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Cloud office, cloud school, cloud conference... "cloud computing" is in the limelight How to seize the new opportunities of "cloud computing"?

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The rapid development of "cloud computing" has opened up a new model for life. "Cloud" services are the trend of the times, and the domestic cloud computing market has reached nearly 200 billion yuan. Cloud technology has been transformed from extensive to refined, and the technology system has become more and more mature.

"Cloud Exhibition", "Cloud Event", "Cloud Talk"... The surging digital economy, the "cloud model" that has blossomed in an all-round way, and the participation of the whole people in the "cloud experience" are reshaping the pattern of the gradually moving towards normal economy and society, and have become a new driving force for economic and social restart.

Recently, the Alibaba Group Content Center, a leading "cloud computing" enterprise with 1.2 billion consumers, was launched, which is not only conducive to expanding the transformation scale of content "planting grass", but also provides high-efficiency, high-quality and standardized editing and review services for the entire Taobao content ecosystem. At present, on Alibaba's e-commerce platform, there are more than 2.5 million creators around short videos, live broadcasts and other content creations, and more than 5 million new content is created every day.

"Cloud" services are the trend of the times, and the domestic cloud computing market has reached nearly 200 billion yuan. According to data from the Internet Society of China, the scale of China's cloud computing market reached 178.1 billion yuan in 2020, with a growth rate of 33.6%.

"New infrastructure" has boosted cloud computing to become a new outlet in the industry

Right now, many things, from industry to lifestyle, are undergoing quiet and meaningful changes. Consumers go to the "cloud", forcing many enterprises to go to the "cloud". "Cloud office", "cloud school opening", "cloud medical", the whole people do not leave the house "cloud" exchanges, the epidemic "black swan" makes cloud computing sit on the strongest "outlet" in 2020.

Domestic Internet giants Tencent, Ali, Huawei, Baidu, etc. have long been laid out in the cloud economy, and under the epidemic, the main reason why the Chinese people can still carry out national production in an orderly manner. Nowadays, whether it is live shopping, takeaway ordering, online games, online education, online meetings, online consultations, etc., these habitual lifestyles are the products of the "cloud economy" in the information age. And all this, thanks to the rapid development of "cloud computing" in the past 10 years, has opened up a new model for life.

At the end of October this year, the "Chongqing Big Data Achievement Transfer and Transformation Center" settled in the Yunshuiyuan Digital Economy Industrial Park in Banan District. Liu Min, director of the Big Data Application Development Administration Bureau of Banan District, Chongqing, said that after the center is settled, it will focus on building a number of application demonstration projects in the fields of smart government, smart transportation, smart logistics, smart education, and smart medical care, and promote the transfer and transformation of big data achievements.

In the domestic technology field, UCD is the first listed cloud computing company, it is understood that when China Mobile invested in UCD, the decision-making speed set a record, from due diligence to the arrival of funds, less than three months. Subsequently, in less than two years, UCTA doubled its revenue. Among its customers are some of the first-class Internet companies, such as ByteDance, Kuaishou, Meituan, Bilibili and iQiyi.

Mo Yuanming, director of Chongqing Jingyu Think Tank, told reporters on November 1 that from infrastructure to application, government customers and enterprises are fully migrating to the cloud, and the adoption of cloud computing is getting deeper and deeper, and large and medium-sized enterprises from self-built private clouds and single clouds to the use of public clouds, hybrid clouds, and multi-cloud, it is expected that by 2023, the cloud rate of China's government and large enterprises will exceed 60%.

This is an era when everyone talks about "cloud" and "big data", standing in the opening year of the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan", the new generation of information technology represented by cloud computing has become the core driving force of a new round of industrial change, and China's super-large-scale market environment will usher in the next "golden decade" for cloud computing.

According to Gartner statistics, from 2015 to 2020, the penetration rate of the global cloud computing market will increase year by year, from 4.3% to 13.2%, and it is expected that the global cloud computing penetration rate will rise to 15.3% in 2021.

