In 2016, at the IPF held by Inspur, when the goal of achieving the top three in the world within five years was announced, the outside world thought it was an “out of reach” task, but Inspur used its strength to endorse the goal three years ahead of schedule.
At the 2018 IPF Partner Conference held in Yanqi Lake, Beijing, Inspur once again aspired to become the number one server in the world in five years. There was no more doubts from the outside world. Instead, there was more hopeful expectation.
Indeed, in the past three years, Inspur has said this, and it has indeed done so, which makes Inspur not only won the market, but also won the respect, which is also the key to the continuous transformation of Inspur as a company.
So, how will Inspur achieve its goal of becoming the world's No. 1 in the next five years? Can it change from market leadership to industry leadership, and let the banner of smart computing spread all over the world?
New goal: to become the world's first in 5 years
There is no doubt that today's world is entering the era of wisdom at an accelerated rate, especially with the deepening of cloudification of various businesses and the interconnection of all things, the further improvement of data processing capabilities, the breakthrough of intelligent algorithms again and again, and the use of information technology in traditional The more intensive penetration of the industry has gradually formed five scenarios including cloud computing, Internet of Things, big data, artificial intelligence, and industrial Internet, that is, "informatization of the physical world and intelligence of the information world."
Wang Endong , Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Executive President of Inspur Group
It can be said that the growth of computing in the future is undoubtedly exponential. In this context, Inspur proposed a smart computing strategy as early as 2016, and built a global smart computing ecosystem through all-round innovation in business models, technologies, products, etc. Stacked smart computing solution provider.
The data shows that Inspur was the fastest growing server manufacturer in the world in 2017, and achieved the goal of entering the top three in the world three years ahead of schedule. At the same time, half of the top ten Internet CSPs in the world have become Inspur customers. In the third quarter of 2017, Inspur cloud server shipments ranked first in the world.
Not only that, Inspur applied for nearly 7,000 patents in 2017, of which invention patents accounted for 83%, ranking first in the country. Especially in the AI business, it continued to maintain its overall leadership, with a growth rate of 600%, 4.5 times the global average growth rate. In addition, Inspur's overseas business also increased by 3.5 times year-on-year.
Therefore, according to Wang Endong, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Executive President of Inspur Group: "Based on Inspur's established product innovation capabilities, business development model, strong customer base and strong partner system, Inspur has proposed the next five-year goal. It is to focus on intelligent computing and achieve the world's first server."
He said that the so-called focus on smart computing requires fully grasping the three major trends of data center infrastructure integration, openness and agility. At present, Inspur has gradually built its own strong competitiveness around these three trends. Specifically:
The first is integration. In terms of IT integration, Inspur will accelerate the integration of IT resources by means of hardware reconstruction and software definition. In terms of IT and CT integration, Inspur has released the first carrier-grade software with Intel and China Telecom. NFV solution; In terms of IT and OT integration, Inspur smart factory has become a typical representative. It combines customized orders and intelligent manufacturing to realize the research and development of customized products, the rapid delivery of large-scale orders, and the complete production process. Strict quality control.
The second is openness. In terms of software openness, open source has been transformed into a huge productivity in today's society. Inspur is also actively embracing OpenStack and is a gold member of OpenStack; in terms of hardware openness, Inspur is the only company that joins ODCC, OCP, Open19 at the same time. The server supplier of the world's three major open computing organizations, its products can cover the three open computing standards of ODCC, OCP and OPEN19.
The last is agility. The fast-changing business requirements of the front-end have put forward higher requirements for the back-end infrastructure, which requires a more agile way to create computing power and provide the driving force for front-end applications. To this end, Inspur accelerates innovation in hardware and supply chain agility, and realizes a system of instant R&D, instant procurement, instant production and instant delivery.
It can be seen that in the future, integration, openness and agility will become the new normal of smart computing, which is both an opportunity and a challenge. Inspur's exploration of smart computing, especially innovation in technology, products, models, and ecology, has already entered the market. At the forefront, this is also the confidence and confidence that Inspur dares to propose to hit the number one in the global server market after 5 years.
New journey: Four driving forces lead the market
In this regard, Peng Zhen, vice president of Inspur Group, also pointed out: "Being No. 1 is our dream. There is pressure, but we have passion and confidence!"
Peng Zhen, Vice President of Inspur Group
In his view, the key to Inspur's development is to choose the right main channel. For a long time in the future, Inspur will continue to focus on intelligent computing. To this end, In 2018, Inspur established four core business strategies of deep cultivating artificial intelligence, upgrading partner ecology, developing enterprise market, and leading the world in solutions.
First, in terms of artificial intelligence, Inspur has released a new brand of AI - TensorServer. Among them, Tensor is the basic element of AI algorithm, and Server is the infrastructure of computing power. TensorServer is intended to be the carrier and enabler of AI, integrating innovative AI infrastructure systems to open up an evolvable intelligent world with computing.
