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It is now around 1 a.m. London time, which is around 9 a.m. domestic time. This is the morning, which is a slow period for on-campus group buying. Generally, there won’t be too much traffic.

Yesterday, Suning.com survived the lunch session and the evening session, which shows that their ability to withstand pressure is now very strong. It actually collapsed in the morning session today.

This forced Zhou Buqi to start thinking. It was probably Ziweixing who had taken action in advance!

This was not part of the plan.

From an overall perspective, Zhou Buqi has to balance the interests of various business units. Xiaonei.com has made a lot of money from the cooperation with Suning.com. After taking over IBM, Ziweixing Engineering Institute can also make a lot of money from Suning. For such a big piece of cake, the China-Taiwan business sector must be somewhat moistened.

If you start early, won't this affect the income of the middle and Taiwan business?

There may have been some other changes here.

Zhou Buqi was not in a hurry and finished the matter at hand first. He asked Sun Wanran to go to the study to wait for him, then he pulled Tang Yixin over and worked for a while.

After taking a shower, putting on pajamas and going to the study, it was already half an hour later.

According to Zhou Buqi's speculation, it may be pressure from JD.com.

After all, when Suning switched to online platforms, the first slogan it shouted was to kill JD.com. Now Xiaonei.com has helped Suning.com add 10 million new users in one day, which is equivalent to cultivating a powerful opponent for JD.com.

When Sun Wanran saw him coming, she rolled her eyes first and said in an old-fashioned way: "How long has it been and you are still playing with women? Are you addicted? A man should put his career first, don't you know?"

Zhou Buqi waved his hand nonchalantly and said as he walked: "It's just a small matter. I can't change my face even if Mount Tai collapses in front of me."

Sun Wanran mocked: "You're so lustful, aren't you?"

"Do you deserve a beating?"

Zhou Buqi glared at her.

Sun Wanran curled her lips, stopped talking back to him, and said quickly: "I asked just now, and it seems that this matter has nothing to do with Suning.com."

"Jingdong, right?"

This is Zhou Buqi's guess.

Sun Wanran was slightly stunned, "What JD.com? What does it have to do with JD.com?"

Zhou Buqi was surprised, "What is that?"

Sun Wanran said: "It seems that IBM's cloud computing platform collapsed."

"What?"

Zhou Buqi was shocked.

Sun Wanran was communicating with him and dialing the phone, "I'm not sure either. Just tell Cheng Binghao... Well, the call has been connected. Here you go."

Zhou Buqi took it and said directly: "Old Cheng, what's going on? Why did I hear that IBM's cloud computing platform crashed?"

Cheng Binghao burst out laughing, "Yes, this time it really has nothing to do with Suning. It was a fire in IBM's backyard that affected Chiyu and Suning."

"what happened?"

Zhou Buqi was somewhat excited, and his energy was no worse than when he was hanging out with Jiang Shuying and Tang Yixin in the bedroom just now.

Cheng Binghao said with a smile: "Suning is a big customer, and IBM's headquarters issued a death order, requiring IBM in Greater China to maintain its cooperation with Suning. In order to cope with this Double Eleven shopping event, IBM really went all out. Suning.com was connected to IBM's not very mature IBM cloud computing platform, and connected to nearly 20,000 servers in the data center."

Zhou Buqi knew the prerequisite information, "Well, yesterday's results were good, and it withstood the afternoon and evening peaks of on-campus group buying."

Cheng Binghao said: "However, the concept of cloud computing is not mature at all now. IBM has no elastic algorithm at all, and the distributed fault-tolerance mechanism is also very poor. Not to mention IBM, Amazon Cloud has had two major accidents this year. ,Didn’t something happen to Zi Weiyun too?”

Zi Weiyun had a serious accident while cooperating with Netflix.

Fortunately, for Zhou Buqi, Zi Weiyun and Netflix were close friends, so he easily suppressed the negative information. Therefore, in the global cloud computing industry, Ziwei Cloud has a better reputation than Amazon Cloud.

As for IBM's cloud computing... stop talking about it, it's not even qualified to be compared.

Even Amazon Cloud and Ziwei Cloud will fail, let alone IBM's so-called cloud computing system that is not mature at all.

Zhou Buqi said: "So, we don't need to take action at all. Is it IBM's self-collapse?"

"Yes, what they are doing is not mature at all, and they have rushed Suning.com to get involved. Something will happen for sure, one day sooner or later. Moreover, it is not just Suning.com that will make a big fuss this time."

"What's the meaning?"

"IBM is the largest outsourcing service provider in the world and the second largest outsourcing service provider in China. IBM's data center serves not only Suning.com, but also hundreds or thousands of other outsourcing partners. This data The center collapsed, and hundreds of other partners suffered as well."

"I'll go!" Zhou Buqi was stunned, "Is it going to be a big deal this time?!"

Cheng Binghao said: "Yes, if the commotion is serious, IBM may have to pay hundreds of millions in liquidated damages. The little money earned from Suning may have to be vomited out."

Then, he briefly talked about the development history of IBM's outsourcing business.

