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Nowadays, as the number of companies going overseas continues to grow, cross-border business has gradually changed from blue ocean to red ocean, from "price war" to "smart war".
An obvious change comes from the improvement of enterprises' overseas efficiency. "Accenture 2022 Chinese Enterprise Internationalization Study" points out that if enterprises want to win in the wave of overseas expansion, strong, reliable, safe and compliant digital infrastructure is the digital technology support to ensure global operations.
How to build IT infrastructure more quickly and ensure the security and compliance of cross-border technical services has become the most important focus for enterprises when going overseas.
At the same time, cloud computing, as a revolutionary IT technology in recent years, has the advantages of higher resource utilization efficiency and lower cost. Cloud data centers are gradually replacing traditional data centers and becoming the mainstream platform for carrying enterprise IT infrastructure. This technological advantage has also become an accelerator for companies to go overseas.
For traditional IDC service providers that serve overseas companies all year round, the dual changes in market demand and cloud technology have undoubtedly brought new challenges, and the transformation to the cloud has become inevitable.
But for IDC service providers who are accustomed to heavy assets and extensive operations, how easy is it to transform to the cloud? Whether to maintain the status quo or to catch up in the face of adversity, IDC service providers must make a decision and take action.
AVIC Cloud Holdings (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "AVIC Cloud") is one of the benchmarks for IDC's cloud transformation. With the help of QingCloud's years of self-research technology and operation and maintenance experience, the Sino Cloud platform has provided global Enterprise customers have been provided with one-stop ICT services for enterprises going overseas based on "cloud, network, and data".
IDC cloud transformation challenges
As a powerful IDC service provider, AVIC Cloud owns multiple green and low-carbon large-scale data centers with high standards and low energy consumption in South China and even around the world, operates multiple international land/submarine cables, and operates in cross-border data transmission networks, He has extensive experience in the planning, construction and operation of new infrastructure such as cross-border data centers.
With its excellent overseas business services, AVIC Cloud has a wide customer base, including cross-border e-commerce, overseas gaming, international finance, new media, audio and video and other Internet companies, as well as mainstream cloud manufacturers, IDC service providers and operators, secondary Internet service providers, etc.
In recent years, as competition among enterprises going overseas has further intensified, how can we establish IDC network resources that are safe and compliant, stable and reliable, have convenient operation and maintenance, and have global service coverage at lower costs and with higher efficiency, and become the best choice for all enterprises going overseas? challenges that must be faced.
In this regard, Liu Zhichang, product manager of AVIC Cloud, gave an example. According to the traditional IDC business model, if an enterprise wants to open and deploy an IDC and cloud network center overseas, it will take 3-5 days at the fastest. If an enterprise needs to rapidly increase IT resources due to business expansion, the deployment time will not be able to keep up with the needs of the enterprise.
Considering that enterprises are mostly business pilots in the early stages of going overseas, if the investment in IT resources can be flexibly adjusted, the trial and error cost of the enterprise can be reduced to a large extent, but this is something that cannot be achieved by the traditional IDC model.
On the other hand, cloud computing services have outstanding advantages in resource integration speed and scale. Through IT resource pooling, dynamic allocation of resources can be achieved, and the maximum rational allocation of resources can be achieved in the shortest time. Related businesses can be managed in a process-based and automatic manner, significantly reducing costs. Human, financial and time costs.
For overseas companies, cloud computing brings efficient, flexible, and low-cost IT resources and services. It can obtain cloud IT resources on demand in seconds and minutes, more flexibly match its various business scenarios, and also It saves you the trouble of daily operation and maintenance.
For IDC service providers, cloud computing can optimize the traditional IDC resource structure, effectively reduce its own management costs, and at the same time, it can keep up with the pace of industrial transformation and upgrading, get rid of the dilemma of a single product structure, and continuously enhance its core competitiveness.
Because of this, the cloud transformation of IDC service providers has become a general trend, and this has also become the determination of AVIC Cloud to innovate itself and embrace cloud computing.
