Cloud of War three operators

Although the ultimate mobile Internet and cloud computing will be the same thing, when the relationship between the two balance, telecom operators are often faced with the dilemma of choice.
The arrival of cloud computing, there is no chance of them who smell better than telecom operators, and no one is more tangled than telecom operators.
Telecom operators for its superiority in the field of Internet access and data centers, combined with cloud computing services, can make the transition from the traditional mode of pipeline-to-end application mode. And cloud computing can help telecom operators to reduce IT costs, speed up the integration process platform and the industry chain of the telecommunications industry, allowing telecom operators to play a more important role in the whole industry chain.
But cloud computing also requires telecommunications operators invested heavily to enhance broadband capacity, reform of the entire data center architecture, and adjust their business system. Most importantly, telecom operators need strong commitment to cloud computing pioneer, bring the whole industry chain resources, cooperate with each other.
Clearly, opportunities and risks. From now telecom operators move of view, cloud computing has not been a significant advance. Telecom operators in the cloud computing strategy or thunder, little rain.
Night stand
facing cloud computing, telecom operators are not indifferent, since 2007, the three operators from a different perspective planning their own "cloud computing" architecture, has made some achievements.
China Mobile Research Institute to conduct research and development of cloud computing from 2007, 2009, China Mobile officially announced that it is developing and testing platform "BigCloud- big cloud", and on September 1 officially released the "big cloud 0.5 "version. May 2010, China Mobile officially released a large cloud 1.0 system, and also released a large cloud-based 1.0 five products, namely, parallel data mining tools, distributed mass data storage, flexible computing system, cloud storage system, parallel computing execution environment.
Up to now, China Mobile's "big cloud"; laboratory from the initial 256 PC server, 1000 CPUCore, 256TB storage consisting of a test platform has been developed to 1000 servers, 5000 CPUCore, scale 3000TB of storage, in the warp fields subsystems, network management systems, business systems and other platforms were cloud computing practice, and submitted a number of proposals in the open source community.
But China Mobile's results could not hide its conservative. China Mobile Vice President Sha Yuejia has told the media that in May 2010, the development of cloud computing is still in its infancy, from large-scale industrial applications, there are still a wide gap. Behind the attitude of "cool", in fact, China Mobile is expected to cloud computing is not optimistic and self-confidence.
China Mobile focused on the "big cloud" 1.0 and 2.0 are planned massive data management and sharing, with its emphasis on computing storage resource pool, 2.0, 3.0 will be coming through the cloud platform for real-time transactions. So far there has not been the release of version 2.0, and China Mobile's "big cloud" basic plan still in the experimental level, the largest trial conducted within a limited range, still far away from large-scale commercial.
In 2010, China Telecom launched "nebula plan", there are four cloud computing pilot cities, namely Guangzhou, Shanghai, Chengdu and Nanchang, China Telecom cloud computing field trials in these four cities, involving IDC upgrade, the service platform the ability to open platform, internal IT applications and other fields. China Telecom Research to explore more cloud computing applications, including: IDC Evolution and business pilot, commercial pilot SaaS applications, application of mobile Internet cloud-based optimization and upgrading Pak and other cloud-based computing. In addition, China Telecom also launched two brands of "e cloud phone" terminal, use the "e cloud phone" users do not need to upgrade the client real-time updates to remote applications and services.
Similarly with China Mobile, China Telecom's cloud computing practice is superficial. It is commendable that the real investment in the field of broadband and data centers, but these two investments can not be directly translated into concrete cloud computing business, China Telecom also need better planning.
In 2009, China Unicom launched the "Internet cloud" project, very few reports on the project, I do not know China Unicom's relatively low-key in the cloud about, or simply do nothing, China Unicom is more like a social response to accusations made the symbolic act. Telecom operators bear an inescapable responsibility in the cloud computing industry, while China Unicom does not seem that necessary to assume such a responsibility.
In stark contrast to the conservative attitude of the Chinese telecom operators, foreign carriers are actively involved in the cloud computing business. A report entitled "Global Telecom cloud computing strategy," revealed that in 2010, AT & T, BT, Orange and Verizon and other carriers have made significant progress on the cloud computing business. Market research firm Ovum predicts that within the next one or two years, the world's leading telecommunications companies will become strong players in the cloud computing market.
