Frost & Sullivan (Frost & Sullivan, abbreviated as "Frost & Sullivan") in conjunction with LeadLeo Research Institute hereby release the "2024 China Industry Cloud Hybrid and Private Cloud Market Report" (hereinafter referred to as "the Report").This report covers the hybrid cloud and private cloud markets, focusing on analyzing deployment services of private and hybrid cloud architectures at the IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and PaaS (Platform as a Service) levels, exploring their applications and value in enterprise digital transformation.
Hybrid cloud is a cloud computing platform built by integrating various cloud resources such as private clouds, dedicated clouds, exclusive clouds, and public clouds, relying on a multi-cloud management platform to achieve efficient enterprise management of hybrid cloud resources. Hybrid cloud solutions ensure data security through the data isolation mechanisms of private clouds, dedicated clouds, and exclusive clouds, and use direct connect or VPN encrypted channels to achieve secure connections between the customer's private cloud environment and public clouds.
A private cloud is a cloud computing platform deployed in customers' self-built data centers or computer rooms, typically ranging from a few servers to thousands. It aims to quickly build a cloud computing infrastructure for enterprises and flexibly customize it to meet personalized needs. Private cloud solutions are characterized by high flexibility and security, effectively meeting enterprises' high demands for data privacy and customization.
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With the continuous improvement of China's cloud computing environment and gradual maturation of technology, AI-driven edge computing and localized deployment are increasingly penetrating into various industries. Hybrid clouds and private clouds are gradually expanding from traditional government and finance sectors to emerging industries, accelerating into a stage of deeper application development.
With the continuous improvement of China's cloud computing environment and the ongoing maturity of technology, AI-driven edge computing and localized deployment are increasingly penetrating various industries. Hybrid clouds and private clouds have gradually expanded from traditional government and financial sectors to emerging fields such as manufacturing, healthcare, and automotive, entering a stage of application deepening. They meet enterprises' dual needs for efficient computing and data protection through flexible resource allocation and strong security advantages.
In the Chinese market, the technical advantages of hybrid cloud and private cloud are becoming increasingly prominent, serving as the core driving force for enterprises' digital transformation. Private clouds, with their high security and flexibility, provide customized cloud computing architecture support for enterprises; hybrid clouds, by integrating private and public cloud resources, empower enterprises to optimize data management and enhance business continuity. Both support the improvement of enterprises' capabilities in areas such as data analysis, process automation, and remote collaboration, helping industries achieve value innovation.
The widespread application of hybrid cloud and private cloud has not only significantly improved operational efficiency but also opened up new business models and growth opportunities in various fields. As the core solution for enterprise digital transformation, they are driving industries towards more efficient, intelligent, and secure directions, injecting new momentum into innovation and value creation across all industries.
Source: Frost & Sullivan, LeadLeo Research Institute
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The government and public sectors are responsible for formulating public policies, managing national affairs, and providing public services. Due to the involvement of state secrets and citizen privacy, the government service industry tends to choose hybrid and private clouds to ensure data security and confidentiality.
The government industry tends to choose self-built private clouds and hybrid clouds over public clouds when selecting cloud architecture. The core reason lies in the strict requirements for data security and privacy protection. Government data involves a large amount of national secrets, citizens' personal information, and other sensitive content, making the security and confidentiality of data an absolute priority. By deploying hybrid cloud architecture, government agencies can achieve autonomous control over data, avoid risks of external access and data leakage, and thus effectively safeguard national security and personal privacy. Due to the high sensitivity and special importance of government data, the proportion of hybrid cloud applications in government clouds is significantly higher than in other industries to meet the stringent data security needs of government agencies.
Source: Frost & Sullivan, LeadLeo Research Institute
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Finance is an industry involving currency management, investment, banking, insurance, and other financial services. The core of the financial industry's preference for self-built hybrid clouds lies in its extremely high requirements for data security, privacy, compliance, and risk control, ensuring strict confidentiality of data and compliance with regulatory standards.
The financial industry tends to choose self-built hybrid clouds over public clouds when selecting cloud computing, mainly due to the industry's high sensitivity and strict requirements for data security, privacy, and compliance. Financial data includes critical assets such as customer privacy, transaction information, and trade secrets. Once leaked or accessed illegally, it can not only cause irreparable reputational damage and economic loss to the institution itself but also pose a significant threat to customer rights. By adopting a self-built hybrid cloud architecture, financial institutions can ensure that core data is transmitted and processed within an intranet environment, thereby significantly reducing the risk of data leakage and external threats. In addition, the regulatory policies faced by the financial industry are extremely strict, and self-built hybrid clouds can more efficiently meet multiple compliance requirements, ensuring the integrity, traceability, and security of data processing. These key driving factors make hybrid clouds an indispensable solution for financial institutions in their cloud transformation.
Source: Frost & Sullivan, LeadLeo Research Institute
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Manufacturing refers to the industry that produces goods and materials, including electronic information, steel, cement, chemicals, etc. The core reason why manufacturing companies choose to build their own private or hybrid clouds lies in achieving strict control over core technologies and production data as well as meeting highly customized needs to ensure data security.
