Is there a good prospect for cloud computing?

As a postgraduate tutor majoring in computer science, my research direction is big data and machine learning, so I will answer this question.

At present, some colleges and universities have successively opened the majors of cloud computing and data science. From the development trend, cloud computing major is a good choice for the following reasons:

First: Cloud computing is the representative technology of the third information wave. Today's society is in the third information wave, and cloud computing, Internet of Things and big data are Theory of Three Represents's technical theories of this information wave. Cloud computing provides service support, the Internet of Things provides data collection, and big data completes data value. In addition, cloud computing, Internet of Things, big data and artificial intelligence are all closely related, and they are also the core technologies of the future industrial Internet. From this perspective, the future development prospects of cloud computing will be very broad.

Second: Cloud computing technology has been put into use. Different from big data and artificial intelligence technology, cloud computing technology has been widely adopted. A large number of Internet companies and technology companies have completed cloud-based upgrades, including cloud-based design, cloud-based development, cloud-based deployment and cloud-based services. The services provided by cloud computing are gradually shifting from IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) to PaaS (Platform as a Service) and SaaS (Software as a Service).

Third: the integration of cloud computing and edge computing. With the gradual application of 5G and Internet of Things, edge computing will become an important development direction. The combination of cloud computing and edge computing will build an Internet service environment with faster response and higher security level.

Fourth: Cloud computing will integrate a large number of industry resources. In the early days of cloud computing development, IaaS services were the main services. This stage mainly solves the integration of hardware resources. With the development of PaaS, cloud computing began to integrate more industry resources, thus forming vertical development in many fields. PaaS will be integrated into their products by more technology enterprises, thus providing customers with more stable and dynamically expandable services.

The global cloud computing market is surging, and the cloud computing market in China is full of flowers and schools of thought contend.

The battlefield of cloud computing in the world has become a competition between China and the United States, and the cloud computing industry in China has also ushered in its high-speed development period!

Cloud Computing: One of the Troika to Empower the Future. Cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence are known as the troika that drives the future and empowers the real economy! At present, 48 of Fortune Global 50 companies have publicly announced their cloud deployment plans, and many of them have widely used cloud services in IT departments.

In the nine years since Adobe transformed its SaaS service, its market value has increased by 10 times. In the nine years since Salesforce went public, the company's market value has increased by 30 times. Microsoft's revenue in the third fiscal quarter was $30.6 billion, and cloud computing became the biggest contributor to Microsoft's business revenue growth. The revenue of the intelligent cloud service department reached $9.7 billion, an increase of 22%.

According to the data report given by the research organization Konas, the global cloud computing market scale in 20 18 exceeded 80 billion US dollars, reaching 80.4 billion US dollars, up 46.5% year-on-year. In 20 18, AWS revenue was USD 25.4 billion, accounting for 3 1.7% of the market share, while Microsoft Azure ranked second in the market, with annual revenue reaching 65,438. In addition, according to the online edition of Forbes, the latest report released by Bain Company shows that by 2020, the global cloud computing market is expected to rise to 390 billion US dollars, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17%. The global cloud computing market accounts for 0.37% of GDP, while the domestic cloud computing market accounts for only 0. 13% of GDP in the same period!

China has a consumer Internet giant comparable to the United States, but several times behind the industrial Internet. With the disappearance of the Internet demographic dividend, the domestic 2C consumer Internet user dividend has faded, while the 2B industrial Internet is on the way. The troika of cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence will witness the development of the industrial Internet and usher in its own golden period of development. With the acceleration of industrial Internet and the empowerment of science and technology, China's cloud computing market is waiting for its cultivators.

Cloud computing: Top Ten Development Trends Here, we share a top ten forecast made by practitioners, analysts and enterprise decision makers in the cloud computing industry on the development trend of 20 19 for your reference.

1, the extensive application of intelligent decision-making has become an advanced symbol of enterprises.

Artificial intelligence stepped out of the "entertainment circle" and began to assist human decision-making in enterprise operations.

It is more urgent than ever for enterprises to use artificial intelligence and other technologies to carry out business innovation. At the same time, smart business based on cloud will also lead to organizational changes.

2. The enterprise will become a whole cloud.

More and more large enterprises gradually give up self-built IT infrastructure and migrate to public cloud as a whole, resulting in the emergence of "cloud-based native enterprises".

The infrastructure of Netflix, an American video website, has all been migrated to Amazon AWS. A few domestic enterprises realized such a whole cloud relocation in 20 18, and it is expected that a large number of cases will emerge in 20 19.

The cloudization of production means the beginning of a new era.

