Legend Ali cloud released data platform, cloud computing started "DT war"?
Although Jack Ma always uttered the remark, but the fact that he said always continue to be fulfilled.
2016 "New Retail" is now recognized as a new chapter in retail, and in 2014 the "human being from the IT era to era DT" is gradually becoming a reality - no matter what kind of business are accustomed to the "big data "look.
Among these, Ali himself often become "prophecy" of loyal fans, new retail staking their claims, now big data as well as "put forward a big news."
Not long ago, Ali cloud released on its summit a big data service products "Flying big data platform," information from the public point of view, the platform is known as "China's only independent research and development of large data calculation engine" and "global cluster size the largest computing platform. "
The parameter ability, such as single engine supports 100,000 servers combination of computing, support for ultra-600PB computing power.
Since June this year, Ali frequently show muscle to the outside world, the ability to continuously available on the AI first five World Series (see related story), and now, Ali cloud high-profile release "Flying big data platform", DT Ma era in the mouth a big ambition to put on the table.
The public mind "commercial" tag strong Ali, opened the cover of the curtain and began to "technology" label revealed.
Fight big data technologies, why "commercial" Ali was the first to emerge?
As we all know, DT era must establish a cloud computing basis.
However, when the big data technologies and cloud computing services become a standard when, why "China is the only independent research and development" and "the world's largest cluster" of these titles will fall's "business" attitude of the show's head Ali?
This "surprise", precisely the reason lies in the "business" word.
The cloud Ali is "released" Flying big data platform, before that, this product has been in operation and the substance inside the Ali cloud service for ten years (formerly known as MaxCompute platform, is now the core of flying).
To some extent, Ali surprisingly large data technically "out", both subjective and intrinsic motivation to catch up with the times DT can not be denied that the Forced his "commercial" development.
1, the business expansion of the business itself Forced
Although Ali is the business started, but technically the first to suffer large-scale technology brings pressure.
2008 Taobao has 98 million registered members, more than one user to bring pressure data storage and computing, and this number continues to surge.
On a global scale, Google, AWS, Microsoft is also facing similar problems, no way the old data system (such as Oracle, Greenplum, Hadoop, etc.) no way to adapt to the explosion of data requirements (similar to the carriage when taking into account the car's design carrying capacity), each are developing their own big data technologies.
Moreover, search, social networking is not the same, the user information stored in the "commercial" scene is more complex, personal information, consumer information, financial information, or even earlier recommendation mechanism, all of the big data technology put forward higher requirements.
So, this causes a strange phenomenon: "Business" doing more successful, the more intense the label, secretly "technology" must be more depth.
Ali we see today in the commercial heyday, is already "not hold back technology" results.
In the face of exponentially expanding business needs can not hold back, this time to come up with technology to the outside world, "China only", "world's largest" sort of results does not seem surprised.
Ali was founded in 2009 from the cloud, "Flying" has actually started.
Its development path of view, in August 2013 with a breakthrough in the cluster computing while 5,000 servers, a single cluster exceeded 10,000 units in February 2016, more than 2019 cluster exceeded 10 million units, the growth of this technology, from the timeline Ali's business growth and look almost the same frequency.
Ali's Alipay sesame credit points, Taobao business daily shop bills, High German, Youku, Ali, her mother and other large data traffic are carried by MaxCompute platform, the 2018 double-11, single-day handle more than 600PB of data, trading peak smoothing through.
Now, 99% and 95% of computing Ali stored by flying support, showing out of technical achievement has always been closely linked with Ali "commercial" tab.
2, the expansion of foreign Forced ecological services
Ali cloud in the leading position in the country, serving a large number of large and small businesses, which in turn internal business development like a cloud, like Ali Forced breakthrough in large data technology, after all, and now everyone is talking about big data.
For example, Ali cloud services well-known APP "ink weather", the product is to provide weather forecasting services to 400 million users, more than 500 million user queries every day times, generating a lot of pressure on calls and data operations, Ali cloud must "keep up" with customers the pace of technological innovation.
There are many similar high data demands of customers.
In addition, in the past few years, the wisdom of the city in World War II, Ali goes first to start, to come up with a lot of stars in the headquarters project in Zhejiang. For example, the service Zhejiang "ran up to a" government system construction, facing 100 people work matters most closely related to the 70 million pieces of data, big data platform has not kept pace unimaginable.
The bigger the cloud computing ecosystem, the underlying technology must be more ahead.
3, "business leader" in the title of the Forced
What are talking about a well-known Chinese Internet technology companies, is nothing more than a few companies such as BAT, while the market value from the point of view, Ali and in the leader position.
This is a commercial success brings honor not false, but in fact secretly, from the national perspective, commercial success must eventually take responsibility technology.
The core technology is the State of the weighing, but who is going to the core technology innovation, responsibility falls only on the success of these commercial enterprises head.
March 2018, Forrester issued "the first quarter of 2018 cloud data warehouse" big data service list, Ali and AWS, Google, Microsoft's entry into the world's front-line camp.
