"Now the whole system is on the cloud, and the city's resources are open. We just need to manage the application pool and software. Today, the service capabilities of Internet+government services have been significantly enhanced. "
This is what I heard the other day at the Big Data Development Administration of Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province. According to Wen Gu, chief engineer of Quzhou Big Data Development Administration, the limitations of traditional IT equipment in the past are being broken by cloud computing, and the infrastructure standard of enterprise informatization is changing to the cloud.
Coincidentally, when communicating with Wang Jian, CIO of Geely Automobile Group, he also talked about similar topics. Geely is currently combining the collision simulation results with VR(CAVE System), and relying on powerful HPC resources, building a Geely automobile safety system. "At present, relying on the matching and optimization of HPC systems and software, the efficiency has increased by about 20%; Task queuing time is shortened by about 3 times; The entire development cycle has also been greatly shortened. "
Some people will say that it is 2020, and cloud computing and big data are not new topics. However, after learning about Sinopec, China Post, Pangang Group, Xinhua Bookstore, 12306, and many cloud computing projects including Quzhou, Hangzhou and Jiujiang, you will find that the potential of cloud begins to appear in the management services of traditional industries and government departments. The biggest change is that cloud computing is accelerating the disappearance of physical machines from the enterprise side.
The widespread application of cloud computing, on the one hand, is due to the common cost and management maintenance problems of traditional IT infrastructure, on the other hand, is due to the improvement of management concepts of enterprises and governments.
However, from the voice of public opinion, some concepts are recognized and supported for migrating the infrastructure of enterprises (governments) to the cloud. However, there are also some views that cloud computing cannot replace the traditional IT infrastructure for a period of time and still needs long-term balance.
So, how do business users and third-party organizations from the front line view this issue?
When talking with Wen Gu, chief engineer of Quzhou Big Data Administration, he mentioned an obvious change, that is, the disappearance of the "chimney". In the past, the data among the bureaus of Quzhou could not be shared, because a large number of systems were scattered in the information centers built by various departments and blocks, forming an information island. Now, cloud-based capabilities have broken these barriers. "The whole system is deployed on the cloud, realizing the enjoyment of data, that is, getting through from the bottom, which brings convenience to the use of the whole data." Wen Gu stressed that the situation of "chimneys everywhere" in this department has now disappeared.
For large enterprises, the informatization construction in the past 20 years has been mainly invested in servers, switches, databases, ERP and other software and hardware. As a result, this has also created the brilliance of IBM, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, SAP, EMC, HP and other technology companies in the past decades. But with the emergence of cloud computing, you can see that these giants are also the first to decline.
? Many research institutions have pointed out that based on the advantages of cloud computing in hardware cost, site cost, management cost and network cost, the comprehensive cost of enterprises can be reduced by 10 ~ 30 times after adopting cloud computing.
According to IDC's research report, we can also find such a trend: at present, cloud computing accounts for more than 50% of the global IT infrastructure, and cloud computing has surpassed traditional data centers to become the market leader; Cloud computing service providers have become the main buyers of servers, networks, storage and other hardware, and hardware devices are disappearing from the enterprise. Accenture's report also pointed out that enterprises should add more technology. At present, the investment in digital transformation is more than that in the past 10 years, but it mainly flows to cloud computing, data intelligence and intermediate platform construction.
If we count from the wave of "going to IOE" set off by Ali in 2009, the handover of the domestic traditional IT industry has already started 10 year. In recent years, while the traditional industries gradually accept the cloud on IT infrastructure, the management concept of government and enterprise market has also begun to explore the practice and methodology of data intelligence, Taiwan Province, China, Zhilian. Com and AI buy computing power and storage on demand like paying utilities.
? Therefore, in a strict sense, IT is not companies like Amazon and Ali that have completely changed the life of traditional IT, but traditional industries, government departments and the public have spontaneously generated the demand for change in the development of digital economy. The government should get through the data and run away to avoid unnecessary errands for citizens; Central enterprises should be smart and innovative, and private enterprises should grow into technology. These requirements are based on cloud technology. It can be said that for the vast majority of enterprises, continuing to wait and see and hesitate is tantamount to giving up opportunities for survival and development.
On the other hand, as the largest cloud computing service provider in China, more than 80% of China technology companies, more than half of A-share listed companies and more than 38% of Fortune 500 companies are "running" on Alibaba Cloud. When operators, banks, government affairs, central enterprises and other traditional industries begin to embrace cloud computing in an all-round way, what help can Alibaba Cloud give them?
"The process of moving to the cloud needs to change everyone's mind. The cloudization of our original hardware system is rolling development, not to say that it is across the board when it comes to the cloud, and it needs to be gradual. " Wen Gu, the chief engineer, did not shy away from the word "labor pains" when talking about system migration.
Nowadays, people in Quzhou can enjoy great convenience and efficiency through services such as "One Certificate Pass" and "One Netcom", but this is not a one-off event, but it was transferred step by step through top-level design, coordination and communication, gradual migration, data access and system construction a few years ago.