3. Cloud has become the most important path for enterprises to acquire artificial intelligence.

Cloud naturally solves the unification of enterprise data and technology, and constitutes the most important path for enterprises to acquire artificial intelligence capabilities.

At present, the public cloud platform has become the most important channel for customers to obtain artificial intelligence services at low cost.

In the commercial field, artificial intelligence technology verified by cloud service providers is favored by enterprise decision makers.

4. Hardware cloud service providers gradually bid farewell to the public cloud market.

20 18, the manufacturers who started with traditional hardware collectively encountered the acclimatization in the era of public cloud.

After HP, Cisco, Fujitsu and other companies entered the public cloud market with open source OpenStack technology, IBM's share in the field of cloud computing declined. The analysis shows that the failure of hardware manufacturers in the public cloud market lies in their failure to understand the essence of cloud computing.

The essence of cloud computing is not a "computer" but a service. Such enterprises are almost completely wrong in the Internet age. As a result, the hardware genes of the above-mentioned manufacturers are so powerful that both businesses are so successful that they face the "innovator's dilemma".

5. The public cloud market is further concentrated.

According to the statistics of authoritative market research institutions Gartner and IDC, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Alibaba Cloud and Google Cloud have become the leading forces in the global public cloud market, and their revenue growth rate far exceeds the industry average growth rate.

Goldman Sachs, a wall street investment bank, predicts that giant manufacturers such as Amazon, Microsoft and Alibaba will occupy about 84% of the core cloud computing market in 20 19. These manufacturers are far ahead of their competitors in talent, technology, operation, service, capital and ecology. It can be predicted that the concentration of global cloud computing market will be further improved in 20 19 years, and will be more significant in the next few years.

6. Enterprises prefer full-stack solutions.

In the past year, with the accelerated penetration of intelligent technology in the commercial field, many enterprises have realized intelligence in some business links.

However, compared with artificial intelligence technology to improve a certain business or link, more and more CEO groups have expressed their preference for comprehensive solutions. This scheme can not only realize the dataization of the company's business, but also provide a set of proven intelligent tools to help enterprises realize intelligent decision-making.

In 20 19 years, more comprehensive intelligent solutions will appear continuously and be welcomed by the market.

7. Enterprises embrace cloud computing because of security.

In the past, when talking about going to the cloud, security became an obstacle.

When many enterprises choose whether to go to the cloud, they are most concerned about security, not only their own information security, but also the stability of their business systems. However, with the digital transformation of the whole society, all kinds of business operations of enterprises will inevitably touch the Internet. In order to seek business security, it has become a driving factor to promote enterprises to actively go to the cloud.

Cloud computing vendors have a strong security team and serve too many types of customers, which can enable enterprises to obtain strong security protection capabilities at low cost and change their previous investment habits in security.

8. The penetration rate of cloud computing has been further improved.

After 10 years of development, cloud computing technology has gradually matured, and the acceptance of cloud computing by enterprises has been further improved.

Because cloud computing can bring obvious effects to enterprise IT operation and business innovation, going to the cloud has become the normal state of enterprises.

In 20 19, the whole society will invest more and more in the field of cloud computing, which will further increase the proportion of cloud computing in the overall IT expenditure. Goldman Sachs, a wall street investment bank, predicts that the market penetration rate of cloud computing will exceed 65,438+00% for the first time in 2065,438+09, and will jump to 65,438+05% in 2026,5438+0. This means that cloud computing will further erode the IT expenditure of enterprises and enhance their influence in the IT market.

9.M&A's activities in the cloud computing industry will become more and more frequent.

In 20 18, there were many large M&A transactions in the field of cloud computing, which were in different fields such as chips, security, artificial intelligence, developer community and cloud solutions.

In order to maintain rapid growth, mainstream cloud computing vendors need to introduce more high value-added products or services, and constantly expand the scale of paying customers, and become a fast and effective means through mergers and acquisitions.

In 20 19, the acquisition activities of cloud computing giants in the direction of technology or customers are expected to appear frequently. In addition, some companies may also enter the cloud computing industry through cross-border acquisitions.

10, cloud vendors try to extend to the upstream of the industry.

With the mainstream cloud computing vendors' stronger market influence in the IT market, they began to try to extend to the upstream of the industry and try to get involved in core links such as chips and servers, which brought impact to the traditional hardware industry chain.

In the past few years, many cloud computing vendors have announced the development plans of artificial intelligence chips and Internet of Things chips, such as TPU (Tensor Processor) of Google, Ali-NPU of Alibaba Cloud and Inferentia of Amazon AWS. In 20 19, it is expected that more dedicated chips or other hardware led by cloud vendors will be listed. In some cases, these special chips will challenge the absolute advantages of traditional chips.

