2020 is finally over. Before I can catch my breath, the epidemic is coming again.
too difficult! I believe this is the deepest impression that will be left to everyone in 2020 many years later.
I've always wanted to make time to write a summary of this year's cloud computing industry. I didn't squeeze some time until 13 pages of the 2021 calendar were torn off, and hurry up to gather some content.
The reason why I write about cloud computing this year is because 2020 is extraordinary for cloud computing.
During the epidemic, the pause button or even the blast button was pressed for many industries this year, but the accelerator button was pressed for cloud computing.
Why has the cloud computing industry not been affected by the epidemic, but has accelerated its growth?
▉ This is really the "curse" caused by the epidemic
To be honest, cloud computing vendors have been screaming for more than ten years in order to let enterprise customers understand, contact, and adopt cloud computing. The results have not been as obvious as the effect of the epidemic this year.
At its root, the outbreak of the epidemic has had a great impact on people's work and lifestyle.
For enterprises, informatization and digital transformation are no longer optional, but must be done. Otherwise it will be difficult to survive.
Digitization and informatization have shown an explosive trend after the epidemic. As the core infrastructure of enterprises' digital transformation, the cloud computing industry has naturally become the first choice of manufacturers.
For cloud computing vendors, the epidemic is "dangerous" but even more "opportunity".
Cloud service providers who are not able to land on the beach at this time will almost never have the opportunity to enter.
▉What are the achievements of cloud computing this year?
2020 is the year when cloud computing truly "out of the circle". Moreover, the implementation of cloud computing is closely related to the epidemic.
The beginning of the epidemic: cloud sequencing, cloud diagnosis, cloud office
At the beginning of the year, the epidemic quickly "killed" when people were celebrating the Spring Festival. It caught everyone by surprise and cast a shadow over people's lives and work.
The first thing to bear is of course how to control the epidemic, how to analyze the spread of the epidemic, how to predict the prevention and control...
In the face of the raging virus, cloud computing has brought into play the characteristics of lightness, speed, and flexibility, and health treasures and epidemic big data analysis platforms have been launched one after another, making great contributions to the prevention and control of the early stage of the epidemic in my country.
As the epidemic is under control, how to solve the problem of resuming work and production has become a problem faced by many companies, which has also become an important reason for the success or failure of many companies. Working from home and online work have become the preferred method of many companies, and it is also an important reason why these companies can survive the beginning of the epidemic.
In the epidemic: online education, online learning, online ordering, online entertainment
When the epidemic is under control, companies slowly resume production, and problems that are closely related to people's lives will follow.
During the epidemic, schools were unable to start classes normally. Online education has become the method most used by school teachers, and students also use online learning to make up for the lack of offline classes.
At the same time, during the epidemic, online ordering and online entertainment have also developed rapidly. Many people can order food, stay and entertain only through online APP. Greatly solve people's life problems.
It was also during this period that more people learned about the technology of cloud computing, allowing cloud computing to truly "fly into the homes of ordinary people."
After the epidemic: unmanned retail, smart medical care, industrial Internet
After the epidemic has been brought under control, companies have also begun to realize the importance of digital transformation and informatization construction for companies, and many companies have begun to focus on strengthening the company's informatization construction.
At the same time, due to the changes in office and lifestyle at the beginning of the epidemic and during the epidemic, many employees of enterprises have new demands for office and lifestyle, forcing enterprises to transform for customers and employees.
▉ In 2021, are there any new trends in cloud computing?
With the landing of cloud computing in 2020, in 2021, the field of cloud computing will certainly usher in a rapid development stage, and people's demand for cloud computing is increasing.
In 2021, it is foreseeable that we will see the rapid development of many cloud computing-related technologies. The specific development trends are as follows:
Multi-cloud management improvement schedule
Multi-cloud and hybrid cloud have become more and more enterprises' favorite innovation platforms. A traditional single cloud platform can hardly meet the different business needs of enterprises. However, due to the incompatibility of clouds from different cloud service providers, it has increased the difficulty of cross-cloud management for many enterprises, and even caused cloud islands.