Foreign telecom operators have to carry out cloud computing-related business, a certain influence on the market. For example, in August 2008, AT & T released a web hosting "Synaptic Hosting" service through AT & T deployed network, storage and data center computing resources to solve customers' computing needs. May 2009, AT & T launched, the user can perform data storage infrastructure based on EMC Atmos at any time from anywhere access using the AT & T network cloud to store, retrieve and distribution data. The development of detailed rules by a user Web-based user interface, the service automatically according to user need to expand storage capacity, users only need to pay based on the number of use. NTT then launched a web-based desktop computer cloud computing platform "Setten". The platform provides the operating system, storage, and application hosting a series of programs, enabling corporate network through the Internet connection, e-mail, file and each server, desktop simulation environment and real desktop computer platform is no different.
The balance of the surgery
while mobile Internet and cloud computing era coming, may make China's telecom operators caught in a dilemma. Mobile Internet era has forced telecom operators to invest more resources to build content and applications, and in the pipeline emphasizes "smart pipe", not to improve revenue by increasing the pipeline of pipeline space, but to change the pipeline pricing. The advent of cloud computing, requires telecommunications operators to increase bandwidth, which means that large-scale infrastructure investment. Although the ultimate mobile Internet and cloud computing will be the same thing, when the relationship between the two balance, telecom operators are often faced with the dilemma of choice.
The three major telecom operators, China Telecom focused on the construction of broadband, has been to attack the mobile Internet field, but relatively weak. China Telecom is based on its advantages in the data center and broadband, strengthened investment in cloud computing building. And its mobile Internet strategy is based on the platform, the industry chain resources gathered through open spirit. Future development also need to strengthen investment in content and applications, in order to attract more mobile users, and successful migration to high-end.
China Mobile due to the accumulation weak in broadband and data center, now its force main point in the mobile Internet field, rather sad place lies in the field of mobile Internet field is not telecom operators good, huge investment and revenue shortfalls, its 3G business is not satisfactory. China Mobile's mobile Internet field attack in more than instant messaging, mobile reading, mobile e-commerce, the effect is not significant, so that Li Yue came to power after re-sort the business, to carry out "the elephant slimming."
China Unicom, China Telecom, though they have similar advantages as in the cloud, but on mine, so obviously not China Telecom "radical." China Telecom launched a large-scale construction of broadband, while China Unicom seems satisfied with the existing level of bandwidth. Compared to its high-profile mobile Internet "star terminal" strategy, which is substantially no substantive action in the cloud. Relying on the country's most mature 3G network, China Unicom get the upper hand in the competition in the smart terminal, but just do the wedding dress for Apple in the mobile application store and other fields.
The development of cloud computing from the perspective of the scale, commercialization is inevitable path to go. Only large-scale cloud computing platform to provide IT resources like water, electricity same. On top of basic services, derived from value-added services, on the one hand gather a large number of user groups, on the other hand can get enough room to grow. From the basis of currently available resources, China Telecom and China Unicom has obvious advantages in the field of broadband access and data centers, so in the cloud by both investment and cooperation, the construction scale cloud computing platform is more feasible. While China Mobile is also seeking to build their own data centers, but viewed from the grasp of bandwidth resources and accumulated in the data center, the cloud computing IaaS service can not be positioned in the field, but should seek advantage in the SaaS field.
The final point of view, cloud computing and mobile Internet or can not be neglected party, the two sides will only succeed together, telecom operators to obtain long-term power development. Cloud computing and mobile Internet itself is not mutually exclusive services, mobile Internet services can provide content and applications through the cloud computing model, the use of "resource pool" computing power and resources, the mobile terminal itself insufficient computing capacity flaw It can be offset, so that the user can not imagine the ability to obtain original by the intelligent terminal.
In fact, the popularity of cloud computing will inevitably lead to a comprehensive mobile Internet era. Chinese Academy of Sciences has said Ni Guangnan: Cloud computing device will replace the PC position. He thinks first advent of cloud computing spawned a cloud of equipment, also declared the end of the era of the PC, the PC era is now truly entered; cloud device is not a continuation of the PC, but a new generation of information devices, cloud equipment will be diversified of: smart phones, tablet PCs, smart TVs, thin clients, PC and so on. He believes that the PC is different Wintel monopoly architecture, cloud devices will be a variety of architectures coexist.
