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Liu Qiangdong is such a good drinker. Zhou Buqi seldom drinks alcohol now. He only drinks two glasses of red wine every once in a while. This kind of liquor shop is somewhat difficult to cope with.

Fortunately, at this time, Zhou Buqi received a call, "Boss Zhang's phone number."

Liu Qiangdong asked: "Which boss Zhang?"

"The one from Suning."

"Can't you bear it anymore?"

"Maybe, if something happens three days in a row, no matter how good your mental quality is, you can't withstand it."

Zhou Buqi answered the phone, and it turned out to be related to the cooperation in group buying on campus.

This time, Boss Zhang's tone was obviously not as positive as in the past few days. There was even a hint of depression and worry in the heavy tone, "Mr. Zhou, please 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 current atmosphere on the Internet is very bad, so this cooperation will be temporarily suspended."

Zhou Buqi asked further, "Really there won't be any links tomorrow?"

"No."

"What about the contract?"

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

This on-campus group purchase is a small event, taking place over four days from October 28th to October 31st.

Tomorrow is the last day, so I won’t be trembling anymore.

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

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

"You're welcome."

After the call ended, Zhou Buqi sat there and pondered to himself.

They say you can’t fall at the same place twice. 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 on-campus group buying, and the evening session is the real explosion time.

But in the past three days, Suning.com has not even touched the threshold of the evening game, and collapsed every time in the lunch game.

They should wake up now, right?

Liu Qiangdong was standing by and asked, "How is it?"

Zhou Buqi said briefly and said helplessly: "It's very tragic. I could make 10 million tomorrow, but now I can only make 5 million. I lost 5 million with just one phone call. The loss is too big."

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 the joy in losing 5 million."

Liu Qiangdong hummed: "It turns out that the offline-to-online model simply doesn't work! Let alone Suning, the most successful e-commerce platform in the United States is Amazon, not Wal-Mart. Back then, Wal-Mart found a group of the most awesome people People who make the most idiotic e-commerce products. This is not a matter of ability, but a matter of thinking orientation."

Zhou Buqi glanced at him and said amusedly: "Old Liu, don't be too arrogant. I heard that in order to develop the online business, Suning's boss Zhang raised a total of 8 billion yuan!"

"Blow it!"

Liu Qiangdong didn't believe it at all.

Zhou Buqi shook his head and said seriously: "I think it is true, and... 8 billion is a bit small. Once Suning.com sucks too much blood, Suning will not be able to support it, and then Suning.com will inevitably Carry out external financing. Once third-party capital enters the market, it may bring about changes in the thinking structure, and the threat of Suning.com will appear."

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

"ah?"

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

"That's nonsense!"

Zhou Buqi had heard about it a long time ago.

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

Even earlier than Zi Weiyun.

is it possible?

It's basically just trying to fool the uninitiated.

The current business model of cloud computing is mainly the elastic cloud of LaaS. Looking around the world, there are only two companies that can really operate successfully, one is Amazon Cloud and the other is Ziwei Cloud, not even Google or Microsoft. But even so, Amazon Cloud and Ziwei Cloud often encounter some technical failures.

What will IBM do?

If IBM really knew how to do it, it would have promoted it on a large scale in the United States and continental Europe, and it would not have gone to the country to promote it... It was nothing more than the local government recruiting IBM to promote the local technology industrial park. political achievements.

Liu Qiangdong said: "Now the concept of cloud computing has been so popular by Ziwei Cloud. Taobao, JD.com, Paipai, Yi Xun, and Dangdang have all cooperated with Ziwei Cloud... According to my judgment, Suning.com will not easily They want to give up on IBM. If they really understood, they wouldn’t cooperate 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 so surprised that he was speechless.

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

Zhou Buqi hates the fact that iron cannot become steel, "I have cooperated with them to act out this way, why don't they understand? The lesson of 35 million is not enough? You have to ask me to kill them for a lot of money." , will they feel physical pain and wake up?"

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

"Don't give up?" Zhou Buqi snorted with disdain, "With their level, what else do they want to do? The Singles' Day group buying is about to begin, 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 crude way of playing."

"Add a server?"

"right."

"How can we add more?" Zhou Buqi was a little puzzled, "Didn't I say that Suning.com has invested all of its wealth in this group purchase? Can't you withstand 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 2008, IBM cooperated with local governments to establish a cloud data center with 16,000 servers. It was originally a software industrial park for software development. But domestic The software market will not develop at all. I guess...when it comes to the Singles' Day group buying, IBM will go all out in order to maintain its strategic partnership with Suning."

"This is for sure."

Suning is very determined to transform into online business. Boss Zhang even boldly announced internally that he would spend 8 billion yuan to build an e-commerce platform!

The speaker has no intention, but the listener has intention.

8 billion!

Now, IBM has only plundered a total of more than 200 million US dollars from Suning, only 1.6 billion...it is still far away. For IBM, it must keep Suning, a super big customer, no matter what.

IBM admitted it many years ago that it had missed the era of e-commerce. Suning is their only opportunity to reap the dividends of e-commerce, how can they let it go so easily?

Seeing his compatriots being teased and bullied by the Americans, Zhou Buqi was so angry. It would be better for such a large sum of money to fall into his own pocket than to fall into IBM's pocket! I really want to help but I can't help. IBM is as slippery as a loach.

Zhou Feng is the president of Ziweiyun's domestic business. He said calmly and peacefully: "The reason why Suning chose to cooperate with IBM is actually due to data security issues. If Suning.com cooperates with Ziweiyun, then Ziweiyun may have access to their relevant data and secretly provide it to JD.com. There is no such worry when cooperating with IBM."

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

Zhou Feng said coldly: "They don't call it cloud computing at all. In fact, it is a centralized data center."

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

Cheng Binghao said with a smile: "Ziweiyun is cloud computing. Their...actually has a higher-level data center with centralized management and no flexibility."

Then, Zhou Feng gave a simple explanation.

Both cloud data centers and data centers can provide customers with server rental services.

The main difference at the laas level is the flexibility of the algorithm.

For example, Taobao usually uses 10 servers, but 100 servers are needed for promotional activities.

If you use the elastic cloud service, you can rent only 10 servers. During the promotion, due to the sudden increase in traffic, 90 servers will be temporarily expanded based on the elastic algorithm. When the promotion ends and the traffic decreases, the elasticity algorithm will take effect again and the 90 servers will be returned. The problem is solved and the cost is greatly reduced.

If you use an ordinary data center without elastic algorithm service, it will be troublesome.

Without the reliance of algorithms, in order to ensure that the website does not crash during promotional activities, 100 servers must be rented. So much of the time, the extra 90 servers will be idle, causing a huge waste.

IBM's so-called cloud computing is all nonsense. It is just a concept that fools laymen. They have no elastic algorithm at all.

Zhou Buqi waved his hand, "No matter whether IBM's cloud computing is real or fake, their data center in the software industrial park is still real, right? Then the 16,000 servers can't be fake, right?"

"Um."

Cheng Binghao nodded, his face solemn.

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

Cheng Binghao pondered for a moment and said slowly: "We don't know the specific situation. It's just an estimate... I think 30 million people online should not be a big problem."

"30 million people..."

Zhou Buqi took a deep breath.

This is the size of college students, which means that even if all college students participate in on-campus group buying and respond to the call of the school network and enter the Suning.com website, the number of people will not be enough...