Silicon Valley

On the second day of the competition, icq held a press conference to announce to the outside world why siri was able to defeat the deep blue supercomputer.

At the press conference, people were surprised to find that Henry Williams was also present.

At this moment, Tian Shuai, the CEO of ICQ, said loudly on the stage: "Everyone knows that siri is just an artificial intelligence program running on Apple's laptop. The computing power of Apple's laptop is far from that of Deep Blue, but why does siri win? What?" After a pause, Tian Shuai's eyes swept around the audience and continued, "Here, I will announce to everyone the magic weapon of Siri's victory!"

"Actually, in addition to siri's clever algorithms, we also use another disruptive new Internet technology - cloud computing!!!"

The audience immediately whispered and whispered about what "cloud computing" is, as if they had never heard of it.

Tian Shuai waved his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and continued: "In simple terms, cloud computing means that 'computing' is distributed on a large number of distributed computers instead of local computers. The reason why it is called cloud computing is that distributed computers are distributed in All over the world, there are as many clouds, so the name is simple. Now, we also know that the deep blue supercomputer is just a computer, while siri uses cloud computing, but it relies on an extremely huge data center! "

Tian Shuai paused and said proudly: "Deep Blue's computing power is 1 billion floating point operations per second, but do you know how much Siri's computing power is?"

Before waiting for everyone to answer, Tian Shuai almost said it in a roar way: "It's a thousand times, a thousand times that of a dark blue computer!!!"

Everyone was shocked when they heard this, all of them were dumbfounded and unbelievable!

Tian Shuai looked at everyone's expressions and was very satisfied, and continued to say: "Previously, Mr. Henry Williams proposed to build data centers around the world, but it was questioned by the world. Now it seems that , building a data center is absolutely correct! The data center we build is different from a traditional data center, but a cloud computing data center! We can allow users to use ordinary Apple computers or laptops to access our cloud computing data center , and then do the calculations according to their needs. We can let them experience trillions of times per second of computing power that only supercomputers can have, and we can even let them simulate a nuclear explosion on a normal computer!"

The more Tian Shuai said, the more excited the people in the audience became.

They never imagined that the data center Henry insisted on building was so powerful!

"Of course, cloud computing data centers have more uses. Let's welcome Mr. Henry Williams to the stage with the warmest applause!" Tian Shuai was the first to applaud after he finished speaking.

Immediately, there was a wave of applause, one wave after another!

Henry smiled slightly at this time and walked slowly to the stage. His piercing eyes glanced at everyone, and smiled faintly: "What can a huge cloud computing data center be used for? Previously, if you wanted to run some enterprise applications in the office or on the company's website, you needed to buy Servers, or other expensive hardware to control local applications and make your business run. But not anymore, our cloud computing data center has enough idle resources for you to lease, including processors, storage, Network and other basic computing resources, you can deploy and run any software at will, including operating systems and applications!"

"Does this reduce the development and operation costs of many companies?!" Henry smiled slightly, "I call this model IaaS, infrastructure as a service."

Henry paused and said, "In addition, relying on a powerful data center, we can provide developers with a standard environment for building applications, so that they don't have to think too much about the underlying hardware, saving money on hardware. It also makes it easier to collaborate between distributed studios! And this model is called PaaS, Platform as a Service.”

"If the application software is successfully developed, it must be used by consumers. Therefore, we can provide software to run on cloud computing data centers, and consumers can access online through some clients on various devices such as computers, notebooks, etc., thereby There is no need to download. And this model is called SaaS, software as a service. Take a simple example, such as Kingsoft's WPS office software, if you use SaaS services, you can make WPS-Online online office software, and then browse through You can open the software by clicking the WPS plug-in! At the same time, the content written by the user can also be synchronized to the cloud space. This cloud space," Henry smiled and explained, "a cloud space is a space with a certain storage size. For example, Kingsoft can provide each WPS user with 2G of private storage space, they can log in to the WPS cloud space and find the files they have written. At the same time, users can upload or download files in the cloud space, and These files are not limited to WPS files, but can also be pictures, videos, etc..."

After Henry finished speaking, everyone couldn't help but take a deep breath, and their faces flushed with excitement.

This is simply the creation of one, no... If the market is segmented, there should be three profit models, and each profit model will have enormous potential!

