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In 2018, the oligopoly advantage was highlighted in the field of cloud computing, and the top cloud manufacturers represented by AWS, Microsoft, Google, Ali and Tencent all made a lot of money. They are no longer satisfied with individual markets in individual areas, but compete fiercely at the cloud ecological level. And some small and medium-sized cloud computing manufacturers, under the influence of the price war, life becomes more difficult. In other words, 2018 is the year with the largest number of cloud computing landing cases, and it is also the year when cloud manufacturers accelerate fission.

Overall, there are some of the most important trends in the cloud computing market.

First, hybrid cloud management capabilities have become "standard" for cloud provider service customers.

In the past, almost all cloud providers emphasized their ability to provide full-stack cloud services from underlying IaaS to Paa and SaaS. But today, this capability alone is not enough, users need to combine public and private clouds. In other words, cloud service providers should not only help users get on the cloud, but also manage and control the cloud. How to solve the complex cloud application environment and realize the unified management of multi-cloud? How to easily schedule resources through convenient cloud migration tools? How to make the operation and maintenance monitoring and automation service ability to protect the business? In order to ensure that users have a better user experience on the hybrid cloud, the major cloud providers are increasing their technical weight and providing stronger support capabilities.

Second, containers become the world of Kubernetes.

Today, when we think of containers, we immediately think of Kubernetes. Kubernetes seems to have overshadowed all open source technologies. As the most popular container orchestration tool at the moment, Kubernetes comes from Google. In 2018, no matter AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Aliyun, Tencent Cloud, Huawei Cloud and so on, these big companies are supporting Kubernetes container services.

Third, cloud + AI, become the most fashionable combination. It is the latest strategic layout of major manufacturers to integrate cloud computing and artificial intelligence to promote the development of industrial Internet and speed up enterprise-level applications. It can be predicted that by 2019, "Cloud + AI" will enter a stage of rapid development. With the help of artificial intelligence, big data and other technologies, cloud service providers will have better performance in value-added service capabilities.

Fourth, the era of no server is coming. No server, known as function as a service, represents the next stage in the development of cloud computing. For developers who want to be more efficient and focus on writing code, this will be a reliable and extensible choice.

Of course, the hot spots in the field of cloud computing are not only these, but also micro-service architecture, cloud DevOps and so on. So, specifically, what are the other technologies and trends worth watching in 2018?

In order to promote the healthy development of cloud computing, establish a win-win industrial environment for cooperation, and highlight the influence of technology in Chinese enterprises. We have comprehensively evaluated the solutions or products that have made outstanding contributions to technological innovation in the past year, and awarded the annual Technical Excellence Award.

The selection result of "ingenuity forward-2018 Technical Excellence Award" sponsored by IT168, ITPUB and co-sponsored by IT168 CIO/CTO Club has been officially announced. Next, we will announce all the star enterprises, solutions, technologies and products on the list in the field of cloud computing.

Bottom line comment: IBM Cloud Private is logically the control layer of the existing data center, linked to managed and public cloud services. As a result, IBM designed a set of services that are layered on top of infrastructure services. This approach meets many different needs of customers according to the types of workloads that customers need to support.

▲ innovative Solutions Award: IBM Cloud Private 3.1

Solution description: IBM Cloud Private is a prepackaged enterprise-class private cloud solution that provides a single platform behind a firewall. You can take advantage of your existing internal software portfolio, or you can easily integrate next-generation data and software optimized for cloud computing. Like containers, Kubernetes, and Cloud Foundry, IBM Cloud Private is based on an open source framework, thus providing flexibility, control, security, and easy integration with the public cloud. In addition, IBM Cloud Private includes cloud management solutions for you to manage multi-cloud infrastructure and applications.

Reason for winning the award: open source is all over the IBM Cloud Private architecture. This is a practical move because customers need to be able to support multiple cloud architectures and want portability and modularity. The open source foundation is the foundation of IBM Cloud and IBM Cloud Private. For example, IBM supports the open source container strategy. This means that IBM supports Kubernetes, Docker, and CloudFoundry, as well as popular programming languages such as Java, Python, R, Node.js, and database implementations such as mongoDB and Postgres. The advantage of taking advantage of open source is obvious, it supports IBM to provide developers with a set of well-understood and portable tools. In addition, due to the breadth and depth of IBM Cloud Private solutions, it was awarded the Best innovative solution Award of 2018.

