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After round A, Ziwei Xing's machine started to run at full power and at high speed.

There are as many as five major matters that Zhou Buqi personally wants to ask about, namely the real estate plan related to the headquarters park, social software, Jinri Toutiao, cloud computing, and a study tour to the United States.

Because Zhang Yiming has to pay attention to the two projects of social software and Toutiao, he will definitely not be able to visit the United States in the near future.

The delegation was led by Wang Xing and Dr. Wang Jian.

Dr. Wang Jian has resigned from Microsoft, and got the M6 ​​position in Ziwei Star, and he is the person in charge of the cloud computing business. This time he went to the United States, he mainly did two things.

The first thing is plan A, as the technical director, go to the United States to interview those technical talents Wang Xing is optimistic about, and bring them back to China.

The second thing is Plan X.

He wants to do cloud computing, everything has to start from scratch.

This is a bit slow.

Amazon started it a few years ago, and Google, Microsoft, and IBM also announced last year that they would build their own cloud computing platforms. A number of small start-up companies related to cloud computing have also emerged.

"Plan A" is to go to the United States to poach people, and "Plan X" is to go to the United States to poach technology.

For such an important business as cloud computing, it is almost impossible to seek technical cooperation from large companies. You can only go to small companies to try opportunities.

Domestic technology in cloud computing is still blank. It can be said that this trip to the United States, no matter what benefits you can get from small companies, even the most basic technical framework, is also helpful.

There are 9 people in this study group.

If it goes well, at least dozens of outstanding talents and hundreds of thousands of lines of code can be brought back from Silicon Valley.

Zhou Buqi went to the airport in person and reiterated his opinion again.

Pay attention to the direction of "infrastructure as a service" (LaaS), and learn from Amazon.

Don't try to eat a fat man at one bite, learn Google's model after seeing Google's technology is so famous, you can't learn it! In terms of technology procurement, the direction of Amazon Cloud should still be used as the standard!

The lesson is too great.

In his previous life, Dr. Wang Jian chose the wrong direction when he was working on Alibaba Cloud. He learned from Google to develop "Platform as a Service" (PaaS), and suffered a lot, and all the elite soldiers under him left one after another. Most people think that this expert with a background in psychology is a liar who doesn't understand anything!

Had it not been for Boss Ma's desperate trust in him, Alibaba Cloud might have had a miscarriage early on.

But even if Alibaba Cloud made it later, it was a bit delayed. Failed to seize the track in the first place, and almost all cloud computing businesses in the world were taken away by Amazon Cloud. Alibaba Cloud has only seized the domestic track.

Zhou Buqi also has ambitions for overseas business.

Wang Jian gave different opinions and explained the concept of cloud computing.

What is cloud computing?

That is, when the amount of data is too large, the computing power of the local processor is not enough. It may take an hour to process a set of data, which will affect the efficiency too much.

At this time, you can use cloud services to connect the data with a larger server cluster in the cloud, and help process it through the powerful computing power of the cloud.

It may take less than 1 second for a set of data to be processed.

Amazon's cloud model is actually a virtual server in the cloud, which is cloud rather than computing, and Google's direction is computing.

Zhou Buqi said: "So, cloud computing is actually two parts, one part is cloud, and the other part is computing. First, there must be cloud, and then there can be computing."

Wang Jiandao: "Cloud deployment is not difficult, but computing is difficult. The key point is computing. It took billions of dollars to build the cloud, but there is no computing service. Isn't it a waste of a lot of money? Waste of resources. With computing Doing cloud can reduce costs.”

Zhou Buqi shook his head, "If you want to spend money to build a cloud data center, it will take a year for a single phase of the project. After one year, maybe big data processing technology has achieved rapid development. Don't forget, Baidu is doing A big data project. If they have results, I can have the cheek to beg them."

These words really moved Wang Jian's heart. After all, some of the core members of Baidu's big data project were his former colleagues at Microsoft Research. They have deep skills in big data research and are stronger than him.

In the previous life, Baidu’s big data project was successful, but the performance was not as good as the open source product Hadoop, and the internal power struggle was too fierce, so Li Yanhong could only reluctantly abandon the self-developed product and choose Hadoop.

Alibaba Cloud started to go the wrong way, and what it did was the direction of big data. Wang Jian led a team to study Hadoop, half copied and half revised, but failed to make it after more than a year. Later, I had no choice but to accept Hadoop.

This is two years later than Baidu.

In two years, IT technology has developed by leaps and bounds. Two years later, Alibaba Cloud couldn't even make Baidu's technological achievements two years ago.

It can be seen that Dr. Wang Jian is not very knowledgeable in big data.

"Can you really get in touch with Baidu?"

"Let me try."

"Try?"

Wang Jian twitched the corner of his mouth, such an important event, with such a perfunctory attitude?

