Top of the Great Era

Chapter 2185 Self-developed server
After talking about the core issues, we finally talked about the procurement of equipment.

This is easier.

Zhou Buqi stated on the spot that in the North American market, ZTE products will be purchased as much as possible.Not all equipment will be purchased from ZTE, but when the conditions are right, ZTE's products will get priority.

This sentence is enough, President Shi is very satisfied, and he also generously expressed his position, saying that it is a product sold to Ziweixing and Changyou, and it is guaranteed to be the lowest price in the world.

Zhou Buqi once again reciprocated, saying that he still has certain network resources and influence in Silicon Valley. If conditions permit, he will suggest to companies such as Google, Netflix, Microsoft, and Facebook to actively purchase ZTE products. equipment.

Mr. Shi said that it can promote the in-depth cooperation between Ziwei Star and ZTE. I heard that the biggest investment of Ziwei Cloud is the purchase of servers.

Coincidentally, ZTE also has a server business.

Zhou Buqi declined.

He came to Pengcheng headquarters this time to pay attention to this matter.

In the initial stage, Ziweiyun will purchase servers from outside.But with the development of Ziweiyun, Ziweiyun will develop its own server.

Firstly, the cost can be lowered by self-production and self-manufacturing; secondly, in terms of server design, it can also be tailored for its own cloud computing business, which is more modular and standardized.

Pengcheng headquarters now has 1100 employees, mainly around three major businesses: mobile business, advertising business and cloud computing business.

Among them, there are more than 200 employees in the cloud computing business. As a branch company, the main business areas here are computer software and hardware, electronic products, and digital product technology development and technical services.

To put it bluntly, it is to develop hardware products, mainly to develop its own servers and server processors.

Pengcheng has two hardware giants, Huawei and ZTE, and has talent advantages.

The threshold of the server industry is not high, unless it is a high-end server worth tens of thousands of dollars, the domestic technology in this area is not enough.Mid- and low-end servers can be produced independently in China.

Ziweiyun is not a professional server manufacturer, and does not need to have high technology to produce high-end servers.

One of the reasons for the birth of cloud computing is that high-end servers are too expensive, and I want to connect some low-end servers through cloud algorithms and cloud operating systems to achieve the effect of high-end servers.

Therefore, it is not too difficult for Ziweiyun to do this business.

As long as the development of low-end servers on the line.

The key is to standardize and modularize.

According to Ziweiyun's data center, the specifications of the server should be tailored, and a server should be disassembled into 10 or 20 modules.During production, just produce modules.When using it, combine related modules to form a server.

This can greatly save the cost of use.

For server applications in the past, if a certain piece of the server is broken, the entire server will be reimbursed, which is too wasteful.

Mid-to-low-end servers with slightly poorer quality often experience such partial damage.

The idea of ​​modularization is that when a certain piece of the server is broken, there is no need to throw away the entire server, just find the damaged module, remove it and install a new one.

This brand-new modular server idea can only be done by cloud computing vendors.

There is no chance for ZTE to participate.

Zhou Buqi came to Pengcheng this time because he wanted to come and visit, because they said that the modular server developed by Ziweiyun has already produced samples, and the effect is very good!

Mr. Shi was very interested when he heard that Ziweiyun's server business had made new breakthroughs. He was born in the server industry and was considered an industry expert, so he wanted to find out.

Zhou Buqi didn't hide his secrets, and invited him to visit.

Came to Ziwei Yunpeng City R&D Center.

Here, I met several bigwigs from Ziweiyun, including Wang Jian, Zhou Feng, Ni Qiang, Li Feifei, Song Tao, Li Gaoming and a group of scientists.

This is a big deal.

A lot of attention.

However, these high-ranking scientists did not overwhelm the guests. After Boss Zhou appeared, they all voluntarily gave up the right to explain to Lu Guangkun.

He is the senior vice president and chief technology officer of Ziwei Yunpengcheng Research Center, and the chief engineer of the self-developed server product internally code-named "Squirrel".

He is 42 years old this year, with a bachelor's degree at Tsinghua University and a master's degree at Stanford University. After graduation, he joined IBM and once became the vice president of the server business unit.

Two years ago, Shen Xiangyang poached him back from the United States and joined Ziweiyun's self-developed server project team.

Zhou Buqi first introduced Mr. Shi, the new president of ZTE, and then asked about this new project. The first thing he paid attention to was the cost.

Lu Guangkun is a technical expert with a straightforward personality. He said carelessly: "The cost of one set is about 5000 yuan. Among them, the biggest cost is the various chips that need to be purchased from abroad, which cost about 3000 yuan. Other costs are 2000 yuan. I mean material costs, not our R&D expenses.”

Zhou Buqi asked, "How does it compare with the services outside?"

