In a recent Percona Live keynote, CEO Peter Zaitsev highlighted the rapid growth of open‑source databases, shifting licensing models, rising cloud‑native adoption, and the increasing strategic importance of PostgreSQL amid heightened security and compliance concerns.
This article provides a beginner‑friendly overview of cloud computing, explaining the core concepts of IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS, describing public, private and hybrid deployment models, and analyzing recent market trends and the dominant players shaping the global cloud industry.
The 2019 analysis by JD Technology Management Center forecasts rapid growth in Southeast Asian e‑commerce, highlighting expanding mobile commerce share, stronger electronic payment adoption, improved logistics, multi‑channel integration, rising social media influence, accelerated platform technology innovation, a growing middle class and Gen‑Z consumer base, and supportive government policies.
The 2018 global storage merger‑and‑acquisition market shrank to just 36 deals—far below the 2006 peak of 104—highlighting a slowdown driven by industry maturity, scarce disruptive startups, and modest transaction values despite a history of multi‑billion‑dollar deals.
China’s 2018 Cloud Computing Development White Paper reveals that the public cloud market grew over 50% in 2017, predicts continued rapid expansion, highlights fierce competition among industry clouds, the rise of hybrid and multi‑cloud strategies, growing security concerns, open‑source adoption, and evolving policy and technology trends.
The 2018 China Internet Enterprise Top‑100 report reveals rapid revenue growth, massive R&D spending, expanding application scenarios, rising unicorns, regional expansion, and emerging technologies such as AI, big data, cloud and blockchain, outlining five future trends for the sector.
The article reviews China’s retail evolution from planned‑economy roots through e‑commerce boom to today’s O2O “new retail” era, highlighting rational online growth, offline revitalization, blurred channel boundaries, precision advertising, and recommends modules such as membership points, LBS store locating, and coupon systems via mini‑programs.
The article outlines how the Internet of Things is rapidly expanding across industries—from RFID‑tracked logistics and connected cars to smart cities and wearable devices—driving trillions of dollars in economic opportunity and reshaping future technology ecosystems.
The article examines how Baidu’s newly launched AI‑powered “KaoBa” lightweight app is helping Chinese high‑school graduates choose universities, illustrates the broader surge of AI services in China, compares Baidu’s approach with rivals such as Google, IBM, Facebook and Microsoft, and discusses the potential impact on education, healthcare and other industries.
