On June 17, 2021, the Cloud Connect China 2021 sponsored by Informa Markets was held in Ningbo City under the guidance of Ningbo Municipal People's Government. During the event, the winners list of 8th Top Cloud Connect Awards was officially announced. NEOLINK won the "2020-2021 Cloud Computing Top Brands Award" by virtue of its important contributions to the development of cloud computing in China and outstanding hybrid cloud service capability.

Senior Architect of VNET Group Cheng Hansheng (the second from left) received the award on behalf of the company

As the core activity of Cloud Connect China each year, the “Top Cloud Connect Awards” are awarded to recognize the outstanding contributions and innovative groups, individuals and products to China's cloud computing industry every year, thus promoting the healthy, rapid and orderly development of cloud computing in China, and helping Chinese enterprises to go global.

On April 28, 2021, VNET Group released its new subsidiary brand "NEOLINK", which will focus on open hybrid cloud service providers, and ensure that clients can be at ease, relieved and assured in the new normal environment of multi-cloud. Previously, VNET Group has made some deployment in the field of cloud computing. In 2013, Microsoft Azure and Office365, which were operated by 21Vianet Group, were officially landed in China, opening a new chapter for the legal and compliant operation of international public cloud in China. Meanwhile, VNET Group first successfully introduced international cloud platform into Chinese market; In 2016, VNET Group launched a hybrid IT strategy, "connected" with the mainstream cloud manufacturers in China, and helped clients to complete the migration between and integration of public cloud to private cloud, thereby further improving their deep-level service capability.

Neolink won the 2020-2021 Top Brands Award, which is one of the “Top Cloud Connect Awards”

Since its establishment, NEOLINK has focused on its key hybrid cloud capabilities. In addition to continuous technological innovation and creating carrier-neutral, stable, interconnected and secure differentiated competitive advantages, NEOLINK hybrid cloud will help clients realize value in many aspects.

Building a safe and compliant digital economy infrastructure

In the era of digital economy, corporate clients are constantly generating massive data based on their business demands. Meanwhile, some industries are subject to compliance constraints, and placing customer sensitive data on the cloud will be greatly restricted. By providing cloud computing, cloud storage and other services, NEOLINK hybrid cloud can address clients' demand for huge computing power and storage requirements, and put the sensitive data of clients in the self-owned computer room and NEOLINK's data center, strengthen the connection capability of public cloud, private cloud and proprietary cloud, and build the infrastructure with comprehensive service capabilities and scenarios.

Scalable IT resources improve the input-output ratio

With the application of innovative cloud technologies (cloud native, blockchain, edge computing, big data and artificial intelligence), NEOLINK hybrid cloud will fully leverage its one-stop service capabilities to achieve higher efficiency, huge scalability and faster response, provide highly efficient and high-quality resources for clients in various industries; save a lot of hardware expenditure and improve the input-output ratio, conserve energy and reduce emissions for the society.

Allocating resources on demand, and building universal cloudification service capabilities

NEOLINK hybrid cloud has broken the limitation of traditional IDC resource delivery, and achieved quick real-time resource reallocation. Both small and micro enterprises and commercial individuals can apply for resource deployment on demand according to their needs. Meanwhile, NEOLINK also provides complete solutions for different vertical markets, and helps users from various industries to quickly deploy business on cloud and use the cloud.

According to the data of CAICT, the scale of global cloud computing market represented by IaaS, PaaS and SaaS reached US $188.3 billion in 2019. It was expected that the average market growth rate in the next few years will be around 18%, and the market size will exceed US $350 billion by 2023.

Under the background of global digital economy, cloud computing has become an inevitable choice for the digital transformation of enterprises, and the cloudification process of enterprises will be further accelerated. Always adhering to its position as a carrier-neutral service provider, NEOLINK hybrid cloud shoulders its responsibility to provide the infrastructure services that are aligned with the needs of the digital economy era; helps clients build an interconnected, neutral and open hybrid cloud architecture, and spare no efforts to empower the implementation in various scenarios.