This document summarizes the Chinese cloud computing landscape, with a focus on major public cloud providers (Baidu Cloud, Ali Cloud, Tencent Cloud, Sina Cloud) and the opportunities for OpenStack in China. It notes that while the major tech companies have their own clouds, none are dominant and customers find it confusing to choose between them. The document also discusses UnitedStack, a Chinese company that provides OpenStack distributions and services, and their involvement in the OpenStack community as a top contributor in Asia.

1. China Cloud Reality
Hui Cheng – 程辉
UnitedStack CEO
Board Director of OpenStack Foundation
11/4/2013

2. Contents

3. China Cloud Players

4. Enterprise IT vs. Consumer Internet
Enterprise IT
Consumer Internet

5. Reason #1 Few investment on enterprise IT start-ups

6. China Cloud Players
Public Cloud and Service Hosting
Baidu Cloud
Ali Cloud
Tencent Cloud
Private Cloud(Cloud Software Vendors)
Sina Cloud

7. Public Cloud/Hosting
Incumbents - Baidu Cloud
Baidu Cloud
• Under Baidu Open Platform, not a
independent business
• More focused on PaaS and core business
related services
• PaaS - BAE(Baidu App Engine)
• PHP/Java/Python
• Web Hosting/MySQL/Memcache/ …
• Virtual Machines(Only open to partners)
• Cloud Storage(S3 and Dropbox Like Service)
• Mobile Services( Push, LBS, Messages)

8. Public Cloud/Hosting
Incumbents - Ali Cloud
Ali Cloud
• Aliyun is a independent company of Ali Group
• 1000 devs and 3 year to build such a cloud from
2009
• No.1 IaaS cloud provider
• Build core technologies from scratch, yet
famous for its poor IO performance
• Core Services
• ECS(Elastic Computing Service)
• RDS/ELB/Monitoring
• OSS(Open Storage Service, S3-Like API)

9. Public Cloud/Hosting
Incumbents - Tencent Cloud
Tencent Cloud
• Not public available, only open to its own SNS
platform’s partners
• Core Services
• CVM(Cloud Virtual Machine)
• CEE(Cloud Elastic Engine)
• CDB(Cloud Database)
• CDN/Monitoring/LB/

10. Public Cloud/Hosting
Incumbents - Sina Cloud
Sina Cloud
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PaaS – Sina App Engine(SAE)
The first and most popular PaaS in China
Built from scratch, integrated with OpenStack
Core Services
• Python/PHP/Java
• MySQL/FetchURL/Memcache

11. Public Cloud/Hosting
Incumbents - BATS
Baidu Cloud
Ali Cloud
Tencent Cloud
Sina Cloud
Observations & Personal Comments
• Cloud(PaaS/IaaS/Hosting) is not a serious business for BATS.
• BATS’s clouds are built up earlier than OpenStack, they are built from scratch.
• No absolute cloud leader in China, customers are often confused to choose.
• There are dozens of other smaller public cloud/hosting providers, most of
them are struggling to survive, some of them are almost dead.

12. China Cloud Players
Incumbents – Windows Azure China
• Chinese version of Windows Azure
• Microsoft's technology and Brand + VNET’s license and
local support
• Partnered with 21vianet(VNET), MS commit to $100M to the
venture.
• Still in invitation-only status.
• Powerful serious public cloud player in China

13. Private Cloud
Incumbents

14. Private Cloud
Opportunities for OpenStack

15. OpenStack in China

16. Community

17. How big is China OpenStack Community
2200
Foundation Individual members from China
2575
QQ Discussion Group Members
1407
Members of Google Group Mailing List
4686
@OpenStack Weibo Followers

18. China community compared to the world

19. Internet Company User Cases

20. Observations #1
OpenStack is replacing the legacy infrastructure software stack
Self-developed VM Management Platform
Nova
Cloud Storage Platform
Swift, Cinder
Networking/Security Tools
Neutron
Database DBA Operation System
Trove
SSO System
Keystone
Dev/Testing Environment
Devstack/TripleO
Hadoop Management Platfrom
Savana
Physical Resources Provisioning System
Ironic

21. Observation #2
OpenStack restructures the infrastructure team
Database
Network Team
Security Team
Operation Team
Develop Team
OpenStack Team

22. Observation #3
OpenStack leads to converged infrastructure
KVM,XEN,
Hypervisors
VMware, Hyper-V
MySQL
Mongodb
Database
LevelDB
OpenStack
Nexenta
Ceph
Storage
Gluster
Open Contrail
Networking
NVP
OpenvSwitch

23. OpenStack User Survey
410 participants, from about 350 companies
Which industry are your organizations in?
http://www.diaochapai.com/survey767085

24. Responses to “What is the current stage of OpenStack in your company?”

25. Responses to “What is hindering the development of OpenStack in your Company?

26. Responses to “Which OpenStack release are you using?”

27. Responses to “What OpenStack projects are you using or used?”

28. Responses
to
“Describe the workloads or applications running in your Openstack
Environment.”

30. China OpenStack Players
Type
Description
Example
Hardware Vendor
Selling hardware that integrates or supports
OpenStack
Huawei, Ruijie Networks,
Hillstone, Centec Networks
Component Vendor
Point solutions, usually software, that
provides subset of OpenStack functionality or
supports it.
n/a
Distribution/Packager
Basic packaging, some installation/setup, etc.
n/a
Turn-key System
Complete, integrated, OpenStack slutions
with value adds
UnitedStack
Service Companies
Professional or managed services to
customize or operate OpenStack
n/a
Public Clouds
Public IaaS
n/a
PaaS/ISVs
Value add on top of OpenStack deployments
n/a
Private Clouds
Users
Baidu, 360, iQiyi, Ctrip…

32. UnitedStack Team
In OpenStack, we have diverse footprint on almost all core projects, such as
Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Ceilometer, Heat and etc.
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2 core developers in OpenStack
Top 10 contributor
Biggest contributor in Asia.

33. UnitedStack Team
UnitedStack has strong commitment and involvement to infrastructure open
source software, we have actively participated in these projects

34. How UnitedStack does business on OpenStack
Responses to “Which business model do you prefer if UnitedStack charges?

35. UnitedStack Business Strategies
Free Software
•
Low cost and even free
•
Direct deliver to end user without broker/SI
Service Free
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Setup and operation without buying services.
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Human UI, easy management dashboard

36. UnitedStack OS
OpenStack has never been easier

37. That’s all you need to build a private cloud

38. UOS Deployment Documentation
Step 1: Prepare a VLAN with CIDR network)
Step 3: Open web console and add more servers
Step 2: Insert USB disk and boot from it

39. Thanks