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As an important part of the Internet value industry chain, IDC grows rapidly with the development of the Internet, and is closely linked with the foundation and application of the whole Internet informatization. China's IDC began in 1999, when the speed of development was so rapid that in less than a few years, IDC service providers all over the country spread and put into operation. IDC operators passing through data centers can be roughly divided into three categories: the first category is telecom operators with China Telecom and China Netcom as the core; the second category is enterprise operators who own telecom network resources through equity participation and cooperation with China Telecom and other telecom operators, among which Century Interconnection is the representative. The third category should be called "IDC service provider". They play the role of "second landlord" by cooperating with telecom operators or enterprise operators or renting their computer rooms and bandwidth resources to provide services to customers. The number of such service providers is the largest, and even though they have developed so far, they are still flooding the domestic IDC market. Due to the particularity of the Internet industry, coupled with the lack of national policy supervision, the entry threshold of the IDC industry is too low, many micro-enterprises and even individuals have coveted this half of the country. So more and more formal and informal IDC service providers are springing up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain. These service providers themselves do not have many technical barriers, and most of them are just carrying out "buy low and sell high" transactions. They have ignored the industry rules and blindly reduced prices in an attempt to seize customers with other operators. Under the suppression of the market price of "you sing and I will take the stage", the direct result is that supply exceeds demand, and the market has not yet taken shape, but industry norms have been broken. Until 2008, the entire IDC industry was under unprecedented pressure. With the large-scale rectification and inventory adjustment of the government, the raising of the threshold brought about by the restructuring of telecommunications, and the baptism of the financial turmoil, the long-standing market bubble finally burst, and the water was squeezed out. " Second landlords or roll money abscond, or change careers, or declare closure, but these for the real strength of operators, is a "crisis", but also "opportunities". From a certain point of view, it is only a "lost horse" for the whole IDC industry, which, to a certain extent, helps to promote the IDC industry to a healthy development track. Domestic IDC basic business still occupies the first place according to a survey report by CNNIC, China's Internet industry has experienced blowout growth in recent years, with the total number of Internet users reaching 298 million by the beginning of this year, surpassing the United States to become the world's largest Internet market. In fact, China's Internet market is not very mature, due to infrastructure, policy and other restrictions, Internet applications are only the tip of the iceberg. According to the survey results of research institutions, at present, most enterprises or individual users' understanding of the data center is still in the initial stage, the awareness of professional consulting services is slightly insufficient, and the main income of IDC business is still infrastructure services, accounting for more than 70%. With the rapid development of online video and e-commerce in recent years, users pay more attention to bandwidth, storage and network security, and the share of investment in these areas is getting higher and higher. Video websites tend to spend 80% of their annual economic expenditure on bandwidth and storage. Although the value-added service has a growth trend in recent years, its share is still small. The development trend of domestic IDC industry is expected that in the future, IDC value-added services will officially expand, and the next 3 years will mainly focus on bandwidth guarantee, entrusted maintenance services and CDN remote mirror acceleration services; while in the next 10 years, converged distributed network data storage dominated by cloud computing, highly integrated blades and virtualization, and network security market will begin to grow rapidly. E-commerce, 3G and other practical applications will also come and receive attention one after another, and the spring of IDC has just begun. It is predicted that with the promotion of 3G construction and the process of "triple play", as well as the increasingly popular applications of multi-network convergence such as e-commerce, voice and video, the closely related industries are expected to become a new growth point in the IDC industry, and internal applications will increasingly develop into outsourcing business. The development of modern data center IDC industry is the network service provision industry, the rise and fall of the industry is closely related to its service and quality. Therefore, the author believes that in the homogenized market, differential operation is the way for IDC operators to survive and develop. For current IDC operators, what they need most is nothing more than two words-"focus" and "innovation". "focus" under the current chaotic pattern, we should take the market segmentation route for operators to transform the main direction. Clear their own positioning, various aspects of development, but to form their own advantages in a certain field, so as to get a place in the market competition. We can see that some sub-areas of IDC enterprises have conquered the city and established their own brand power, some focus on virtual hosting, but also focus on value-added outsourcing. "Innovation" global data center experts have predicted the development of the IDC industry in 2009. They believe that 2009 is a year of data center technological innovation. They hope that this technological innovation will alleviate and perhaps even solve some of the challenges in the current data center. Throughout the market, products and services tend to be the same. The ones who can really occupy a place in the data center industry in the end must be excellent operators with technology, drilling technology, innovative ideas and brains. By paying attention to user experience, continuous research and development and innovation in technology and services, enterprises that standardize, humanize and specialize their business will eventually be able to obtain a lot of banknotes while gaining word of mouth from users. We have reason to believe that IDC enterprises in the future will gradually develop from operators to service providers, and innovative high-quality services will eventually become the key to the success of IDC enterprises. The way to win the IDC industry in the future will depend on whether IDC service providers can fully meet the personalized and diversified network data quality service needs of users at different stages of development.

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