Using APIs to achieve multi-cloud management can often "see" but not "manage" and cannot guarantee the stability and security of workloads across different cloud resources. At present, many manufacturers have begun to launch corresponding products for multi-cloud management. The consistent cloud platform provided by VMware+Dell is to solve the problem of inconsistent multi-cloud management.
For domestic vendors, Huawei Cloud is also redefining hybrid cloud, trying to realize a cloud from the user's perspective. Today, Huawei Cloud Stack has both the rapid innovation capabilities of public clouds and the manageability and control of private clouds. It provides new capabilities in terms of cloud management, cloud services, data enablement, application enablement, and AI enablement.
In 2021, enterprise-level users have an urgent need for hybrid multi-cloud consistency architecture and consistency management.
Artificial intelligence upgrades cloud services
Today, AI can replace part of the repetitive and immediate manual work. For example, computer room inspection, security, quality inspection, human flesh operation and maintenance, and further may include intelligent inspection, intelligent security, intelligent operation and maintenance, unattended, unmanned, and so on.
It is not difficult to find that their characteristic is that they do not need the characteristics of the cloud to support the business, but to a large extent they need AI to optimize productivity and achieve the goal of "improving quality and efficiency".
Nowadays, many companies have begun to work hard to rationalize the workload of the data center, and accelerate the adoption of cloud intelligence technology, intelligently analyze the workload of the business on the cloud, and automatically distribute the workload to the infrastructure in a scientific and reasonable manner. To achieve high efficiency and dynamic energy saving, this requires huge changes to the design and layout of infrastructure and IT operating models.
Cloud becomes the best container for AI, AR and other functions
Today, infrastructure is still the main role played by domestic cloud services. This shows that the core goal of most cloud-based Chinese companies is not to obtain a certain application, but to migrate their original business and applications to the cloud and expand the utilization rate of resources to replace the high cost of servers.
In this case, cloud plays more of a role of business support.
After AI, BI and other functional technologies are incorporated into the cloud landscape, it will change the delivery of cloud services and achieve a major improvement in the use of cloud computing to optimize productivity. So that cloud computing truly changes the world.
In 2021, cloud computing will become the best container for various new technologies.
Edge computing becomes the "new cloud"
In 2020, the amazing role of edge computing will be fully demonstrated, and there are many examples in life, as the 5G construction is fully rolled out and landed. By using existing fringe investments, corporate organizations can react and innovate as quickly as possible. In 2021, the fringe will become another outlet for development.
Traditional network and security architecture will cause unnecessary information transmission and reduce performance. In the future, cloud computing will become the main body of carrying edge computing data. Edge cloud computing can not only reduce the number of dedicated devices, but also use cost-effective solutions to improve the level of automation, safety and efficiency, while reducing costs.
Low code + BPM will become the best platform for cloud
After the epidemic, low-code has shown a unique state of development and has been welcomed by enterprises. This is mainly due to the full-speed application refactoring required in the implementation of digitalization. This requires new abilities to be born in the cloud and grow in the cloud. New capabilities such as AI, big data, and edge computing are used in enterprises.
"Cloud Ready" will be the best time for low-code implementation. Low-code technically solves the rapid construction of applications, and BPM makes up for management requirements. Through the penetration of business, applications, processes, and data, digital process analysis based on business processes is realized.
Facing the future cloud environment, BPM PaaS will become the best platform for low-code and application cloud access, providing strategic support for digital transformation.
Cloud Native Ushers in the "First Year" of Development
After using cloud native technology, developers do not need to consider the underlying technical implementation, but only need to do their own business, they can take advantage of the elasticity + distributed advantages of the cloud platform to achieve rapid deployment, on-demand scaling, non-stop delivery, etc., effective Relieve enterprises' worries about going to the cloud and promote the progress of the whole industry.
Cloud native has realized agile application development, iterative efficiency and delivery speed continue to accelerate, and user application releases tend to be high-frequency. With the maturity of cloud computing and the promotion of enterprise demand, cloud-native technologies and concepts have been widely accepted by developers, and cloud-native application scenarios have gradually enriched. From general PaaS to diversified development, cloud-native is becoming an inevitable trend on the cloud.
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