China Netcom founder Edward Tien’s new venture – Cloud Valley
Originally published in CommsDay International
Cloud Valley, the latest venture from Edward Suning Tien, the founder of AsiaInfo and China Netcom, is nothing less than a complete cloud computing ecosystem located in the southeast part of Beijing.
According to Charles Mok, the founder of Hong Kong affiliate Cloud Valley Networks (HK) Ltd., Cloud Valley will combine investment, technology development, R&D, product development, manufacturing and systems integration, into one big package to address the cloud computing market in China and abroad.
Cloud Valley has already established a campus in Beijing housing more than 1,000 staff in R&D and business development, and owns a number of technology companies developing different components of the cloud computing ecosystem.
“What we have actually, we have a full range of different companies. We have software companies like YOYO and T-Cloud that are creating platforms in the IaaS and PaaS layer. We have hardware companies like SuperCloud, a joint venture between US-based company SuperMicro and ourselves, and Cloud3, which makes containers for data centres. SkyCloud is the systems integrator that tries to encapsulate everything, and we are going to be the first and only licensee of US’s Cloud.com’s solution in China,” Mok said at a data centre conference in Hong Kong last Friday. “So we have from software and hardware to systems integration on the solutions stack.”
In his view, cloud computing is a ripe market for China because the Internet and broadband are becoming more and more prevalent.
“There’s the first industrial revolution and the second industrial revolution, these are very Western concepts and China sort of missed out on those opportunities. But when we look at the cloud computing situation, it is very different because China is already the biggest Internet population in the world. Many of the companies in China are actually leaders in terms of the scale, and in terms of the technology they use,” he said.
At the same time, increased support from the Chinese government to make information technology available to everyone is now opening up further opportunities for cloud technology and service providers.
“In China, many of these applications and these new technology rollouts are very much official, or government policy driven. So there’s also an opportunity in developing government driven services – or so-called city cloud concepts. What we are talking about is rolling out these personal services really to the individual level in China, and that is actually beginning to happen there,” he explained. “We want to make the cloud accessible to everyone, so it becomes a utility type service to every citizen – that is really some of the projects we are involved in.”
HK AFFILIATE: While Cloud Valley will focus on developing the core technology and services inside China, Cloud Valley Networks (HK) Ltd., will focus on bridging the Chinese and international markets, added Mok, himself an entrepreneur who started Hong Kong ISP, HKNet, which was subsequently acquired by NTT Communications.
Cloud Valley Networks (HK) has already signed an MoU with Hong Kong’s Cyberport project to work together on technology and business exchange between Hong Kong and the mainland.
“They are interested in taking Hong Kong companies to the mainland, and we are interested in taking Chinese technology to Hong Kong,” Mok said. “There are many advantages to Hong Kong. One advantage is the free flow of information – that is very important. For many Chinese companies, there are so many things that they want to do but can’t do inside China, even writing a Facebook applications, they don’t know how to put it up onto Facebook – there are just things that they can’t do in China.”
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Category: Applications, Cloud computing, Data centres, Green ICT
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