Introduction: This year, what are the hot spots in the cloud computing industry that you should not miss?
In the blink of an eye, 2020 is drawing to a close. To stand at the end of the year, looking back on the magical 2020, it's very moving. The new corona epidemic that erupted earlier this year caused an uproar around the world and has affected the global economy and society to varying degrees. However, crises and opportunities often go hand in hand. The arrival of the epidemic has also led to a concentrated surge in cloud services such as online education, remote offices, cloud recruiting, and cloud medical treatment. The key to accelerating the digital transformation of companies has been pressed. Moving to the cloud is full of energy, and the cloud computing industry has an unprecedented development opportunity.
In addition to the industrial side which opens up new outlets, at the national level, the national strategy of “new infrastructures” has developed. Cloud computing, as an infrastructure of the digital economy, has received top-to-bottom political support. The construction of new cloud computing platforms is progressing in an orderly fashion. The computer industry has embarked on a new journey to earth and flight.
Below, let's take a look at the hottest events and ten most important terms in the cloud computing industry in 2020.
1. Top ten events of the cloud computing industry in 2020
1. UCloud listed
On the morning of January 20, on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, UCloud UCloud was officially listed (landed at the Council of Scientific and Technological Innovation) and officially became the first cloud computing stock in China, with a market value of more than 30 billion. The prospectus revealed that UCLoud will implement the CBA (Cloud Computing, Big Data, AI) strategy.
This list is not only a new starting point for UCloud but also brings new variables to the national public cloud market, marking this in addition to giants such as BAT Cloud, Huawei Cloud and Kingsoft Cloud, the representative of UCloud Neutral third-party public cloud providers have started to take their place.
2. The three original brands of JD Cloud, JD Artificial Intelligence, and JD IOT are integrated into the brand "JD Zhilian Cloud".
In order to unify the brand image and integrate technical capabilities to better serve internal and external customers, JD Cloud and the AI Division officially unified the three original brands of JD Cloud, JD Artificial Intelligence, and JD IOT in the brand "JD Intelligent Cloud". It was officially inaugurated on March 5, 2015. The three colors of the brand represent various cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and big data.
According to JD.com, business integration, service integration, and brand integration are not just simple overlay relationships, but also an organization that carries JD's technology “ABCDE” strategy, c 'that is, using artificial intelligence (AI) as the brain and big data (Big Data is oxygen, the Cloud is the trunk, the Internet of Things (Device) is the sensory nerve and the exploration is curiosity.
3. Kingsoft Cloud goes public
On May 8, Kingsoft Cloud was officially listed on Nasdaq in the United States under the stock code "KC", with a net fund of 510 million US dollars. This means that Lei Jun inaugurated the fourth listed company after Kingsoft, Xiaomi Group, and Kingsoft Office.
Lei Jun issued an open letter to all staff, stating that to date, Kingsoft Cloud is the third-largest Internet cloud service provider in China. Under the general trend of AIoT and the smart connection of everything, the importance of the cloud is more important. Lei Jun said that today the cloud is an infrastructure, a platform, and a service. Not only that, over the next few years, a "new infrastructure" will give new impetus to China's digital economy, and cloud services will provide strong support for the "new infrastructure" at all times.
4. Baidu Smart Cloud architecture adjustment, newly published strategy
On March 11, Baidu CTO Wang Haifeng published an internal email announcing the adjustment of the organizational structure of Baidu Smart Cloud Business Group (ACG) and, through flat management, the 'improved organizational efficiency to accelerate the development of Baidu Smart Cloud.
On May 18, Baidu CTO Wang Haifeng announced Baidu Smart Cloud's new strategy, "based on cloud computing, with artificial intelligence as a starting point, focusing on important tracks."
At the same time, in order to better execute the new strategy, Baidu's intelligent cloud business structure has also been adjusted accordingly. Baidu Smart Cloud's new architecture is divided into three layers. The bottom layer is Baidu Brain, comprising the Base Layer, Perception Layer, Cognitive Layer, and Security. This is Baidu's main technological engine; the middle is the platform, including the general core cloud platform, AI middle platform, Knowledge platform, as well as the platform and other key components of the stage; With base layer and platform support, intelligent upper-layer applications and solutions will allow all walks of life to live.
5. Launch of the integrated Alibaba Cloud Cloud Nail strategy
On September 27, Alibaba announced a new round of strategic deployment, upgrading Dingding to the Dingding Business Unit, fully integrating with Alibaba Cloud, and integrating all of the group's related forces to ensure the full implementation of the “cloud and nailing integration” strategy. As of now, the original DingTalk sales department, Alibaba Cloud Video Cloud team, Alibaba Cloud Teambition team, Yi build a team of Business Intelligence Business department, government cloud sales department and companies, the digital government middle office commercial department, and some Wudu Technology teams will join the new L 'Within the Dingding Business Unit, the "Intelligent Collaboration, and Video Cloud Business Unit", the "Industry Dingding Business Unit" and the "Government Zhongtai Business Unit" have been newly created.