Lu Guangkun glanced at President Shi, and said calmly: "The performance of a 5000-yuan server should be similar to that of ZTE's 2-yuan server."

"Cough cough..."

Zhou Buqi almost vomited blood.

It really is a well-deserved reputation.

This person's emotional intelligence is too low, he really has no scruples to speak like this in front of Mr. Shi.

But then again, everyone has flaws.If he had a high emotional intelligence, he might not be the senior vice president of the branch, but the president.

Lu Guangkun is still very proud, "This is just the production cost, and the subsequent depreciation cost and maintenance cost will be lower."

"is it?"

Zhou Buqi was a little worried, for fear that this Lu Guangkun would use ZTE as a reference for comparison.

ZTE has been in the server business for more than ten years, and already has a large market.

Ziweixing develops a product at will, and it is far ahead of ZTE. Isn't this a slap in the face of President Shi?You know, Mr. Shi first came out of the server business.

The result is good, the more you worry, the more it will happen.

Lu Guangkun said: "In Pengcheng's cloud data center, some servers are purchased from ZTE. ZTE's servers have an average lifespan of 4-5 years, and they will basically be completely replaced next year. Our self-developed servers have A modular device was installed, and after testing, it was found that it can be used efficiently for 6-7 years.”

Seeing Mr. Shi's sallow complexion, Zhou Buqi wished to find a crack in the ground to get in, and smiled and said, "ZTE's servers are also pretty good, and they have supported Ziweiyun's development in the past few years."

Lu Guangkun said: "Not too good. Compared with other domestic servers, there is no advantage at all, and even the indicators are not as good as Inspur."

The smile on Zhou Buqi's face froze instantly.

Fortunately, Mr. Shi reluctantly forced a smiling face, "Mr. Lu has some misunderstandings about ZTE's products. On behalf of ZTE, I invite you to visit our server technology team."

Lu Guangkun waved his hand, "No need, I'm not interested."

It was a good thing at first, but this kid directly put him in the cold.

Zhou Feng hurried over, pulled Lu Guangkun's clothes, and said with a little warning, "Introduce your products well!"

Lu Guangkun was at a loss. Seeing the complicated and embarrassing expressions of these people around him, he realized that he seemed to have said something wrong, and then hurriedly followed the boss's train of thought and returned to the topic of cost, " Amortizing the depreciation and maintenance of the service life, ZTE... ahem, if the server is purchased from outside, the annual usage expenditure is 5000-6000 yuan; the self-developed server, the annual use is 1200 yuan about."

Zhou Feng felt that he couldn't let this kid talk, so he took the initiative to stand up and control the field, and said with a smile: "This is a big business breakthrough. At present, the scale of Ziwei Cloud's global deployment of servers has reached nearly 100 million , the annual amortized cost is as high as 10 billion U.S. dollars. If we replace them with our self-developed servers, the annual amortized cost can be reduced to 3 million U.S. dollars."

Hearing this, President Shi was stunned, and he immediately let go of the embarrassment he felt just now.He ran it through quickly in his head.

100 million servers, even if each server costs 2 yuan, that is... 200 billion yuan invested!

A full $30 billion!

It cost $30 billion just to purchase servers?So how much did Ziwei Cloud invest in the past few years?Counting R&D expenses, cloud data center construction expenses, labor costs, water and electricity costs, and related supporting facilities, the total investment is 100 billion U.S. dollars, right?
Shocked!
This Boss Xiao Zhou is too bold!

No wonder Ziwei Cloud now ranks first in the world in terms of global share. Looking at their investment, who can afford it?Who can fight this?

Zhou Buqi didn't think it was too strange, "Where are the ones to be deployed? How many are there?"

Zhou Feng said: "It's about 100 million units, mainly because... the construction speed in some foreign places is too slow, which seriously restricts the expansion speed of our cloud data center. I read the materials and construction plans given by Kurian. It has already been scheduled for 2015, and if these 100 million servers are fully deployed, it will be considered good if they can be deployed in the next three years."

Zhou Buqi nodded and said with a smile: "Slow construction speed is not necessarily a bad thing. Slow down, can't we deploy our self-developed servers? If all are purchased from outside, the 100 million servers to be deployed Another big waste of money."

Zhou Feng agrees, "I also think it should be slower, Moore's Law, the slower the cost, the lower the cost. I think Ziweiyun's expansion speed in overseas markets... I mean the expansion speed of infrastructure is fast enough, but it is not necessary If you are too anxious, just match the development of the cloud computing industry. If you expand too fast, it will be a waste, and you should talk to Kurian."

Zhou Buqi did not accept this suggestion.

He is determined to win the cloud computing industry.

Rather waste than miss.

How much can be wasted?

Once missed, it is a fatal loss.

(End of this chapter)