In fact, the top-level design of China's 10 trillion -10 trillion "new infrastructure" has set off a wave of digital transformation of traditional enterprises, whether it is building an online economy, promoting the transformation of the traditional economy, or increasing the proportion of digital GDP, "digitalization" has begun to blossom in the whole society... Let people suddenly find that the government, medical care, education, and services are inseparable from the comprehensive blessing of cloud computing.

The great demand of the times has made capital hot

In recent years, cloud computing, with its flexible configuration, high resource utilization and cost savings, is gradually subverting the deployment model of the traditional IT industry. Policy + industry + capital all-round resonance, cloud computing industry demand into an accelerated growth period, China's economy in order to buck the upward trend continues to find new momentum, the online economy began another round of volume growth, cloud computing has a natural cost reduction and efficiency, elastic scaling characteristics, in line with the great needs of the times.

Recently, the domestic cloud computing infrastructure core software provider "Boyun" announced the completion of hundreds of millions of yuan E round of financing, this round of financing by Bohai Securities' alternative investment subsidiaries Bohai Chuangfu and Rongyi Investment joint investment, the amount of financing will be further invested in product research and development, market expansion and other fields, in order to continue to expand Boyun's competitive advantage in related fields.

On October 28, Xinxingji Technology Co., Ltd., a supplier of advanced solutions for digital realization EDA, announced that it has completed a round of financing of 400 million yuan. Shi Haiyong, chairman and CEO of Xinxingji, said that the addition of strong A-round new investors will help the company's long-term development planning and will work with industry colleagues to "jointly create a new era of digital wisdom".

As of the end of September, according to incomplete statistics from Tianyancha data, in 2021, more than 250 financing incidents occurred in China's cloud computing-related enterprises, with an average of nearly 30 financings per month. Among them, Beijing has the largest number of cloud computing-related enterprises that have obtained financing, accounting for 15.7% of the country. From the perspective of financing rounds, the financing of cloud computing-related enterprises is more distributed in the A round, accounting for 31.4%, and secondly, there are also more than 20% of the financing of related enterprises distributed in the E round and later. From the perspective of industry distribution, about 90% of the cloud computing-related enterprises that have obtained financing are distributed in the enterprise service industry.

Data show that there are currently nearly 218,000 cloud computing-related enterprises in China. According to the data of the enterprise information disclosure query system, as of the end of September 2021, there are nearly 1.6 million artificial intelligence-related enterprises in China, and more than 80% of related enterprises have been established within 5 years, of which 37% have been established within 1 year.

Cloud technology has shifted from extensive to refined

At present, there are hundreds of cities in the country that are building or planning to build cloud computing projects, from the coast to the west, from the northeast to south China, which can be described as a "cloud" everywhere, and the layout characteristics of "spark of stars can burn the plains" have appeared as a whole.

The current cloud computing has become a giant and fiercely competitive. Ali, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Tencent, Baidu, Huawei, etc., are constantly "fighting" each other. Behind the competition is the attractive market size and potential. It is estimated that by 2023, the national market size will be close to 400 billion yuan.

Hua Kun, co-founder of Youkede, believes that the current industrial Internet actually serves the thousands of industries of the entire traditional economy, and it is also the lofty mountains that promote the reshuffling of the industry.

"With the increasingly prominent demand for enterprise informatization, cloud computing will play an important role in the informatization of many industries." Mo Yuanming said that cloud computing is releasing huge dividends, and its application has gradually penetrated and integrated from the Internet industry to traditional industries such as manufacturing, finance, transportation, medical health, radio and television, which has promoted the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries.

"If you compare cloud computing to an airplane, you must have two wings to fly, that is, safety and system." Zhao Liwei, director of microsoft (china) platform division, said that the soundness of security, standards and laws and regulations is the premise and guarantee for the development of cloud computing.

"Cloud technology has changed from extensive to refined, and the technology system has matured day by day." Li Wei, deputy director of the Institute of Cloud Computing and Big Data of the Chinese Academy of Information and Communications Technology, pointed out that as cloud-native containers, microservices, serverless and other technologies are getting closer to the application layer, the granularity, business coupling, management efficiency and efficiency utilization of resource scheduling have been greatly improved. (Reporter Li Guo)

Source: Workers Daily