The adjustment of the corporate sector means a new round of personnel changes. Chen Hang, the founder, and CEO of the original DingTalk, transferred to the Alibaba Group as an assistant to Zhang Yong, chairman, and CEO of Alibaba. Alibaba said it will integrate all relevant group strengths and promote the implementation of the "cloud and nail integration" strategy.
6.10th anniversary of Tencent Cloud
In 2010, "Happy Farm" was about to steal vegetables. In one month, Tencent added 4,000 servers, abruptly sustaining the data frenzy of "stealing vegetables online" by more than 100 million people. This emergency extension allowed Tencent to see the cloud The importance of. In the third quarter, we started to set up a "cloud platform service" of more than 10 people, and we started to be stationed as a team to solve some traffic and traffic issues. high competition for customers. In 2011, he announced the establishment of an open platform to form Tencent Prototype cloud. In 2013, Tencent Open Cloud officially changed its name to QCloud and started expanding to the public cloud for more external customers beyond the open platform. On September 30, 2018, Tencent CSIG (Cloud and Intelligence Division) was officially established. Tencent fully embraces the industrial Internet, and Tencent Cloud has become the underlying structure of Tencent's B-side business. This is the famous “930 revolution”.
2020 marks Tencent Cloud's tenth anniversary Today, Tencent Cloud ranks among the top three domestic cloud computing service providers. In terms of industry, Tencent Cloud currently provides more than 300 industry solutions for more than 20 industries.
7. List of US entities on HUAWEI CLOUD
On August 17 local time, the official US Department of Commerce website released a statement further restricting Huawei's ability to obtain US technology, focusing on restricting chips designed by companies outside of the United States. with US software, and including 38 subsidiaries from Huawei's 21 countries as “entities”. The "list" mainly includes Huawei Cloud Computing Technology Company, Huawei Cloud Beijing, and other Huawei Cloud institutions, as well as Huawei's research institutes in many countries.
Since Huawei was first blacklisted in May 2019, 152 Huawei affiliates have been blacklisted by the United States. In the process of chip design and production, many linkages rely on technology provided by US companies. The United States' removal essentially blocked Huawei's direct purchase of chips from other chipmakers using American technology. This means that every time Huawei cooperates, it has to go through the approval of the US Department of Commerce and obtain a license.
8. The national PingCAP database has received funding of US $ 270 million, setting a new record in the global database.
On November 17, PingCAP, an enterprise-level open-source distributed database provider, announced the completion of a $ 270 million Series D funding, setting a new all-time high for databases. global and marking another milestone for national open-source databases.
PingCAP was established in 2015 to provide enterprise users with open-source distributed database products, solutions and advice, technical support, and training and certification services, to unleash enterprise productivity. . Its foreign clients are mainly from Europe, America, Japan, and Southeast Asia. This round of funding will be used to develop key core technologies for distributed databases, improve professional service support solutions and systems, build an open-source community ecosystem, and expand global markets.
9. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are all down
On October 8, the Azure service in the US ran into issues for about an hour. Microsoft wrote on its status page that the North American region may be experiencing issues accessing Microsoft or Azure services (including Azure government services) and is under investigation.
On November 25, Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered an outage that lasted for several hours, causing some websites and service systems to go down, affecting services such as Adobe and Roku. Subsequently, Amazon AWS also updated the latest status on its official Service Health Report page, indicating that the Kinesis Data Streams API in the US-EAST-1 region has failed, preventing clients to write and read data posted to Kinesis streams. Several Website error rate has increased and the ability to update website pages has been affected. The emergency repair has been initiated.
On December 15, Google's servers suddenly suffered a large-scale outage around the world. Within 45 minutes of the hiatus, many Google services were not accessible, including popular apps like the Gmail mailbox, Google Calendar, and the YouTube video site, all of which were badly affected. This is the fourth outage for Google of the year.
These incidents of downtime show that today, as people's daily lives increasingly depend on the products provided by these tech giants, the security and reliability of cloud providers still need to be improved and guarantees.
10. IBM spin-off and acquisition, the addition of new cloud computing activities
On October 8, IBM announced the split of its traditional IT infrastructure service department (the managed infrastructure service department of Global Information Technology Services (GTS)) and the creation of a new independent company. After the spin-off, IBM and the new company will focus on their areas of expertise. IBM will focus on open hybrid cloud platforms and AI capabilities, while the new company will focus on providing management infrastructure services.