Comment in a word: as a "predator" in the field of management software, SAP has made an important contribution to promoting the digital transformation of enterprises. The SAP S/4HANA ®Cloud solution is not only the "aggregator" of the most advanced experience in the SAP ploughing market for more than 40 years, but also the core of the enterprise's digital transformation.

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▲ innovative solution Award: S/4HANA ®Cloud

Solution description: as the next generation intelligent ERP cloud commerce suite, SAP S/4HANA Cloud can help enterprises integrate all business processes and make data-driven decisions with the help of AI-driven predictive analysis. At the same time, the use of machine learning to improve the level of automation, operational efficiency and flexibility. With this digital cloud suite, enterprises can reduce the cost of migrating core business processes, deploy faster, accelerate innovation and quickly realize business value, and build smart businesses.

Reasons for winning the award:

If enterprises want to carry out digital transformation, the realization of management process reengineering is the first step. And SAP S/4HANA Cloud is a heavyweight solution for digital transformation.

Compared with similar ERP products, SAP S/4HANA Cloud has two biggest advantages:

First, be smarter. With the industry-leading AI technology, SAP S/4HANA Cloud brings a new user interaction experience. SAP S/4HANA Cloud integrates SAP Co-Pilots digital assistant technology, users can interact with ERP software in a new way, liberate their hands to a certain extent, improve efficiency, and obtain a smooth user experience. In addition, SAP S/4HANA Cloud provides customers with the most in-depth and extensive AI feature set in the ERP market, injecting an intelligent and self-learning mechanism, truly realizing the automation of the process and redefining the working mode. Users can reduce budget overruns and make more accurate resource investment decisions through AI-driven project cost forecasting capabilities.

Second, it is lighter. SAP S/4HANA Cloud can not only help enterprises integrate all business processes and make data-driven decisions. Most importantly, SAP S/4HANA Cloud is a standard suite that makes ERP simpler and more flexible. With this digital cloud suite, enterprises can reduce the cost of migrating core business processes, deploy faster, accelerate innovation and quickly realize business value, and build smart businesses. SAP S/4HANA Cloud redefines business processes by combining its industry expertise with the latest technology drivers such as artificial intelligence and in-memory computing.

Generally speaking, SAP S/4HANA Cloud plays a benchmark role in improving management efficiency, optimizing process, supporting business change and digital strategy landing. It is the most representative digital business suite, which is worth recommending.

Comment in a word: Huawei FusionCloud private cloud solution, which can help enterprises achieve comprehensive cloud business, is the cornerstone of enterprise digital transformation.

▲ innovative solution Award: Huawei FusionCloud 6.3 full-stack Cloud solution

Solution introduction: Huawei FusionCloud, as an industry-leading full-stack cloud solution, from self-developed chip design to hardware optimization to build high-performance infrastructure, such as Atlas server, Dorado all-flash storage, Kunlun minicomputer, ARM server, etc., the performance of resource pool is better than that of general hardware. Based on an open and unified cloud service framework, it provides nine types of 40 + cloud services for one cloud (cloud infrastructure), one lake (data lake) and one platform (application platform) to adapt to cloud scenarios of various industries; at the same time, it supports mixing with public cloud platforms such as Huawei Cloud and AWS to achieve seamless cross-cloud deployment and migration of business, so as to provide support for customers' long-term business evolution to hybrid cloud.

Reasons for winning the award:

FusionCube 6000 integrates computing, storage, management and virtualization, and pre-integrates software when the hardware equipment leaves the factory, which can be plugged in and used immediately upon arrival, enabling users to quickly complete the migration of all installation, configuration and applications, and to integrate all resources into the cloud management platform for unified management, so that production trading applications can be centrally migrated to a first-level resource pool, thus better realizing centralized resource management and unified scheduling.

Huawei's FusionCube-based converged architecture resource pool solution has the following key features:

Can be deployed in a server with a minimum of 2U, maximize space footprint, maximize performance, centralize management, and meet critical application service scenarios

The branch office does not need professional IT operation and maintenance personnel, and a unified management interface is used to realize remote and unified software and hardware management of the branch office.

Minimalist operation and maintenance management has greatly reduced the investment in planning, design, delivery and operation and maintenance, and saved at least 35% of TCO.

The super-convergence architecture is adopted to achieve excellent performance, and the performance bottleneck is eliminated through the fully symmetrical distributed architecture and embedded distributed storage engine.

The use of multi-copy, cross-node backup to achieve the reliability of data, in the event of hardware failure to ensure the security of data and business stability.

