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Introduction: Last year, I had an article entitled "the future of computing in the" cloud - End "," the article pointed out that pure "cloud computing" is not the start the calculation of the future "master key", "Cloud + Client" (Cloud + Client) coexistence, "Cloud + Client" is the future of interactive computing trends. Finally, Network World (Web) and equipment in the world (Devices) will be towards integration?? In this article, I will mainly talk about the "cloud" point of view, including "cloud computing" the origin, definition, trends, and Microsoft in the "cloud calculation "of the latest technology. Cloud computing in the third article in the trilogy, I will be devoted to explain the "end" of the future.
"Cloud computing" Trilogy II: the "cloud" dance?? Talk about cloud computing
From the "network is the computer" to "grid computing", from the "distributed computing" to "Internet Computing", a long time, and "cloud computing" concept is similar to the academic community and different businesses each side? ? Although the content of each concept are some subtle differences, but most of them full use of network-based computing and storage resources to achieve goals of high efficiency and low cost computing considerations, hoping to better integrate the Internet and information on different devices and applications, the all the computing, storage resources are combined to achieve the widest range of collaboration and resource sharing.
"Cloud computing" theory and try to have more than 10 years?? The last decade, from the. NET framework, to the "on-demand computing" (On-demand), "performance computing (UtilityComputing)", " Software As a service "(Softwareasaservice)," Platform as a Service "(Platformasaservice) and other new concepts, new models, in fact, can be seen as business-to" cloud computing "in the different interpretation or" cloud computing "various stages of development.
Amazon (Amazon) by the introduction of the S3 (SimpleStorageService) and EC2 (ElasticComputeCloud) marked the "cloud computing" a new stage of development: infrastructure, network services provided to customers as a new "commercialization" of resources, Now, EC2 Amazon has become the "fastest-growing business." IBM was in 2007 launched "Blue Cloud" (BlueCloud) computing platforms, look forward to helping clients build cloud computing environment. In addition, Google Has been actively promoting its AppEngine; the Salesforce.com CRM platform, launched as a service also had a great impact.
2008, the Over the years, and continued to explore, Microsoft has officially released the complete cloud computing platform?? WindowsAzure (blue), and invested heavily in the construction of data centers worldwide. These phenomena suggest that, after years of accumulated and ongoing exploration, cloud computing has finally started to become a global IT industry should be and the common, mainstream sound.
A "cloud computing" Why become mainstream
"Cloud computing" to become the IT industry, a major mainstream practice of innovation, thanks to the following three factors.
First, computing, storage, rapid development of communications technology: CPU , GPU multi-core evolution and maturing of virtualization technologies for information systems, high-performance and low power consumption to find an important breakthrough; greater Internet bandwidth are making more computing resources and software as a service push sent to the client; mass storage, data mining, artificial intelligence, the constant development of technology to make data more structured, more semantic association in order to achieve from the "data" to "information" and then to "knowledge" of the accumulation and evolution , and gradually developed into the Internet services, the "brain" (IntelligenceInside). For this reason, the original seemingly unattainable dream becomes true because the technology matures.
Second, user requirements have been in Evolution. Web2.0 created the creative beauty, and express individuality in a new era, more and more users willing to create their own information (such as the blog) and resources (such as pictures and video) uploads to the "cloud" in, and met or not met friends to share, and at any time, any place, using PC, Mobile And other equipment to manage the "cloud" on the data and applications. Furthermore, both individuals and business users, according to the actual time needed to obtain the use of virtual computing resources, no doubt the economy is also easier. This will be the ability to provide appropriate services for the cloud computing service providers create opportunities.
Third, the emergence of new business models, so many individuals and business users to see trends and may be different from the past. Many years ago I pointed out, the "service" of the software industry will become a trend, it now appears that this trend will undoubtedly become more pronounced. Software is no longer a package (or pre-installed) good "commodity", but also through online services, with the need to rent or free version with ads and other forms to obtain a wide range of new software + services (S + S). Again, many new features including video on demand, information search, online maps, which are difficult to achieve the functionality of traditional software, so must rely on "cloud" above, large-scale computing and data resources.
Despite gradually become mainstream, but until today, "cloud computing" concept, a variety of interpretations of the situation has not changed much. Frankly, every enterprise and institution of "cloud computing" and its prospects for the resolution more or less a combination of the direction of the enterprise's own business and real interests. Here, I would like some of my ideas?? Where some of these points is built with Microsoft Research Asia, Dr. Ma Weiying and other experts on the basis of the discussion.
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