On December 21, IBM announced the acquisition of Nordcloud, a Finnish cloud consulting service provider, in hopes of gaining an edge in the increasingly fierce cloud computing war. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2021. IBM said the acquisition will "increase" its cloud migration and transformation capabilities, which is an important part of IBM's hybrid cloud growth strategy.
Previously, IBM had also acquired Spanugo, a provider of cloud network security situation management solutions, and Expertus Technologies, a provider of cloud solutions. From the split to the completion of multiple acquisitions in one year, we can see the ambition of the century-old giant IBM to increase its cloud computing activity.
2. The 10 most important terms of cloud computing in 2020
1. Cloud Nails in one
At the Yunqi conference on September 17, Alibaba officially announced Alibaba Cloud 2.0 to create a native digital operating system based on the Feitian Cloud platform. “Cloud and nail integration” and “cloud integration” are the core components of this operating system. Zhang Jianfeng, chairman of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, said in an internal letter that "cloud and nails integration" connects to Alibaba Cloud infrastructure and undertakes various applications from customers, which will definitely change how the cloud is used and application development, and will help more businesses and organizations Step directly into the era of cloud computing with no experience and no cost.
In the past, Alibaba Cloud seemed to provide computing power and storage capacity. Especially since this year, Alibaba Cloud's native digital operating system has been put forward, and the cloud “supercomputer” has been installed with “Windows”, “cloud nailing one” and “cloud”. “Integration” has become an important layout of Alibaba's new digital infrastructure, and DingTalk has become an important part of the collaboration with Alibaba Cloud.
2. Cloud infrastructure
In recent years, the cloud computing industry has continued to grow at a high speed, which has played a huge supporting role in the digital transformation of various industries. Especially this year, the country has accelerated the process of building new infrastructure, and cloud computing has become one of the areas of digital infrastructure.
On March 4, 2020, the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee held a meeting and stressed that "increase investment in public health services and emergency supplies, and accelerate the construction of new infrastructures such as 5G networks and data centers ”.
The new infrastructure mainly includes the construction of 5G base stations, UHV, high-speed intercity railways and urban rail transport, new energy vehicle charging stacks, large data centers, artificial intelligence, and industrial Internet, involving many industrial chains.
Cloud infrastructure needs to run on a new kind of data center infrastructure. It is the main production center of computing power and the infrastructure of the digital age.
3. Cloud-native
Cloud-native is a cloud service based on distributed deployment and unified operation and management, as well as a set of cloud technology product systems based on technologies such as containers, microservices, and DevOps. It is one of the most popular technologies in the field of cloud computing and the future direction of cloud computing development.
Cloud-native applications are applications designed for the "cloud". After using cloud-native technologies, developers don't need to consider the implementation of the underlying technology. They can take full advantage of the elastic and distributed advantages of the cloud platform to achieve rapid deployment, on-demand scaling, non-stop delivery, etc. Not only does it support Internet applications well, but also deeply affects new computer architectures and new smart data applications.
This year, against the backdrop of the new infrastructure and digital transformation of the industry, various cloud computing providers have started to focus on cloud-native and have launched a variety of cloud-native products. Huawei Cloud was also the pioneer of the cloud-native 2.0 proposition, ie “cloud-native IN infrastructure”. Convergent architecture.
4. Cloud of containers
One of the core technologies of the native cloud is a container. The boom in container technology was born from open source docker in 2013. A container is an application of virtualization technology.
Container technology can easily support the modernization of micro-service architectures, respond to change, and grow elastically in a more flexible manner. In terms of software lifecycle management, container technology can help integrate DevOps and other best practices into applicable standardized tools and frameworks, dramatically improving development efficiency and speeding up iteration. Use the portability that container technology brings to help developers and businesses migrate to the cloud more easily, allowing applications to be dynamically migrated into their own data centers and cloud.
Run containers and container planning in the cloud and the combined service is the container cloud. The container cloud uses containers as the basic unit of resource planning and division, encapsulates the entire software runtime environment, and provides developers and system administrators with a platform to build, publish and run distributed applications.
5. Private cloud
Private Clouds are designed for individual customer use, providing the most effective control over data, security, and quality of service. The company owns the infrastructure and can control how applications are deployed on that infrastructure. Private clouds can be deployed in a corporate data center firewall, or they can be deployed in a secure hosting location. The primary attribute of private clouds is proprietary resources.
For businesses, especially large corporations, business data is their lifeline and cannot be threatened in any form. Therefore, in the short term, large companies will not put their critical applications in the public domain. Running on the cloud. The private cloud is very beneficial in terms of data security, as it is usually built behind a firewall.
With the simplification of migration and expansion between public and private clouds, the integration and unification of public and private clouds will become more important in the future.
