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PUBLIC CLOUDS

IN CHINA

By Steve Mushero

March, 2015

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Clouds in China

Cloud Types

The Key Clouds

Issues in China Clouds

OVERVIEW


Clouds in China

CLOUDS PROVIDE FIVE MAIN SERVICES


Clouds in China

CLOUDS PROVIDE FIVE MAIN SERVICES

Consumer Clouds

Big Data / Hadoop

Software-as-a-Service

Platforms-as-a-Service

Infrastructure-as-a-Service Our Focus


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CONSUMER• End user apps & storage

• Evernote, Canva, Pinterest, etc.

• iCloud, DropBox, etc.

• Mobile Device Support


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BIG DATA - HADOOP• Hot trend

• Driving tech innovation

• Driving Ads & Targeting

• A bit scary


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SAAS

• Software-as-a-Service

• Replaces traditional on-premisis software

• Vendor-managed internet applications

• Salesforce, Workday, Marketo


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PAAS

• Platform-as-a-Service

• Easy to use platform for Developers

• For dev, testing, and deployment of applications.

• Examples: Microsoft Azure, Apprenda, Heroku


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IAAS

• Infrastructure-as-a-Service

• Pay-as-you-go for server hardware

• Examples: Aliyun, AWS, Rackspace, MS Azure

• Instant scalability with flexible billing


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CHINESE CLOUD HISTORY

• 2008, ChinaNetCloud was first to offer public cloud

• Two years later, first local companies started

• A couple failed, bit of a tortured history

• Aliyun was first big provider

• China now has diverse quality, pricing, service

• Still years behind the West


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CHINESE CLOUDS

• Big Three

• Little Three

• International Three


Clouds in China

CHINESE CLOUDS

• Big Three – Aliyun, Tencent, Huawei

• Little Three – UCloud, QingCloug, Huayun

• International Three – AWS, Azure, IBM


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BIG THREE


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ALIYUN

• Leading Chinese Cloud

• Founded in 2009

• Most-advanced, services similar to AWS

• EC2, S3, ELB, and RDS

• Images, Marketplace

• Best bandwidth, plus CDN (inexpensive)

• Per-server bandwidth complicates things


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ALIYUN

• Lots of very small companie

• Separate cloud for financial / secure systems

• Good security scanning service

• Avoid SQL Injection, etc.

• Has EBS, performance still a challenge


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TENCENT Q-CLOUD

• Founded 2013

• Game focused

• Several nice feature sets

• Not too public (they’ll find you)


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HUAWEI

• An OpenStack Gold Member

• Founded in 2011

• Focused on Enterprise

• Focused on Telcos

• Not really for startups


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LITTLE THREE


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UCLOUD

• Founded 2012

• Best funded of small startup clouds

• Basic cloud features

• Very visible, self-promotion

• Fastest-growing cloud

• Good for startups


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QINGCLOUD

• Founded in 2013

• Smaller than UCloud

• High-end technology

• High-performance

• Good for complex, fast systems


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HUAYUN

• Founded in 2012

• Funded by Intel and others

• Local IDC background

• Focus on 3rd/4th tier cities

• Basic VMs along with various PaaS services


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INTERNATIONAL THREE


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AWS• Largest global player

• Best features, by far (not all in China)

• Sets global standards (API, etc.)

• Chinese cloud separate from global system

• Use AWS, easy to expand outside China

• Invite/Beta only for now, getting easier to access

• More expensive than others


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MS AZURE

• First major international cloud in China, in 2013

• Main focus on Office 365 in China, anti-piracy

• Also focused on Windows OS VM/Cloud

• Has Linux and other services, too

• Good pricing and deals, aggressive

• Best for Windows-based startups


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IBM

• Focused on enterprise customers

• Extension of existing large-system support

• Called SmartCloud Enterprise+

• IBM-owned Soft Layer not in China yet

• Not for Startups


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WHAT ABOUT PRIVATE CLOUDS?

• Small, but becoming more common

• ChinaNetCloud building since 2008

• Small ones are base Xen-based

• Now going to OpenStack

• United Stack is key local player


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KEY CLOUD CHALLENGES IN CHINA

• Pre-Pay vs. Post-Pay

• Technology & Feature Limits

• Security Concerns

• Reliability Worries

• Bandwidth Buying


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PRE-PAY

• Domestic clouds lack post-pay billing

• Rely on pre-pay, much like a mobile phone

• Hard to estimate costs for on-demand services

• Running out of funds means abrupt service cut-off


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TECHNOLOGY & FEATURE LIMITS

• Clouds are not as easy as they look to build

• AWS makes it look easy, but it’s hard

• Local clouds are too basic to compete internationally

• Especially lack of IO – block storage & performance

• Limited number of disk images, options, markets

• Very few 3rd party service providers and cloud skills

• Reliability still a problem


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SECURITY

• Chinese Clouds have good security so far

• Some have better tools than others

• Simple systems, usually root users & passwords

• Cloud firewall protection – very basic

• Additional security scanning in some cases


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BANDWIDTH

• Port speed provisioning with prepayment

• Common in China IDCs, but complex in cloud

• Some cloud per-server bandwidth complicates things

• Most cloud bandwidth quality pretty good

• CDN still usually a good idea


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