"Predict" the next decade of Alibaba Cloud
AliCloud stands at the gateway of the times and, in the name of "intelligence", wants to knock on the door of the next decade.
This year's Alibaba Cloud Summit in Beijing is scheduled to be held at the National Convention Center on March 21, with the theme of "starting again in ten years". It is both a memoir and a confession book. The memory is from scratch, Alibaba Cloud's internal entrepreneurship, and how to embrace the next decade.
All the past is prologue
The market will not lie. One step and a half ahead may be the "pioneer", but two steps and three steps ahead may be the "martyr". As for Alibaba Cloud - about ten steps ahead, what is the feeling of ten steps ahead in cloud computing? Maybe only Wang Jian has the most feelings.
In 2008, Wang Jian joined Alibaba with the historic mission of building a cloud that is large enough to support the virtual world. The following year, Alibaba Cloud Computing Company was officially established, and Alibaba's "Flying Sky" road also officially started.
It is widely reported that Wang Jian's speech at the 2012 Alibaba Cloud Annual Conference made men cry uncontrollably. He said, "I've been scolded more than I've ever been scolded in my life, but I don't regret it."
The experience of Alibaba Cloud's success is hard to copy. The key point is that all companies did not have or dare not invest. Ma Yun's "one billion a year" is a capital factor, the urgent computing needs driven by Alibaba's rapid development are internal environmental factors, Wang Jian's technology is an ideal factor, and Hu Xiaoming clearly combs that Alibaba Cloud's business model is a market factor, Such factors have pushed Alibaba Cloud into the current global 3A cloud computing market pattern.
From the very beginning, the key to Alibaba Cloud's success was Apsara. Apsara was a large-scale general-purpose computing operating system independently developed by Alibaba Cloud and serving the world. The story behind every line of code in Apsara is Alibaba Cloud's history. Like the cloud created by Alibaba people, Apsara was completely developed by Alibaba Cloud itself.
In February 2009, the first line of code of Feitian was knocked down, and in 2010, the first customer, Ali Xiaodai, Hong Kong server All the way, Feitian broke four world records in the sort benchmark of the Computational Olympic Games in 2015, released ET brain in 2017, and won the first special prize for scientific and technological progress awarded by the Chinese Society of Electronics in 2018
The story continues, and the title page goes to the next chapter.
The end point is also the starting point. The starting point is the end point
On the coming March 21, 2019, Xing Ying will take his team to do a "public show", which is also the first time for Alibaba Cloud to comprehensively interpret the strategic upgrade from cloud to cloud intelligence, and also conforms to Alibaba Cloud's mood of starting again.
For the first time, there will be more than one. Lei Feng (public account: Lei Feng) learned that there will be a blockbuster product release on site, which will be the "first" integration of Alibaba, Alibaba Cloud, and the new intelligent technology product array of Damo Academy, including dozens of new products. The flagship products, the elastic bare metal server Shenlong X-Dragon, and the cloud native database POLARD, may be updated.
At the end of 2018, Alibaba Cloud Business Group was upgraded to Alibaba Cloud Intelligent Business Group. Alibaba CEO Zhang Yong wrote in an open letter that the Group's intelligent capabilities built in the process of implementing the mid platform strategy in the past few years, including machine intelligence computing platform, algorithm capabilities, database, infrastructure platform, scheduling platform and other core capabilities, will be fully integrated with Alibaba Cloud, Open to the whole society and serve the whole society.
Alibaba Cloud Intelligence is the extension and development of Alibaba Group's mid platform strategy. Its goal is to build an intelligent technology infrastructure based on cloud computing for the whole society in the digital economy era. Lei Feng.com analyzed at that time that this organizational structure is an upgrade for Alibaba Cloud. Cloud and intelligence are the upgrading of technology. In particular, Alibaba Cloud will inherit the core capabilities of the group and "comprehensively" integrate with the cloud itself.
With careful words, Alibaba Cloud will play the role of a new engine, which is also the company's organizational and technological change for the future.
In addition, Lei Feng.com learned that the focus of the summit also includes ecological partners, technology platforms and cloud native technology. Cooperate with ecological partners to create benchmark cases of retail, digital government, artificial intelligence and other technologies, including releasing the latest ecological strategy, upgrading delivery capabilities, distribution channel capabilities and other initiatives; Tailored technical solutions for the industry, providing a safe and reliable technical platform and win-win strategy; The conference set up 22 sub forums to focus on AI, edge computing, the Internet of Things, cloud security, databases, computing architecture and other hot technical topics. Alibaba Cloud will also work with developers to define the future cloud native software technology stack.
In the past decade, Alibaba Cloud has taken the lead in China by a large margin, but this is certainly not the whole dream. How will Alibaba Cloud use "intelligence" to break through the ceiling of the cloud computing industry and take a new path?
The whole industry is watching.