Huawei FusionCloud 6.3 full-stack cloud solution features, highly recognized by the market, so it was awarded the 2018 Innovation solution Award.

Bottom line comment: Huawei Cloud exclusive cloud solution is Huawei's differentiated solution for the rapid digital transformation of enterprises to solve enterprise business continuity and data security.

▲ innovative solution Award: Huawei Cloud proprietary Cloud solution

Solution description: in order to meet the different security isolation requirements of different industries and businesses, exclusive cloud solutions provide three technical solutions with different degrees of exclusivity: resource exclusive solution, full stack exclusive FCS solution, and hybrid exclusive solution.

Resource exclusive solution: exclusive isolation scheme on data surface, build exclusive resource pool, provide exclusive team service, and realize one-stop cloud of core business. If the common core system is simplified to a three-piece set: core application system, core database system and core storage system, then the dedicated cloud resource proprietary solution can provide a three-piece set of dedicated computing cluster DCC, bare metal server BMS, and proprietary storage system to meet the cloud of the core system.

Full-stack exclusive solution: full-stack exclusive cloud platform, internal exclusive high-speed network, exclusive operation and maintenance manager, full-stack security platform, from underlying hardware to upper software system, and later operation and maintenance support exclusive exclusive, to meet the stringent requirements of industry laws and regulations on business cloud.

Hybrid exclusive scheme: on the basis of resource exclusive scheme and full-stack exclusive scheme, support network security and the hosting of special devices, establish a bridge for special devices to migrate from private clouds to public clouds, and ensure that customers' business is cloud-free.

Reason for winning the award: Huawei Cloud proprietary cloud solution has five advantages: first, public cloud services, private cloud experience. Private cloud integrates the advantages of ready-to-use public cloud, flexible expansion and contraction, rich cloud service capabilities, as well as the physical monopoly and security compliance of private cloud, combined with Huawei's unique genes that have served the ToB market for a long time to facilitate the rapid digital transformation of enterprises. Second, a progressive cloud solution with high security compliance. As a bridge between public cloud and hybrid cloud, private cloud meets the gradual cloud pace of enterprises, and facilitates the transformation and migration of customer business without transformation and high security compliance cloud. Third, support vertical solutions for the whole scenario, including digital transformation for the entire industry, support vertical industry demands such as core database scenarios, the overall cloud of IT systems, and special network security equipment-assisted hosting. At present, there are successful cases in large enterprises, finance, pan-government, public utilities, manufacturing and other scenarios.

Bottom line comment: InCloud OpenStack is a smart cloud operating system for next-generation cloud data centers and cloud native applications.

▲ Best innovative Product Award: wave Cloud Sea OS5.5

Solution introduction: InCloudOpenStack5.5 is a cloud operating system for next-generation cloud data centers and cloud native applications, fully based on OpenStack, in intelligent management, large-scale deployment and

The two places and three centers have a leading edge in terms of high reliability, and are committed to building an open, converged, secure and intelligent cloud for users.

At present, more than 4800 domestic users choose Cloud Sea OS;, which has helped users to build more than 1000 servers in a single cluster, and is currently the OpenStack cloud platform for Top5 with a single cluster scale in the world. At the same time, it ranks first in the market by virtue of its outstanding performance in the fields of finance and government.

Reasons for winning the award:

Many bright spots of the products can be called the benchmark of the industry.

First, it is easy to use. It can support one-click containerization batch deployment and realize visual drag-and-drop of service choreography based on data visualization components.

Second, multi-resource integration management can be realized. Supports unified management and external services of virtual machine, bare metal and container computing resources on the same platform, and parallel scheduling of three kinds of resources.

Third, large-scale cluster management capability is strong, with a single cluster management capacity of 1000 + nodes, supporting cross-regional management of multiple data centers and meeting the delivery capabilities of large-scale data centers.

Fourth, the performance of disaster recovery and backup capability is better, which can provide dual-active and dual-active data centers in the same city, active and standby capabilities of remote data centers, one-click failover scheme, and tenant-level fine-grained disaster preparedness.

Fifth, the most important thing is that it is safe and reliable, and can provide multi-dimensional all-cloud security reinforcement, such as physical layer, virtual layer, business layer and so on.

Comment in a word: although you are in a high place, you know how to be more vigilant. With that alone, AWS deserves respect.

▲ Innovation Enterprise Award: AWS

AWS is Amazon's cloud computing service platform, providing a complete set of infrastructure and cloud solutions for customers from all countries and regions around the world. AWS provides users with a complete set of cloud computing services, including elastic computing, storage, database and Internet of things, to help enterprises reduce IT investment and maintenance costs. Cloud products and services in China and global regions are available for you to choose according to your needs.

