Ding Yu, General Manager of Alibaba Cloud Cloud Native Application Platform: "Connect, Collaborate, and Empower", join hands with accelerator partners to help enterprises innovate on the cloud

Cloud Native Accelerator Roadshow Mentor Judge

Entering the era of digital intelligence, cloud innovation is the only way for enterprises to accelerate their digital transformation and enhance their competitiveness. As a new technology concept born in the era of cloud computing, cloud native has incomparable advantages over traditional IT. Cloud native can help enterprise IT smoothly, quickly and gradually land on the road to the cloud from the aspects of technical concepts, core architecture, and best practices, and focus more on the realization of business logic.

From March 3rd to 4th, the first phase of the cloud native accelerator roadshow jointly organized by Alibaba Cloud Cloud Native Application Platform, Alibaba Cloud Accelerator and Alibaba Strategic Investment was held in Hangzhou. Alibaba Cloud Cloud Native Accelerator is an enabling acceleration organization in the domestic cloud native field. Since its release in November 2021, it has received applications from hundreds of companies. After two roadshows, 31 companies were finally selected for the first cloud native accelerator of Alibaba Cloud.

List of 31 selected companies: Click here to view the link

Ding Yu, Alibaba researcher and general manager of Alibaba Cloud Intelligent Cloud Native Application Platform, said that if we use three words to describe the effect we hope to achieve, it is connection, cooperation and empowerment.

• Connection: Connect with the entire Alibaba Cloud internal and external resources through the cloud native accelerator, including external investment companies; and achieve more connections with cloud native accelerator member companies in technologies, products, and solutions.

• Cooperation: Co-construction and co-creation in technology, products and business with cloud native accelerator member companies, and establish more cooperation.

• Empowerment: Through these high-quality exchanges and co-creation activities, we can learn from each other in terms of organization, business, and business capabilities, so that cloud native accelerator member companies can gain more.

Cloud native accelerators will expand to other fields in the future, such as databases, security, AI, big data, etc., and continue to expand the scope of the entire accelerator cooperation.

Ding Yu, General Manager of Alibaba Cloud Intelligent Cloud Native Application Platform

Why is cloud native technology popular?

Today, thousands of industries are embracing cloud computing and cloud native. From the perspective of industrial development, 30 years ago, in the field of digitization and informatization, the entire industry was popular for informatization reform of enterprises, including enterprise construction ERP, CRM, and OA. At that time, some informatization software and enterprise-level technologies were popular. .

After this stage, the consumer Internet began to rise, and everyone began to build some systems to serve end customers, just like opening a Pandora's box, we will directly face customers, which requires massive connections, timely response services, And the ability to build IT at low cost. Therefore, Internet technology came into being. It has the characteristics of low cost, scalability and distribution, and is very suitable for to C products. With the urgent need to improve service quality, the continuous collection of data has spawned many big data frameworks and applications of AI capabilities. Therefore, technologies such as the Internet and big data have begun to develop vigorously.

Today, with the rise of industrial Internet or industrial digitization , cloud computing has become the mainstream form of technical support. You will find that mainstream cloud computing companies are all from Internet companies and complement each other with the Internet. Cloud computing can form a good complement to the Internet business.

Now all walks of life can see the wide application of Internet technology and cloud computing technology. These technologies can have a huge impact on the production, manufacturing, and operation of enterprises, as well as the services and products that enterprises provide to end customers. Cloud can build new forms and new capabilities through digital technology, thereby reducing costs, improving efficiency, increasing revenue, and bringing more value to enterprises.

Cloud computing is the culmination of the entire platform. It integrates the past enterprise-level application architecture, Internet technology, AI, and big data into the platform to provide digital solutions for thousands of industries. Therefore, from the perspective of technological development, the emergence of cloud computing or cloud native is in line with the business needs of the entire industry, that is, the development of the digital economy and the real economy will inevitably require technical support such as cloud native, so we often say that cloud native will inevitably become the digitalization of enterprises The shortest path to transformation.