Cloud computing: The cloud computing industry will witness more and more traditional enterprises going to the cloud, and the penetration of cloud computing is gradually infiltrating from customers in the Internet field to traditional industries.

Under the impetus of the national industrial policy, various national ministries, provincial governments, vertical industry associations and large central enterprises are gradually migrating an insensitive business system to public cloud, and choosing private cloud as the carrier of the whole IT architecture transformation and business upgrade. We have seen that in the past year, almost all provinces in China have launched regional cloud computing construction projects.

Banks, insurance and manufacturing industries all choose cloud computing as an important supporting carrier for future strategic transformation and upgrading, which has changed the status quo that Internet customers were the main customers in the past. The cloud computing industry is entering the stage of extensive application penetration, product iterative upgrade and customer expansion interaction, and the whole industry is entering the stage of gradually achieving performance.

Whether the cloud computing market focuses on the whole world or domestic, the cloud service market that has been contended by hundreds of schools will usher in a new round of reshuffle.

Including the world's six cloud computing giants: Amazon AWS, Google, Alibaba Cloud, IBM, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Bone Inscriptions, as well as new players and start-ups in the cloud service market, the 20 19 cloud service market will not be too quiet from the global to the domestic.

The word "Matthew effect" is often used to describe the cloud computing industry, which is closely related to the existing industry genes of cloud computing products. Large-scale competition, layout and profitability, emphasis on capital and preconceptions mean that cloud service providers with more resources who enter the market earlier often have a greater chance of winning. Amazon AWS can achieve today's results is the best example.

Of course, this does not mean that new players have no opportunities, but there is no doubt that new players have put forward higher requirements: they have control over the cloud computing industry, have the ability to expand industry applications and computing, have the ability to provide one-stop solutions, have the ability to meet differentiated needs and customized services, and need to pay more attention to the vertical development and extension of their fields to achieve higher barriers to product entry. Maintain the value and competitiveness in their respective segments, and let new players occupy a place in the rivers and lakes of cloud services. The cloud computing market will show the coexistence and development of multi-oligarchs and vertical cloud service providers.

Cloud computing will further become a "cloud ecology". It will not only develop in isolation, but also integrate, communicate and collide with artificial intelligence, big data, Internet of Things, 5G and other technologies, relying on each other and helping each other!

I am a member of China Computer Federation, and I will answer this question.

First of all, what is cloud computing? Cloud computing provides IT resources on demand through the Internet, and adopts a pay-per-use pricing method. Technical services, such as computing power, storage, databases, etc., can be obtained from cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Cloud, Tencent Cloud, etc. without purchasing, owning and maintaining physical data centers and servers.

Cloud computing is a kind of distributed computing in essence, and it is not divorced from the concept and category of computer network. For example, in the past, enterprises built their own computer rooms and deployed various software servers such as ERP, OA and MES. With the continuous development of Internet technology, the bandwidth is increasing. Slowly, Internet companies have established huge data centers and professional operation and maintenance teams. If users go to the cloud and save operation and maintenance costs, they can quickly deploy national and global application scenarios through simple construction. This will be the trend of Internet development in the future. For example, Microsoft has been very successful in cloud transformation in recent years, and Alibaba Cloud in China has also developed rapidly in recent years.

I have personally used the above well-known clouds, each with its own advantages, but the leading technology is the first to promote AWS and Azure abroad. There is unlimited room for cloud development in China, and more and more enterprises and institutions are on the cloud. There are more and more cloud computing practitioners every year, but there are still many applications. I hope that more service providers and people with lofty ideals will focus on basic research and development in the future to catch up with Europe and America.

I believe that cloud computing is definitely a very promising field. On Monday, local time, the United Nations announced that it will cooperate with Google, which will use the cloud computing technology of the search engine giant to fight climate change. The United Nations hopes to use Google's advanced technology to monitor the impact of human beings on the environment so as to implement more appropriate countermeasures in the future.

Google will assist the United Nations in related work by providing its cloud computing technology and "Earth Observation Public Catalogue".

According to the press release of the United Nations, Google's assistance this time may be priceless, because one of the main obstacles faced by the United Nations environmental department is the lack of sufficient data support when facing real-time environmental problems.

For this cooperation, Rebeca Moore, director of Google Earth Project, said that the company is very willing to provide all countries with the latest technology and information to support global climate action and sustainable development.

The prospect is very broad.

