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Liu Qiangdong is too good at drinking, Zhou Buqi seldom drinks now, and occasionally drinks two glasses of red wine, which is somewhat difficult for this kind of liquor market.

Fortunately, at this time, Zhou Buqi called, "Boss Zhang's call."

Liu Qiangdong asked: "Which boss Zhang?"

"The one from Suning."

"Can't you bear it?"

"Maybe, accidents happened for three consecutive days, no matter how good your mental quality is, you can't stand it."

Zhou Buqi answered the phone, and it was indeed related to the cooperation of group buying on campus.

This time, Boss Zhang's tone was obviously not as positive as in the past few days. You could even hear a bit of depression and worry in the heavy tone, "Mr. Zhou, don't link to Suning for tomorrow's group buying event."

"Ah?" Zhou Buqi was surprised, "Why?"

Boss Zhang sighed, "The technical problem here seems to be more complicated than expected, and it may be difficult to solve it in a short time. The atmosphere on the Internet is very bad now, so this cooperation will be temporarily suspended."

Zhou Buqi asked, "Are you sure you won't hang up the link tomorrow?"

"No."

"What about the contract?"

After a while of silence on the other end of the phone, Boss Zhang's heavy voice came, "It's okay, the terms of the contract can continue to be implemented, just don't hang up the link of Suning.com."

这次的校内团购是小活动，时间是10月28日到10月31日这4天时间。

Tomorrow is the last day, and it's not bad for this shiver.

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "That's not necessary, if you don't link up, there will be no pit fee, just pay the liquidated damages."

Boss Zhang breathed a sigh of relief, "That's fine, thank you."

"You're welcome."

After finishing the call, Zhou Buqi sat there, thinking to himself.

It is said that you cannot fall twice in the same place, and Suning.com has fallen three times in a row.The most exaggerated thing is that the lunch session is just a warm-up time for intramural group buying, and the evening session is the time for the real explosion.

But in the past three days, Suning.com didn't even touch the threshold of the evening show, and it collapsed every time in the noon show.

Should they wake up now?

Liu Qiangdong was beside him and asked, "How is it?"

Zhou Buqi said briefly, and said helplessly: "It's a tragedy. I could make 1000 million tomorrow, but now I can only make 500 million. I lost 500 million with just one phone call. The loss is too great."

Liu Qiangdong wanted to drink with him again, and said with a smile: "Congratulations!"

Zhou Buqi waved his hand, "I won't drink anymore, I can't drink anymore, what's there to be happy about losing 500 million."

Liu Qiangdong snorted: "Facts have proved that the offline-to-online model will not work at all! Not to mention Suning, in the United States, the most successful e-commerce platform is Amazon, not Wal-Mart. Back then, Wal-Mart found a group of the most powerful The people who make the most stupid e-commerce products. This is not a question of ability, but of thinking orientation."

Zhou Buqi glanced at him, and said with a smile: "Old Liu, don't be so careless. I heard that in order to start the online business, Suning's boss Zhang raised a total of 80 billion yuan!"

"Blow it!"

Liu Qiangdong didn't believe it at all.

Zhou Buqi shook his head and said sternly: "I think it is true, and... 80 billion is a bit small. Once Suning.com absorbs too much blood, Suning will not be able to support it. At that time, Suning.com will definitely Carry out external financing. Once third-party capital enters the market, it may bring about a change in thinking structure, and the threat of Suning.com will be manifested.”

Liu Qiangdong didn't take it seriously, "There is nothing to threaten. Judging from the performance in the past few days, they don't understand e-commerce at all. Maybe they are still full of hope for IBM!"

"what?"

"It's not impossible. IBM has also built some cloud data centers in China."

"That's bullshit!"

Zhou Buqi had heard about it a long time ago.

As early as two years ago, IBM cooperated with a certain local government to create a cloud data center based on IBM cloud computing in a newly developed software technology industrial park, which is known as IBM's world's first cloud data center.

Even earlier than Ziweiyun.

is it possible?

Basically just fooling around.

The current business model of cloud computing is mainly the elastic cloud of IaaS. Throughout the world, there are only two companies that can run relatively successfully, one is Amazon Cloud and the other is Ziwei Cloud, not even Google and Microsoft.But even so, Amazon Cloud and Ziwei Cloud often encounter some technical failures.

What will IBM do?
If IBM would really do it, it would have already promoted it on a large scale in the United States and continental Europe, so why would it go to China to promote it... It is nothing more than the local government's desire to promote the local science and technology industrial park and bring in IBM to come up with it. achievements.

Liu Qiangdong said: "The concept of cloud computing is now so popular with Ziweixing. Taobao, JD.com, Paipai, Yixun, and Dangdang have all cooperated with Ziweiyun... According to my judgment, Suning.com will not easily Give up on IBM. If they really knew, they wouldn't work with IBM at all."

……

Facts have proved that Lao Liu was really right.

On the second day of November, Zhou Buqi looked at Zhou Feng and Cheng Binghao who came to the office to report, and was too surprised to speak.

