Why is Mr. Qian Xuesen considered a great prophet? First, he predicted the development trend of China's new energy vehicles, and then he predicted that the development of artificial intelligence would be "human-computer integration, with humans as the main body." More than thirty years ago, in his "Systems Theory," he mentioned: The whole composed of interrelated, interacting, and influencing components is called a "system." In the world of "systems," even if the components are thoroughly studied, it cannot answer the holistic questions. This precisely hits the ecological logic of today's cloud computing. The upgrade of a single technology cannot solve the problems of the entire system. Only by mutual assistance of technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data can the qualitative leap of cloud computing be achieved.

Cloud computing is rapidly changing, integrating functions such as analysis, classification, and sharing, using fewer resources to create more clustered and faster cloud computing.

This powerful cloud is also the strategic direction of China Unicom's "strengthening foundations, adhering to innovation, and integrating openness" today. Against this background, China Unicom released a new generation of cloud computing platforms - Unicom Cloud version 7 - at the sub-forum of the China Unicom Partner Conference on December 20, 2022, the Unicom Cloud Ecology Conference.

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Cloud computing, as an important layout for China's overall strength to overtake the curve, should not be considered far away from us. It is like a digital "water plant." When we need water at home, we no longer need to dig wells; we just need a faucet. To give the simplest example - the "handling affairs" that we used to be afraid of, we had to run back and forth for seven or eight times, and the processes were one after another, making people dizzy. Nowadays, most areas are covered by provincial government service platforms, and multiple processes can be completed with a single click, relying on the "cloud computing" as the base to empower the government cloud model.

Now, the era of cloud computing is unstoppable. As the "digital base" in this major change, Unicom Cloud has been upgraded with four major technical capabilities:

1. Dual-engine architecture upgrade

To strengthen the core "computing power," Unicom Cloud version 7 enhances the core and upgrades to a new generation of computing architecture, with multiple scenarios such as AI/HPC/big data; the self-developed CULinux operating system and IPv6+ are integrated into the dual-engine core, achieving one-city-one-pool through distributed resource second-level opening, unified scheduling, and cross-domain allocation, reducing latency to within 10ms, greatly improving computing efficiency and capacity. In other words, it can calculate faster, more, and cover a wider range of computing power. For the daily massive information throughput of enterprises, Unicom Cloud's strong "core" can not only increase the throughput rate of large-scale virtual machine hot migration by 4 times, allowing information to flow freely and in real-time, but also be compatible with multiple chips, GPUs, and AI accelerator cards, giving enterprises more choices.

2. New breakthroughs in performance indicators

In the era of big data, are you afraid of not being able to calculate or store too much data? In the era of cloud computing, these are not problems. Unicom Cloud version 7 enhances momentum, creating a massive cluster of cloud-native computing, with single-cluster management of tens of thousands of nodes, among which 250+ million concurrent processing of billion-level big data is launched online. The history of top stream official announcements of love affairs, causing the entire network to collapse overnight, and big factory programmers complaining and repairing the network overnight will also become a thing of the past. Not only can it calculate, but Unicom Cloud can also store, with storage performance reaching the mainstream level of the industry, IOPS reaching the million level; high-density, low-frequency storage, reducing prices by 50%, allowing enterprises to enjoy larger capacity with less cost. Network performance load balancing and concurrent volume breakthrough of ten million-level QPS, ms-level gateway minimum latency, Unicom Cloud's higher performance network is leading the industry.III. Reliable and Secure Full Autonomy

While carrying a vast amount of data, the security of data in the "cloud" is also a significant issue.

In July of last year, IT solution provider Kaseya was attacked by a supply chain ransomware attack, causing Kaseya's unified remote monitoring and network perimeter security tools to go down directly, and there was no doubt about the leakage of information from service providers and downstream customers. China Unicom Cloud has learned from the lessons of information security incidents and has built an integrated cloud-network-edge-end protection system, starting from platform self-protection (level 3 protection), and tenants' security from the host to logs and data are all securely locked in a "cloud."

The version 7 of China Unicom Cloud integrates the "Mo Gong" security operation service platform, providing one-stop network security, system security, data security, and application security services. It integrates operator network security, near-source anti-DDoS cleaning, large network situation awareness, and threat intelligence in one, responding quickly to any intrusion and protecting user information security. Moreover, the full-stack products ensure 100% self-developed (independent operating systems, cloud platforms, databases, etc.), so there is no need to worry about being strangled by foreign technology at any link, and suddenly going on strike. Corporate secrets are added to the risk, and government secrets are leak-proof.

