Top of the Great Era

Chapter 1443 Unwavering Inside

With the development of the Internet, the number of users is increasing, and the scale of data generated is also increasing, and the subsequent data management model has changed.

The database industry is undergoing a migration from traditional databases to distributed databases.

In the past, databases were hardware-centric, and they had to be set up on expensive servers to run perfectly.In the future, the data center will use a large number of standardized and cheap servers, and use software technology to make up for the lack of hardware, that is, the database is changing to be software-centric, which leads to differences in architecture selection and output methods.

Cloud computing emerged as the times require under such a big change in the industry.

Ziweixing has completed three cloud data center bases across the country, namely the capital, Pengcheng, and Chuncheng for data backup.

The design scale of the Capital Cloud Computing Center is 20 servers, and the first phase of the project is 2 servers.

It is currently applied.

Next, it's time to start the construction of the second phase of the project.

At the same time, the second phase of Pengcheng Cloud Data Center and nine first-tier cities including Hangzhou, Yangcheng, Yucheng, Modu, Jinmen, and Chang'an have also started construction projects.

Zhou Buqi attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the second phase of the Capital Cloud Data Center project.

On the way back, Zhou Buqi and Xu Liangjie were in the same car, and they called Zhou Feng, the CEO of Cloud Computing Engineering.

According to Zhou Feng, it is estimated that by the end of next year, Ziwei Cloud will have a total scale of about 15 servers nationwide, and strive to reach the scale of 3 million domestic servers within three years.

Zhou Buqi waved his hand, "I don't have hard indicators here. As long as the cloud computing business is on the right track, then everything will be based on data models."

Zhou Feng smiled, "The development is very fast."

Zhou Buqi asked: "When will our cloud computing platform be officially released to the public?"

Zhou Feng said: "It's already open, but it's a limited invitation. Sohu has already migrated some of its business to the cloud. In the past three months, we have some of our business to the cloud, mainly for testing to verify the stability of Ziwei Cloud. Except internal In addition to business, there are also external business tests, and Sohu is very proactive.”

"How's the effect?"

"The pros and cons are obvious."

"Oh?"

"The advantage is that the calculation speed is really fast. In the past, when the intramural group buying was launched, the page was often stuck due to too much traffic. After the intramural online cloud, this problem has been effectively solved. In fact, it is the allocation of servers. Cloud distribution is more flexible and does not need to be as complex as offline servers."

Zhou Feng was obviously very proud.

As the second scientist of the Ziwei Cloud R&D team and the first business leader of the cloud computing business, he is very proud of the success of this project.

If he hadn't jumped over from NetEase, how could he have gotten such a good opportunity?
Zhou Buqi nodded, "What about the disadvantages?"

Zhou Feng coughed lightly, "The stability is still worse than that of the offline server. Almost every day there is an alternate restart for about 2-3 minutes. This is a technical problem and a systemic problem. Fortunately, the server scale is large. , the current business volume is also small, as long as we wait until the early morning to restart alternately, it will not affect the business."

Zhou Buqi tried to understand, "That is to say, if there are too many businesses in the cloud, will there be trouble?"

"It's possible." Zhou Feng acted relatively relaxed, "However, the team is very confident that it can overcome the technical difficulties. In the short term, Ziwei Cloud will not be completely open to the public. It is mainly an invitation system, and the server will be well controlled. in proportion to the size of the business."

Zhou Buqi said: "While building a new data center and setting up more servers, we are working hard to solve technical problems."

Zhou Feng nodded again and again, "I understand."

Zhou Buqi asked: "Is it possible to invite Youku?"

"Ah?" Zhou Feng was slightly taken aback, "Are you invited to Youku to go to the cloud?"

"Yes, is it feasible? I remember Gu Yongqiang from Youku told me that the biggest expense of Youku is the server, followed by the broadband service fee."

Zhou Buqi went back and forth between China and the United States, and his thinking had to jump in time.

Copyright disputes have not yet arisen on domestic video sites. Basically, a video site has all kinds of resources, even tertiary films from the Hong Kong government in the 90s.

For them, the most troublesome expense is the server.

With so many resources, how much storage space is required?

The faster the network speed, the greater the traffic, and the higher the definition, the greater the pressure on the server, so that half of their financing in each round is spent on purchasing servers.

Zhou Feng was a little embarrassed, "This...don't go online for the time being. The transmission technology of online video is relatively complicated, mainly due to the speed of the network. There must be more nodes, and the operation pressure on the main platform is also great."

Zhou Buqi frowned slightly, "When is it expected to be available?"

Zhou Feng said vaguely: "Now there are small websites such as Xiaonei.com, Weizhi, Weimi, and Encyclopedia of Embarrassments. Next will be content websites such as Toutiao, Weibo, and Friends.com, and then software business and search business. Video business The difficulty of the cloud is one level higher than that of the search business. Amazon’s video business does not go to the cloud.”

"sure?"

"Okay, I've been looking at the Amazon cloud."

"That is not bad."

Zhou Buqi breathed a sigh of relief.

Cloud computing will be the infrastructure project of the Internet industry in the future. In the future, many companies, even giant companies, will no longer purchase additional servers when they develop new businesses, but will choose to purchase services from a cloud computing platform.

Among them, the most urgent one is not e-commerce or social networking, but streaming media platforms.

Such as Netflix.

Now Netflix is ​​mainly expanding its business in the United States. It has 1500 million member users, and only half of them use video services. The operating pressure is not too great, and it can withstand the pressure by purchasing its own servers.