At the same time, Inspur launched a new AI ecological development plan, code-named "T", which aims to release the core value and capabilities of AI computing power and empower enterprises from the three dimensions of innovation, partners and talents. In the era of artificial intelligence, it has solid and reliable infrastructure support.
Second, in terms of ecological partners, In 2018, Inspur will accelerate the construction of Partner Ecology 2.0, implement the "partner first" strategy, and help partners build business competitiveness in the fields of cloud, big data, AI and other smart computing, and achieve Inspur and The mutual growth of partners.
Wang Feng, general manager of the channel management department of Inspur Group, said that Inspur will build a new type of partnership and upgrade the loosely coupled business cooperation model to a tightly coupled value cooperation model covering the entire business chain including technology and R&D.
More importantly, under the new partnership, Inspur will integrate the new smart computing technologies accumulated in the Internet field, the JDM collaborative innovation model and the partners' understanding of traditional industry businesses, thus forming end-to-end smart computing solution capabilities. Enhance the competitiveness of both parties in new business fields and empower partners to upgrade and transform in the new technology era.
Third, in the enterprise market, it can be seen that the Internet has been the biggest driving force for market growth in the past few years. In the next few years, the Internet will gradually extend to various industries, which is known as Internet+. Especially in the enterprise field, how to combine AI technology with the operation of the enterprise and turn it into a core competitiveness of the enterprise is also the biggest challenge facing many Chinese enterprises.
To this end, Inspur hopes to work with partners to gradually build a solution for smart enterprises, namely Inspur's smart + solution, to provide enterprises with overall solutions in terms of public cloud and private cloud. In addition, Inspur will also increase investment in Inspur Solution Innovation Platform (InCloud Lab) to help corporate customers innovate business models in four aspects: technology innovation, solution incubation, scenario optimization and industry experience.
Fourth, Inspur will continue to focus on intelligent computing, scientific computing and key computing fields to achieve an all-round layout in terms of global leadership in solutions. Among them, in the field of intelligent computing, the focus is to realize the iteration of the fusion architecture from 2.0 to 3.0; in the field of scientific computing, the focus is on learning from the high-density products developed by Inspur in the Internet field, improving the performance of HPC, and optimizing the life science, weather forecasting and other scenarios. Application: In the key computing field, Inspur will strengthen products such as M13 and Tissot eight-way.
It is not difficult to see that Inspur has formed a complete and clear chain from the goal to the implementation of the practice, and it has undoubtedly built a strong momentum for its goal of hitting the world's first.
The new pattern: from leading to leading transformation
The ancients said: "The hard-working people will live up to the heavens, and if they work hard, they can swallow Wu." Yes, if you want to achieve something, you must have perseverance and perseverance; if you want to achieve greater success, you must do An aspiring person, but also full of ambition and ambition.
In my opinion, Inspur proposes a new goal of changing from the third in the world to the first in the world. Behind it is not only the pursuit of increasing market share, but also the transformation from market leadership to industry leadership, and then to complete the reshaping of the new pattern. and reengineering.
In this process, Inspur will indeed face more challenges, requiring a higher vision and mind to "plan the layout", specifically:
First, this means that Inspur must go global, and it is even more necessary to plan for the global market and use global resources.
Inspur has built 8 R&D centers and 6 manufacturing bases around the world, achieving delivery and service capabilities covering 113 countries and regions. At the same time, in the next five years, on the basis of maintaining China's number one, it will further accelerate the global layout and establish a global R&D system, manufacturing system, delivery supply system and service system.
Second, this also means that Inspur needs to promote the transformation and upgrading of the industry ecology. The launch of the "partner first" strategy is essentially Inspur's desire to replicate and extend the success of the Internet market to all walks of life.
As Peng Zhen said: "Everyone knows that we are facing a huge historical opportunity. In this process, only by promoting the success of more partners can Inspur achieve global leadership. Global leadership is disruptive and transformative, not just It's overflowing."
Third, this means that Inspur needs to maintain innovation and iteration in its business model. As we all know, the success of Inspur is not only in products and strategies, but also in the daring to innovate in business models.
In the past, Inspur redefines the JDM business model, and cooperates with customers to develop, co-produce, and quickly respond to market demands. This agile innovation model is the core essence of JDM and an important capability model for Inspur to win the market in the Internet age. In the future, facing the global market and more non-Internet industries, Inspur will also need to constantly seek innovation and changes in its business model, and continue to evolve and iterate.
In my opinion, in the past few years, Inspur has made smart computing a new productivity in this era through innovations in technology, products, models, and ecology. The potential energy has laid the foundation for its goal of hitting the world's first.
Therefore, in the new journey of the next five years, becoming the world's No. 1 is definitely not the only result that Inspur is pursuing, but the reshaping and re-engineering of the new industrial pattern is the ultimate goal that Inspur hopes to accomplish.
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