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Cloud Computing in Taiwan

Dr. George Wang, EVP

Institute for Information Industry

Taipei, Taiwan georgewang@iii.org.tw

2012.Oct.11th

Cloud Computing – A Major Paradigm Shift for IT

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Mainframes with attached terminals

Minis & Super-minis

Internet

PCs

Servers

Cloud Computing

Centralized Distributed Distributed & Centralized

Applications & Data

• Business models

– HW/SW providers: Pay-as-you-use vs. 1-time purchase

• Reform of eco-system

– Telco/ISPs dominate customer access, owns bargaining power

– HW/SW/Solution providers sells to Telcos/ISPs

– Major cloud players (Google, FB, …) competes with telco/ISPs

• Email service, storage, …

– Niche Players get emerging importance (e.g., Dropbox)

• HW

– Cost effective (not cheap)

– Energy saving

– Adaptive (to major players)

• SW

– Scalability/Elasticity

• Distributed processing (vs. grid & parallel computing) – high-performance computing technology has moved into commercial arena

– Security

• Secured information partitioning for different business entities

• Cloud Computing Strategic Forum

• Executive Yuan approved ‘The Cloud Computing industry development plan’

• EY established “Cloud Computing Steering Committee” • MoEA established “Cloud Computing Promotion Workgroup”.

• DoIT help established Cloud Computing SIGs

Industry

Developments

Government Promotions 2009.9

2010.4

2010.7 2010.9

2012.3

2010.10

2011.11

2010.11

2011.7

2011.4 • Government purchase of cloud service

reference approved

Cloud Valley Exhibition Center opened

Established Taiwan

Cloud Computing

Alliance (TCCA)

ITRI announced All-in-One Cloud OS

TCCA Transformed into

“Cloud Computing Association in Taiwan” (CCAT)

CCAT awarded Outstanding Cloud Applications

III announced Cloud Appliance For Enterprise (CAFÉ )

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Milestones of

Taiwan Cloud Computing Industry Development

• Government announced “Low Carbon Cloud、Edu Cloud、Police Cloud、Health Cloud”

2011.03

“CAFÉ Solution Technology Center”

(CSTC) founded by III 2011.06

Goals of Cloud Computing Development

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Values for

Citizens

Industrial/

Economy

Outcome

Infrastructure: cost-efficient, energy-saving

Platform: big data, parallel processing tools

Applications: large-scale, shared data, process integration Creativity

Coordination

Technology

excellence

Technology

Marketing

Balancing Citizen’s Service and Industry Revenue

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Cloud Computing

Applications & Industry

Development Strategy

Promote Valuable

Applications for Citizens

Be GREEN

Establish Application

Development Environment

And Tools

Build System

Software Expertise

Construct Cloud

Infrastructure

The Cloud Computing Industry

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(IaaS/PaaS/SaaS)

Cloud Service Providers Cloud System Providers

Taiwan Hardware Leadership for Cloud Computing

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10.0%

20.0%

30.0%

40.0%

50.0%

60.0%

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4,000

6,000

8,000

10,000

12,000

2007 2008 2009 2010(e) 2011(f) 2012(f) 2013(f) 2014(f) 2015(f)

TW WW TW share

Mkt Share

%

Shipment (K) 2007~2015 Taiwan server vendors shipments in global market

WW No.1 Mkt Share: 94.1%

NB

WW No.1 Mkt Share: 94.0%

Mother Board

WW No.1 Mkt Share: 72.1%

LCD Monitor

WW No.1 Mkt Share: 40.9%

Thin Client

WW No.1

Server

Source:MIC，IEK

Taiwan leads the world in manufacturing of servers,

storage, and networking devices; with the additional

new opportunity of supplying directly to large public

cloud and data centers.

Missing Cloud System Software

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Cloud Computing moves competitive edge towards System、Software、Service

Data Center Hardware (Server, Storage, Switch)

VMware、Microsoft、IBM . .

VM1 VM2 VM10

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

Challenges: w/o system software, hardware margin becomes even lower, Cost of building services are very high

Control Point

Taiwan Cloud Computing Industry Eco System

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Server (Inventec, Wistron, Quanta, Asus, MiTac, Foxconn, GIGABYTE…)

CPU (Intel,

VIA,…)

Storage (Infotrend, Promise, AccuSys,

InnoDisk…

Network Device (Accton,D-Link,

ZyXEL, CyberTAN…)

Application Software (SMB, Education, Healthcare …)

Cloud Hardware

Service Operators (CHT, TFN, FETnet…)

Service Operation

Infrastructure Software

Cloud OS (ITRI,III, …)

Power and Cooling (Delta,AcBel...)

1. Build System Software Expertise

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Public Cloud R&D Private Cloud R&D

III, ITRI, and the industry jointly conducted R&D, developed ‘Cloud OS’,

cloud system software and established core technical competencies.