"Really, they decided to continue to cooperate with IBM." Cheng Binghao was very helpless, with a look of regret, "I contacted them and got a positive answer."

Zhou Buqi hated iron and steel, "I have cooperated with them to perform their tricks to this point, why don't they understand? The lesson of 3500 million is not enough? I have to kill them a lot of money , they will be heartbroken and awakened?"

Cheng Binghao said, "I've inquired about it, and it's the IBM people who don't want to give up."

"Don't give up?" Zhou Buqi snorted coldly, very disdainful, "As far as their level is concerned, what else do they want to do? The group buying on Singles' Day is about to start, what solution can they come up with?"

Cheng Binghao said: "In such a short period of time, it is impossible to modify the structure and make more technical adjustments. We can only choose a simple and rough style of play."

"Add server?"

"Correct."

"How can I add it?" Zhou Buqi was a little puzzled, "Didn't it mean that Suning.com has invested all of its wealth in this group purchase? Can't you stand it?"

Cheng Binghao said: "There is also a cloud computing data center."

"What?"

Zhou Buqi opened his eyes wide.

It's really cloud computing, Liu Qiangdong guessed it right!

Cheng Binghao said: "As early as 08, IBM cooperated with the local government to establish a cloud data center with a scale of 1.6 servers. It was originally a software industrial park for software development. But domestic The software market can’t develop at all. I guess... when it comes to Singles’ Day’s group buying, IBM will burn the boat in order to maintain the strategic partnership with Suning.”

"This is for sure."

Suning is very determined to transform into an online business. Boss Zhang even shouted proudly internally that he would spend 80 billion yuan to build an e-commerce platform!
The speaker is unintentional and the listener is interested.

80 billion!

Now, IBM has only collected more than 2 million US dollars from Suning, which is only 16 billion... It's still far away.For IBM, Suning, a super customer, must be kept anyway.

IBM admitted many years ago that it missed the era of e-commerce.Suning is their only chance to enjoy the e-commerce bonus, how can they let it go easily?

Seeing his compatriots being bullied by the Americans in such a teasing way, Zhou is not angry. Such a large sum of money is better in his own pocket than in IBM's pocket!I really want to help, but I can't do it. IBM is as slippery as a loach.

Zhou Feng is the president of Ziwei Cloud's domestic business. He said calmly and peacefully: "The reason why Suning chose to cooperate with IBM is actually the issue of data security. If Suning Tesco cooperates with Ziwei Cloud, then It is possible for Ziweiyun to obtain their relevant data and secretly provide it to JD.com. There is no such worry in cooperation with IBM.”

"The social atmosphere of business reputation is too bad." Zhou Buqi shook his head, and then asked, "How about IBM's cloud computing?"

Zhou Feng said coldly: "They don't call it cloud computing at all, they are actually centralized data centers."

This is more in line with Zhou Buqi's cognition. If IBM produces commercial-level cloud computing services in the current period of time, the industry structure of cloud computing will undergo earth-shaking changes.

Cheng Binghao said with a smile: "Ziweiyun is cloud computing, and theirs... is actually a more advanced data center with centralized management, which has no flexibility."

Then, Zhou Feng gave a simple explanation.

Both cloud data centers and data centers can provide customers with the service of renting servers.

The difference at the IaaS level is mainly the flexibility of the algorithm.

For example, Taobao usually uses 10 servers, but it needs to use 100 servers for promotional activities.

If you use the elastic cloud service, you can only rent 10 servers. During promotions, due to the explosive increase in traffic, 90 more servers will be temporarily expanded according to the elastic algorithm.When the promotion is over and the traffic drops, the elastic algorithm will take effect again, and the 90 servers will be returned.Not only solve the problem, but also greatly reduce the cost.

If it is a data center that uses ordinary non-elastic algorithm services, it will be troublesome.

Without relying on the algorithm, in order to ensure that the website does not crash during promotional activities, it is necessary to rent 100 servers.So that in most of the usual time, the extra 90 servers will be idle, which will cause great waste.

IBM's so-called cloud computing is all nonsense, it's just a concept to fool the layman, they don't have elastic algorithms at all.

Zhou Buqi waved his hand, "I don't care if IBM's cloud computing is true or not, but their data center in the software industrial park is always true, right? The 1.6 servers can't be faked, right?"

"Ah."

Cheng Binghao nodded, his face serious.

Zhou Buqi asked: "For the most part, if IBM is determined to connect all the servers in the entire data center to Suning.com's platform in the next cooperation between the two parties, how many users can they accommodate online?"

Cheng Binghao pondered for a moment, then said slowly: "We don't know the specific situation, it's just an estimate... I don't think 3000 million people online should be a big problem."

"3000 million people..."

Zhou Buqi took a deep breath.

This is the size of the college students, which means that even if all the college students participated in the on-campus group buying and responded to the call of Xiaonei to enter the Suning.com website, the number of people is not enough...