Corona 19 came like a lightning bolt. And it has changed a lot. One of them is the’popularization of the 4th industrial revolution’. It is true that the Fourth Industrial Revolution has been felt only as some declarative slogan. However, after Corona 19, its perception has changed significantly. I realized that the Fourth Industrial Revolution is not just a slogan, but a matter of survival. GDNET Korea looks forward to the evolutionary direction of the 4th industrial revolution with 10 keywords in the new year of the new year (辛丑年).[편집자주]
⑤Cloud: Now, essential infrastructure…Korea aims to become the top 10 powerhouses
In March of last year, as the Corona 19 incident prolonged, it was no longer possible to postpone school opening, and the unprecedented online school opening was decided. It took only’weeks’ to transform an existing online learning system designed to be used by thousands to tens of thousands of people with access to 6 million people. It seemed almost impossible, but thanks to the use of the cloud, we were able to quickly expand computing resources and apply the necessary functions to begin online school without much confusion.
It is a symbolic example that made people feel that the cloud will serve as the basic IT infrastructure after the Corona 19 pandemic (pandemic).
Due to the pandemic, not only education, but all daily activities, including work, leisure, and consumption, are transforming into non-face-to-face and digital. Now is the time for organizations of all sizes to adopt the cloud and devise a strategy for its use in order to survive the new trend.
Gartner, a global IT consulting firm, predicted that the global public cloud market in 2021 will reach 34.9 billion dollars in 2021, an increase of 18.2% from the previous year, as the cloud transition to Corona 19 accelerates through a report on “World Public Cloud Spending Outlook in 2021”. In 2022, it is expected to grow by 18.7% to reach $366.2 billion.
The cloud’s share of the IT spending market is also expected to increase significantly from 9.1% in 2020 to 14.2% in 2024.
Sid Nag, head of Gartner Research, said in the report, “A cloud model that allows you to expand resources as needed will support the’cost efficiency’ and’business continuity’ that companies need to accelerate their digital transformation.” As a result, the value and utility of the cloud has been verified, and cloud adoption is becoming a new standard (new normal).”
IDC, a global IT market research firm, also predicted that the cloud will become the core infrastructure that will determine the success or failure of companies through the report’Top 10 Forecasts of the Global IT Industry Next Year’ that has recently been released. “The ability to quickly adapt and respond to unexpected business disruptions due to Corona 19 will determine success in the digital economy.” “A significant portion of corporate revenue is the responsiveness, scalability and resilience of infrastructure, applications and data resources. It will depend on”.
The acceleration of cloud transformation caused by Corona 19 and the advancement of cloud technology that has been going on for the past several years are expected to significantly change the IT environment this year.
‘Machine Learning·Artificial Intelligence·Big Data’…Criteria for Cloud Selection Change
Previously, the main purpose of adopting the cloud was IT management and cost efficiency. But future machine learning (ML)·It is expected that there will be more cases of adopting the cloud to utilize advanced application technologies possessed by cloud providers such as artificial intelligence (AI) and big data analysis.
In fact, cloud companies are also competing with specialized application functions in the field of ML and AI big data, seeing that the basic cloud computing service level has been leveled upward.
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s number one public cloud company, continues to add AI tools that companies can apply directly to their business. It is characterized by commercialization of Amazon.com’s AI capabilities such as personalized recommendation, sales demand prediction, online fraud detection, and enterprise search.
Yoon Seok-chan, senior tech evangelist of AWS Korea, emphasized that “computer vision, speech recognition, and speech synthesis are common among other cloud vendors, and AWS differentiates the ML capabilities that Amazon uses as a service.”
Naver Cloud, a domestic operator, is also focusing on strengthening its AI service lineup using its own AI engine Clova. In particular, as it has strengths in speech recognition technology specialized in complex sentence recognition and natural speech synthesis, the number of cases where Naver Cloud is applied to customer support fields such as AI call centers is increasing.
Popularization of advanced technology…everyone will deal with AI
Cloud vendors Anyone ML·It is also a trend to be noted in the new year that the barriers to entry are lowered so that advanced technologies such as AI and big data analysis can be easily utilized.
These technologies have so far been the domain of some experts. Now, as cloud companies lower the barriers to entry, the time of popularization is expected to accelerate.
AWS unveiled a bunch of new features that “break the boundaries of ML” at the reinvent of its annual technology conference held at the end of last year. By installing ML in Aurora, a relational database, SQL queries are thrown from the DB so that sentiment analysis can be performed immediately. In addition, a natural language analysis function was also added to the Business Intelligence tool so that a necessary graph was drawn immediately when a question was asked in a conversational form.
Google Cloud also recently released’Connect Sheet’, allowing users to use the information contained in the data warehouse by directly accessing Big Query, a big data analysis tool, from Google Sheet, an Excel type. In addition, it provides’Data QnA’, which allows you to analyze petabody-capacity data through natural language processing (NLP), and’Looker’, a web-based BI platform that allows anyone in the organization to easily explore and analyze data. .
Debanjan Saha, head of engineering at Google Cloud, recently blogged about the cloud industry in the new year, predicting that “from 2021, the cloud will accelerate data analytics and AI adoption across the organization.” “Companies with data analysis capabilities of all members of the organization will collect, analyze and apply data much faster than existing companies that rely on some data scientists.”
