On September 17, 2021, the "Empowerment and Win-Win - 2021 Xinwei Web3.0 Distributed Storage Industry Summit" hosted by the listed company Xinwei Co., Ltd. was reopened at the Shenzhen Zhongzhou Marriott Hotel. The summit was honored to invite Hu Rui, Senior Solution Architect of Tencent Cloud, as a special guest, to deliver a wonderful speech with the theme of "Release of Tencent Cloud's Massive Capabilities - Innovative Product Applications on the Cloud" from many aspects such as "Embracing the Industrial Internet", "Tencent Cloud Database" and "Cloud Native Technology".
The following is a compilation of the content of the live speech:
Hu Rui: It is a great honor to give you a brief introduction on behalf of Tencent Cloud, first of all, Tencent Cloud is a cloud service brand built by Tencent Group, as the technical foundation of Tencent Cloud's industrial Internet, providing a series of cloud service products such as computing, storage, big data and AI for global users, institutions and enterprise representatives. In 2018, Mr. Ma Huateng, Chairman and CEO of Tencent Cloud, formally proposed the strategic decision of "deeply cultivating the consumer Internet and embracing the industrial Internet".
In the process of embracing the industrial Internet, we have found that there are three important points. First of all, the first point is the technology platform, which as an important starting point and foundation for embracing the industrial Internet, Tencent Cloud adheres to independent innovation, and at the same time carries out in-depth cooperation with a number of open source institutions around the world to jointly promote the development of cloud computing technology.
The second point is the ability to fully connect. In fact, everyone knows that Tencent has been doing C-end users for 20 years and has a very strong ability to connect users. Then we also use the Tencent cloud platform to release the connection ability to users to help users better connect to its C-end users.
The third point is the open ecology. Regarding this section, in fact, we are holding a very open attitude, to build a digital ecosystem with industry partners or channel partners, everyone learns from each other's strengths, gives full play to their respective advantages, builds an industrial engine, and helps the upgrading and development of the industrial Internet.
In fact, Tencent has created a lot of star products in the C-end field, such as QQ, WeChat, and King glory. Behind these star products is our massive service capabilities and technology accumulation. Then we also decided to deepen the accumulation of these technologies into the industrial Internet, and the development of Tencent Cloud is derived from this.
Looking at the development of Tencent Cloud as a whole, from 2010 to now nearly 10 years, I think there are 4 stages that are very important. First of all, in 2010, Tencent's open platform accessed the application for the first time, which represented the first time Thatcent began to release its own capabilities to users, in order to provide users with cloud services, and also to create a solid foundation for Tencent Cloud to officially open to the whole society after 3 years.
The second time node came in 2015, Tencent Cloud's North American data center was launched, which marked the beginning of Tencent Cloud's overseas expansion, providing more and more domestic users with cloud computing service capabilities covering the world.
The third time node is that in 2019, the number of Tencent's entire network servers exceeded 1 million, and the peak bandwidth of the whole network exceeded 100T. This means officially entering the double hundred era and becoming the sixth largest Internet company in the world. On this basis, we can unleash more of our capabilities to partners and customers to help them grow their business.
The fourth time node is 2020, in the face of the sudden outbreak of the new crown epidemic, Tencent Cloud as a whole is a full load of operational efficiency, to help more than 100 central ministries and local governments to create anti-epidemic mini programs, public accounts and other anti-epidemic services, playing a very important role in the entire process of science and technology to fight the epidemic.
At present, Tencent Cloud has 1 million servers on the whole network, more than 2,800 global acceleration nodes, 200+ T bandwidth reserves, and 300+ products serving all customers. Tencent Cloud operates 67 zones in 27 geographic regions on 5 continents and covers more than 70 countries around the world. In the future, we will continue to build new possibilities at home and abroad, covering more customers and helping them better connect with global C-end users. In fact, in addition to the cloud capabilities just mentioned, security is also a very important part of Tencent Cloud.
Tencent Cloud relies on Tencent's more than 20 years of experience in confrontation with black and gray production, combined with our big data, AI and a series of capabilities, to help Tencent Cloud users from the four dimensions of intelligence, attack and defense, management, and planning to formulate a security strategy that meets their own business scenarios. At the same time, Tencent Cloud combines the capabilities of eight security labs and more than 3,500 security experts and technicians to create a "moat" for users on the cloud to ensure data security and business security for users on the cloud.
In fact, technology is indeed the most important point of Tencent Cloud as an industrial Internet. From the initial basic parts of computing, containers, networks, CDN acceleration, etc., to the many Pass applications in the upper layer, the industry-based Sass applications, all aspects help users to better use Tencent Cloud in their own fields.
In the past two years, cloud-native technology has gone from emergence to maturity in just a few years. Tencent Cloud also spends a lot of energy to lay out and invest in cloud native technology. Up to now, Tencent Cloud has made great progress in terms of product maturity, product specifications and the number of customer users, and Tencent Cloud's cloud native technology is also in the process of maturing. Regarding Tencent Cloud's cloud-native architecture, from a large perspective, there are mainly five parts to compose: development cloud native, data cloud native, architecture cloud native, secure cloud native and computing cloud native, which can be used separately or uniformly combined.