Alibaba Cloud's Practice in the Cloud Native Field

Alibaba Cloud is still different from other clouds. Alibaba Cloud has four unique features:

1. Self-developed cloud. Since 2009, Alibaba Cloud has developed its own Feitian operating system. Today, you can see that Alibaba Cloud has built very strong technical barriers in the fields of self-developed chips of Dharma Institute, and built its core advantages with self-developed research; Fully compatible with open ecology;

2. The cloud of data intelligence. Based on the reserves of Internet technologies, big data and artificial intelligence technologies such as Dharma Academy and Tao Department, Alibaba Cloud has done a lot of work in data intelligence.

3. The cloud of experience blessing. Today's digitalization requires Internet technology. In this regard, Alibaba Cloud has more than 20 years of Internet experience and has inherent advantages.

4. The integrated cloud. Alibaba Cloud is an open cloud. It cooperates with many partners to build a complete ecosystem of product technology solutions. Strengthening the ecosystem is also one of Alibaba Cloud's core strategies.

Today, Alibaba Cloud has the world's leading capabilities in many aspects, especially in the cloud native field:

Alibaba Cloud has the most abundant cloud native product family in China. There are more than 300 cloud products and nearly a thousand technical solutions, including containers, cloud-native DevOps, microservices, message and event-driven, observable, serverless architecture, etc., as well as cloud-native databases, big data, AI, application delivery and security ability etc.

Alibaba Cloud has the most comprehensive cloud-native open source contribution. Alibaba Cloud has more than 2,700 open source projects on GitHub, covering fields such as big data, cloud computing, AI, middleware, containers, serverless, etc. It has more than 30,000+ Contributors, over one million GitHub Stars, and ranks among the Chinese enterprise open source community GitHub Contribute to the top.

Alibaba Cloud has the largest cloud-native application practice. The entire Alibaba Group has realized that 100% of all businesses run on the public cloud, and applications are 100% cloud-native. Based on the integrated optimization of container software and hardware, the scale of online business deployment of millions of containers brings the technical value of a 30% increase in CPU resource utilization, an 80% reduction in the cost of 10,000 transactions, and a 20% increase in R&D, operation and maintenance efficiency. , seize business opportunities and create greater social value.

Alibaba Cloud has the broadest cloud-native customer base. Alibaba Cloud has served more than 3 million customers all over the world and covers all walks of life. At present, more than 80% of Chinese technology companies are running on Alibaba Cloud.

Alibaba Cloud has obtained the highest level of cloud native evaluation certification in the world. Alibaba Cloud entered Forrester's global public cloud container platform leader quadrant, which is the first time for a Chinese cloud computing company to enter this quadrant; in the serverless field, Alibaba Cloud is also the only technology company selected in Forrester's leader quadrant in China.

From the perspective of enterprise IT system demands, technology as a productive force can create greater technical value and lead business development. In the process of enterprise cloud migration, cloud native technology, as a representative of advanced productivity, brings rapid iteration of cloud business to enterprises and enhances enterprise competitiveness. Therefore, when an enterprise implements cloud native, it can be divided into several steps:

First, cloud-based infrastructure and Internet-based core technologies. The biggest advantage of the Internet is small steps and quick iterations. Compared with the traditional IT architecture and the Internet architecture, there is a ten-fold difference in the project iteration cycle. The traditional software R&D cycle is in years, and a large version may be released every year, while the Internet software R&D cycle is in weeks or days. Through small-scale iterations, agile businesses can quickly receive market responses and feedback and seize market opportunities. .

The second is business digitization and intelligent decision-making. Data-based governance of system applications, data-based calculations through big data and AI technologies, and final decision-making through data trends. Data can fully release technical productivity, allowing enterprises to rely on technology to achieve business breakthroughs, which will bring huge opportunities for digital innovation and transformation to enterprises.

Alibaba Cloud uses these steps to empower industry customers. During this process, because the needs of enterprises are also diverse, there will inevitably be situations where each enterprise needs different solutions because of its different characteristics. Therefore, Alibaba Cloud attaches great importance to the power of ecology, and regards ecology as one of our main strategies. We hope to provide customers with more complete industry solutions by building an ecosystem of technologies, products, solutions, and delivery services. This is also one of the purposes of Alibaba Cloud's launch of the cloud native accelerator. The cloud native accelerator is also part of Alibaba Cloud's ecological strategy. We hope to cooperate with member companies to develop more markets and create greater social value.