As the utilization rate of Chinese enterprise cloud servers continues to increase, there is still a big gap compared with some foreign countries. However, thanks to the policy dividend and the digital transformation of Chinese enterprises, the market potential is still large. As a member of the Internet industry, we should also have a certain understanding of the basic knowledge of cloud servers and use the cloud with more advantages. Service platform, research and development of application layer artificial intelligence products to provide decision-making assistance.
1. What is a cloud server? A
cloud server (Elastic Compute Service, ECS) is a simple, efficient, safe, reliable, and elastically scalable computing service. Its management method is simpler and more efficient than physical servers. Users can quickly create or release any number of cloud servers without purchasing hardware in advance.
From a functional point of view, the cloud server mainly carries three functions: the
cloud server must realize the storage function (distributed),
realize the computing function (distributed),
realize the resource integration function
Cloud computing takes distributed storage and distributed computing as the core, realizes the dynamic management of resources through virtualization, and realizes the expansion of its own functions through resource integration. This is mainly to provide PaaS related services.
Cloud servers help you quickly build more stable and secure applications, reduce the difficulty of development, operation and maintenance and overall IT costs, and enable you to focus more on core business innovation.
2. What problems can cloud servers solve?
Reduce costs,
shorten business deployment cycles,
and have powerful data computing and processing functions
With the rapid development of the IT industry on a global scale, the scale and complexity of IT platforms have increased significantly. However, high hardware and operation and maintenance management costs, long business deployment cycles, and weak data processing capabilities have contributed to enterprise IT The department created numerous obstacles. Cloud server technology has subversively changed the consumption mode and service mode of the traditional IT industry. Consumers have realized the transition from "purchasing software and hardware products" to "purchasing cloud services", which is equivalent to not having to buy by themselves, but through leasing. Greatly improve IT efficiency and agility.
Third, the cloud service providers introduce
the country have Ali cloud , Tencent cloud , Huawei cloud , Tianyi cloud and some small start-up firms. Here are the advantages and disadvantages of domestic cloud service providers:
1. Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud was founded in 2009, is the largest cloud computing platform and cloud computing service provider in Asia, and together with Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure constitute global cloud computing The first camp in the market. In China, Alibaba Cloud 's market share ranks first, even surpassing the second to ninth place combined. It is a recognized leader and industry giant in the domestic cloud computing market.
Alibaba Cloud 's service group is active in a large number of star products and companies such as Taobao, Alipay, 12306, Sinopec, Bank of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Unicom, Weibo, Zhihu, and Hammer Technology. Its target customers are the most comprehensive, basically covering all industries, among which individual developers, Internet users and small and medium-sized enterprises account for nearly 90%.
Advantages of Alibaba Cloud
Large scale
Asia-Pacific: According to Gartner data, Alibaba Cloud has become the number one in the Asia-Pacific market with a market share of 19.6%.
China: According to the IDC report, Alibaba Cloud has absolute leadership in the Chinese cloud computing market, and its market share ranks first in China.
Global: According to Gartner data, in the global cloud computing market, only Alibaba Cloud in emerging markets stands out, ranking third in the world.
Stability
Because Alibaba Cloud has a huge Feitian platform, the service is also very stable and efficient. Alibaba Cloud maintains a good operating record in challenging application scenarios such as Tmall Double 11 Global Carnival and 12306 Spring Festival ticket purchase .
Variety of Service Varieties
Since Alibaba Cloud was founded in 2009 very early and it has been in development for 11 years, the variety of services is also very diverse.
Ecological improvement
Alibaba Cloud is integrated by a wide range of ecological partners, with more than 10,000 global partners and more than 100,000 customers. In the field of technology, Alibaba Cloud is the Chinese company with the largest contribution to the international open source community.
2. Tencent Cloud
Tencent Cloud officially opened to the outside world in September 2013. After the technical tempering of QQ, Qzone, WeChat, Tencent Games and other businesses , Tencent Cloud , from infrastructure to refined operations, from platform strength to ecological capacity building, Tencent Cloud has been fully developed, enabling it to provide enterprises and entrepreneurs with a cloud service experience that integrates cloud computing, cloud data, and cloud operations.
Tencent Cloud's target customers focus on the two major areas of "social and gaming". Tencent cloud in the domestic market accounted for 18% market share, followed by Ali cloud after.
Tencent Cloud's business mainly includes: cloud computing basic services, storage and network, security, database services, artificial intelligence, industry solutions, etc.
Advantages of Tencent Cloud
"Social" and "Games" are strong.