IBM has a long history. As the technology industry continues to change, IBM is also undergoing continuous business upgrades and strategic transformation.

In the past ten years, a very important transformation has been to abandon manufacturing and develop the outsourcing industry.

This is closely related to domestic industrial development.

Since 2002, IBM has wanted to transform, fade out of the manufacturing business, and initiate the prelude to its transformation into services. If you want to transform, you have to spend money.

Coincidentally, at that time, the Pengcheng government promoted a policy to make the service outsourcing industry the next focus of industrial upgrading.

However, at that time, the technical level of the domestic IT industry was lagging behind, and domestic companies could not afford many outsourcing projects, so they had to rely on foreign companies.

It is not impossible for the IT industry to overtake others in a corner, but it can only exist in the Internet field because the Internet has open source attributes.

For example, a technology develops from 0 to 100.

If it is Internet technology, probably all technological developments from 0 to 99 have been open source and made available to the world for free. Domestic Internet companies only need to learn all the stages from 0 to 99 in the past, and then they can start researching the stage of 100, and there is a possibility of overtaking.

But traditional IT technology is not very good, and it is all confidential. In China, we have a zero foundation, so we have to slowly learn, research, and develop from 0 to 10, from 10 to 20, and from 20 to 30. This thing cannot be faked.

In the past, the outsourcing industry also belonged to the traditional IT field, and it was difficult to overtake in corners. The Pengcheng government has introduced policies, but domestic outsourcing companies really cannot keep up.

Just in time, IBM appeared.

The two sides hit it off immediately.

The Pengcheng government took the lead in organizing a number of companies and spent a total of more than 2 billion US dollars to buy IBM's storage manufacturing business. This part of the business is relatively low-end and domestic companies can also do it.

After IBM got rid of its low-end business and got the money, it can make great strides to develop into the IT outsourcing industry. In return, IBM placed the global execution center of its outsourcing division in Pengcheng.

Subsequently, IBM's cooperation with China continued to deepen.

IBM reached a cooperation with Lenovo again, sold its PC business to Lenovo, and further sold low-end assets... Then, there was more cooperation with China.

Now, IBM has placed its software outsourcing global headquarters, global procurement center, and IT service outsourcing execution center in Pengcheng.

It has also made in-depth deployment in the Pearl River Delta, which has expanded from a simple business branch to multiple business organizations including procurement, production, customer order fulfillment, software business support and global service execution centers. The Pearl River Delta has become a strategic hub for IBM's global integration. land.

In addition, the domestic outsourcing market has lagged behind in technology in the past few years. Except for China Enterprise Dynamics, which can obtain index outsourcing orders from state-owned enterprises, governments, and public institutions through hard relationships, almost no one in the domestic outsourcing market is from IBM. opponent.

Especially in the high-end outsourcing field.

Even Huawei, ZTE, Haier, Gree, TCL and other giant companies that are the light of the nation are looking to IBM to purchase outsourcing services. It is actually not surprising that Suning seeks cooperation with IBM, because this is a common phenomenon in the industry.

IBM places approximately 1.7 million outsourcing orders every year, serves 6.5 million customers, and produces more than 78,000 products every year, of which the domestic market accounts for 5%.

At first glance, the 5% ratio is very low, far less than the importance IBM attaches to the Chinese market.

However, what IBM has obtained in China are high-end outsourcing projects with extremely high profit margins. Those low-end projects are generally divided up by domestic outsourcing companies and related parties.

For example, there has been a phenomenon of bragging in the domestic outsourcing market in recent years.

It is said that Baidu defeated Google, QQ defeated MSN, Taobao defeated eBay, etc. This is a domestic technology company defeating the Silicon Valley giant, which is very glorious.

Similarly, domestic outsourcing giant China Enterprise Dynamics also defeated IBM, which is also very honorable.

In fact, this is not the case at all. China Enterprise Dynamics does have a higher market share than IBM in the outsourcing field, but China Enterprise Dynamics only gets orders from the government and state-owned enterprises, and it is a pure relationship customer. Moreover, they can only do low-end projects, and when they get high-end projects... they are often subcontracted to IBM for the second time.

It can also be seen from public opinion that cases like QQ's defeat of MSN, Taobao's defeat of eBay, and Baidu's defeat of Google can be openly discussed casually and cannot be overstated. These companies are indeed powerful. It would be better for China Enterprise Dynamics to defeat IBM not to be known to the outside world.

However, if Ziweixing defeats IBM, it can be openly publicized.

IBM now has three data centers in China. Because of the Suning incident, one data center collapsed. This means that one-third of IBM's domestic outsourcing customers may be implicated.

"This is a big deal."

Zhou Buqi opened his eyes wide and felt a little dazed. I thought I was using Suning to create a wave of IBM, but I didn't expect that the matter would become a big deal, involving hundreds or even thousands of companies.

Well, good thing!

Both public and private, it is a good thing!

In recent years, the domestic IT industry has developed rapidly. Projects that seemed high-end in the early years can now be done well by domestic companies. Domestic policies have also been promoting the autonomy of the technology industry. This time, IBM breached the contract, and those partners had reasons to withdraw voluntarily.