Cloud OS 1.0

Container style green Cloud datacenters.

Under evaluation by KDDI

Cloud Appliances (Mini/Micro Cloud)

For enterprises or ‘hosted private cloud’

ASUS, Delta, GIGABYTE, In Win, Promise

announced CAFÉ based appliances

Develop system software and cloud applications. Enter the worldwide Cloud Solutions market. Target worldwide public clouds, enable export of ‘end-to-end’ cloud data centers.

Assist hardware manufacturers to transform, develop cloud systems/appliance for the lucrative

worldwide private cloud market

Establish Cloud industrial leadership via technology development

Enterprise Concerns on Public Cloud

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• Cloud computing has the potential to deliver a number of very important benefits, including the ability to provision compute and storage resources on-demand.

• However, for a variety of reasons, some applications and workloads need to be run from behind the firewall.

Cloud Appliance For Enterprise from III

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Virtual Machine Management

Standalone Server Rack-mount Server

Desktop

Applications

File

Manager

CPU,

Memory,

Disk

File Object Sync & Share

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

PC Server Cloud Appliance

OS

Win

do

ws/L

inu

x

CAFÉ -cake Cloud Appliance Kernel Environment

CAFÉ -pc2

Personal Cloud Computer

CAFÉ -cosa Cloud Object Storage Appliance

domain-specific application & service

scalable virtual machine/storage/desktop/security

non-scalable physical machine

Work with hardware vendors,

to jointly develop small-scale,

plug- and-play Cloud

Appliance For

Enterprise(CAFÉ ) for SMEs.

Collaborate with ISVs to

develop competitive

domain-specific cloud

computing

applications/solutions.

Establish the cloud

appliance ecosystem

through strategic

alliances. Make Taiwan

a world leader in cloud

system products

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PC Server

Server/Storage Appliance

Application Appliance

Hardware Software Clouds

Taiwan Cloud Computing Transformation

CAFÉ -CAKE CAFÉ -CAKE CAFÉ -CAKE CAFÉ -CAKE CAFÉ -csg CAFÉ -PC2 CAFÉ -COSA

2. Be GREEN

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Lower Overall Energy Consumption for IT Systems with Cloud Computing Economy of Scale

Dell HP Verari

Microsoft

Rackable

Data Center energy saving approaches: Set data center energy efficiency goals Promote data center energy reduction actions Launch energy efficiency guidelines for new data centers

Professional Data Centers

Racks Virtualization Sharing

• Bureau of Energy established plans for data center measurement and standardization procedures

• Inspect data center efficiencies for government and schools. Government data center purchase and leasing need to confirm with energy saving guidelines

• Expected to save more than $400 million dollars after adopting data center energy saving guidelines at universities and schools

Container Computers (Inventec, Wistron etc.)

for the Green Data Center

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Significantly lower energy cost; Speed up deployment

PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) lowered from 2.0~2.5 to 1.2~1.3

New Generation Data Centers

3. Construct Cloud Infrastructure

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Government Aid for Server Manufacturers

Transforming Hardware Manufacturers to Cloud Solution Providers for the Global Market

Software, System and Services Research

Provide Total Solutions

Renewable Energy & Integration Research

Large-Scale

Data Centers

Made In Taiwan Cloud Appliance Products

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ASUS Cloud Appliance

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CAKE

OS

Ap.

OS

Ap.

IN-WIN Inc. PC2 Appliance

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PROMISE Hybrid Cloud Storage Series SmartStor

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Macbook with you

PC at office Mac at Home

iPhone

Android Phone iPad

安全保存 簡單分享 版本管理

簡單設定 行動App 聰明診斷 自我註冊

即時同步Real Time Sync Safe Store Simple Sharing Revision Mange

Easy Setup Mobile App Smart Diagnostic Self Registration

SmartStor Cloud

GIGABYTE 3-in-1 Cloud Appliance

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GI-100

GI-200HAS

Delta Hybrid Cloud Storage Solutions

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4. Establish Application Development Environment and Tools

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A Multi-vendor Platform for Application Development & Testing

NCHC

Cloud Development & Testing Platform

Telecom

Operators

Proof of Concepts

Government

Funded

Development International

companies

III & ITRI

Demand Side

Verification Certification

Service requests

Service providers

IDC

Domestic

companies

Cloud service development w/o hardware purchase, matching Demand and Supply sides. Demand：One-Stop Shopping，lowering cloud application development cost. Supply：New business opportunities; piloting local cloud system solutions

One-Stop shopping

Business opportunities

Supply Side

Service requests

Service providers

Enterprise Cloud Services

G-Cloud Services

III’s CAFÉ/Cloud Solution Technology Center

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CSTC

CSTC Environment

CSTC Services

Product Strategy

Architecture Design

Proof-of-Concept

Sw,Hw

Expertise

Partnership

III established CAFÉ Solution Technology Center(CSTC) that provides

environment and technical support for Development of cloud

applications.

