ChinaNetCloud - Public Clouds in China Overview

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

Clouds in China
CONSUMER
• End user apps & storage
• Evernote, Canva, Pinterest, etc.
• iCloud, DropBox, etc.
• Mobile Device Support

Clouds in China
BIG DATA - HADOOP
• Hot trend
• Driving tech innovation
• Driving Ads & Targeting
• A bit scary

Clouds in China
SAAS
• Software-as-a-Service
• Replaces traditional on-premisis software
• Vendor-managed internet applications
• Salesforce, Workday, Marketo

Clouds in China
PAAS
• Platform-as-a-Service
• Easy to use platform for Developers
• For dev, testing, and deployment of applications.
• Examples: Microsoft Azure, Apprenda, Heroku

Clouds in China
IAAS
• Infrastructure-as-a-Service
• Pay-as-you-go for server hardware
• Examples: Aliyun, AWS, Rackspace, MS Azure
• Instant scalability with flexible billing

Clouds in China
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

Clouds in China
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

Clouds in China
BIG THREE

Clouds in China
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

Clouds in China
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

Clouds in China
TENCENT Q-CLOUD
• Founded 2013
• Game focused
• Several nice feature sets
• Not too public (they’ll find you)

Clouds in China
HUAWEI
• An OpenStack Gold Member
• Founded in 2011
• Focused on Enterprise
• Focused on Telcos
• Not really for startups

Clouds in China
LITTLE THREE

Clouds in China
UCLOUD
• Founded 2012
• Best funded of small startup clouds
• Basic cloud features
• Very visible, self-promotion
• Fastest-growing cloud
• Good for startups

Clouds in China
QINGCLOUD
• Founded in 2013
• Smaller than UCloud
• High-end technology
• High-performance
• Good for complex, fast systems

Clouds in China
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

Clouds in China
INTERNATIONAL THREE

Clouds in China
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

Clouds in China
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

Clouds in China
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

Clouds in China
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

Clouds in China
KEY CLOUD CHALLENGES IN CHINA
• Pre-Pay vs. Post-Pay
• Technology & Feature Limits
• Security Concerns
• Reliability Worries
• Bandwidth Buying

Clouds in China
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

Clouds in China
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

Clouds in China
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

Clouds in China
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

Clouds in China
CLOUDS IN CHINA
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