Breaking the big data profit dilemma, AI becomes a breakthrough
In the next decade, the industry will enter the era of mobile Internet and Internet of Things. The digital transformation of the industry is promoting the upgrading of finance, operators, transportation, manufacturing, government, medical and other industries. Cloud computing applications have become the core elements of transformation and development. As the pillar of the industry, operators face both opportunities and challenges in promoting digital transformation. So, how can operators prepare to better support the digital transformation of the industry?
In fact, the world's leading operators have realized that digital transformation is not only related to business, operation and organizational transformation, but more importantly, infrastructure platforms should also consider future evolution. Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, Some leading operators such as Telefon have been planning, starting and implementing a unified cloud architecture ("cloud") as the core of the transformation. Is "cloud" really important
"Cloud" blessing, stronger operators?
Amazon and other Internet companies dominate the Internet era. The next decade will be the era of mobile Internet and Internet of Things. Cloud will be widely used in the industry market, and the industry cloud will rise. By 2025, all enterprise information technology solutions will face cloud, and more than 85% of enterprise applications will be deployed on the cloud.
In this case, we found that operators have begun to contact the three major business areas of the cloud:
1. From the perspective of the industry market, public cloud is no longer the only choice. Compared with public cloud, private cloud has the characteristics of local deployment, management control, bandwidth, etc., and is favored by large enterprise customers. Large enterprises prefer to use private cloud to achieve business transformation on the cloud. The same is true for operators. Internal business systems are being deployed to private clouds;
2. From the perspective of cloud service providers, enterprise customers are more concerned about the industry attributes of cloud applications. One of the main customer groups of operators is industry customers, so industry cloud will become a breakthrough in new business of enterprise market operators;
3. With the development of network technology, the telecom network cloud has become a trend. The telecom network cloud will subvert the traditional network architecture as an important work of digital transformation operators;
In a word, private cloud, industry cloud, telecom network cloud and their IT infrastructure are all efficient and agile infrastructure services. Adopt a unified cloud platform architecture, that is, "cloud" is an important prerequisite and guarantee to achieve resource connectivity and smooth business migration. Huawei has put forward the vision of "cloud", hoping to build a system cloud architecture with the help of operators, so that operators can carry out digital transformation.
What is the value of unified cloud architecture?
Operators from the "cloud" disperse huge energy to cover government, medical care, education and other fields, which can make the cloud "rain continuously". However, as mentioned earlier, in order to achieve business transformation, the infrastructure platform must first be transformed.
In order to meet the three requirements of operators for "building cloud, cloud optimization and cloud management", operators need a unified "cloud" structure. "Cloud" implementation includes multiple links, such as BOM three domain integration, telecom network cloud NFVi, cloud service function, X86 replacement minicomputer, data center security.
Therefore, operators can establish their own development and testing environments, production systems and disaster recovery systems according to the actual needs and with reference to the unified cloud architecture and rhythm during construction and deployment.
In response to this demand, many manufacturers have initiated response plans. For example, Huawei FusionCloud unified architecture solution provides professional services based on business network consulting to help customers with data center planning, design, construction, migration and efforts.
It is reported that Huawei's unified cloud architecture "cloud" can bring three benefits to operators. One is that operators can deploy different business clouds according to the unified cloud architecture without worrying about chimney. Because the system is interoperable, data can flow freely and resources can be scheduled on demand.
The second is that an open operator can prevent the manufacturer from locking. The hardware infrastructure layer of the unified cloud architecture is fully compatible with third-party devices. The cloud operating system is completely based on the OpenStack community. The service composition layer introduces third-party IaaS/PaaS functions.
3、 Reduce cost-effectiveness. Build a "cloud" to standardize and generalize the network hardware of operators, and then realize a unified procurement process to reduce procurement costs. In other words, a unified architecture can help customers drive the operation, operation and maintenance process, reuse human resources, and improve efficiency.
The unified cloud architecture looks good, but whether it is just a vision, the real approach will encounter many problems. This of course requires more industry analysis and practice.
It is worth mentioning that, FusionCloud is not an idea, but comes from many practices. It is understood that Huawei won 1.77 million US dollars based on the public cloud strategic cooperation of Germany, Spain Telecom and China Telecom as well as domestic enterprise players. IBM's artificial intelligence system Watson diagnosed a rare "acute myeloid leukemia" in just 10 minutes. Perhaps so, artificial intelligence is called the "core technology of the fourth industrial revolution".
AI can not only improve the business capability and productivity of enterprises, enhance the intelligent experience of products, but also be more effective, accurate and efficient in dissemination and sales. We have seen seven fish like Netease, Udesk and other third-party smart customer service big data service companies have achieved success in the traditional vertical industry. Amazon's smart speaker echo sales are close to 10 million, and Kedafi "likes".
In the steam age, the power age, and the information technology era, the era of artificial intelligence will follow. Maybe one day, you will wake up not as an alarm clock, but as your robot assistant C3PO.