Worldwide, Ali can not always exist and develop in the "Business" tab, China from DT IT era to era, Ali technology companies such labels are exposed the Times.
DT new era, how to participate in big data platform to compete?
Replace DT era IT era, in the face of a new stage, the core of the field competing for big data platform exactly how to play, there is no experience to draw on.
As isolated cases, dismantling some of the practices Ali Yunfei big data platform, they are not necessarily comprehensive, industry or can be used as a reference.
1, "was", "DT System" in the expanded Construction
DT age, data is nothing more than two portions of "people" and "objects" in the past 10 years, "people" (ie user) growth and precipitation has been basically completed, the data is fixed at a high level.
The next step may be expected that the comprehensive development of IoT next 10 years, based on the data "objects" will usher in a new outbreak, all interconnected, everything is mapped to the digital world, big data will usher in a new wave of blowout.
So, for big data platform service, attention to expansion of "material" data has become a priority.
With Ali cloud "Flying big data platform" for example, is currently the platform support 442 cities nationwide, more than 1000 public service, and typical applications in Hangzhou "brain city" needs to be optimized 1300 core intersection within a few minutes, Wan control parameters with the level of traffic, also need to dispose of 110 kinds of traffic police intelligence.
These closely related to the large amount of data traffic IoT. Mass things terminal data collection, analysis and processing, the "objects" actually constructed a data expansion "DT System" (relative IT systems).
In addition, in the industrial field, the "objects" of expansion of the data is also very obvious, GCL Solar with Ali cloud services, Trina Solar, for example, Big Data technologies must help these companies to complete the optimal mix of thousands of parameters, enhance the manufacturing yield, which is a direct industrial value "material" data.
2, the ultimate "low latency" war
5G is not only fast, but more importantly is low latency.
Low-latency data transmission and change the logic operation, has a subversive value in many fields, including industry, it also brings endless possibilities to change the world for the 5G.
However, 5G, after all, is only responsible for transmission of information technology, data storage, recall, dealing with the future 5G must also match the low latency "concept" consistent big data technology services, otherwise "takes two to tango."
Ali Yunfeng in this meeting, Alibaba Group CTO Zhang Jianfeng using a mobile phone APP Taobao did a live show, after the user enters a keyword search click, drop-down screen will appear with relevant content.
Zhang Jianfeng said, "everyone's shopping preferences and changes can be calculated within the second stage of." Taobao 700 million user behavior and operation is supported by flying achieve real-time.
Imagine the future 5G networking applications which, when completed 5G extremely low latency transmission task, requiring a large portion of the data, big data technology can not achieve real-time analysis with final overall responsiveness has not changed at all, as disruptive change hard to create value.
Development DT era of big data technology, must have the same pace and 5G applications.
3, Big Data Pratt & Whitney of Forced "customer experience"
IT companies all IT era, the same token, DT era, companies will also everyone DT.
Ali stressed Yunfei Tianyi publish services to SMEs, large demand for big data technology and lack basic, almost "white" SMEs are waiting for a large platform energized.
And since it is white, DT since the era of big data to achieve Pratt & Whitney of the threshold as low as possible, the transformation of the enterprise information system as smooth as possible has become a key practical operation of landing.
Who can enable SMEs to embrace zero threshold DT, who will take the initiative era.
January 2019, Ali's first large-scale distributed scientific computing engine Mars open source, the product is based on MaxCompute, on the technology, the official declared that "reduces the difficulty of programming, Numpy compatible interfaces without having to modify the code to handle on a large scale than the original data amount "of times.
Obviously, Ali cloud trying to get open and big data technologies become routine as easy to deploy cloud service offerings, according to this trend, code-free deployment is not impossible.
DT competition is a combination of boxing, big data platform is just the beginning
At the summit, Ali cloud proposed "comprehensive cloud on the inflection point," and the Zhang Jianfeng also divided into enterprise cloud cloud on enterprise infrastructure, cloud big data, cloud in Taiwan, cloud intelligent four stages.
Correspondingly, Ali cloud operating system released a cloud of flying, flying big data platform, Alibaba double in Taiwan and Chile four AIoT networking products, some of the media called Ali cloud "four trump card."
In fact, once released Ali cloud big data platform includes four products, including involving institutional basis, data sets, and intelligent content itself proves DT era of competition is a combination of boxing, big data platform is one of the components.
That is, only big data platform, can not afford to support the enterprise cloud DT era, in the era of the wave superposition, "customers" who needs tend to be diversified, to technology, to operate, to keep up with trends.
DT era in order to accomplish something, whether it is large-scale cloud computing platform, or in Xiaoyun service providers, cloud infrastructure, Big Data technology, management units, AI, IoT, etc. can be energized technological capabilities are "standard." .
Because of this, when Ali decided to put big data cloud platform developed, it must have a one-time introduction of cloud computing products, "family bucket", the only way to meet all the "customers" who needs a single big data technology can not form a comprehensive technical and ecological potential.
Of course, this also makes the "commercial" Ali is more difficult to hide behind the "Technology" tab, in the future, more and more exposed side of Ali technologies.