Background
With the rapid development of technologies such as the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence, the scale of Internet companies has gradually expanded, and the market of public clouds is welcoming the blowout period. More and more products urgently require a large amount of server resources, and the public cloud that is cheap and convenient and does not need to operate and operate is obviously the best choice for most companies. Many Internet companies choose to lay out public clouds early, such as Amazon's AWS, Microsoft's Azure, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, Baidu Cloud, etc. The competition is fierce. In a melee, the current public cloud 1.0 is basically determined. pattern.
However, as the scale has gradually expanded and the market has matured, the problems of the existing public cloud have gradually emerged. Existing public cloud services, even with distributed equipment and seemingly beautiful technical solutions such as living in different places, can not avoid the hidden dangers caused by team centering. On June 27, 2018, a serious bug was triggered during the operation of Aliyun Yunwei, which caused a large number of Alibaba Cloud product access links to be blocked, and thousands of domestic Internet companies were affected.
The public cloud market seems to have been set. In fact, the 2.0 era has just begun. On this battlefield of 100 billion scale, the decentralized technology of blockchain has its own unique advantages, and it may also have a place in the public cloud market after many years. And Uranus is the leader in the blockchain revolutionary army.
Project Description
Ubiquitous (English name: Uranus, official website: http://uranus.io ) is a blockchain-based computing resource sharing platform that integrates social redundancy computing through scalable public and distributed container technologies. To provide users with efficient, low-cost, decentralized computing services.
Traditional public cloud problem:
The existing traditional public cloud technology has matured and has withstood the test of a large scale, and it has also exposed many problems:
Data security: For enterprises, the public cloud is the core of the project operation. Once the data is leaked, the consequences are unimaginable. Throughout the past few years, the security problems of public clouds have emerged endlessly. AWS and Alibaba Cloud have made several serious security incidents. Some of these accidents are caused by the misoperation of the cloud platform itself, and some users are not aware of the improper operation. There are several typical scenarios: hacking leads to data loss, operation and maintenance misoperation causes service unavailability, user data fails to make timely disaster recovery backup, and so on.
The cost is high: the billing mode of the existing public cloud platform mainly includes the annual subscription mode, and the centralized management of the virtual cloud host can improve the usage density and resource utilization, and reduce the operation and maintenance cost. Regardless of whether the user uses it or not, the service provider will charge according to the annual subscription fee. There is a huge profit margin. Many service providers require customers to pay in advance, and the payment method is extremely inflexible. Elasticity and flexibility, billed by volume, these are the core advantages of public cloud, but they are not reflected in the existing public cloud services.
The advantage of ubiquitous shared cloud:
The ubiquitous cloud combines the traditional public cloud-related Internet technology with the latest blockchain technology to make full use of the limited computing resources to construct a cloud computing platform that is shared by computing power.
The ubiquitous cloud architecture is roughly divided into two layers:
Uranus Block: The underlying base chain. The storage layer is responsible for the storage of all the data on the chain. The data on the chain is stored in blocks in the Merkel tree structure. In addition to the traditional transaction data, the relevant data of the computing container is also stored. The node will write the newly added computing power container information into the block in each block time, mainly including the following information: the address of the container, the node address bound by the container, and the resource weighting value of the container (CPU, memory, disk resource, etc.) Calculated by optimization algorithm).
Uranus Engine: A ubiquitous cloud infrastructure. Achieved standardized container metering, compared to traditional cloud computing services, ubiquitous cloud achieves on-demand use and automatic settlement, and the payment method is flexible. At the same time, the ubiquitous cloud resource pool based on blockchain technology and decentralized computing power can meet the demands of modern business demand for high traffic, high availability, low cost, and support cloud-contained applications with container packaging and dynamic management.
Compared with the traditional blockchain project, the ubiquitous cloud makes full use of the redundant data center resources in the society to form a federated public cloud platform. The computing nodes at the bottom of the cloud platform can be ordinary mobile phones, ordinary personal computers, and ordinary Internet of Things devices. The blockchain technology is used to realize the secondary utilization of social computing resources, and the computing power is made into public cloud services. Provided to users who need it.
Compared with the traditional public cloud project, the ubiquitous cloud complements and optimizes the traditional cloud computing technology, further utilizing redundant computing resources, and has many aspects in terms of service timeliness, reliability, stability, etc. It has been promoted to provide a more extensive and flexible resource trading market for resource demanders and resource sharers, which is of great significance for promoting the rapid development of fog computing and edge computing.
Team background
The ubiquitous cloud team has two co-founders.
James Jiang is a master's degree in mathematics from Texas State University, a master's degree in operations research at Nanjing University of Science and Technology, and a senior researcher at the North Bell Laboratory in the United States. He holds six US invention patents and is the vice president of the National Communications Standards Organization TR45.5.2. Founded ZTE Corporation/Zhongxing Mobile as the general manager and chairman of the company, vice president of the VIA Group subsidiary, and assistant to the group president; founded the enterprise-class desktop cloud company and led the Chinese market.
Haley Han is the Chief Architect, Master of Automation, China Agricultural University; virtualization and cloud computing expert, linux kernel engineer & open source technologist; distributed virtualization computing security delivery and audio and video algorithm experts, serving customers including the US Department of Defense, German Ministry of Defense , the Turkish Navy, Citibank, etc. Co-founder and CTO of Beijing Anke Co., Ltd.; architect of WYSE Technology Co., Ltd.; chief system architect of PwC Foundation Software Co., Ltd.; founded enterprise-class desktop cloud company and led technical architecture and product development.
Among the consultants, Dr. Liang Sheng is a master's degree in computer science from the University of Science and Technology, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Yale University. Chen Liren is a master of CMU. He is the head of 360 mobile search. He has extensive experience in the Internet. Other consultants are Internet, cloud computing, blockchain, and password. Senior experts in learning, distributed systems, etc.
It can be seen that the team is strong and experienced, with experience in cloud computing and large companies.
sum up:
By introducing a blockchain, ubiquitous clouds make full use of the idle resources on the market, and through decentralization, solve the inflexibility of existing public cloud payment methods, insufficient resource utilization, and unstable services. And other issues.
The project development is difficult, and it combines public cloud technology and blockchain technology, which is very technically challenging. The public cloud market is currently relatively stable for head players. How to guide users to migrate their existing business to the ubiquitous cloud, how to make users accustomed to using decentralized public cloud services, and whether the shared computing service itself is more stable than the existing technical solutions. Whether the computing performance after landing can meet the demand standard of daily business, these are questions that need time to answer.
However, the team is experienced, the consultant lineup is strong, and the future public cloud market may have a ubiquitous cloud.
At present, Uranus is still in the warm-up phase. There are more than 10,000 fans in the telegraph group in half a month, and the community is active. The following are related links:
Official website: http://uranus.io
Telegrame: https://t.me/Uraners
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Uraners
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Uraners