6. Cloud operating system
Cloud OS, also known as cloud operating system, cloud computing operating system, cloud computing center operating system, is an operating system supported by cloud computing and storage technology cloud and is the overall cloud computing background data center management and operation system. It refers to an integrated cloud platform management system that relies on basic hardware resources such as servers, storage, and networks, and on basic software such as stand-alone operating systems, middleware, and databases, and manages huge amounts of basic hardware and software resources.
Cloud OS is a key step in the realization of cloud computing. The cloud operating system can distribute the computing resources of multiple computers for distributed computing according to the needs of the application software (such as the background service software of search websites), then aggregate and integrate the calculation results and return to the application. Software. Compared to the time-consuming computing of a single computer, the cloud operating system can save a lot of computing time.
The cloud operating system can also store data with different characteristics in different storage devices according to the characteristics of the data, and perform unified management over them. When the cloud operating system distributes the computing resources of multiple computers for distributed calculations according to the needs of the application software, each computer can quickly get the data it needs from different storage devices as needed. Calculation.
7. Hybrid cloud
Hybrid cloud integrates public cloud and private cloud and is the main model and direction of cloud computing development in recent years.
The characteristics of hybrid clouds are obvious: the security of private clouds exceeds that of public clouds, and the computing resources of public clouds are beyond the reach of private clouds. In the case of spear and shield, hybrid cloud solves this problem. It can not only use private cloud security to store important internal data in a local data center; at the same time, it can also use the public cloud computing resources more efficiently and faster. Complete the work, compared to a private cloud or public cloud are more perfect. Moreover, the hybrid cloud breaks the hardware limitations of the private cloud and uses the scalability of the public cloud to achieve higher computing power at all times. Organizations can reduce the pressure and demand for internal private clouds by moving non-confidential functions to public cloud areas. In addition, a hybrid cloud can effectively reduce costs. It can use both public cloud and private cloud. Businesses can place applications and data on the most appropriate platform to achieve the best combination of benefits.
With the further development of cloud computing, a multi-cloud IT strategy supported by hybrid cloud architecture will play an important role and become the dominant industry trend in the future.
8. Cloud games
Cloud gaming is a method of gaming based on cloud computing. In the cloud game mode of operation, all games are run on the server-side, and the rendered game screen is compressed and transmitted to the user through the network. On the client-side, the user's gaming device requires no high-end CPU or graphics card, only basic video decompression capabilities, and a reliable network. Cloud games can completely solve tasks like cloud computing, storage, rendering, and compression, releasing the pressure from the user's side. The user only needs to have the ability to view, control and communicate, which greatly reduces the cost on the user side.
Based on 5G, cloud computing, edge computing, and other tech support, 2020 is a hot year for cloud gaming. In particular, technological advancements such as higher bandwidth and lower latency brought by 5G have largely met the high standards of cloud gaming for the network, making the future development prospects of cloud gaming clearer.
9. Video Cloud
Video cloud computing is based on the concept of cloud computing technology and uses video as a cloud computing solution that "cloud" presents the results of processing to "endpoints". The application runs on the cloud server, encodes the running display output and audio output, and transmits it to the terminal in real-time through the network, and the terminal performs real time decoding and displays the exit. The terminal can be used at the same time, and the operation control information is transmitted to the cloud application execution platform through the network in real-time for application control. The terminal is “simplified” to provide only network capabilities, video decoding capabilities, and human-computer interaction capabilities.
In recent years, under multiple impetuses from government policies, social demands, the internet, and 5G and other new technologies, the major national cloud computing providers have increased their deployment in the field of video cloud, showing a dynamic of rapid growth. In particular, the 2020 epidemic has spawned the technical demand for video cloud in education, e-commerce, finance, medicine, and others, and brought new development opportunities for the industry. video cloud industry.
10. Cloud Intelligence
At the Summer Cloud Intelligence Summit held on May 18, Baidu Smart Cloud announced a new strategy "based on cloud computing, with artificial intelligence as a starting point, focusing on important tracks." After the close integration of cloud + AI, "cloud intelligence" One "has become Baidu Smart Cloud's unique competitive advantage. " Wisdom "is the brain of Baidu, and it has developed into a production platform mass AI with core software and hardware technology. Baidu's Brain Flying Paddle Deep Learning Platform, Baidu Kunlun Chip, and core artificial intelligence technologies and platforms such as speech, vision, knowledge graph, and natural language processing have become new AI infrastructures that empower all walks of life.
On December 17, at the "ABC SUMMIT 2020 Baidu Cloud Intelligence Summit", Baidu Technical Director Wang Haifeng said that "the integration of cloud intelligence" has become the unique competitiveness of Baidu Smart Cloud, accelerating the implementation works in all areas.
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