In Wen Gu's words, as early as 20 14, all hardware purchases in the city were basically not approved. "In our project approval, servers, switches, storage, etc. Basically, it is locked first, and we also lock it first when designing at the top. At that time, new projects should be slowed down and replaced. "
Five years ago, the top-level design made by the relevant departments in Quzhou insisted on "five ones": a government network (unified in the whole city); A cloud (the unified government cloud of the whole city); A piece of data (data * * * enjoys the unified platform of the whole city); An administrative center in Taiwan Province supports urban Internet+government services, and urban unification is advancing.
? Followed by a five-year transformation process. Throughout the system migration, data access, software development, government cloud operation and maintenance, etc., there is always a "running" figure around the staff of Quzhou Big Data Administration-Ali. To sum up, all parties should bear loneliness.
Government cloud in Quzhou City has been implemented since 20 14. By the end of 20 19, more than 2 100 cloud resources have been opened. "Shang Yun usually has two to three years of preparation time to gradually prepare and migrate. At present, it should have been switched by about 90%, and the last part is still being replaced. " Wen Gu emphasized that when the whole government cloud goes online, the support of basic resources and hardware resources will be separated from the software development process-software development, customization and direct online; How many resources each department needs, you can apply online.
In this regard, an IT infrastructure with a data and system "chimney" in Quzhou City has become an interconnected "platform on the cloud" for internet plus government services.
This long-term endurance can be seen in the landing of Alibaba Cloud in Quzhou, Tonglu, Wuhan, Beijing, Hangzhou, Tianjin, Haikou and other cities. It is this endurance that makes Alibaba Cloud wait for the turning point in the transformation of old and new technologies.
Alibaba Cloud really broke into the core position of traditional IT in the Spring Festival of 20 15. 12306, Alibaba Cloud was used to support Spring Festival travel rush to grab tickets and book tickets, and reached an inflection point in 20 19: Alibaba Cloud served ICBC, China Post, Zhejiang "run once at most", Sinopec, PetroChina and other large government and enterprise projects, and Alibaba AI was called more than 1 100 million times a day.
However, from another perspective, the reformer's mission is far from over. With the enhancement of his ability, greater responsibilities and missions will follow in the next five to ten years.
"When companies like Amazon and Ali reach a certain scale, they must define the software ecosystem (including artificial intelligence algorithms). ) and infrastructure such as data centers and hardware, that is, software-defined hardware and algorithm-defined chips. " According to Liu Song, vice president of Alibaba Group, as the cloud is gradually becoming an important base of IT, the formats of many hardware products will also change.
"For example, I estimate that the server will not be sold separately in the market at the latest ten years, and it should be another model, similar to the model of Shenlong Cloud Server."
Liu Song called this change "the cloud is defining everything, and everything is defining the cloud". Based on this concept, Ali's scientists outline the future super scene, which can present both the urban brain and the industrial Internet. Therefore, Ali wants to be a "translator", which can define the requirements to chips, hardware, servers, computer rooms and other levels through software and algorithms. "Now it's time for the cloud to define everything."
? According to this definition, the evolution of the whole information system in the future, first of all, software defines everything, which is the premise of sustainable development after cloud computing; Secondly, the scale of the underlying infrastructure, which really extends to the hardware, that is, the IaaS layer reversely defines chips, cloud servers and data centers; Finally, it goes to the PaaS layer, including database, AI and microservices, until it extends to the application layer. As the cloud becomes thicker and thicker, more general technologies will be constantly changed, and the threshold for users will be lower and lower.
In Liu Song's eyes, the greater change of digital economy in the future depends on five or ten years later. He called it "the era of great science, great technology, great industry and great society entering great convergence". This kind of industrial change is also the difference between Ali, a company born and raised on the Internet, and traditional IT companies such as "IOE" when doing cloud services. "Until today, whether IBM or Oracle Bone Inscriptions, they still didn't take the Internet seriously. Their story is actually about IT thinking. " Liu said:
If the changes in the next ten years are too far away, then think back to ten years ago, when Ali used the flying system to "go to IOE"; A few years ago, when Alibaba Cloud entered the enterprise IT market and used the technology, practice and methodology of data intelligence to help all government and enterprise users get online, who would have thought that the digital transformation of the whole industry would be so fast?
Don't plan ahead, just "sell products" in front of you, that is, give up the "future" market. This is also the shortcoming of traditional IT.
Concluding remarks
Cloud computing has been developed for ten years. With the maturity of cloud computing, the whole IT is facing the alternation of old and new technologies. Cloud computing has replaced traditional IT and started to become a digital infrastructure.
IT can be said that at the level of IT infrastructure, cloud VS traditional IT has an absolute overwhelming advantage. Judging from the current development situation, the business scope of cloud computing vendors has extended from the initial infrastructure field to the fields of chips, servers, databases, etc., and at the same time, it has integrated the most cutting-edge IT technologies such as big data, AI, Internet of Things, blockchain, quantum computing, etc., and also derived new technical models such as serverless computing, cloud native software architecture, integrated design of software and hardware, and intelligent automatic operation and maintenance.
There is no reason why we should not look forward to the future "when big science, big technology, big industry and big society will enter the era of great convergence"
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