The first person to answer the host''s question is president Li of Baidu:


    "I noticed that the content just told by President Huai was quite technical. I also noticed that our audience listened very carefully and carefully. It seems that everyone is still very interested in technical problems. I thought everyone came here just to listen to some interesting things and some jokes.


    Since everyone is still interested in technical issues, let me talk about them a little.


    Cloud computing is a new bottle of old wine and nothing new. More than a decade ago, we talked about the client and server, then Web2.0 and services based on the Internet web interface. Now we talk about cloud computing. In fact, we all talk the same. We put more work on the server, and the client side is becoming simpler and simpler.


    This concept is also true, but it is not easy for traditional software to rely on it. For example, Microsoft''s office software is a little thankless to make it a cloud service. The client can''t have nothing.


    For another example, we Baidu do a lot of work on the server, and it is impossible for one or two computers to do a search engine, because it requires too much data storage and computing, and it must be processed by many computers. This is very suitable for cloud computing.


    So I feel that cloud computing just changes the previous concept. There may be more applications or services based on cloud computing in the future, but the traditional IT industry may not change much for traditional software. "


    After Mr. Li finished, Mr. Ma, who was on the stage, directly took over his remarks:


    "Let me add a few points. This topic is quite technical. Cloud computing is also an advanced concept.


    More than ten years ago, Sun company proposed network computer, which is very similar to cloud computing, but no one believed it at that time, so sun spent a lot of efforts to popularize it, and finally became a martyr.


    Now, this concept is still a little ahead of schedule, such as the search mentioned just now and our commonly used mailbox. In fact, it was the cloud processing method at the beginning.


    However, I think it''s still a little too early to put many comprehensive software or services on the cloud without local client processing. It may not appear in hundreds of years.


    We are now doing IDC. It is very challenging for tens of thousands of servers to do the same computing task, so there are many challenges to run so many services to the cloud. We need to try and work a little bit slowly. Thank you! "


    After the two leaders on the stage finished speaking, the host took over the words and said:


    "It seems that the two views are very consistent, that is, cloud computing is a good concept, but large-scale application will take some time. I don''t know what the audience''s Ma Zongfang always thinks. Let''s talk to Mr. Ma first."


    When the host introduced the right to speak to President Arima, Fang zhe was also thinking carefully about the views and understanding of Baidu and Tencent on cloud computing just now. Perhaps it was because the discussion in the previous life had been over for a long time, and Fang zhe didn''t have much impression of the specific content in his heart. Now listen to it in person, Fang zhe felt, These two big guys don''t understand cloud computing at all!


    Both of them talked about cloud computing, which was an entry-level understanding when they first came into contact with cloud computing. They just thought that they were putting software or services into the cloud. In fact, the development of cloud computing in the previous world advocated more elastic computing and optimized social resource efficiency. It didn''t wait for Fang Zhe to think more. President Ma of Alibaba also began to talk loudly.


    President Ma picked up the microphone handed over by the staff and said, "it''s really hard for me to talk about technology if I don''t know technology. Cloud computing I understand is a mechanism for data processing, storage and sharing.


    I was also thinking about what President Li said just now. He said it was "old wine in new bottles". In fact, I was most afraid of this kind of old wine in new bottles. Yahoo did search in those days and Google did search after its birth. At that time, Yahoo also felt that there was no difference between the two, but now Google has become a tiger.


    We in Alibaba are full of confidence in cloud computing. We in Alibaba have a lot of consumption data and payment transaction data. If cloud computing can help us make better use of these data, we must do it. "


    President Ma''s answer is very short. Because he is not a technical person, he does not talk about cloud computing from a technical point of view, but from a commercial point of view. Since cloud computing is proposed by Amazon, a foreign e-commerce competitor, Ali has no reason not to follow up.


    The host looked at Fang Zhe and asked, "president Fang, what do you think? As far as I know, your company seems to have started cloud computing. You also have a technical background. Can you tell us?"


    Fang zhe took the microphone from President Ma next to him. At this time, both President Ma next to him and President Li and President Ma on the stage focused on him. According to their understanding, it seems that among the four companies mentioned by the host, only Ali and Huizhong have started cloud computing, among which Huizhong is the largest and most mature.


    Fang zhe sighed from the bottom of his heart that the advantages of the times have crushed the light of the big guys. At present, domestic Internet people have not even understood the mobile Internet, let alone more advanced cloud computing?


    Fang zhe smiled and said, "before talking about cloud computing, let me talk about our situation in cloud computing. Before, we bought two IDC data centers abroad and transformed them into cloud computing centers. Now they have been transformed and put into use. At present, we still have three cloud computing centers in the world, one of which is in China.


    We have a research and development team for Cloud Computing in the United States, as well as a research and development team in China. Basically, we study cloud computing services, but there are many differences in services for the domestic and foreign environment. Our investment in cloud computing should be the earliest in China and the largest in China. "


    When Fang zhe said this, he inadvertently caught a glimpse of Li Zong and Ma Zong on the stage. Their eyebrows were a little tight. Fang zhe secretly smiled and was anxious? Obviously, the two leaders were uneasy when they heard that Huizhong had such a big lead, whether cloud computing was worth investing or not.


    Fang zhe ignored them and continued:


    "I have personally studied cloud computing for more than a year, so I think I have a thorough understanding of it.


    Cloud computing literally moves many Internet services to the cloud for processing, which is no different from the network computer mentioned by the two on the stage just now. However, in fact, from the use of Amazon abroad to our Huizhong at home, it advocates a more flexible resource calculation. For example, if you use a traditional IDC server, customers need to move from the computer room to the broadband network All aspects such as dimension need to be done by themselves.


    However, when using cloud computing, customers may only need to place a list online, just like shopping online. After buying, they can directly use this computing service, and buy as much as they need. For example, you can buy more during business peak hours and less during business low peak periods. In fact, this is a very cost-effective way for customers to use computing, and for providing cloud computing In terms of computing service providers, this can make server resources and computing resources flexible and make better use of these resources.


    In fact, I am the earliest cloud service user. When I started to play independent games in 2008, let''s think about how complicated it is for me to upload games to the American Appstore and operate games in many countries in the United States and even around the world. In fact, I just bought servers on Amazon cloud. Later, I didn''t need to buy as many as I needed for capacity expansion It''s a very convenient experience for me to return it directly when I''m going to use it. "