As Tencent is strong in the social field, relying on QQ and WeChat open platforms to attract a large number of individual users and small and medium-sized developers, choosing Tencent Cloud will have better compatibility.
In the same way, Tencent is the largest game manufacturer in China. If the company's game products rely on Tencent's platform, there will be no mistake in choosing Tencent Cloud .
3. HUAWEI CLOUD
HUAWEI CLOUD was established in 2011, focusing on technical research and ecological expansion in the field of “public cloud” in cloud computing, and is committed to providing users with one-stop cloud computing infrastructure services. It is currently the largest public cloud in China One of service and solution providers. Huawei Cloud has a market share of about 8% in the domestic market.
HUAWEI CLOUD , based on the Internet field, relying on Huawei’s strong capital and strong cloud computing research and development capabilities, the target customers focus on Internet value-added service operators, large, medium and small enterprises, government agencies, scientific research institutes and other large enterprises and institutions Users, providing basic cloud services including "cloud hosting, cloud hosting, cloud storage", "DDoS high-defense ADD, database security, data encryption, web firewall" and other security services, as well as "domain name registration, cloud speed building site, hybrid cloud disaster And smart parks" and other solutions.
Advantages
Full-stack AI
Huawei Cloud provides full-stack, full-scenario AI solutions, and is one of only two full-stack AI cloud service providers in the industry. In addition, ModelArts , a one-stop development platform for Huawei Cloud , has been implemented in more than 200 AI projects in ten major industries, and has enabled the industry to smoothly evolve toward intelligence in the most practical way.
Suitable for governments and large and medium-sized enterprises
With eight years of deep cultivating the enterprise market and Huawei's own digital transformation practical experience, 221 of the Fortune 500 companies have chosen Huawei. In the process of continuous practice, HUAWEI CLOUD has helped partners to become intelligent. For example, HUAWEI CLOUD provided a smart transportation system for Shenzhen Bantian, which increased the traffic efficiency of intersections by 17%. In-depth cooperation with Debon Express has achieved The integration of technology and express delivery business scenarios has fully upgraded the express delivery service experience.
Suitable for multinational companies
HUAWEI CLOUD has operated 40 availability zones in 23 geographic regions around the world, helping users with one-point access and global access. Among them, seamless cooperation with China's three major operators can prove that Huawei Cloud is the first public cloud in China that can provide enterprises with secure and compliant cross-border networking services.
4. Tianyi Cloud
Tianyi Cloud is a cloud computing brand under China Telecom. It was registered by China Telecom in 2016 and used as the trademark of China Telecom Co., Ltd. Cloud Computing Branch. It is a cloud computing service provider under China Telecom. Target users are mainly oriented to the corporate market, relying on telecom customers in IDC, data center services and other fields for up-sell and bundled sales. However, because China Telecom itself has a very large data volume, and its own use is also very demanding. China Telecom still has a lot of customer resources available in the government, state-owned enterprises and other fields, which has greatly promoted its cloud computing sales effect. For example, the most familiar Apple icloud domestic cloud storage service, namely, Guizhou on the cloud, is cooperating with Tianyi Cloud.
Advantages of Tianyi Cloud
Security
Provides operator-level protection, and uses the China Telecom resource pool that meets Apple's stringent standards. Account information is encrypted and stored. Even if the database is compromised, others cannot know your password.
4. Start-up companies
Start-up companies can actually be understood as small companies at a certain level. Because of the small size of the company, the target customers are mainly individual users and small and micro enterprises. There are still many small cloud service providers on the market, such as Xiaoniao Cloud, Tianda Cloud, etc. They are basically very small and most of them are start-ups. I won’t introduce them in detail here, because their advantages and disadvantages are actually Are similar.
The advantages of startups are
cheap.
For individual users, this is very important. In order to compete for the market, startups will have very cheap pricing.
Disadvantages
Poor security,
fewer service varieties and poor quality
Conclusion
To sum up, in terms of large enterprises and government agencies, Alibaba Cloud and Huawei Cloud are more dominant; Inspur Cloud focuses on government cloud and has great advantages in government cloud; telecom operators such as Tianyi Cloud pay more attention to the creation of For self-use; Tencent Cloud benefits from the position of its father Tencent in the fields of games and social interactions, leading the way; although Ucloud is not well-known, it is popular among low-key programmers; and for more individual users, Although the quality of start-up companies is not high, but the price is very cost-effective; but in general, Alibaba Cloud still occupies the unquestionable position of the domestic leader, and it keeps his competitors very far away.