Digital Kingdom

After reporting his work, Wang Tianbao left soon to prepare for the first representative meeting.

Shen Yiyi continued to listen to the leadership's arrangements.

As the "Smart Nation" is the core of the digital group's next step, it is natural to be cautious.

Attacking the "Norman" intelligence of the media lab is just a small matter, while cloud services are the grand strategy.

At present, the application of the "smart country" cloud is still the most basic computing and storage, and better hardware virtualization.

Although Zhao Ziming intends to provide services from three aspects: infrastructure, platform, and software, launching all product lines at once is not a wise choice.

The hardware virtualization model is more inclined to infrastructure, providing a virtualized machine system, and users need to build their own programming environment on this system.

To put it simply, it is the centralized management of computer software and hardware resources, so that both users with development needs and users with software requirements can share platform resources to reduce unnecessary investment and focus on On their own affairs.

It is possible that in the future, platform-oriented services will be introduced to provide a program interface and environment that can directly develop applications.

"Although we have technical advantages, we started too late. The major giants have almost carved up the market. What strategy do you think we should adopt?"

Zhao Ziming handed the coffee cup to Shen Yiyi and asked casually.

Since Shen Yiyi took over the "Wisdom Nation" project, he seldom intervened until the launch of the platform.

If you think that advanced technology can do whatever you want, scientists would have ruled the world a long time ago.

"I think the main method at present is price competition." Shen Yiyi pondered and said what he thought.

"Amazon's AWS has cut its prices 51 times in ten years and has almost monopolized cloud services. On this, we can learn from it and use its cost advantages to crush competitors.

Business matters are complicated and complicated, and simple and simple.

Price competition is indeed the only way to win in all strategies, no matter what the industry, as long as you can lower the price, you will always attract consumers.

"I think so too," Zhao Ziming nodded, "In terms of price, we have an advantage."

As the specific person in charge, Shen Yiyi naturally understands the relevant situation.

The current cloud platform structure of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Ali and other giants is to move the computers used by individuals and enterprises to several large data centers for unified and centralized management.

The current data center structure has not changed much from a few decades ago. It is still a traditional infrastructure, which is a simple expansion of the number of hardware resources such as servers.

This kind of data center is driven by hardware, and each hardware component is dedicated to a specific job.If you want to expand new functions, you need to configure new hardware. This process is very complicated, and when the task is completed, the new hardware cannot be undone.

In this over-expansion, the data center has become a behemoth.Operation, maintenance and management costs have increased dramatically, requiring computing, storage and network engineers to spend a lot of energy.

The "Wisdom Country" adopts a brand-new architecture, the "Hyper Converged Infrastructure", HyperConverged Infrastructure.

Compared with the traditional architecture, it is more flexible, customizable and intelligent.

If it was “hardware definition” before, it is now “software definition”.

The software-defined hyper-converged architecture can realize the intelligence of cloud computing and data center, make complicated tasks simple and easy to handle, and save deployment and maintenance costs, and truly liberate people from arduous operation and maintenance work.

As a result, the cost has dropped by more than 50%, and a price war has really started. Zhao Ziming is full of confidence here.

"We only have four opponents, and no one else is a climate." Shen Yiyi turned on the coffee machine and took the words.

She is dressed in a formal dress today, feminine and magnificent, oil-painted burgundy, looks very textured, with black trousers, elegant and not gaudy, very attractive.

"The domestic goal is Alibaba Cloud. According to the data I got, the utilization rate of Alibaba Cloud platform computing resources is not high. The average utilization rate of servers in commercial and enterprise data centers is only 5% to 15%. This is undoubtedly a resource A huge waste."

"Since you don't agree to the merger, let's take it first." Zhao Ziming remembered the recent negotiations between the two parties.

Take a look at how to resist lower prices and more advanced technology.

Ali assumed the role of a price butcher where it was founded. Today, someone should tell it how to deal with the price war.

