Chapter 369 (1/2)

Cloud computing is a very broad concept, and no one can define it in a few short sentences, which is why the concept of cloud computing has been regarded as a gimmick by many people for a long time.

However, before Simon's rebirth, cloud computing has been deeply rooted in people's hearts and everywhere.

For the end users many years later, network disk, cloud documents, small programs, streaming media and so on are the specific applications of cloud computing.

For enterprises, cloud computing is to maximize the efficient use of computer software and hardware resources through large-scale distributed parallel computing.

Ordinary people often associate cloud computing with the concepts of website hosting and server leasing. In fact, this is only the most basic service that cloud computing can provide. Moreover, the real cloud computing provides basic services such as website hosting and server leasing, which are still very different from the traditional hosting and leasing services.

In the traditional hosting lease, if the user specifies the server space, then these servers are only open to special users. Even if the number of users visiting the website is zero in some period, the server must keep running, which often leads to a great waste of resources.

Cloud computing provides a very flexible virtual server space, users do not need to specify a specific server, but is automatically allocated by the cloud computing system, and can purchase on demand. This also means that a server can provide services to multiple users at the same time, without too serious resource vacancy.

For example, a user usually only needs 10g of network space, so he only needs to rent 10g of space. But in some periods, because of the increase of user visits, the enterprise suddenly needs to upgrade the server space to 100g. In the traditional hosting and leasing service, this situation is basically a disaster. In order to avoid the disaster, the enterprise often can only buy 100g at one time Space, which leads to a sharp rise in costs and a great waste of resources. For cloud computing, only a very simple online expansion operation is needed, and the 100g capacity does not need to be rented all the time. After the peak period, the 10g time payment standard can be restored quickly.

Because it can maximize the efficient use of software and hardware resources, the same volume of basic hardware scale, cloud computing can provide storage and computing power even more than ten times of the traditional server application mode. Similarly, this also means that the cost advantage is far beyond the traditional server application mode.

San Francisco, Palo Alto.

On September 17, when he came here to mediate the dispute between Jeff Bezos and Carol Bartz, Simon took three senior executives of igritte to discuss Carol Bartz's one-stop website solution plan based on the concept of cloud computing for several days in a row. This business solution has been evolving in our repeated discussions.