On May 24th, the "2018 China Cloud Computing Technology Application Conference," hosted by the China Information Industry Association, was held in Beijing. The conference, themed "Cloud Connects Everything, Data Creates the Future," aimed to facilitate the deep integration and application of cloud computing with various industries in China, and to optimize cloud strategies and practices more fully and thoroughly. The conference attracted numerous academicians, experts, industry elites, and enterprise users from all over the country to exchange ideas on the development of domestic and international software, cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, and other emerging industries, and to discuss and promote the application practices of cloud computing and big data in related fields.

Through thematic surveys, the conference explored the new phase of cloud computing in industry development applications and identified typical representatives in the field of cloud computing technology applications. At this conference, the results of the "China Cloud Computing Technology Application Survey" were released. With strong technical R&D capabilities, innovation, and outstanding contributions to the field of cloud computing in China, Futong Cloud's independent product, the private cloud construction platform CloudoorSphere, won the "Best Product in China's Cloud Computing Field 2018" award.

Figure - Futong Cloud's CloudoorSphere Wins "Best Product in China's Cloud Computing Field 2018"

The "China Cloud Computing Technology Application Survey" aims to recognize experts, enterprises, and corporate leaders in the field of cloud computing technology applications, discover a batch of effective cloud computing products, services, and solutions, and showcase outstanding application cases of cloud computing in various industries. The "Best Product in China's Cloud Computing Field 2018" was judged by a panel composed of independent third-party research institutions, industry alliances, professional organizations, specialized media, and the hosting organization. After fierce competition, Futong Cloud's independent product, the private cloud construction platform CloudoorSphere, stood out among many domestic cloud computing products and won the "Best Product in China's Cloud Computing Field 2018" award. This not only represents the cloud computing authority's high recognition and affirmation of the technical, innovative, and high-quality nature of the CloudoorSphere product but also serves as the best proof of Futong Cloud's rapid growth and continuous progress, demonstrating the potential for future explosive development.

Futong's private cloud construction platform, CloudoorSphere, is a self-developed private cloud product with an underlying hyper-converged architecture. It uses a Web-based visual interface for building and managing private cloud infrastructure, supports OpenStack open APIs, is fully compatible with AWS standards, supports public clouds, and provides a rich array of cloud services.

Figure - Futong Cloud CloudoorSphere Product Architecture Diagram

Its product value includes the following aspects:

l  High Productization: CloudoorSphere Cloud Management Platform is a highly productized cloud platform that offers a minimalist deployment method, enabling the deployment of a private cloud within an hour. It uses a software-defined hyper-converged infrastructure, compatible with all x86 servers, allowing for full utilization of existing resources, with the minimum configuration requiring only four physical nodes.

l  Independently Controllable: CloudoorSphere has passed the Trustworthy Cloud certification from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology and has been included in the procurement catalog of central enterprises, obtaining multiple "Independent Intellectual Property Rights" certificates.

l  Smooth Evolution to New IT Architecture: CloudoorSphere has 100% compatibility with AWS public cloud, enabling data centers to effectively transition to a hybrid cloud architecture. This allows enterprises to quickly and smoothly shift to a hybrid cloud architecture, and enterprise users can conveniently migrate any workloads and cloud services between CloudoorSphere and AWS.

l  Empowering Digital Transformation for Enterprises: CloudoorSphere offers a wealth of PaaS cloud services, providing software development companies with a DevOps research and deployment environment, enabling one-click CI/CD agile development and deployment. It also provides various PaaS services such as load balancing, databases, NoSQL, and big data, aiding enterprises in conveniently developing cloud-native applications and completing their digital transformation.

In 2017, Futong Cloud's private cloud construction platform CloudoorSphere received the Trustworthy Cloud Open Source Solution Certification due to its outstanding performance across various metrics. Its quality in solutions for cloud platform basic functions, operation and maintenance system functions, high availability (HA), interoperability, security, scalability, compatibility, resource allocation capabilities, heterogeneous virtualization, and resource scheduling efficiency, as well as the completeness and standardization of service indicators such as product lifecycle, operation and maintenance services, and rights protection, have all reached an industry-leading level.

With the rapid expansion and development of cloud computing globally, it is increasingly recognized and accepted by enterprises and government agencies. More and more IT companies are undergoing strategic transformations to create new business models and opportunities. Futong Cloud, as a professional domestic cloud innovation product and service provider, has profound technical and experiential accumulation in the field of cloud computing. It offers enterprise clients comprehensive services such as professional cloud solution consulting, private cloud construction, hybrid cloud management, intelligent cloud operations and maintenance, and customized cloud development, fully meeting the needs of clients for business upgrades and innovation.