Compute

Network

Virtualization

Operating Systems

Applications Servers

Information Application Appliance

Cloud Services

1. ‘Cloudification’ Know-how 2. Cloud Infrastructure for development and testing 3. Development and testing tools

Cloud Applications needs

Ongoing Pilots at CAFÉ Solution Tech Center

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III & ITRI Joint Development of DTaaS

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Tester

Browser

Report service

Test case

statistic Test

reports

Test report

Mgmt.

Library

Test Harness

Test cases

Tag Test service

Auto-deploy Scripts

Deploy

Deployment

Mgmt.

Test cell

Test

Mgmt.

Test

Mgmt.

template

Redmine

Bugzilla

Jenkins

Developers

Source

code

SVN

Development service

Dev.

template

Tomcat

MySQL

JDK

Development service - IDE

Project

Deploy

Plugin

Library

Plugin

Task

Mgmt.

Plugin

Code Version Control Plugin

Management service

Check out & commit

Develop

Report

Track issues

Request

build

Check out

Build

Launch

test

Design test

Browse result

Report

Development & Testing as-a-Service

5. Promote Valuable Applications for Citizens

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Key Public & Industry Concerns

Valuable Government Cloud Applications for Citizens

M-Police cloud to

provide higher

public security

GIS Cloud to

intergrade Emergency/Disaster

info nationwide，for disaster control

and general public

Sharing Cloud

facilities for

schools for carbon

reduction; e-

Learning services

for lifelong learning

Cross-division

food information

integration for

food tracking

and traceability.

Better food safety

Linking medical

service, long term

care, wellness care,

public health, CDC,

for pervasive

healthy

environment

Clusters for Cloud Innovation

Intelligent Policing Food

Traceability

Health Care

Education Content

Disaster Prevention

GIS

(1) Intelligent Policing

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Facial Recognition Correlation Analysis

Geography Characterization

Criminal Characterization

Image Analysis Assembly Monitoring

(2) Food Traceability

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Agricultural Resume/ID Inquiry

system

Food Processing

Resume/ID Inquiry System

Toxic substances ID Inquiry

System

Origin Of

Agricultural

Products

This milk is from Hualien, xx Farm, xx Transportaion and

expires on YYMMDD…

Imported Premier Steak

from Texas last year

This fish is from PengHu xx company，

dated YYMMDD

Agricultural

production Info

(Farmers/Fishermen)

Product

Inspection

Food

Processing

Food

Inspection Retail

& Logistics Restaurants

Food Resume/ID Cloud

Supply-chain & Logistics info platform

Multi-device

Multi-Users

(3) Healthcare Cloud

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Establish

medical history

Index system

for data exchange

across facilities

Patient’s

medical history

stays in original

hospital

Medical Service Cloud

Long term Care Cloud

Wellness Cloud

(4) Disaster Prevention GIS Cloud

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Timely integration of all disaster related information for resource scheduling, disaster

handling by central and local governments; Broadcasting of alerts, weather report,

disaster information, traffic notices, shelter info etc. to the citizens

(5) Education Content and Services

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Provide a user-friendly, intelligent, lively, sharing,

and interactive e-leaning environment among

students , teachers and parents

Digital Resource Integration • Online dictionary • e-mail services • On-line advance learning for

teachers • Open source Software platform • Digital teaching resource service • Single sign on

Equal Learning Opportunity

• Online tutoring

Social Network Platform

• Educational wiki

Online Security

• Net Guard

Smart

Campus

Inspiring

Learning

Resource

Sharing

Less Rural-

Urban Gap

c

Edu-Cloud

Vision

Teachers,

Parents

Students

Interactive

Project

Education

Cloud

Next Step : Government Open Data

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Open Data Value-Added Applications

Government Increased

Efficiency

Benefits for

Citizens

Economic Value

Government Open Data Barriers

Licensing mechanism

Few government agencies have licensing rules in

place

Reuse Pricing

Charges and Fees Act Clause 12: fees could be

reduced, stopped or waived

Licensing fees

Data Exchange and Compatibility.

Lacking reuse legislation.

No universal rules available

Existing regulations

• National Geographic Information System

database and service platform

• MoC traffic information exchange

Visions for Government Open Data

Value-Added Applications

Licensing and Pricing

Cloud Computing in Taiwan

Vision and Value Proposition

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• Continuing/expanding ICT economical contribution – Industry Revenue

• Value for all citizens

– Instant and timely information

– Enhanced service

– For our daily living

• Human-Centric Cloud Services for better and smarter living

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Partnerships Welcome

• Taiwan will accelerate its ICT transformation

to become a leading Cloud Computing Total

Solution Provider worldwide

• Taiwan IT industry is developing key cloud

computing assets for this transformation

• We seek win-win partnerships with

worldwide industry leaders to jointly grow

the Cloud Computing Industry