But once there is a blockbuster film and television work, such as "Iron Man 2" landing on Netflix for exclusive broadcast on the entire network, there may be a surge in traffic, and the inherent server may not be able to withstand it.

This requires the use of more powerful cloud computing services to meet demand.

You can't let Netflix go to the Amazon cloud, right?
When Netflix expands its European business, Asian business, and South American business in the future, it will definitely use the cloud computing platform to provide background services.

At present, Ziweixing has started the construction of 4 cloud data centers in the United States and 3 cloud data centers in Europe, with a total investment of 4 million US dollars.

Next, it is necessary to further develop the cloud computing business, and increase investment while taking advantage of the cheap land now.

The country has already taken the lead, which is a good thing.

Through domestic business development, we can accumulate operating experience and tackle technical problems. When the time is ripe overseas, we can occupy the market in advance and make efforts in one fell swoop.

Zhou Buqi said: "I have secured the relationship in Europe. Ziwei Cloud's business development in Europe will be more popular than Amazon Cloud. I have solved the external problems. Next, it depends on whether your team can Achievements have been made.”

"Europe? Taken?"

Xu Liangjie was very surprised, and felt that Boss Zhou's words were a bit big.

Zhou Buqi waved his hand, "Ziweixing Digital Media will be split independently. This is a football-related business, which is of extraordinary significance to Europe. In addition, the European economy seeks stability and solidification, which is different from China and the United States. Europe The promotion of e-commerce is not active, and they are very wary of Amazon. This is an opportunity for Ziweixing.”

Xu Liangjie sighed inexplicably, "It's so fast! It's so strong!"

Zhou Feng was also shocked.

He is a scientific research expert and a business leader. He has been busy with cloud computing project research and development and business development, and has no energy to pay attention to other things.

But he also heard that the big boss bought a football team in the UK. It is said that he became rich and went away and started playing football.

This is also understandable.

Who doesn't have money?

But now that he has the opportunity to communicate closely with Boss Zhou, he realizes that this is not the case at all!This is a strategic plan, and they are outflanking and using football as an entry point to open up the Internet market in Europe!

It even allowed Ziwei Star to have a higher social status than Amazon in Europe.

No wonder it's been a long time since I saw Boss Zhou in the company. He went to play a bigger international strategy for Ziweixing.

Although Ziwei Star was spun off, it did not deprive employees of their shares, and adopted the method of allotment of shares in equal proportion.Regardless of domestic or overseas, Ziweiyun is still operated by Zhou Feng and his group, and the business structure has not changed in any way.

Hearing that the door to Europe has been pushed open by the big boss, Zhou Feng was both shocked and excited. He felt that he should not let down the hard work of the big boss, and should work harder!
"Give me another half a year! In January next year, I will try to let Youku go to the cloud!"

Zhou Feng was impassioned, like a military order.

……

Zhou Buqi proposed to convene a strategic committee.

The focus of the meeting is cloud computing.

Cloud computing is a very cutting-edge direction, and it has gradually entered the mainstream vision of the technology industry in Silicon Valley, but Silicon Valley is still in a state of extensive discussion.In addition to Amazon's aggressiveness, Google and Microsoft are doing this business as if they were just scratching the surface. They are all software-based explorations without hardware investment.

The most fundamental reason is that the investment in this thing is too high!

Amazon is steadfast because Amazon is doing e-commerce. Even if the future development of cloud computing is not smooth, it will not lose anything to Amazon. At least Amazon Cloud can serve its own Amazon e-commerce, which is enough. .

In other words, cloud computing is just what Amazon needs.

Not so for other companies.

There are also some controversies within Ziweixing.

The technology industry is changing rapidly. From the current perspective, cloud computing seems to have a future. What if it doesn’t work in the future?Among them, the American school represented by Xu Liangjie is most worried.

If it was Google and Microsoft that didn't react and didn't have the energy to do cloud computing a few years ago, but now it's 2009, and the prospect of cloud computing is already obvious.

Why are these two giants still not in the game?

Why is the US cloud computing market still a one-man show for Amazon?
Don't the experts from Microsoft and Google understand the development trend of the industry?

What are they hesitating about?
Will there be any unknown hidden dangers in this business?

Google and Microsoft are representatives of Silicon Valley, and Amazon is a seller, so it is not ranked at all.

Such an analysis makes sense.

When making technology products in China, when some strategic decisions or product details are uncertain, just look at what the Silicon Valley giants do, and then learn. This has been proven countless times to be a fast-track development path. road.

But Zhou Buqi is different. He knows that both Google and Microsoft are careless about cloud computing.This gave Amazon, a sales platform looked down upon by the Silicon Valley technology industry, a chance to develop.

"It's because Google and Microsoft didn't do it that we should do it even more! If they did, with their technical level and financial strength, how likely is Ziwei Cloud to gain a firm foothold in the international market?"

Zhou Buqi made a decision on this matter at the strategy committee, ending internal differences.

"This matter, we must stick to it!"

"Don't look at Silicon Valley's quarrels and the parties are still arguing and stagnating. They are arguing, and we act. This is our opportunity!"

"He Yang, please summarize my past strategic speeches at the Strategy Committee and post them later. Since 04, every strategic point of view I have said must be adhered to! No one can have the slightest doubt Only when there is no internal wavering can we have combat effectiveness! Only then can we declare war on the Silicon Valley giants!"

(End of this chapter)