BEIJING--(Business Wire)--With the advent of the era of big data integrating with cloud computing, we are already standing on the doorstep of the data kingdom. The gate of the new world is opening, and new business models, economic forms and life styles are all evolving and taking shape. In order to promote the development of the big data industry and the establishment of its ecological system and to push ahead with the synergetic development of Zhonguancun and the Silicon Valley, the Zhongguancun Big Data Forum, closely following Cloud Valley World 2012 on Dec. 12, opens on Dec. 13 at the Zpark Conference Room.

The Zhongguancun Big Data Forum is cosponsored by Beijing Cloud Valley and the Administrative Committee of Zhongguancun Science Park, with its theme being "Hello, Big Data: Standing at the Doorstep of the Data Kingdom". From such perspectives as the development tendency of big data, big data and social media, and open-source technologies and tendency, etc., the Forum combines big data and cloud computing, envisages the prospect for big data, illustrates the commercial value of big data and draws a blueprint for the era of big data. The Forum will also feature in-depth communication on the interaction between the technical frontiers in big data at the Silicon Valley and intelligent innovation at Zhongguancun. Quantified Self, a famous data organization from the Silicon Valley and Apache Software Foundation, a well-known open source software organization will co-organize a breakout session and invite nearly 2,000 industry elites from the Silicon Valley, Beijing, Hong Kong and Taiwan, etc. to participate.

Chen Gang, member of the standing committee of CPC Beijing Municipal Committee and Secretary of the Party committee of the Administrative Committee of Zhongguancun Science Park, Guo Hong, Director of the Administrative Committee of Zhongguancun Science Park, Meng Jingwei, Deputy District Mayor of Haidian District People's Government, Zhou Fang, president of Zpark Software Park Development Co., Ltd., and Edward Tian, president of CBC and founder of Beijing Cloud Valley will be present at the conference. (With the order of leaders according to the seating plan at the venue) At the conference, it will be announced that the Zhongguancun Big Data Industry Alliance will be established, three industrial investment funds, namely the Cloud Angel Fund, the ChinaCloud Huirong Fund and the Big Data Lab Incubation Fund will be launched, and the "Zhongguancun Cloud Plaza" (formerly Zpark Plaza) will be named.

The big data industry refers to the information service industry for the storage, value refinement, smart handling and distribution of data on the basis of the collection of mass data through such channels as the Internet and the Internet of Things, etc. The Big Data Forum of this year can be held with the great support from the Administrative Committee of Zhongguancun Science Park, which, on the one hand, indicates that the government is supportive of new and emerging information industries such as mass data and cloud computing, on the other hand, forbodes that big data is entering the stage of application.

The Zhongguancun Big Data Forum focuses on major concrete data application cases as well as business model analysis and development, bringing Beijing and the Silicon Valley into interaction with each other in frontier innovation. A number of industry elites including Derrick Harris, analyst with famous technological blog site GigaOM, Zhou Tao, Director of Internet Science Center, UESTC, Xie Wen, famous IT commentator and former general manager of Yahoo China, Wang Yuquan, founding partner of Haiyin Venture Partners, Seth Roberts, professor in psychology with Tsinghua University, interactive designer Sey Min and Truman Lei, vice president of SkyCloud Technology, etc., are invited to be present to share the innovations and opportunities brought about by big data, social networks and the mobile internet and the combination of cloud computing and open-source software from multiple perspectives and on multiple levels. Representatives from the government, financial, energy resources and education industries invited to the Forum including Zeng Dehua, Director of Education Management Information Center, the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Kang Chuan, Deputy Director of Information Center of General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic of China, Liu Jianming, general manager of State Grid Information & Telecommunication Company Ltd. (SGIT), and Wang Jingwen, CTO of China Everbright Bank, discussed how to welcome the arrival of the big data era by closely following technological developments and challenging old ways of thinking. Engineers from the Big Data Lab will also provide Hadoop and ILT training courses and opportunities for computer operation for professional technical engineers from different industries, giving analysis of related technologies.

Amid this wave of big data, data sources, technologies and algorithms ,together with innovative business models, will all become elements of core competitiveness. Zhongguancun boasts a very good foundation, talent and data resources for the development of the big data industry, and a number of innovative enterprises in the big data field have emerged from there. In terms of industrial resources, Beijing is an area concentrated with such institutions with high-value high-density data as information centers of ministries and commissions (committees) of the state, the "Big Three" telecommunication operators and large domestic Internet platform enterprises. Backed up by the most concentrated resources in science and education, software talent and advantages in entrepreneurship for returned students from overseas in the world, Zhongguancun will construct in-depth data platforms and algorithms as well as business models. On the enterprise level, a number of enterprises and products in data innovation have emerged in the development zone.

Beijing Cloud Valley, as a pioneer and leader in cloud computing and innovative business models, has been paying close attention to the development opportunities brought about by big data. Such big data products independently developed by SkyCloud Technology against the background of big data as BigData Accelerator0.2, BigData Flow1.0 and BigData Platform1.2 have been put into practical use in multiple fields including healthcare, education and telecommunication. In order to provide a good test environment, basic IT resources and support in data resources for developers of big data applications and to attract and cultivate talent in the field of big data through the establishment of a big data fund focusing on big data investment, SkyCloud Technology also announced that it will set up a Big Data Lab to carry out its work around the subject of big data so as to attract and mobilize resources from various parties with innovative ways of investment and resources organization. In addition, at the Beijing Cloud Valley, a comprehensive three-dimensional industrial layout consisting of the SuperCloud series of high-performance, high-density, green and environmental cloud servers and Hadoop big data servers, CloudWare Platforms for YoYo Systems, SmartFS and SmartOP products, core technologies of Bitsflow, DataCell and NetVM, Cloud Age desktop cloud platform and CloudStack open-source cloud project and Hadoop big data platform, etc., has taken shape.

At the turn from 2012 to 2013, cloud computing is about to explode. Man has pushed open a new gate to obtain commercial and social values through highly efficient analysis of mass data. Zhongguancun Big Data Forum 2012 brings the two cities of Beijing and Silicon Valley into zero-distance interaction, thinks of big data with an open mind and a rational attitude, embraces the power of innovation and is leading us into a new era-an era of big data by taking the lead in a new journey towards a creative Beijing and an innovative capital.