Chapter 6 - Cloud Services Environment
Characteristics and Prospects in the Cross-strait
Markets
6.1
Cross-Strait Cloud Services Industry Landscape and
Application Development
As cloud computing is becoming the mainstream of the global information industry, the
construction of the cross-Strait cloud services infrastructure is making significant progress
resulting from the technological advancement, accumulation of experiences, the emerging
mobile Internet technologies, the ever increasing computing power, and the growing
popularity of digital communications. The vigorous advancement of cloud computing not only
revolutionizes the industry but also inspires the formation of many new business models that
are reshaping the landscape of economic development and business competition.
With the industry’s steady movement toward adopting large-scale, centralized computing
and virtualization technologies, the real-time, multi-purpose, and complex computing
applications are becoming a reality. Prompt by the development of IT applications in all fields,
there are more terminal devices and bigger volume of transmitted data. With service
orientation and business competition, the Internet is offering more variety, rapid,
custom-tailored, lower cost, and personalized services. As a result, cloud service providers
and operators that are based on cloud technologies have surfaced to construct the initial
complete ecosystem for the cross-Strait cloud environment.
Accompanied by the construction and development of the cloud environment, innovated
new business models continue to emerge that is revolutionizing the industry in an obvious
way. It is clearly an inevitable trend to have Independent development in application services,
information management, and basic computing power. Individuals and enterprises discover
service development models and possibilities that are different from before and there are
more cloud-based services that can be obtained in a variety of ways via online, rent on
demand, or free promotion.
With the growing cloud applications users, people have a better understanding and
recognition of the cloud services models. Typically, cloud service providers grow the market
