Top of the Great Era

Chapter 1630 Don't Waste Money
Ziwei Cloud has developed rapidly. With the introduction of a new bill by the US Congress to promote the cloud computing industry, the market has exploded immediately.

The real direction of cloud computing, which has been debated in the European and American markets, has also been finalized, which is the "infrastructure as a service" that Amazon Cloud and Ziwei Cloud are now pushing.

Major companies have adjusted their business one after another, and even Microsoft has quickly completed the transformation and laid out in this direction.

With Microsoft's strength, it's easy for them to do it.

Microsoft is a world-class enterprise with a global server scale of up to 200 million units. They don't even need to build some new cloud data centers specially. They can make some simple adjustments to the past big data centers to become cloud data centers. .

Google is still stubborn.

It seems that members of Congress are too stupid, chose a wrong direction, and are still very persistent in building their cloud platform.There are mainly two directions, and the mobile terminal is based on the Android platform. There is no operating system on the PC side, so the platform revolves around Google Chrome.

It wasn't until 2015 that Google Cloud was already marginalized, and it was only in time to wake up and make adjustments.

For now, Ziwei Cloud is very popular, even comparable to Amazon Cloud.

Amazon's cloud technology is terrible and has been criticized.

According to the latest data, there are already more than 26 enterprise-level users on Ziwei Cloud, all over North America, Asia and Europe.In the Asian market, Ziweiyun's market share exceeds 90%.

It is estimated that Ziweiyun's revenue this year can reach 5 million US dollars.

The income is not high, mainly to attract new users, with a free trial period of 3-6 months.

At present, Ziwei Cloud has launched and applied 12 cloud data centers overseas, but they are all phase one projects with a small scale and a total server size of less than 30.

In terms of hard power, there is still a big gap with giants like Microsoft and Google.

Fortunately, there are few users now, and this scale is enough.

This year, Ziweiyun launched 15 plans for the first and second phases of the project. It is estimated that by April next year, another 4 servers can be added.

The total investment has reached 20 billion US dollars, which can only be supported by issuing bonds.

Zhou Buqi does not participate in these specific business implementations, and it is enough to listen to reports occasionally.However, one thing was handed directly to him.

Ziwei Cloud also built a cloud data center in the United Arab Emirates in the Middle East, which is located at the junction of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and the Emirate of Dubai.

This matter is more important.

The white-turban princes in the Middle East knew that oil resources would not last for many years, so they began to transform.In addition to the transformation to the tourism industry, there is also a transformation to the technology industry.

Ziweiyun is the first overseas-invested large-scale science and technology project constructed in the UAE, and has been valued by local tyrants.

Then, he warmly invited Zhou Buqi to be a guest.

This summer's...

Zhou Buqi was a little scared. He heard that the temperature over there could reach 50 degrees.

However, it is not easy to refuse.

First, the United Arab Emirates gave Ziwei Star great preferential treatment. The scale of this cloud data center is 16 servers, with a total investment of 15 billion US dollars.But in fact, Ziwei Star only needs to take out 50% of the investment amount, and the remaining 50% will be made up by the authorities.And you don't need to pay taxes if you earn money.

This investment attraction is very strong.

Another important point is that the Abu Dhabi Sovereign Fund is the main investor of the weekly Neptune Capital, and has warmly invited it several times.

It was too impolite to always refuse, so Zhou Buqi agreed, promising to go next month.

In June, I will go to the United States first.

Tesla is going public.

That's not to mention, an old friend in China, Kuliuwang, which has been acquired by Shanda, will also be listed on NASDAQ through a back door.Zhou Buqi took part in it and felt the whole process.

Then, Wen Zhixia and Shi Jinglin took the whole family to Hawaii to escape the summer heat.They went there by plane, and the luxury yacht had already set off and would meet up in Hawaii.

Zhou Buqi returned to China accompanied by three secretaries, Ning Yaxian, Sun Guanran, and Ning Lu.

After returning to Beijing, look for Zhang Chaoyang first.

This buddy has not been calm at all recently.

The nature of Weibo’s product was relatively sensitive in the past two years, and it was very serious. Ziweixing was only characterized as a “trial version” internally, and it might be banned at any time.Some small start-up companies launched similar products and published a lot of shady content on them in order to gain attention.

This year, the wind direction gradually stabilized.

Apply for a license and abide by some regulations, and then you can do it legally and compliantly.

Lao Zhang is a cautious person. From a layman's point of view, most of the time he does things a beat later than others, and he enters the scene leisurely when others are already doing it.

If you really get to know him, you will understand that it's not because he doesn't respond slowly, but because he is waiting for the wind to stabilize.

Now, Sohu Weibo has officially launched a large-scale attack. Taking advantage of his personal relationship in the business and entertainment circles, he has attracted a large number of celebrities and celebrities to open accounts on Sohu Weibo.

Zhou Buqi invited him to drink at night, chatted about what happened in the domestic Internet circle and possible policy tendencies, and then persuaded him, "Old Zhang, I'm doing it for your own good, so don't hit a stone with a pebble."