"In terms of the Lambda architecture of our platform, the first 1 million visits are free every month, and then 1 RMB for every 1 million visits, which is almost free."

Shen Yiyi took a look at the Green Mountain coffee machine, and then said, she naturally knows that men don't like coffee, this machine is probably only used by her.

After taking a sip of coffee, he continued: "Now and in the future, the monopoly of cloud computing services by several giants will become more and more obvious. Our goal is naturally to be the best or even the only one, which requires us to have lower costs. Technology is more advanced."

"We are prepared for meage profits or even losses, and occupy all the markets within one year," Zhao Ziming made up his mind.

This was originally a winner-takes-all market.

Cloud services are just like basic service providers like water and electricity.

In the future Internet world, whoever occupies this basic service will have an irreplaceable basic position in the entire IT industry in the future. The future development of software and applications must rely on this foundation.

Of course, the core of future competition lies in the application scenarios. When the network bandwidth can meet the requirements, the competition will focus more on the innovation of the application scenarios. It is possible that a rising star will succeed because of the application, or even make it bigger than the predecessors.

But there are so many applications, which application will rise, it is difficult to predict.

So Zhao Ziming's plan is to make the platform more open and try to attract future successful applications to my platform, so that if you succeed, I can get a share.

Under the guidance of this principle, it does not matter how much money the "wisdom country" makes now.

With the size of the digital group, even if it loses money, it can sustain it and knock down all its competitors.

Moreover, the cloud platform is characterized by strong stickiness, and the cost of replacing the platform is high.

Once an application is developed, all links depend on the platform, and it is even impossible to move places.

Shen Yiyi nodded and approved Zhao Ziming's decision.

One day in the future, the prediction of Thomas J. Watson, chairman of IBM, 70 years ago will surely be fulfilled:

"Only 5 computers in this world are enough."

Although this sentence has been ridiculed by people, Shen Yi has considered from the perspective of "cloud", and there may be a day when the cloud platform will provide all computing and storage services.

Users no longer need to buy a computer by themselves, but need a display screen to obtain the required functions through the network.

Even a "computer" is enough.

"The first deputy mayor of Barcelona, ​​Gerardo Pisarello, arrived in Shanghai tonight. The city government hopes that we can participate in the evening banquet." Shen Yiyi grasped the leader's choice and began to talk about other things.

"You notify Vice President Xu and invite him to attend," Zhao Ziming answered casually.

With Xu Tianrui and others joining the company, he was relieved a lot.

On many occasions, I can't participate if I can.

On the one hand, although he personally does not hate these friendships, he can't be very interested.

With this time, it is better to accompany women more, and he is too young, standing among a group of old men, a somewhat embarrassing atmosphere.

Fortunately, the Digital Group won with technology, and the outreach work was messed up, and it did not affect the company's development.

After Xu Tianrui came, the situation changed significantly.

It can be said that he is the most suitable person for this type of work in the entire group, with qualifications, identity and ability.

In order to open up the situation, Xu Tianrui is also willing to take on the outreach business. Zhao Ziming sends him to almost all occasions that require the presence of digital group leaders.

"Okay," Shen Yiyi sighed secretly after getting an unexpected answer.

Even for such a big project, if the boss says he can't go, it's still wayward.

After all, the purpose of Deputy Mayor Gerardo Pisarello's trip is very clear, which is to export the "Sky Eye" project.

Negotiations involving tens of billions of dollars, according to common sense, Zhao Ziming, as the head of the group, would be somewhat rude if he did not attend.

However, everyone had anticipated Zhao Ziming's reaction.

Even the government knew his temperament and did not explicitly request him to attend, but used the term "send someone to attend."

Zhao Ziming's poor sociability and even his style of rejecting people thousands of miles away left a deep impression on everyone.

A widely circulated joke is,

"I ran into Zhao Ziming at a banquet. If it is a man, it is best not to start a conversation, because Zhao Ziming generally won't respond to people you don't know. If you are a woman, you'd better have a little confidence in your looks."