IV. Industry Capability Expansion

Having said so much about the technical aspects, is China Unicom Cloud far from us? No, from small to seeing a doctor, to large enterprises, you have already had the trace of China Unicom Cloud in your life. Based on China Unicom's many years of deep cultivation in the industry market, China Unicom Cloud has accumulated more than 100 industry PaaS components and has customized more than 20 sub-solutions for seven major scenarios, fully empowering the digital transformation of the industry.

For scenarios with high storage capacity requirements such as medical imaging and video storage, there is the "Data Sea Storage Cloud" specializing in storage; for scenarios requiring multi-department collaboration, such as epidemic prevention and social governance, there is the "Intelligent Video Cloud" that can cross-mobilize; for scenarios with high perception requirements such as urban mass community IoT and parking units, there are also sub-segmented "IoT Perception Cloud" and so on...

For example, Guizhou Unicom has created a 5G smart factory for Guizhou Shanwang Fruit Health Industry, where the amount of water, electricity, and gas used in the factory is uploaded to the system in real-time, and the financial cost accounting is clear at a glance. During the prickly pear picking season, each basket of harvested fruits has a unique ID card, directly bound to the fruit farmer's information, and a simple scan can complete the traceability of the fruit's entire life cycle.

During the epidemic prevention and control period, the smart medical team of China Unicom Cloud launched a "1 data platform + 1 cloud network base + N scene applications" cloud cabin system, and the information of the cabin hospital was digitized at an ultra-fast speed of 3-4 days, unblocking the process bottlenecks of multiple business management scenarios. The patient's medication and ward rounds after entering the cabin can be checked in real-time on the smart system, allowing data to travel more and patients and medical staff to walk less.In addition to the comprehensive upgrade of the four major technical capabilities, to better meet the diverse needs of industry customers for building and using cloud services, the current version of Unicom Cloud 7 has three main business versions:

1. Unicom Cloud 7 Industry Cloud Version: More extensive, richer, and more professional

Fully enhance distributed management, cloud network security, and exclusive features of the zone. For example, Unicom Cloud has built a county-level public service platform (more professional) to meet the needs of smart cities, with one city and one pool to meet the needs of hundreds of millions of users, and second-level scheduling (more extensive); the developed application products can be one-click issued to the Henan backbone cloud pool (richer).

2. Unicom Cloud 7 Private Cloud Version: Easy to customize, easy to migrate, and easy to manage

Open more than a hundred APIs to create a dedicated cloud for customers, with local teams providing full-process support services (easy to customize); provide automated migration tool sets and multi-cloud management platforms (easy to migrate); multi-cloud management can unify portals, billing, management, and operations (easy to manage), which can directly cut 30% of the cloud usage costs for enterprises each month, saving both costs and resources.

3. Unicom Cloud 7 Xinchuang Cloud Version: Easier, more compatible, and more reliable

Easier: Unicom Cloud has opened Beijing and Guizhou as the southern (Gui'an base to establish Xinchuang nodes) and northern (Beijing to establish Silicon Valley Xinchuang nodes to undertake key customers in Beijing) nodes to establish Xinchuang industry cloud pools, as well as Xinchuang adaptation platforms and migration tools to cooperate, so that enterprises can use them out of the box no matter where they are in the country.

More compatible: Adapt to 95% of domestic mainstream software and hardware, support mixed deployment of X86+ARM+OpenPower three architectures.

More reliable: As mentioned earlier, Unicom Cloud, which is fully self-developed, is not only not afraid of being held back but also joined the Xinchuang Working Committee and the Beijing Xinchuang Working Committee, and deeply participated in the formulation of industry standards within the Xinchuang industry, becoming one of the first batch of pilot demonstration projects for the safety and controllable application of key information infrastructure by the Development and Reform Commission. With the safety certification of the "national team" behind it, do you still need to worry about the safety of this "cloud"?

Taking into account safety and reliability, cloud-network integration, exclusive customization, cost-effectiveness, and multi-cloud collaboration, this "safe and intelligent cloud" is rapidly growing into the national team of cloud computing and the computing power engine for enterprise digital transformation.China Unicom Cloud connects the future, reaches the world, empowers all things with wisdom, and ignites infinite possibilities with innovation.