Zhang Chaoyang snorted coldly: "It's okay if you do Weibo and don't let others do it?"

Zhou Buqi happily enjoyed the singing of the beautiful female singer in this elegant small bar, and said casually: "It's not that you are not allowed to do it, it is unnecessary. You think about it, you fight with me, you fight Can you pass it?"

"Are you so confident?"

"In the past few years, can't you explain it?"

"Sohu Weibo is gaining momentum."

"What's the use of a good momentum?" Zhou Buqi said angrily, "Go to Guo Pengfei for the data later, and compare yourself, can you be my opponent? I have Friends, Helo, and Today’s headlines, I am a product matrix, a product ecology.”

Zhang Chaoyang frowned, "Sohu Weibo will not stop, even if I agree to stop, the board of directors and management will not agree. Such a good trend, we can't just miss it for nothing, right? Do it for at least two years and give it a try."

"Two years?" Zhou Buqi shook his head, "Just waste the money, and I heard that you also participated in the Hundred Regiments War?"

When Xiaonei.com launched intramural group buying, there were twenty or thirty similar group buying e-commerce companies in China, but none of them took off.In contrast, the appeal of the United States is still greater.

A creative company in the United States may have learned the model of group buying on campus, and created a group buying website, which became popular in the United States.Then the entrepreneurial teams here in China rushed forward like a blazing fire.

Today, the group buying market is full of blood and rain, and there is a trend of "hundred regiments fighting".

Zhang Chaoyang said: "It's not just a battle of hundreds of regiments, it's almost a battle of thousands of regiments now. After the financial crisis, the state loosened control over private equity funds, and a bunch of venture capital funds appeared in the country, looking for projects in a daze. Richong, it's just nonsense."

Zhou Buqi glanced at him, "I think you are just fooling around."

"What's wrong with me?"

"Group buying is a waste of money, no use!"

Zhou Buqi is a good word. The group buying website launched by Sohu is called Aibangtuan. With Sohu's wealth, it is impossible to play in this industry.Even for on-campus group buying, it is still mainly based on physical e-commerce, and has not participated in the business of coupons and shopping coupons that cooperate with merchants.

Now that the group buying industry is full of red eyes, let's calm down first.

In the era of mobile Internet, the ultimate logic still falls on the traffic entrance.As long as Ziweixing steadily develops traffic entry-level products, such as WeChat, Weibo, Toutiao, Friends.com, etc., even if it enters the market late, it can easily occupy this market.

A good meal is not afraid of being late.

Zhang Chaoyang nodded and sighed, "Yes, the road of group buying is really difficult, and everyone rushes in desperately. Let's stick to it until December, if it doesn't work, I will withdraw."

Zhou Buqi said: "If you want me to say, you should be more honest. If you have extra energy, you should pay more attention to Changyou and the blockchain I told you about. Ziweixing has launched a virtual currency trading platform. Do you know?"

"I didn't notice."

"It's not domestic. It's illegal in China. It's called Bitpay abroad."

"Oh, what's the effect?"

"Very good, many people are trading bitcoins here." Zhou Buqi smiled, "I even bought several sets on it, and the price is very low."

Zhang Chaoyang asked, "How did Bitcoin come about?"

Zhou Buqi was a little broken, "I said, Lao Zhang, can you improve yourself? Mining! Didn't I tell you that I want you to pay attention to the direction of the blockchain and let you start a company."

Zhang Chaoyang looked embarrassed, "I'm paying attention, I haven't found a suitable target."

Zhou Buqi said: "Old Zhang, you have helped me a lot in the past few years, and now I want to give you feedback and show you the way. There is only one ultimate direction for the personal Internet, and that is the Metaverse. Games, districts Blockchain, virtual digital currency, these are all essential links.”

"I'm paying attention, why are you in a hurry? Make a judgment after seeing the situation clearly...Huh? Xiao Sun, Xiao Jiang?"

Zhang Chaoyang suddenly waved to the distance.

Zhou Buqi looked back, angry and funny.This old Zhang, already old, has the same style as before. He knows so many people.

However, Zhou Buqi also knew the two glamorous and beautiful women who came. They were two important actresses in "The Legend of Zhen Huan", one played Zhen Huan and the other played Concubine Hua.

Especially Jiang Xing who played the role of Concubine Hua... Zhou Buqi vaguely remembered that he had contact with her. There were too many people in contact with, so he couldn't remember clearly.

"Hi, Charles." Sun Li seemed to know Lao Zhang very well, walked over with a smile on her face, turned her head to look, and couldn't help being stunned, "Zhou... Mr. Zhou?"

"Hello, Miss Sun Li." Zhou Buqi smiled, then looked at Jiang Xing and winked at her, "Miss Jiang, long time no see."

Jiang Xing said in surprise: "Mr. Zhou? Is it really you?"

Sun Li looked at Jiang Xing in surprise again, "You know Mr. Zhou?"

Jiang Xing pursed her lips, "I met you twice before."

Zhou Buqi beckoned, "Come and sit down, let's chat."

(End of this chapter)