Reason for the award: although Amazon launched AWS only as a sideline of cloud computing. However, in the course of 12 years of growth, AWS has become the well-deserved "big brother" image of global cloud manufacturers, accounting for 40% of global IaaS and PaaS revenue. Even with a market position big enough to keep its competitors off, AWS has chosen to innovate, like all start-ups, rather than rest on its laurels. In 2018, AWS launched more than 1800 important services and functions.

Comment in a word: Ali Yun is a subversion of China's cloud to the world.

▲ Innovation Enterprise Award: Ali Yun

Aliyun, a company under Alibaba Group, is a leading cloud computing and artificial intelligence technology company in the world. Provide cloud computing services such as CVM, cloud database, cloud security, as well as big data, artificial intelligence services, and precise customization of scenario-based industry solutions. Professional quick filing, 7x24 hour after-sales support, help enterprises worry-free cloud.

Reason for winning the award: Aliyun is the largest cloud provider in China and a veritable "technology-driven" enterprise with cutting-edge technologies in all aspects, including computing, database, networking, security, management and monitoring, storage and analysis. In particular, in 2018, Aliyun increased its "horsepower" in technological innovation, not only in the fields of quantum computing, edge computing, big data, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of things, but also set up innovation centers in various localities to promote enterprises in various industries and regions to enhance their technological innovation capabilities. In the future, Aliyun's goal is to become a world-class enterprise and promote China's information technology on a global scale.

One sentence comment: which one is the best choice for distributed database? The majority of users have the most right to speak!

▲ 2018 Technology Excellence Award: Tencent distributed database TDSQL

Product description: Tencent distributed database (Tencent Distributed SQL,TDSQL) is a high-performance database service that supports automatic horizontal split-- that is, a complete logical table of business experience, while the data is evenly split into multiple physical slices, which can effectively solve the business scenarios of large concurrency, high performance and large capacity. TDSQL adopts master-slave high-availability architecture by default, and provides a full range of solutions such as flexible expansion, backup, recovery, monitoring, etc., to effectively solve the database performance bottleneck when your business is developing rapidly, so that you can focus more on your business development.

Reason for winning the award: TDSQL is a MySQL-compatible HTAP distributed database product created by Tencent, with strong consistency and high availability, global deployment architecture, distributed scale, high performance, enterprise security and other features, while providing intelligent DBA, automated operation, monitoring and alarm and other supporting facilities to provide users with a complete distributed database solution.

At present, TDSQL has provided public and private cloud services for more than 500 + government, enterprises and financial institutions, with customers covering banking, insurance, securities, Internet finance, billing, third-party payment, Internet of things, Internet +, government affairs and other fields. With its high-quality products and services, TDSQL has obtained a number of international and national certifications, and has been unanimously recognized by customers and industry.

In a word, comments: many enterprises are talking about cloud + AI, and Baidu cloud happens to have this gene, which has a unique advantage in intelligent scenes.

▲ innovative Enterprise Award: Baidu Cloud

Baidu Cloud is Baidu's intelligent cloud computing service platform for enterprises and developers. Based on Baidu's 18-year technology accumulation and facing the future, Baidu Cloud puts forward the strategic positioning of ABC (AI, Big Data, Cloud Computing). At present, industry-leading solutions such as "Tianzhi", "Heavenly calculation", "Heavenly Vision" and "Tiangong" have been successfully released, realizing the omni-directional intelligent service layout in artificial intelligence, intelligent big data, intelligent multimedia and intelligent Internet of things, and provide the safest, high-performance and intelligent computing and data processing services for all sectors of society.

Baidu Cloud serves as an one-stop service output window for Baidu capabilities, Baidu resources and industry solutions. Based on the ABC trinity strategy, ABC STACK currently opens more than 130 AI platform capabilities of Baidu, 9 open source and open big data service capabilities, as well as basic cloud services.

Reason for winning the award: when it comes to Baidu, we immediately think of search, AI, self-driving and so on. It can be seen that Baidu has become synonymous with technological innovation. Baidu Cloud, which is the quintessence of Baidu's 18-year technology accumulation, has stepped out of the differential competitive advantage with the route of intelligence and scene. Baidu Cloud with ABC trinity, deep integration so that the cloud has become a new capability, strengthen efforts to enable more enterprises.

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