1, the basic principle of cloud computing. By distributing computing on a large number of distributed computers instead of local computers or remote servers, the operation of enterprise data centers will be more similar to the Internet. This enables enterprises to switch resources to required applications and access computers and storage systems as needed. This is like changing from the old single generator mode to the centralized power supply mode of power plants. It means that computing power can also be circulated as a commodity like gas and water and electricity, which is convenient to obtain and low in cost. The biggest difference is spread through the Internet. The blueprint of cloud computing has come to the fore: in the future, everything we need, even such tasks as supercomputing, can be realized through network services, only a notebook or a mobile phone is needed. From this perspective, the end user is the real master of cloud computing. The application of cloud computing includes the idea of uniting strength for each member. In the most fundamental sense, cloud computing is the ability to use software and data on the Internet.

2. The characteristics of "cloud computing". First of all, cloud computing provides the most reliable and secure data storage center, so users don't have to worry about data loss and virus invasion. Because at the other end of the cloud, there is the most professional team in the world to help users manage information, and there is the most advanced data center in the world to help users save data. At the same time, strict rights management strategy can help users share data with the people designated by users with confidence. Secondly, cloud computing has the lowest requirements for client devices and is the most convenient to use. As long as users have a computer with Internet access and a favorite browser, the only thing they need to do is to enter the URL in the browser and enjoy the infinite fun brought by cloud computing. In addition, cloud computing can easily share data and applications between different devices. In the network application mode of cloud computing, there is only one copy of data, which is stored at the other end of the cloud. As long as you are connected to the Internet, all your electronic devices can access and use the same data at the same time. Of course, all this is done under strict security management mechanism, and only those who have access to the data can use or share these data with others. Finally, cloud computing provides almost unlimited possibilities for us to use the network, almost unlimited space for us to store and manage data, and almost unlimited computing power for us to complete various applications.

3. Future prospects of "cloud computing". At present, PC is still the core tool in our daily work and life-we use PC to process documents, store data, and share information with others through email or USB flash drive. If the PC hard disk is broken, we will be helpless because of data loss. In the era of "cloud computing", "cloud" will do storage and calculation for us. "Cloud" is a computer cluster, and each cluster includes thousands or even millions of computers. The advantage of "cloud" is that the computer inside can be updated at any time, ensuring that "cloud" will last forever. At that time, we only needed a computer with Internet access, and we didn't need to care about which "cloud" the storage or calculation took place, but once needed, we could use any equipment, such as computers and mobile phones, to quickly calculate and find these materials anywhere. We don't have to worry about data loss anymore. Cloud computing is a new way to enjoy infrastructure, which can connect a huge system pool and provide various IT services. Cloud computing+always-on devices were rated as "the top ten most influential IT technology combinations in the past 25 years". "Cloud computing" has brought about such a change-a computer storage and operation center is built by a professional network company, and users can easily access it through a network cable with the help of a browser, with "cloud" as the center of data storage and application services.

4. Now many Internet companies are pushing their services to the cloud, so that their services can be launched faster and save a lot of costs. Many traditional industries will return to the cloud in the future.

Is the prospect of cloud computing good? Nowadays, many colleges and universities have set up cloud computing and data science majors. From the development trend, cloud computing major is a good choice.

Speaking of cloud computing, many people may feel as if it is far away from us, but cloud computing has always been around us. If you Taobao, if you navigate, if you surf the Internet, browse the web. Some people say that I will go to the depths of the forest, and it should have nothing to do with cloud computing, right? Then you'd better not bring your mobile phone, because it will have a weather forecast, that's all.

As a carrier of large-scale data services, cloud computing may help most people get information and news they want. Information providers need a data center to help them store data. This database has its own operation and needs to be rented. A * * * rental server is introduced today, which is the mainstream in the field of cloud computing.

For a very simple example, one day you started a company and produced a product. You need to set up a website to introduce your company, including products, and develop an application. After all, there are too many people on the mobile terminal now, so it is impossible for everyone to hold the computer all the time. Then the storage of data needs a server. If you buy this server yourself, the cost is a bit expensive, and as a startup, you may not be able to afford it. What should you do? Another way is to rent some server space for data storage from large Internet service providers such as Alibaba or Baidu, so this thing is called IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service).

From the initial operation of the Internet, the main IT architecture is to deploy servers and storage sources locally, and its mode is mainly data center IDC, which is costly and needs special personnel to manage the later maintenance. The current IaaS model solves this problem. The server is maintained by the provider, and the website owner only needs to provide data. With the rapid development of IaaS, new cloud computing data centers may appear.

The server in cloud computing is the most expensive part of the whole IaaS. In the next five years, the expanding cloud computing, 5G, AI and IOT will be important driving forces for the explosive growth of cloud servers. Since 20 13, the revenue and development of China's server market have shown a rapid growth trend, reaching an output value of 6.6 billion US dollars in the first quarter of this year, while in the first quarter of 20 13, cloud computing.