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Noda Consulting believes that telecom operators to develop cloud computing business has four major advantages, the four major disadvantage:
resources, including large-scale data centers, abundant bandwidth and high-speed network speed. Data center computing resources can be packaged into a cloud computing virtual machine when idle, to provide users with services. This further development of computing resources will become a new profit point of these enterprises. By further improving the main users of the service data center, telecom operators will cloud - SME pulled his side.
Customer advantage, many telecom operators number of mobile users is the other IT vendors can not match.
Credit advantages, operators have a high reputation, has a good awareness of the social, telecom operators in the past and establish a safe and reliable image from the account will help them compete in the cloud computing provider's dominant position was.
Integration of industrial chain advantage, good telecom operators to build a complete chain from the terminal to the network and then calculated by customer behavior for the whole chain integration support, highly coupled telecom operators to build a cloud computing value chain, will become the differentiating itself the most evident advantage.
But the presence of the four major telecom operators deficiencies in the cloud computing business:
And professional and technical personnel shortage in the face of new technological developments in a passive position. The rapid advance of the deployment of cloud computing requires virtualization, automated deployment of professional and technical personnel, carriers talent pool is clearly insufficient. Meanwhile shortage of professional and technical research capabilities, allows operators no way to develop advanced technology, passive adjustment can only be made for the new technology.
Lack of integration experience, the final plan by the system integrator control. Because IT cloud and traditional projects, maintenance, service model is completely different, telecom operators lack the organizational integration experience, its own team can not solve a variety of conditions. Therefore, the establishment of IT cloud needs and success, experienced system integrators to complete. The result is to determine the final program depends mainly on systems integrators that build their own capacity greatly reduced.
Overall service quality is not high, user satisfaction is not high. Telecom operators due to its long-term are not taken seriously in the monopoly telecommunications service quality, making quality telecom operator's service has been low.
Inadequate internal processes, some hardware conditions are not perfect. Cloud computing hardware requirements must support the cloud properties and full IT life cycle support pooling, at present, telecom operators hardware devices can not fully meet the conditions of cloud computing hardware, improve the hardware conditions require a time course.
Noda Consulting released "Cloud Computing Industry Chain Report 2011" that the era of cloud computing makes the competition the way the telecommunications industry fundamental change, competition between communications into a competitive IT industry chain and industrial chain. Telecom operators and IT companies are constructing cloud computing platform with the strength of both the advantages and disadvantages. Only the face of competition, telecom operators have chosen stepping down gracefully.
Currently a competitive advantage in the field of cloud computing, primarily large foreign IT companies, including Microsoft, IBM, Google and so on. Google is the initiator of the concept of cloud computing, Microsoft and IBM quickly followed suit, have launched their own cloud computing strategy. Although the three companies in the cloud by definition there are differences, but the similarities are positive action to avoid being beaten behind in the new round of revolution in computing models. The telecom operators seem very "calm", just introduced a cloud computing pilot project several concept style, the wind blows, moving lookout, there is no industry leader in style.
And thus lost may greatly exceed the estimate. In the competitive communications industry and the IT industry, the telecom operators have the opportunity to become a leader in the ICT industry. Because cloud computing industry chain will enable existing IT major changes, the traditional IT industry chain, including equipment suppliers, software developers, distributors, systems integrators, service providers and operators and so on. Operators have been in the peripheral edge and the industry chain and value chain. Cloud computing is expected to enable telecom operators to become the center of the entire IT industry chain.
If telecom operators to build up a successful cloud computing services platform to provide user-oriented infrastructure, software, IT services and other resources, then the customer will turn to telecom operators, rather than the traditional IT companies. Such agents, living space systems integrators and service providers will inevitably be squeezed. Telecom operators and equipment / software manufacturers to become the era of cloud computing industry chain protagonist. But this process is bound to be a process of redistribution of interests, during which must be accompanied by all sorts of conflicts. The most unfortunate is that telecom operators can not successfully coordinate the conflict.