2020 is a truly "breaking circle" year for cloud computing.
The sudden "black swan" incident caused the world to panic, and in this global "anti-epidemic" war, cloud computing has played a vital role.
▉ The epidemic is "breaking the circle" and cloud computing "comes into the homes of ordinary people"
Since the concept was born in 2006, cloud computing has been developed for more than ten years.
After experiencing the early hype and concept popularization period, cloud computing has begun to enter the practical stage in recent years, and more and more companies have begun to accept and gradually apply cloud computing.
But before 2020, cloud computing is more well-known in the 2B circle. With the advent of the epidemic, cloud computing has gained rapid popularity in all walks of life, accelerating its rapid implementation.
During the epidemic, the flexible expansion of cloud computing, easy access at any time, and convenience for purchase have enabled many companies to quickly use cloud computing to realize remote office and collaborative office, and restore business operations to normal;
The emergence of cloud entertainment, cloud education, cloud medical and other new applications relying on cloud computing have also greatly eased people's nervousness during the epidemic;
Not only that, cloud computing has also played a role in epidemic prevention and control. The support of cloud computing is inseparable from applications such as epidemic prediction, epidemic analysis, and pathological analysis.
The sudden epidemic has greatly accelerated the implementation of cloud computing, and also accelerated the rapid "breaking" of cloud computing. Now almost everyone knows about cloud computing.
At present, the advantages of cloud computing are recognized by all walks of life in China, and become an important support for the future digital transformation of enterprises. Cloud computing will play an increasingly important role in the digital transformation of enterprises.
▉ Cloudy becomes mainstream, but there are still many "disadvantages"
No one would have thought that the epidemic would become an "accelerator" for the rapid spread of cloud computing.
Today, China's cloud computing has moved from a concept to a practical stage. In this stage, promoting core applications to switch to cloud computing is the focus of this stage of development.
With the popularization and application of cloud computing in enterprises, people are beginning to find that it is difficult for a single public cloud or private cloud to simultaneously meet the needs of enterprise core applications for the security, performance, and convenience of underlying basic resources, and multi-cloud has become the norm for cloud use.
Multi-cloud is a new application form consisting of multiple cloud services provided by multiple cloud providers, including public cloud service providers (such as AWS and Microsoft Azure) and private cloud service providers (such as VMware and Oracle).
Hybrid cloud is a form of multi-cloud, but it is a specific term used to mean running in multiple different public cloud environments.
They are flexible due to access from multiple clouds and can increase overall redundancy. In a multi-cloud, data can be shared between clouds, and databases can be cross-clouds. In any enterprise, they can customize the plan according to budget requirements.
But multi-cloud is not a panacea. During this period of popularization, we have also discovered some drawbacks of multi-cloud in enterprise applications:
First of all, convenience, flexibility throw to be higher. One of the advantages of cloud computing is convenience and flexibility. However, because multi-cloud involves multiple providers, it is often less convenient and flexible, and today's enterprises have much higher requirements in this regard than in the past.
Secondly, multi-cloud brings security challenges. Different cloud providers have different security strategies. How to protect the security of these different clouds is a challenge that multi-cloud needs to face.
Third, enterprises have increasingly higher requirements for services. Multi-cloud undoubtedly brings more complexity. At present, many domestic companies do not have professional technical personnel. For most companies, cloud service providers still need to provide professional services to meet business needs.
From the above three points, we can see that in the process of cloud computing landing on the core applications of enterprises, enterprise customers need cloud service providers to provide more convenient and faster services, and to meet the security and stability requirements of core business. , And can also provide professional-level services.
These characteristics of demand make the disadvantages of multi-cloud begin to become more prominent.
▉ Competition to enter the water zone "sweet and salty" proprietary cloud ushered in an opportunity
For cloud computing to make a breakthrough in enterprise core applications, a cloud computing solution that has the characteristics of both public and private clouds and has a deep understanding of the real needs of customers can meet the needs of enterprise core applications.
At this time, proprietary cloud came into being.
For many people, the concept of proprietary cloud may not be familiar. At present, the concept of proprietary cloud has not yet formed a unified conclusion.
To put it simply, the proprietary cloud has both public cloud genes and some attributes of private cloud in its service model, so as to better adapt to the cloud computing needs of enterprise core applications.
In the early stage of cloud computing development, public cloud vendors paid more attention to the cost-effectiveness of cloud computing economies of scale, and often ignored the real needs of enterprises.
After the development of cloud computing for a period of time, cloud computing basic technology is no longer an issue that cloud computing vendors need to focus on. With the migration of core applications to the cloud, how to meet the real needs of customers in various industries has become the most important challenge for cloud computing vendors. The services of cloud vendors can hardly meet the complex needs of enterprise core applications.
Proprietary cloud has more advantages when facing enterprise core application requirements.
Proprietary cloud vendors can not only provide corporate needs to customers in the form of cloud computing, but also rely on years of experience in the service industry to better understand the needs and pain points of enterprises, and can provide enterprises with customized proprietary cloud solutions. To meet customer needs and smoothly transition the core applications of enterprises to the cloud.
Although the volume of the proprietary cloud market is smaller and has just started, it has developed rapidly in the past two years, and will not be much different from the private cloud market in the next few years.
According to iResearch data, in 2018, China's proprietary cloud market reached 5.92 billion yuan, and the five-year compound growth rate from 2018 to 2023 is expected to be 56.7%, and the market size will reach 55.94 billion yuan by 2023.
It can be seen that the proprietary cloud is entering the center of the stage, becoming a force that cannot be ignored in the second half of cloud computing. This change not only brings huge opportunities for public cloud vendors, but also traditional IT vendors and private cloud vendors.
Currently, there are two main types of providers for the proprietary cloud market:
One type is that public cloud vendors such as Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, and Huawei have all launched proprietary cloud platforms. These proprietary cloud services are derived from their respective public cloud services. Although there are some differences, they are basically similar.
But for public cloud vendors, proprietary cloud services are more of a supplement to their public cloud services, and they still need to be strengthened in terms of professionalism and service experience, but their advantages are powerful technology and a unified platform.
The other type of vendors are more traditional IT hardware providers such as Dell, VMware, and IDC. Hosted clouds or dedicated clouds that have been launched one after another are another form of "proprietary cloud", that is, providing users with exclusive IDC resources and helping users to cloud their physical devices.
The advantage of this type of users is that they have rich experience in serving corporate customers, professionalism and experience, but the disadvantage is the flexibility and convenience of purchasing services.
In general, as the curtain on the proprietary cloud battlefield is unveiled, the competition in the second half of cloud computing has intensified. Who can rely on a better proprietary cloud to meet customers' specific cloudification needs will have the last laugh.
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