Then the way to use and unify the combination is mainly determined by the business scenario and business scale of the user itself. Tencent Cloud has also created its own cloud-native platform for thousands of users, and continuously arranged and combined these basic modules to better serve their business itself.
With the increasingly severe security situation, safety is also a point that more and more manufacturers will pay special attention to. Tencent Cloud provides a complete set of security solutions from network computing and other infrastructure to business data upper-layer applications in the security field, including some identity governance, data encryption and security testing, application security and other full range of security service experiences to help users from development, testing, on-line to business operation, the security capabilities of each link in the entire business chain to ensure the safe and stable operation of customer services.
As a very hot topic in recent years, Tencent Cloud's ability to differentiate IOT from traditional IOT is a simple modular capability, providing a one-stop solution. The most critical point here is that we integrate our own mini program capabilities and AI capabilities into IOT services, and can better get close to customer use scenarios in different industries and different application scenarios to ensure that our IOT equipment runs more efficiently, more securely and stably. At the same time, we have also created our own Internet of Things market, allowing users to quickly find Sass solutions that meet their own scenarios to help users quickly build their own IOT platform.
Looking at Tencent Cloud's big data services, in fact, big data services also rely on tencent's big data accumulation in the ToC field for more than 10 years, mainly divided into three parts, data application services, data middle office services, and data infrastructure. In the data infrastructure section, we create a relatively complete set of components from data lakes to data warehouses, to data storage, to business analysis, to help users build their own big data platforms. At the same time, we also have some Pass products, the so-called data middle office service, which is more often to help users reduce the threshold of big data use, and better allow enterprises and users to create a big data platform suitable for them according to business scenarios.
As shown in the figure above, the top is actually a Sass big data application service, relying on Tencent's underlying big data capabilities to help customers provide a Sass version of the data solution, allowing customers to more efficiently use their own enterprise data quickly.
In fact, AI is also a very hot scene in the past two years, and Tencent has also invested a lot of personnel and energy in AI. As shown in the figure above, there are four major laboratories doing related things related to the security layer, such as the AI engine section, which are machine learning, voice, NLP, and so on. In this upper layer, we have built our own AI platform, TI platform, from machine learning to data annotation to application services. On top of this platform, we have created a lot of scenario-based solutions, including speech recognition, image recognition, text analysis and a series of products. The top layer is some scenario-based solutions we create according to the customer's business scenarios, such as intelligent risk control, game voice, and intelligent evaluation, which can help users in different industries to use AI capabilities more quickly and concisely.
Tencent Cloud is the only cloud manufacturer in the world with a real-time audio and video communication network, instant messaging network and streaming media distribution network. On the basis of these three capabilities, we have also installed a large number of multimedia-related products, from on-demand, live broadcast to real-time audio and video, including some content copyright cooperation, in the entire communication products and streaming media scenes, as well as mini programs and other audio and video combination scenarios, providing a lot of solutions, more often to meet the needs of customers in different scenarios. We hope that through scenario-based products, we can better and faster embedding themselves in users' businesses and help users better develop their own business.
The above figure is the capability of Tencent Cloud Database, in fact, Tencent Cloud Database also started from Tencent Cloud, and the first day was already a product we launched. From the earliest relational database, you can see that it has now developed to 5 major product lines, more than 20 kinds of products, and the database products have also received very high rankings in the certification of some authoritative institutions at home and abroad.
The above figure is the ability of Tencent Cloud hardware to independently develop, in early 2020, Tencent's server team was officially upgraded to Xinghai Lab, mainly to create hardware products more suitable for cloudification. It is the first hardware server specially customized for Tencent Cloud that we launched, this server is different from the traditional server on the market, it is a product from the main research and development after using AMD's CPU to enter the deep customization, and fully combines the characteristics of users on Tencent Cloud during research and development. On top of this server, we packaged our own cloud server product, SAR.
This product in the video processing, image processing and other professional fields, year-on-year performance growth of 35%, Tencent's many products are using this server as a computing resource at the bottom, such as WeChat, QQ, advertising video and so on. At the same time, this server is also for overseas users, distributed in more than 20 physical nodes around the world, to help users such as Pinduoduo, b station, homework help, etc., to build their own business on the platform, improve performance and reduce costs.
The above figure is a panoramic view of Tencent Cloud solutions, you can see that in fact, we have our own targeted solutions in many industries, and Tencent Cloud will create more suitable solutions for Tencent Cloud in more areas in the future.
Regarding security compliance certification, in fact, Tencent Cloud has been working hard since its inception, and we now have professional certifications of more than 400 institutions in more than 20 countries around the world, ensuring the compliance of Tencent users using Tencent Cloud. Tencent Cloud is also a cloud platform that Tencent users can trust as a foundation for carrying customer application business. At the same time, the entire Tencent Cloud has also obtained a very good ranking in some domestic authoritative institutions, and has been recognized by international authoritative institutions in some proprietary fields, such as AI, infrastructure platform services, and a series of places. As far as Tencent Cloud is concerned, our vision is to let more people and organizations benefit from the development of cloud technology. Thank you.