Although it was fabricated to slander Zhao Ziming, it can be spread out, which explains the problem somewhat.

Either unfamiliar, too few friends, or really immature in life.

Maybe it is this kind of character that Zhao Ziming can concentrate on doing something that he thinks is right and not waste time on meaningless things.

In Shen Yiyi's view, although his image of a man is not terrible, it is not perfect, and there is still some way to go before the qualification line.

However, geniuses always have their quirks, and over time, everyone gets used to it.

In front of Zhao Ziming's amazing commercial achievements, there are some shortcomings, but a more real image.

Not getting worse feedback and not affecting the company's business shows that people are more tolerant of him.

"Vice President Xu has long sleeves and is good at dancing. It can represent the company's image. It is much better than me," Zhao Ziming explained dryly.

He is naturally aware of his weaknesses, but he is unwilling to change anything.

The drive for change is insufficient, in other words, qualified.

Don't use some external things to advertise yourself, just like Zuckerberg doesn't need to wear a famous brand to prove himself.Zhao Ziming doesn't need to use gentleness to disguise himself.

If one day, he can dance well with long sleeves, treat people politely, and make people feel like a spring breeze, that only shows one thing, he has greater ambitions.

Of course, his unwillingness to cater to his intentions does not mean that he does not understand the world.

Shen Yiyi's usual considerations are all in his eyes, and one more explanation is also afraid of her disappointment.

For Shen Yiyi, he always has a feeling. After all, the two have walked through ups and downs, and they have more responsibility than ordinary lovers.

"Okay," Shen Yiyi answered.

"The "2017-2020 Barcelona Digital City Plan" they just proposed is an excellent test product for us. You can communicate with Vice President Xu later to finalize the project. In terms of conditions, you can do more concession",

Zhao Ziming briefly mentioned, without saying much.

The current Xiong'an New Area is still in the plan, and the level of confidentiality is high. Naturally, he will not disclose anything to the outside world, even if this person is his right-hand man.

A few days ago, Zhao Ziming attended a meeting of the highest standards and learned about the "Millennium Plan for the Xiong'an New District". Needless to say, the details of the plan will play an important role in it.

Participate as a major technical service provider, and use technical means to sense, analyze, and integrate various key information of the core system of urban operation, so as to meet various needs including people’s livelihood, environmental protection, public safety, urban services, industrial and commercial activities Intelligent response.

It is really rare for a company to participate so deeply in such a national-level strategy.

"Okay." Although Shen Yiyi didn't know the leader's thoughts, but the blind trust concept kept her from thinking too much.

"I'll go to your place in the evening", Zhao Ziming finished talking about the business, and started to think about it.

"Not today, my mother is at home", Shen Yiyi yanbo, cast a blank look at the man.

"Oh, Auntie is here, I should pay a visit." Zhao Ziming thought about it and gave an unexpected answer.

Shen Yiyi was a little dumbfounded, she couldn't think of a man with such a thick face.

"You go to prepare for work first, and call home by the way," Zhao Ziming directly ordered without waiting for Shen Yiyi to speak.

"No..." Shen Yiyi hadn't reacted yet, how could it suddenly become a visit.

"Don't worry," Zhao Ziming saw this and said comfortingly, "I will talk to my aunt, and it will relieve your pressure to some extent."

"No," Shen Yiyi's face flushed, "I can handle it, you don't want to get involved with this kind of thing."

As the job stabilized, the marriage problem that had been avoided for a long time was brought up by his parents again. Shen Yiyi's many excuses were no longer working, and he was irritable recently. If Zhao Ziming came to the door at this time, he would not be ugly.

Although Shen Yiyi's parents are not young, they have also seen a lot of rumors on the Internet.

"Okay," Zhao Ziming saw that Shen Yiyi's attitude was more determined, so he gave up. He didn't have much experience in dealing with these things, but when it was time to get ahead, he naturally couldn't be a tortoise.