However, it is worth noting that due to concerns about technical capabilities, economic foundation, etc., the cloud transformation of traditional IDC is often full of challenges:
First, when entering the new cloud computing field from the traditional IDC field, the market prospects are unclear and confidence is insufficient; second, there are technical barriers to converting IDC to the cloud, and there is a lack of technical research and development and operation and maintenance experience in cloud computing. If you consider relying entirely on independent research and development, you will inevitably face new problems such as high budget investment and long research and development cycles.
To this end, AVIC Cloud has found a capable helper - QingCloud, and together they have completed the "gorgeous turn" of IDC cloudification.
Qingyun helps AVIC Cloud sail into the "new channel" of cloudification
For AVIC Cloud, although it has huge data centers and global network resources, there is still a gap in how to transform these resources from the traditional IDC sales and deployment method into a standardized and automated cloud computing service model.
If you want to transform to the cloud, the first step is to create an agile, efficient, stable and reliable cloud base to cloudify the core IDC and network resources (lines, network equipment, etc.) and provide the basis for cloud platform construction and management services. Cloud service providers are ideal partners.
In fact, with the domestic cloud computing market fully competitive, both Internet cloud vendors, operators and independent cloud service providers can provide corresponding cloud platform construction services.
But when it comes to the cloudification needs of each IDC company, the capabilities and advantages demonstrated by each cloud service provider do not seem to be as "resistant" as they appear on the surface.
According to Liu Zhichang, product manager of AVIC Cloud, after comparing various mainstream cloud service providers in the industry, Qingyun was finally chosen based on its professional capabilities and comprehensive strength.
As an enterprise-level cloud service provider, Qingyun is China's first fully independently developed and fully software-defined cloud. It is the first to deploy a "public-private" hybrid cloud. Over the years, its cloud computing products and services have experienced large-scale public cloud practice verification. , has accumulated a lot of experience in cloud platform maintenance and operation, has the characteristics of independent controllability, neutrality and reliability, excellent performance, flexible and open, is very mature in delivery and application experience, and is good at the scheduling and operation of multiple computing power.
At the same time, Qingyun has been deeply involved in industries with high security and compliance requirements such as finance for many years. Its cloud platform capabilities and technical solutions have also experienced industry tests in terms of data security, privacy protection, business compliance, etc. This stringent standard is very suitable for AVIC Cloud’s security and compliance requirements for overseas cloud services.
In comparison, other cloud service providers have more or less demonstrated shortcomings in capabilities, such as: security compliance standards for specific industries are not up to standard; delivery and controllability based on integration or open source development are not strong; overall The scheme design is not perfect enough and the price/performance ratio is not high.
With the help of Qingyun, AVIC Cloud quickly created an agile, efficient, stable and reliable proprietary cloud base - Sino Cloud, providing customers with various standardized cloud network products and services with on-demand billing and elastic scalability. As well as various cross-domain and cross-border networking and acceleration services.
In order to build Xinuo Cloud more steadily, AVIC Cloud divided the project into two phases and gradually promoted it:
In the first phase, Sino Cloud’s core IDC and network resources (lines, network equipment, etc.) will be cloudified to build a practical, advanced, secure and stable proprietary cloud platform.
Specifically, Qingyun built a small cloud in the form of a private cloud, which enabled Sino Cloud to initially possess the general capabilities of cloud IaaS, a complete public cloud operation and operation and maintenance capability module, and realize the implementation of metering and billing and operation capabilities. , providing an operational and manageable full-stack cloud platform.
At the same time, it optimizes and enhances metering and billing, application operations, operation and maintenance management and other aspects to provide Sino Cloud with a public cloud experience and privatized deployment.
In terms of secure communication and open capabilities, Qingyun also provides core BOSS modules, customer self-service portals, etc., combined with SDP zero-trust VPN services, global Internet acceleration applications, cloud mobile phone/computer applications, SDN and SD-WAN services, to It meets the open interface capabilities of Sino Cloud business system for smooth, fast and secure communication and external cooperation, and the cloud base loads necessary core modules related to cloud security.
