Before the release of the new issue of the magazine, in early February, Hong Haoran was urgently summoned to the United States, a little confused, together with Mike, looked at the two pieces of paper handed to them by Feng Yiping, "CloudComputing?"

The two of them raised their heads in unison, which is a new term.

"Yes, CloudComputing, Chinese for cloud computing, you first see, I want to set up such a new department in addition to management software," Feng Yiping said neatly to his two generals in the software industry.

This is just a review-like article, Feng Yiping mainly based on what he heard and saw later, and then through his understanding of some professional issues these days, he wrote this article.

It's really an overview, and it's about the concept and its characteristics -- mainly the advantages, the future application -- that is, how to create value in this new area.

Although it is a new concept, it is not difficult for Hong Haoran and Mike to understand after figuring out what it means.

To put it bluntly, it is also a new application of the spirit of Internet sharing, which is based on the Internet to provide various levels of low-cost, relatively secure distributed computing power.

Moreover, it is a new direction that can already be achieved under the existing hardware conditions.

"That's why you're asking those questions these days?" Mike asked after reading it.

Feng Yiping nodded, "How is it?"

Hong Haoran, who was still looking down over there, suddenly said without raising his head, "Quiet!"

Feng Yiping and Mike were dumbfounded, "I'll take a look at it too," Mike said.

So, the two of them continued to look at the pieces of paper reverently, only Feng Yiping. Surf the web at a leisurely pace.

To say that the current Internet, the sharing is not enough, such as the films of various "female teachers" in the East and the West, it is difficult to search on the Internet now, as for online video sites, as for online video sites. has to wait until he and Huang Jingping's children go to kindergarten, and a large number of them will emerge.

Provided, of course, that he doesn't get involved in this area in advance.

After more than half an hour, Hong Haoran let out a heavy breath and said to a few pieces of paper in his hand, "This is really a new field." Yiping, amazing!"

Mike gave two thumbs up.

"So, you also think that this piece can be done and can be done?"

"Yes,"

"Yes"

The two of them looked at it and said affirmatively.

"Of course, there must be some technology that needs PR. But in the general direction, there is no problem. Hong Haoran said.

"That's good," Feng Yiping was still a little worried, what he said was not professional and accurate enough, after all, he knew a concept of this piece, and with the affirmation of the two of them. Then my own article, published out, should be fine.

This matter, in fact, is also easy to say.

If you use the analogy of the small generators he later sold, the current situation is. Every household has its own household generator, cloud computing, is to connect these generators to the grid, and through effective management software, to reasonable adjustment, more fully and timely to meet the needs of each family, but also to reduce the cost of use.

At the same time, it reduces the number of maintenance professionals and repair costs, and in the event of a breakdown, there is no failure to function.

"But, why do you want to publish such a good new idea?" Hong Haoran was a little puzzled, "Let's bury our heads in our own excavation, isn't it?"

"First of all, it's a huge new market, at least in the hundreds of billions of dollars, and no one company can eat it all.

Secondly, with the cooperation of software and hardware manufacturers and the participation of more companies, this new market can be launched faster. Feng Yiping said.

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After a lapse of more than a year, Feng Yiping's signed article appeared again in the foreword magazine, although this time, it was only less than 10,000 words, but it still caused a very big sensation.

For companies in the IT field, this is a better market than the blue ocean, which can be said to be a new virgin land.

This is also a good trend for other companies, after all, adding one large server after another is a big expense for any company.

Therefore, this is even more of a blessing for small and medium-sized companies, no longer need to hire professionals with high salaries, optimize and optimize their own servers, tap potential and dig potential, and worry that it will collapse one day.

What's more, if the same service is really available in the market, the security of their data is also more guaranteed, and there will be no server failure, which will lead to data loss.

For schools and some scientific research institutions, some orders of magnitude of computing no longer have to rely on mainframe computers to .......

In short, it's really a good thing for you, me, everyone.

Moreover, after reading this article, many people agree very much, and even vaguely feel that they once seemed to have thought about this aspect, but they just didn't think about it deeply.

This is also a good solution to another problem, some people question -- it seems that there are more doubts in China, you propose a new management method, and now such a new direction of the major, will you be able to do it as a person who has not graduated from college? And your major and elective in college are all majors that have nothing to do with IT.

Therefore, there is no need for Feng Yiping to refute it, some people take the initiative to refute these views, "As long as people who have an understanding of the IT industry, they are likely to discover this new direction, and besides, Feng Yiping has long had a software company that is at least well-known in China." ”

And, although this is a new term, it is not a new concept, to be exact, it has been around for a long time.

A long time ago, people began to buy server storage space, and then upload files to the server storage space for storage, and then download the files from the server storage space when needed.

The one who is most interested in this new direction is definitely Google, and the search side is already going to do a lot of calculations.

The two founders of Google are now the third time they have heard of this exchange student at their alma mater, the first time, of course, Feng Yiping's blue ocean strategy, and the second time, the acquisition of deCarta, a digital map technology provider in Silicon Valley, is the third time.

They decided that it was really necessary to meet Feng Yiping.

They don't know that in the original history, the concept of cloud computing, CloudComputing, was proposed and named by Google.

After leaving a deep impression on Microsoft last time, Feng Yiping's article this time also made Microsoft's eyes shine, but I didn't expect that there were such business opportunities in the middle.

And for companies like IBM and Oracle, they are a little frustrated, why not discover and name such a new direction in advance, but let a young man who is not very professional put forward it.

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This article, the company that caused the most stir, is not one of the above.

Silicon Valley, Amazon.

A vice president leisurely sipped coffee and looked at the cutting-edge magazine that had just been delivered, and now this magazine is a must-read for middle and senior executives in their company every month.

At first, he was a little surprised that there could be such a professional article in this magazine.

After he finished reading the so-called concept of cloud computing, the coffee in his mouth immediately squirted out, but he didn't bother to clean up, and immediately dialed the security department, "Immediately conduct a comprehensive special inspection of the newly established WebServices department, focusing on screening whether anyone has leaked secrets." ”

As a shopping website, Amazon is the first company involved in the cloud computing industry, their project called AmazonWebServices, referred to as AWS, has just been established, although the name is different, but in fact, it is a concept with Feng Yiping's CloudComputing.

These companies don't believe in coincidences.

If it were an ordinary person, Amazon, who has deep pockets, would have issued a lawyer's letter a long time ago, but for a person like Feng Yiping, who is a little famous, whose last book is still selling well, and whose net worth is also good, of course, it is impossible to be so simple and rude, and he must have the evidence before he can take action.

Forty-eight hours later, Amazon's internal investigation report was released, and the conclusion was that there was no evidence of contact between Feng Yiping and AWS project employees.

Amazon's alarmed executives looked at each other, so can it really only be a coincidence?

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Bao Zhuoyuan's decision was very correct, and the February issue received a lot of additional orders, and 20% of the additional printing was quickly sold out.

For Feng Yiping, this new article has made his hat of an expert and scholar more weighty, and at the same time, he has a new title, "the father of cloud computing". (To be continued.) )