Increasing number of companies strategically adopting multi-cloud
The flow of’multi-cloud’, in which companies use two or more cloud providers at the same time, is expected to accelerate further in the new year.
According to the ‘2020 Cloud Status Report’ recently released by global cloud-managed service provider Flexera, 93% of the 750 companies surveyed are considering a multi-cloud strategy.
Multi-cloud is preferred because it can be independent of a specific company and technology from a user company’s point of view, and it is possible to select a cloud that best suits each business system and is cost-effective. In addition, even if an error occurs in the cloud service, the other party can replace it, so the need for stable system operation is emerging.
From the perspective of cloud providers, it is an opportunity in that even if you are not a large company, you can secure customers with specialized functions and develop niche markets. For this reason, it is also true that pursuing companies such as AWS, Microsoft (MS) Azure, Google, IBM, Oracle, etc., which have established a solid position in the public cloud market, are focusing on multi-cloud marketing.
Multi-cloud acceleration is expected to lead to the expansion of the cloud-managed service market. When enterprises use multiple clouds at the same time, management is inevitably complicated. Accordingly, it is expected that a cloud-managed service that supports the introduction of innovative technologies from system maintenance to cost optimization will be activated.
In addition, when companies introduce new technologies, whether or not’provide openness’ is expected to be an important basis for judgment. This is because companies need not be dependent on a specific infrastructure or technology so that they can use their multicloud strategy properly.
In this regard, Devanyan Saha, general manager of Google Cloud, said, “No company wants its valuable data to be subordinated to a specific cloud provider or service.” “Open infrastructure and open APIs are the way forward, and open philosophy must be embraced.” Said energetically.
Global cloud industry cataclysmic…how to increase Korean competitiveness
The global cloud market is rapidly growing and undergoing cataclysms. Domestic cloud companies are You have to take a chance. It can be seen as a strategy to build stamina in the domestic market and target the niche market in the global market.
First of all, in the domestic market, it is worth competing with global companies from the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) area. According to IDC, AWS occupies an overwhelming share of over 50% in the domestic IaaS market, but KT, a domestic operator, is holding second place with a 20% share. Naver Cloud, in its 4th year since its inception, is showing remarkable growth, and Kakao Enterprise and Cloud i are also about to launch, so it is worth expecting more from domestic companies.
In the global market, it is necessary to target the software as a service (SaaS) field, where various niche markets are open, rather than the IaaS field where the Big 3 system of AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud has already been established.
According to this judgment, KT and Naver Cloud are also strengthening cooperation with small and medium-sized software. It is a strategy in which large-scale cloud companies support the infrastructure, and small and medium-sized SWs put SaaS on top of it to provide packaged products. SaaS, which can be introduced regardless of region, is also the best way for domestic software companies to advance overseas. Through the package configuration, SaaS companies as well as IaaS companies can expand overseas.
The government also rolled up its arms to foster the cloud industry. The government has implemented policies to promote cloud use in the public sector, support SMEs, expand R&D, expand R&D, and nurture professionals through the 1st Cloud Computing Basic Plan in 2015 and the 2nd Plan in 2018.
This year is the first year of the’Leap to the world’s top 10 cloud powerhouses’ suggested in the 2nd plan and the year when the’Digital New Deal’, a new national development strategy, is in full swing, and tangible results are expected in the development of the domestic cloud industry.
The government plans to grow the domestic cloud market by first meeting the public market. The public sector IT system was completely converted to the cloud, and when introducing cloud services in the public, it was possible to purchase without going through a bid. It plans to accelerate the’digital government’ by actively introducing cloud into the public sector and to strengthen the competitiveness of the domestic cloud industry.
About 8214 billion won will be invested this year for the full transformation of the public cloud. Of the total business, 62.3% of all businesses use G Cloud. The self-cloud will account for 24.9% and the private cloud will account for 15.4%. The scale of private cloud use is an increase of 84.6% compared to 188.8 billion a year earlier.
The government has planned to move and integrate all public IT to the cloud by 2025. As a result, the use of private cloud is expected to expand and the domestic cloud industry is expected to be an opportunity to grow one step further.
The government is also innovating the procurement system so that public institutions can easily use private cloud services. With the introduction of a digital service contract system, public institutions can search for and use the cloud service they need immediately. Previously, it was necessary to publish a business announcement and go through a bidding and contract process. The government expects to introduce a cloud service worth about 130 billion won through a digital service contract by 2022.
The digital new deal also included a cloud industry development strategy to expand support to strengthen the domestic cloud ecosystem. The’Flagship Project’, which is promoted as part of the Digital New Deal, helps domestic cloud companies to form partnerships and develop specialized services for each industry to secure competitiveness. Last year, five fields were selected, including manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, education, and non-face-to-face welfare, and provided a total of 25 billion won, each of 5 billion won. For the next three years, five new fields are newly selected every year to support up to 10 billion won over two years.
In addition, it is pushing ahead with policies to support cloud adoption to help SMEs accelerate their digital transformation.
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Taken together, the policy goal is to’grow the market so that private cloud companies can grow and support Korean companies to secure specialized competitiveness in areas where they can do well’.
At the end of last year, Sa-chan Hong, manager of the Ministry of Science and ICT, said, “It is true that the domestic cloud industry started late and there are some shortcomings, but if we increase our competitiveness based on the business conducted in 2021, He also emphasized that the opportunity to gain market share and advance into the world will be opened.”