In order to maintain the personalization of Sino Cloud, Qingyun also specially customized its corporate logo, cloud portal and other personalized needs, realizing a cloud with the same underlying architecture and functional modules as the Qingyun public cloud platform, but with the unique characteristics of Sino Cloud portal. platform.
At present, the Sino Cloud platform has hosted multiple internal business systems such as AVIC Cloud OA system, and has a large number of applications in cross-border e-commerce and overseas gaming.
Enterprise customers can obtain cloud acceleration, cloud connections, cloud dedicated lines, cloud networking, cloud applications, cloud computing and other resources on the Sino cloud platform at any time in the form of cloud services, which greatly facilitates customers' overseas business operations and development.
Based on the satisfactory overall operational results since the completion of the Sino Cloud platform and the timely response of the construction team, AVIC Cloud specially sent a letter of thanks to the Qingyun team and plans to promote the construction of the second phase of the project - to expand the cloud platform and upgrade the functions to PaaS level to better support the development of the company’s various businesses.
IDC cloud transformation requires "good teammates"
At a time when cloud transformation is generally difficult for traditional IDCs, AVIC Cloud is undoubtedly a convincing example of successful transformation for two reasons:
First, AVIC Cloud’s courage to innovate and its active embrace of innovative cloud computing technologies.
Looking back at business history, those great companies that have made it to today are all because they continue to make breakthroughs and changes. There are no so-called traditional industries and no so-called emerging industries. What matters is whether they can keep up with the pace of change in this era and constantly carry out self-revolution.
In the Internet era, IDC was once the most popular, but in the cloud computing era, IDC, which mainly sells resources to Internet customers, almost instantly fell to the edge of life and death.
When IT applications in the entire industry undergo major changes, IDC's cloud transformation becomes inevitable. At the same time, IDC's requirements for security, stability, and service management capabilities will also be higher.
AVIC Cloud has grasped the transformation trend under the acceleration of digital transformation, has the courage to take steps of self-reform, and is working steadily on the road to cloudization to seek greater development in the future.
Second, Qingyun serves as a strong support for cloud transformation as a “god teammate”.
Cloud computing, as a new force that has revolutionized the industry, has been iterating and upgrading at the product and technical levels. Only by leading its own technology can it continue to meet the needs of enterprise users.
In terms of technical strength, Qingyun has gone from being the earliest "billing by second" and "second-level delivery" public cloud in China to a cloud service provider with a "public-private consistent" hybrid cloud architecture. Its cloud platform has outstanding performance, scalability, and stability. Always stay at the forefront of the market and outperform giants in specific industries.
At the same time, based on years of large-scale market verification, Qingyun is willing and able to share its successful experience with traditional industries, and empower traditional IDCs with strong cloud transformation needs with full-stack cloud computing capabilities and computing power scheduling and operation technology. or government or corporate institutions.
Based on the comprehensive strength of leading technology, rich operational experience and mature delivery system, Qingyun can well balance the security and controllability of private clouds with the rapid innovation capabilities of public clouds, helping enterprises accelerate digital transformation, achieve business innovation, and jointly expand cloud services market.
As mentioned earlier, it is unrealistic for traditional organizations to rely solely on their own strength to achieve cloud transformation. They need a "god teammate" for transformation.
At present, ICT service providers such as AVIC Cloud, the Artificial Intelligence Big Data Center of Tsinghua Tianjin Institute of Electronics, and some national and local supercomputing centers and government affairs centers have built a unified computing power platform portal based on the Qingyun Cloud Platform. , successfully provided users with unified application service capabilities, and more conveniently achieved access to computing power services and the release of application scheduling.
Conclusion
In the new era, traditional IDC becomes a thing of the past. Based on the most fundamental demands of enterprises going overseas, AVIC Cloud caters to the needs of customers’ key business upgrades, actively embraces cloud transformation, and becomes the choice of the times. Qingyun also helps traditional IDCs enter the cloud with its enterprise-level digital cornerstones for multiple industries. the “new channel” of globalization.
September 19th 14:00
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