With the continuous development of cloud computing industry, coupled with the development of IaaS model, the supply of large server manufacturers will be greatly improved, and with the continuous expansion of the market, domestic leading enterprises producing servers will also benefit directly. At present, Inspur Information, as the largest server manufacturer in China and the third largest server manufacturer in the world, has achieved substantial growth. At present, it maintains the third scale, but the year-on-year growth rate reaches 77.5%, which is the fastest among the top three enterprises.

Since its birth, the Internet has played an unprecedented role, greatly improving the efficiency of all work and realizing the interconnection of human beings. Therefore, cloud computing based on Internet-related technologies has great development potential. If you are engaged in this major, I hope you can do a good job in subdividing this field, study technology intensively and dig deep into your own potential.

Globally, hybrid cloud and public cloud have become the main forms of enterprise cloud. Although most companies are using the cloud at present, most of them lack the technology and knowledge of the cloud. Management service providers provide cloud management platforms for cloud users, helping enterprises with insufficient cloud technology to use and manage the cloud more conveniently. Therefore, under the background of enterprise cloud becoming the mainstream trend, the global market of cloud management services and public cloud services is growing rapidly.

Enterprises take cloud, hybrid cloud and public cloud as the main modes.

According to "202 1 Cloud Computing Market Development Report" released by Flexera, 92% of the enterprises surveyed adopted cloudy strategy, and the proportion of enterprises adopting hybrid cloud strategy increased from 58% to 82%. For most enterprises, hybrid cloud and public cloud are the main cloud applications. Under the cloud strategy of enterprises, management service providers (MSP) must also transform to help enterprises get on the cloud.

The popularity of cloud computing is rising, and the cloud management service industry is growing rapidly.

According to Gartner's statistics, from 20 15 to 2020, the global cloud computing market penetration rate will increase year by year, from 4.3% to 13.2%, and will increase to 15.3% in 20021year. It can be seen that with the rapid development of the Internet in the world, more and more enterprises use cloud technology, and the application of cloud computing by enterprises has become the general trend.

Limited by the company's technology, the trend of IT outsourcing and network outsourcing is obvious. Therefore, the cloud management service industry has developed rapidly in recent years. According to Gartner's statistics, in terms of investment, the investment of enterprises in the cloud management service industry is growing steadily, from16 to $42.73 billion in 2020, with an annual growth rate of about 20%.

The application of public cloud continues to accelerate, promoting the rapid growth of the public cloud service market.

According to the cloud computing market development report of Flexera 202 1, 36% of the enterprises surveyed spend more than 120,000 US dollars on the public cloud every year, and 55% of the enterprise workloads are expected to enter the public cloud within12 months. 90% of the respondents expect that the use of the cloud will exceed the plan due to the epidemic.

In recent years, the global public cloud market represented by IaaS, PaaS and SaaS has shown a steady upward trend. IDC's latest report "Global and China Public Cloud Service Market Tracking (2020)" shows that the global public cloud service market (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS) will reach 312.4 billion US dollars in 2020, with a year-on-year increase of 24. 1%.

-For more data, please refer to Foresight Industry Research Institute's China Cloud Computing Industry Development Prospect Forecast and Investment Strategic Planning Analysis Report.

Is the prospect of cloud computing good? There is no doubt that my answer to this question is one word: good!

This problem is just like when computers entered China in the late 1980s. When students choose to take computer classes, they always ask: Is there a good prospect of learning computer? Now, this problem is no longer a problem. Computers have penetrated into every aspect of our lives. Without computers (now called the internet, computers, and feature phones), we would feel unable to move.

In my impression, in recent six or seven years, when I often surf the Internet, some words like "Baidu Cloud", "Alibaba Cloud" and "Tencent Cloud" appeared online. At that time, I didn't know what they were for Knowing is knowing, and not knowing is Baidu, which is easy to learn. The general meaning seems to be a way to use the internet to calculate. "Cloud" is the image of the Internet. In other words, in the 1980s and 1990s, our textbook was called Mainframe, and now the image is called Cloud Computing.

In my opinion, one of the differences between cloud computing and high-speed computers in 1980s and 1990s is that cloud computing is a way to provide services for enterprises and government agencies based on big data computing and intelligent computing, and it will surely affect the lives of ordinary people more and more. The rise of cloud computing is bound to have an impact on core components such as computer chips and promote scientific and technological revolution and upgrading.

From this point of view, the prospect of cloud computing is broad. Learning about cloud computing is very forward-looking for the future society, and it is a good choice whether you are looking for a job or starting your own business.