"Violet light achievement 'Pacific fleet in the field of information technology in China!" Purple light group chairman wei-guo zhao said. With A series of acquisition, purple light group in the IT industry chain and the a-share market movements, frequently when asked about the longer term, really want to lead violet light is A what kind of company, wei-guo zhao so in response to the first financial journalist.

According to incomplete statistics, from 2015 up to now, wei-guo zhao leading equity trading more than 13, involving about 70 billion yuan. Crazy expansion let violet light industry people don't understand, doubts have been heard in the capital hype.

The development of the "purple light over the past few years to do some means of capital, but capital m&a is a means, capital m&a for use, science and technology for this." For the role of the capital in the development of the company, wei-guo zhao think purple light is not like mergers and acquisitions fund mainly in order to transfer data to resell, "we have investment in mergers and acquisitions of companies, now is held for a long time."

By the storage system

For $1.78 billion, $907 million acquisition of spreadtrum chip companies, RuiDi; In the cloud, interconnected group set up a purple light purple light and century interconnection, deployment of cloud computing; $2.5 billion from the hand of the HP bought a 51% stake in China three these strengthened the violet light on the server and network system solutions. In the "core" to "cloud" extend the industrial chain, the storage has become one of the ring is not open around.

In nanjing recently landed the violet light of western digital co., LTD. It is in order to make up this ring, the company by unisplendour (60.800, 3.36, 5.24%) has a 51% stake, jointly established a 49% stake in western data. "Take agricultural metaphor, from the farm, the harvest, to make it a flour and bread, build a new ecological science and technology industry." Wei-guo zhao said.

To the storage system has been in the plan of wei-guo zhao, once planned to 24 billion yuan of high-priced acquisition of data in the western United States, but due to the committee on foreign investment in the United States by CFIUS intervention review, the plan. Now set up a joint venture, and also somewhat curve improved purple light storage business.

"Violet light has besides storage system of the whole industry chain layout, we hope IT of any large customers, we can provide all the hardware, software, consulting, design, implementation of engineering services, after-sales training, purple light western digital's biggest support embodies in synergies." Purple light group co-president, qi lian told the first financial journalist.

Store localization

Big data, the rise of the Internet of things, such as intelligent hardware industry, to make sure the storage system for new opportunities and faced with the big market in China, the world's largest hard disk vendors western digital nature can't miss it. "Software still need to carry the hardware to run, in the era of data-centric, this means that the data center infrastructure is 60% - 60% depending on storage." Western digital inc. Chief executive Steve Milligan said.

According to IDC, according to a report issued by the big data market scale will reach $2017 in 32.4 billion, the global market big data technologies and services annual compound growth rate of 27%, which is the fastest growth in market data storage areas, accounts for about 53.4%.

In years successively acquired global storage (HGST) and SanDisk (SanDisk), after the western data have a storage system and flash memory technology, global storage industry is highly concentrated, the new force into is not easy. This is violet light to important reason: with the help of "independent innovation and international cooperation" two legs, accelerate the localization of the store.

Data in western purple light, chief executive of MiaoGang view, compared with developed countries, China in storage on the core technology is still not fully independent core technology, unable to localization, telecommunications and other sensitive sectors for the government to provide solutions. "China need large data storage chip, lack of key technologies, almost all want to depend on foreign imports more than 90% of the chip, so China's development of memory field is self-evident."

This is one of the logic behind the acquisition of investment, the purple lights, dance to industrial policy. Before this, the Chinese government has enacted facial outline of national informatization development strategy in the next decade. Make safety control system of the core technology, drive IC, basic software, the core components such as weak link for fundamental breakthrough is the important content.

Phase change

Along with the change of the expansion of data and attribute data, for data storage capacity, delivery capacity and speed of delivery is put forward the more stringent requirements, in MiaoGang view, storage industry is in transition period, the technical architecture "storage system's architecture will change accordingly, traditional data center need data center migration to the cloud scale."

Data in the western United States company senior vice President, global data center system division general manager Dave Tang, future cloud scale data center storage, there are three kinds of building model, complete to provide software development, system integration and consolidation, and the third will be the mainstream.

The reason is that the first on-demand customizable but the cost is high, the second integration complexity is higher than the imagination. And integration of complete sets of delivery system calls, no development costs can be conveniently but more test vendor vertically integrated optimization of capacity, ecological capacity and dock with the application scenario of ability.

Predictably, giants at home and abroad, including Microsoft, amazon, Dropbox, IBM, ali in the race for cloud storage service, every ecological capacity and vertical integration optimization ability. In June of this year's summer davos BBS wei-guo zhao said, hope in the field of operators, the purple lights make the balance of huawei and cisco's replacement, become a samsung of balance in the field of memory chips.

Will continue to increase investment in software and engineering research and development, strengthen independent innovation in the international cooperation platform, which is the key to win in the transition period, the purple lights.