The core considerations for manufacturing companies choosing to build their own hybrid cloud rather than public cloud lie in the strict control over core technologies and production data, as well as the high demand for customization. By building their own hybrid cloud, manufacturing enterprises can ensure that data such as key technologies, production processes, and trade secrets is not leaked. Moreover, the flexibility and customization of hybrid clouds can better meet the special needs of manufacturing industries for data processing, storage, and transmission, thereby improving production efficiency and ensuring the security and integrity of enterprise data.
Source: Frost & Sullivan, LeadLeo Research Institute
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The transportation industry focuses on scenarios such as highways, airports, ports, and rail transit, aiming for efficient flow of people, goods, and services. It integrates transportation, hub operations, and intelligent management. Driven by the edge computing needs of a large number of IoT devices and data security requirements, private cloud and hybrid cloud have become the main deployment models.
The transportation industry prefers to build its own hybrid cloud in terms of cloud computing architecture selection, mainly based on comprehensive considerations of data security, system stability and service continuity, as well as customized needs. By building their own hybrid cloud, transportation enterprises can ensure a high level of security for critical operational data and passenger information in the private network environment, effectively reducing the risk of data leakage and external threats. At the same time, the hybrid cloud architecture provides the industry with excellent system stability and service continuity to meet the requirements of high reliability and 24/7 operation. In addition, the hybrid cloud architecture can flexibly meet the customized needs of the transportation industry by supporting complex business processes and system integration, helping enterprises improve operational efficiency and service quality. These factors together have promoted the widespread application of hybrid clouds in the transportation industry.
Source: Frost & Sullivan, LeadLeo Research Institute
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The healthcare industry refers to the sector that provides medical clinical services, pharmaceuticals, equipment, and other healthcare-related services. The core considerations for healthcare organizations choosing to build their own hybrid cloud include ensuring data privacy and security, as well as ensuring high system availability to meet industry-specific regulatory requirements and service quality standards.
The healthcare industry tends to choose self-built hybrid clouds for cloud computing architecture selection, mainly based on data privacy protection, high availability requirements, and customized support for specific medical applications. Self-built hybrid clouds enable healthcare institutions to strictly protect patient data privacy, ensure data security and compliance, and meet industry requirements for relevant laws and regulations. At the same time, the hybrid cloud architecture can provide high availability for medical systems, ensuring the continuous and stable operation of critical healthcare services. Hybrid clouds can also be deeply customized according to the special needs of the healthcare industry to support complex medical applications and multi-level workflows. These key factors make hybrid clouds a preferred choice for cloud deployment in the healthcare industry.
Source: Frost & Sullivan, LeadLeo Research Institute
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Energy refers to the industry that produces and supplies electricity, oil, natural gas, and renewable energy. The core of an energy company's choice to build its own hybrid cloud lies in ensuring data security, enhancing flexibility and control, and empowering edge production scenarios to meet the customized business needs of the energy industry.
The energy industry tends to choose self-built private clouds and hybrid clouds over cloud computing architectures, with core considerations including data security, flexibility and control, as well as cost-effectiveness. Self-built hybrid clouds can effectively ensure data security and privacy protection, preventing sensitive information leakage and meeting the industry's high standards for data security. At the same time, hybrid cloud architectures provide higher flexibility and control, allowing enterprises to achieve customized configurations and refined management according to their business needs. From a long-term operational perspective, self-built hybrid clouds can achieve effective cost control and improve overall efficiency by optimizing resource utilization and reducing long-term operational costs. These factors make hybrid clouds a preferred choice for cloud deployment in the energy industry.
Source: Frost & Sullivan, LeadLeo Research Institute
In the competitive landscape of the hybrid cloud and private cloud market in China, industry-leading enterprises such as Huawei Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, and Tencent Cloud occupy a core position with their strong technical capabilities, precise industry insights, and mature market operation experience. These enterprises provide secure, efficient, and flexible hybrid cloud and private cloud solutions through advanced multi-cloud management platforms and cloud computing technologies, meeting the diverse digital transformation needs of various industries. They have not only promoted the cloud adoption process in key sectors such as finance, manufacturing, and retail but also provided reliable support for enterprises to operate efficiently in complex business scenarios by optimizing resource allocation and enhancing business continuity capabilities.
Through outstanding technical R&D capabilities and continuous innovation, these leading enterprises have established significant competitive advantages in the hybrid cloud and private cloud markets. They deeply cultivate multi-cloud management and resource integration technologies, combining the flexibility of hybrid clouds with the security of private clouds to provide customized cloud solutions for enterprises, meeting high-standard data security, privacy protection, and business continuity needs. In addition, relying on a deep understanding of industry characteristics, these enterprises have developed benchmark-level industry application scenarios suitable for finance, manufacturing, energy, and other fields, accelerating the large-scale implementation of hybrid and private clouds. By combining technical depth with service breadth, they play a core role in improving resource utilization efficiency, optimizing business processes, and supporting enterprise digital transformation, consolidating their dominant position in the hybrid cloud and private cloud markets.