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "One goes up and down, Ziweixing is getting better and better, Baidu...not necessarily, I don't want to fight desperately with Weidian in the core business of search, but went to do e-commerce."

Wang Jian looked suspicious and didn't think it was a reason.

Wang Xing couldn't listen anymore, and said with a smile: "Doctor, trust him!"

"Um?"

"I said, trust him! Do as he says!"

"Um……"

Wang Jian seemed dissatisfied.

Professional things should be done by professional people. As a boss, just point out the general direction and make sure to do cloud computing business. But what should cloud computing do, should we not listen to the opinions of professionals?

Zhou Buqi was really speechless, he was very helpless about the axis of technical talents, so he could only turn on the big flicker mode, coughed lightly, and lowered his voice: "Doctor, it's okay to tell you, I talked to Ali, and wait for our cloud computing data center Once it’s built, they may move in and become our users.”

Wang Jian's eyes lit up, "Really?"

"certainly!"

"Good thing! If Taobao can become our customer, then the daily operating expenses of the cloud computing platform will be covered!"

"Trust me now?"

"If there are customers who can settle in the first time, then the maintenance fee and operation fee of the cloud computing data center will be settled. If this is the case, it is really possible to do the cloud first, and then do the computing."

No one knows whether the cloud computing data center is reliable or not.

The Amazon cloud was also verified internally for more than two years before it was opened to the outside world.

But Zhou Buqi is full of confidence in this, and the development of technology is exponential. It seems to be an unattainable technology now, and in a year or two, it will not be so unattainable.

Not long after Aliyun went online, Alipay went up.

This is the financial system, which needs stability most.

Especially under the strong traffic impact of "Double Eleven", can an unverified cloud server work?

But Aliyun resisted.

Since then, Alibaba Cloud has become famous, its stability has been guaranteed, and more and more merchants have begun to settle in.

Zhou Buqi said: "The scale of Ziwei Star is getting bigger and bigger, and two new businesses will be launched soon, which will generate huge data. We have to build our own data center. Instead of this, it is better to build cloud computing data in one step. What about the center?"

Dr. Wang Jian blinked, not quite believing it, "Really?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Since I want to do cloud computing, I must have 100% trust. The traditional data center model is of course very stable, but Ziweixing will continue to break the rules and challenge new technologies! Wait for the cloud computing data center to be completed. Yes, we Ziwei Star will be the first one! Ali will be the second one! Are you afraid that our cloud computing business will not be able to start?"

Wang Jian took a deep breath and nodded, "If this is the case, then aim at the direction of the Amazon cloud."

The Amazon cloud model is to spend huge sums of money to build infrastructure, organize large-scale server clusters together, and build a cloud computing data center.

This cost is very large.

According to data released by Amazon, the cost of a cloud computing data center with 160,000 servers will reach 500-700 million US dollars. In terms of domestic area, North China, South China, and Central China all need to build a cloud computing data center, plus a backup data center... at least four cloud computing data centers need to be built, and the total investment may reach 2 billion US dollars .

In fact, Alibaba Cloud’s layout in China in the previous life was to set up 9 data centers.

Ziweixing must not have so much money.

Fortunately, cloud computing data centers can be built in stages.

It is enough to build one or two buildings in each data center and build one or two data center modules as the first phase of the project. The four major cloud computing centers are only engaged in the first phase of the project, and the shelves are set up first, and the capacity will be gradually expanded later.

An initial investment of US$500 million is basically enough.

With Zhou Buqi's guidance, Wang Jian will not take so many detours in cloud computing. Running on the highway all the time, the project cost is bound to be a lot less.

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Regarding social software, the latest survey came out.

In addition to Fetion, there are several products on the market that focus on "free texting". The two most well-known products are Usin and Xrose.

But both are gimmicks.

Fetion's free text messaging refers to the PC side, which is very powerful.

These two products can only be used on mobile phones, such as Ursin, and there is no computer client. It is necessary to install the Usin software on the mobile phone, and then after the user logs in to Usin, he can send text messages to mobile phone users without paying the SMS fee.

This further proves that the free texting mode on the mobile phone is very feasible, and no one will participate if it does not make money.

Mobile terminal works, of course, PC terminal also works!

It's just that the PC side needs to have a distributed synchronization problem with the mobile phone side, which is difficult for many small companies, and Fetion hardly does it.

For example, if the current Fetion PC terminal receives the information, the mobile terminal cannot receive it. The mobile phone QQ received the message, but the computer could not receive it. This often leads to contradictions in information transmission, resulting in information omission.

Distributed technology is no problem for Ziweixing!

"Okay, no need to argue, let's get started! The research and development project team has started!"

Zhou Buqi slapped the table and made a decision.

On June 25, Ziwei Star officially launched the social software program.