"Genius, really genius!!! When he insisted on building a data center, it wasn't for nothing, he had already thought of a means of making a profit!" Everyone was shocked!

"To sum up, a brief summary is that IaaS mainly provides infrastructure services such as virtual computing, storage, and database, PaaS provides an environment for developers to build applications, and SaaS provides users with cloud-based applications."

"However, you must not think that the cloud computing data center has only these three functions, in fact it is not." Henry wrote lightly, "What is the most important thing in the cloud computing data center? In my opinion, it is data. Through big data management and Analysis can help us solve many, many problems. For example, online shopping, the consumption habits of each consumer will be stored in the data center, and then through data analysis, we can know what he likes and how his consumption level is, and then push it to him. Commodity information that matches his consumption situation can greatly improve the success rate of commodity transactions! Another example is search, we can analyze the user's search habits, and then give him the most accurate search results, so as to achieve the best results. The user experience! Another example is…”

Everyone's eyes lit up and they were all excited. Although they were only reporters, it was not difficult to understand the great value behind every word Henry said.

"It's so awesome! How big is Henry Williams' head? I really want to knock on his head and take a look..."

Some reporters looked at Henry with a trace of fiery and madness!

Soon, after the press conference was over, there was no time for reporters to ask questions, Henry and Tian Shuai left the press conference site directly. The reporters were not annoyed either. Instead, they hurriedly packed their things and went back to rush the manuscript as if they had been beaten.

The next day, newspapers and TV covered yesterday's ICQ press conference.

As soon as the news came out, the whole world was in an uproar!

It turned out that Henry Williams was actually making such a big game!

Cloud computing data center, LaaS, PaaS, SaaS, cloud space, big data and other terms quickly spread over the Internet. All the Internet or computer-related companies are all shocked. Henry Williams seemed to be high above the king of God, standing on the palace, looking down at them!

What Henry said has almost become the "Bible" of the Internet, and countless people worship and study it.

Some people call him "the father of cloud computing", and others call him "the father of big data". The Internet companies he created are all dominant; the Internet teams he leads are all kings.

In this era, his name has become a symbol of the Internet, and he is the emperor of the Internet! ! !

At this time, the performance of all the listed companies under Henry's name in the stock market was astonishing, the stock prices rose wildly, and the trend did not stop at all!

Investors are crazy, investors are crazy, and Wall Street is crazy too. "Williams concept stocks" are formed unconsciously, which is even more fierce than Internet concept stocks. At this time, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and TriAdvisor were just preparing to go public. Word began to spread that Henry Williams had invested in the four companies, holding a 30% stake in Facebook, a 25% stake in YouTube, a 22.5% stake in LinkedIn and a 20% stake in TriAdvisor. .

However, many people know that these four companies do not seem to be short of money, and none of them have received investment from any venture capital institution. Perhaps these gossips are pure rumors.

However, what is surprising is that within two days, these four companies actually issued a formal statement: "Yes, Henry Williams did invest in us, and the outside rumors are indeed true!"

Originally, these four websites were the fastest-growing innovative Internet companies in recent years. Now, with Henry Williams' investment, it means that even Henry Williams is very optimistic about them!

A senior Wall Street analyst said: "It's hard to imagine what kind of sensation these four companies will make when they go public, because they all have Henry Williams among their investors!!!"

On February 5, the Facebook website took the lead in listing, and the IPO issued 100 million shares, accounting for 20% of the total share capital, at US$50 per share, which means that the pre-IPO valuation has reached US$25 billion.

The CEO of Facebook is a Chinese-American named Rowan. He held the hammer excitedly, while Henry stood by with a smile, "The time is almost up, get ready to ring the bell!"

"Mr. Williams, it's up to you to knock!" Rowan pushed aside.

"I don't know how many times I've knocked this, but it's up to you to experience the feeling of ringing a Nasdaq bell!" Henry waved his hand and laughed.

Rowan said excitedly: "Thank you, Mr. Williams, I really haven't ringed the bell on Nasdaq!"

The Nasdaq trading started at 9 o'clock. Rowan kept looking at the clock on the LCD screen. At 9 o'clock, he was full of excitement and rang the bell vigorously.

"Boom!!!"

The audience suddenly burst into warm applause. Henry watched Facebook's stock market code appear on the LCD screen, and thought, Facebook has finally gone public...

(To be continued ~^~)