Cloud Data Center in the "Internet +" Era

Recently, the concept of "Internet +" has become very popular. The report emphasizes the formulation of an "Internet +" action plan to promote the integration of mobile Internet, cloud computing, big data, Internet of Things, etc. with modern manufacturing, promote the healthy development of e-commerce, industrial Internet and Internet finance, and guide Internet companies to expand into the international market. This means that "Internet +" has been written into the national strategy, making this term popular quickly. In fact, "Internet +" was proposed as early as 2013. It was the speech of the three Ma (Ma Mingzhe, Ma Huateng, and Ma Yun) at the opening ceremony of Zhongan Insurance. At that time, Ma Huateng proposed: "What does the Internet plus a traditional industry mean? In fact, it represents a kind of ability, or an external resource and environment, an improvement of this industry." In the past two years, Ma Huateng has repeatedly expressed his views on "Internet +" in public. At this year's National People's Congress, Ma Huateng proposed "Internet +" as one of the four suggestions to the National People's Congress. The conceptual explanation of the "Internet +" major is as follows: the diffusion and application process of a set of information technologies (including mobile Internet, cloud computing, big data technology, etc.) based on the Internet in various sectors of economic and social life. "Internet +" is by no means a simple addition of the Internet and traditional industries, but rather the creation of a new ecology in a new field. "Internet +" is fundamentally different from traditional informatization. It redefines informatization with the Internet, so that informatization needs to return to its essence of "information as the core and users as the center". In the "Internet +" era, the consumer goods industry should be driven by user needs and Internet-based in all links, thereby stimulating more consumption. Online and data-based, so that different groups of people in all links can quickly consume and produce data through applications, and accelerate the circulation and sharing of data, thereby creating more value. Industries such as medical care, education, transportation, energy, manufacturing, etc. will inevitably form Internet-based with their own industry characteristics under the promotion of "Internet +".

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With the promotion of the country, "Internet +" has blossomed all over the country and in all walks of life. Governments across the country are working hard to formulate "Internet +" action plans. For example, Sichuan Province held the 87th executive meeting to review and approve the "Sichuan Province's 2015 "Internet +" Work Key Plan". Shanghai is also formulating the "Shanghai Action Plan for Promoting "Internet +"", striving to build Shanghai into a famous "Internet +" industrial city with strong momentum, distinctive industrial characteristics, concentrated enterprise scale and significant brand effect. Party and government agencies at all levels in Hubei Province have organized concentrated training for "top leaders" on the "Internet +" industry many times, listening to lectures by Internet giants such as Lei Jun, and experiencing an unprecedented "Internet +" industry agitation. Shenzhen also vigorously encourages "Internet +" entrepreneurship, giving birth to a large number of "Internet +" new companies, which shine in the startup version. With the strong support and promotion of the national and local governments, "Internet +" will surely be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and take advantage of the development opportunities. In China, as long as there is government support, there is nothing that cannot be done. Without government support, it will really be difficult to move forward. With national policies, China's "Internet +" era is truly coming.

As we all know, the Internet industry cannot do without the Internet and data centers. Data centers are the foundation of the Internet industry. The rapid development of the Internet has also driven the development of data centers. "Internet +" still relies on the Internet to promote the development of other industries, so data centers still play a very important role. Data centers are the infrastructure that "Internet +" relies on. Specifically, they include cloud data centers, various devices (Internet of Things, mobile Internet, fixed Internet), modern applications and cloud applications. Then users consume applications deployed in cloud computing data centers anytime and anywhere through various devices, produce data and accelerate the circulation and sharing of data. Cloud computing, social networks, mobile Internet, big data, and the Internet of Things are already giving rise to the Internetization of enterprises and the transformation of business models. To meet the implementation of these new technologies, data centers need to undergo technological changes, which is also often referred to as the fourth generation of data center technology. This generation of data centers must have new features such as cloud computing, big data, virtualization, software definition, and mobile Internet. All these new technologies are for "Internet +". To make these new technologies fully blossom and bear fruit in data centers, a lot of investment and construction is needed. Data centers are still a standard heavy asset industry. In the early stage, huge investments are required to build computer rooms and purchase related equipment. After the completion of the computer room construction, a large amount of maintenance manpower is required. In order to meet the implementation of these new technologies, data centers need to be continuously expanded and renovated. Therefore, data centers are making various changes every day to adapt to new business needs. With the explosive growth of data in recent years, data centers have also entered the fast lane. Not only in China, but also in the world, various large-scale data center projects are being built or expanded. Of course, these data do not all come from the Internet industry itself, but from all walks of life. A large amount of data needs to be processed through the Internet. The combination of traditional industries and the Internet industry is essentially to use the Internet's data processing method to solve the development problems of traditional industries. In fact, the Internet is just a carrier for transmitting data, and the data that really needs to be processed is the data center. Therefore, the data and application needs of the entire industry are taken to the data center for processing, which brings unprecedented development opportunities to the data center, but also brings a heavy burden to the data center. When you open your mobile phone, you can see that hundreds of new APP applications are updated every day. When you open a web page, you can see that there are cosmetics, clothes, rental houses, introductions, etc. Almost everything can be moved to the Internet, and it is a prosperous scene. As the saying goes, "Everything that goes up must go down." With apps and new websites everywhere, we must remember to prevent industrial overcapacity. Not everything that is connected to the Internet will become popular, and not every application that is put on a data center will bring traffic. Everything is chaotic and blind in the early stages of development. After a period of competition and elimination, it will enter a stable development stage. Therefore, the "Internet +" era has brought huge opportunities for the development of data centers. It is the fourth revolution of information technology. Optimizing the basic technology of data centers to better serve all walks of life is the most urgent problem that data centers need to solve.