of software input.

In addition, cloud computing can well achieve resource sharing and cooperation between e-commerce enterprises and enterprises.

Even in different geographic locations, enterprises can share resources through document management, project task assignment and progress based on cloud based project management.

Now, these are no longer empty talk. Cloud computing has been applied from concept to application. It has been widely recognized in the industry. Alibaba, Baidu and others have launched the cloud plan.

"As the Alibaba's biggest action at present, the strategic core of Ali is to share Ali resources with all e-commerce participants." Ali integrates information resources, logistics, payment channels, and provides cloud computing services, providing a more comprehensive foundation service for e-commerce enterprises.

Whether big Taobao or Big Ali, its essence lies in the construction of a platform, an e-commerce ecosystem with the core of Internet business.

Shanghai's new world wing Mdt InfoTech Ltd market planning Huang Jing Yang told reporters that "Ali cloud can be said to be a part of the strategy of Ali, which is provided by Ali cloud, and greater Ali has integrated more advantageous resources."

In addition, Huang Jingyang believes that at present, China's industry engaged in cloud computing research and development, services, integration of more and more enterprises, showing a high-speed growth.

With the guidance and encouragement of China's relevant policies, the cloud computing industry is on the edge of an outbreak, and will soon bring about tremendous changes.

For ordinary users, the concept of "cloud" reduces user terminal equipment requirements.

An intelligent machine, a tablet computer and so on can satisfy users' management and operation of resources and data. Through cloud computing, data and application sharing among different devices can be easily realized.

However, the largest beneficiary of the "cloud" is small and medium-sized enterprises. The enterprise obtains all services through leasing or buying, greatly reducing the requirements of the enterprise terminals, directly reducing the IT input of the enterprises, and reducing the gap between the investment and management of the Internet.

"Cloud" provides a safe and reliable data and data storage center for small and medium-sized enterprises. Enterprises need not worry about the troubles caused by data loss, intrusion, virus and so on.