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Chaos is born

The sixties of the 20th century was an era of great social change. The Berlin Wall was built, Che Guevara was killed, the Apollo 11 spaceship successfully landed on the moon, and Neil Armstrong stepped on the surface of the moon, taking a small step and a big step for mankind.

In an era when most people have not yet used calculators, John McCarthy, a scientist from Stanford University, said that "computers may become a public resource." The effect of this sentence at that time was as if someone told you immediately after Yang Liwei's launch that the Martian real estate market would heat up sharply, with extremely advanced logic.

In the same period of China, the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution started a decade of catastrophe.

It seems that cloud computing is still outside everyone's understanding at this time, but it is worth mentioning that two people were born in Jeff, New Mexico in 1964. Bezos and Jack Ma were born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province in the same year.

The great dive of the century

In 1997, Professor Ramnath Chellappa first put forward the term "cloud computing-Cloud Computing" in a speech. He pointed out that "the boundaries of computing resources are no longer determined by technology, but by economic needs." In other words, the form of computing resources can be dynamic, which varies according to people's needs.

Can computer resources be used like public services such as water, electricity and so on? This is the ultimate goal of cloud computing, providing computing, services and applications to the public as a public facility, allowing people to use computer resources through the network like water, electricity and gas.

Almost at the same time, the financial market situation in the United States was very good, and a large amount of money poured into the high-tech industry represented by the Internet. Many valuable ideas were given a try by taking advantage of the loose financing environment. In 1999, Salesforce.com, a company that had a far-reaching impact on the future generations of cloud computing, was founded, and Salesforce gained such a reputation. Because it was the first company dedicated to developing software that can be accessed on demand over the Internet (now called Software as a Service or SaaS).

However, the irrational situation lasted only for a short period of time, and the capital market reacted violently. In 2000, the Internet bubble burst and the capital winter came.

In an environment where the world is short of money, Salesforce.com has proved that its cloud services are cheap, reliable and efficient. It has been favored by enterprise users who are eager to survive in the predicament, and at this point, we have finally ushered in the first and most exciting part of cloud computing.

At this time, Bezos and Jack Ma also had full wings and established Amazon and Alibaba at the turn of the century. Foreshadowing the best part of the next wave of cloud computing.

A hundred schools of thought contend

In 2006, Amazon CEO Bezos gave a conceptual presentation on cloud storage and cloud computing on EmTech, announcing plans to create a cloud computing AWS. In the same year, its heavyweight products S3 and EC2, which affect the cloud computing landscape, were released one after another.

AWS has stirred the cloud computing market, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, and other foreign companies have followed, just a few years to complete their own blockbuster product release.

At this time, China is still a standard "three noes" country in the field of IT technology: it does not have its own operating system, its own chip, and its own computing power system. Therefore, the purchase of foreign mature equipment and systems is almost the only choice. The big foreign companies that are grappling with AWS have already grabbed the necks of young domestic Internet upstarts and big brothers in state-owned enterprises with their backhand.

It's time for Mr. Ma to do something. In 2008, Mr. Ma poached Wang Jian, then executive vice president of Microsoft Research Asia. He was invited because Alibaba's IOE structure at that time was about to bring down the development of the company in terms of both capital and computing power. It is urgent to develop a new technical architecture to replace Alibaba's old engine.

As a result, the word "Ali Yun" appeared in the words of senior executives of the company for the first time. Wang Jian's mission is to build this cloud computing system from scratch.

During that time, Tencent and Baidu basically did not make efforts in the cloud computing business, and Robin Li and Ma Huateng, who came from engineers, also poured several pots of cold water on cloud computing.

Only Jack Ma, an English teacher, firmly believes that cloud computing is full of hope. "I invest 1 billion yuan in Ali Yun every year for ten years, but I can't do it." He once said to everyone in Alibaba Group.

As a result, it is well known that its flying system began to operate steadily in 2010. Just like AWS has stirred up foreign big companies, Aliyun's success has forced domestic big companies such as Tencent, Baidu and Huawei to join the game.

The warring States era of cloud computing began.

Move forward in the fog

More than 50 years ago, scientists John McCarthy's prediction came true, when swaddling babies Bezos and Jack Ma had entered the age of knowing their destiny. More than 50 years of ups and downs, why the final result is the online sales of Amazon and Alibaba? And it's hard to say whether AWS or Aliyun is doing the cloud computing that people thought decades ago.

Cloud computing has degenerated from a beautiful butterfly concept to a cocoon-cloud hosting and cloud storage, but the cocoon is so ugly that many people say it is just a conceptual encapsulation of traditional hosting. While cloud computing is developing, the concept of Cloud Computing is declining, and abstract concepts are replaced by specific products, which may be a sign of maturity or just an opportunity for the next step of change.

The reason why technology is technology is that it doesn't care about his face. The progress of technology is actually a process of walking upward in the face of ourselves and our predecessors.

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