Chapter 410 Technological Competition (5081)
Yujun, Qianxun Data Intelligence Center.
Of course, since the concept of AI has emerged this year and Qianxun said it would go ALL IN AI, the data center that was just named the cloud computing center two years ago was renamed the Qianxun Data Intelligence Center.
The data center covers an area of nearly 400 acres and every blade of grass and tree is new. Although it looks magnificent, it always feels a little too empty.
Six giant computer rooms that have been built and two computer rooms under construction form a semi-enclosed arc, surrounding the complex building where the staff are located in the center.
The lawn was well laid, but the trees were mostly saplings. Under the scorching sun, the small leaves, which were not very lush to begin with, looked wilted. There was not even a shade to provide shade in the empty square.
The LCD screen that originally displayed "Safe Operation XXXXX Hours" in front of the complex building no longer displays any information and is just hanging alone outside the complex building's gate.
"Brother Bai, the environment of Qianxun's data center is pretty good. It's much larger than the one in Xinhao, but there are fewer trees. Such a large area is used as an office area? Does Qianxun have so many people here?"
As soon as he got off the bus, Liu Wenxiao looked around curiously. When he was a graduate student, he followed his supervisor Song Jianguo to Qianxun's data center in Xinhao Yizhuang to work on a project. Compared with that place, Qianxun Yujun's data center was naturally much larger, but it was not very popular.
"Yu County is Robert's hometown. Construction had already begun three years ago when I joined Qianxun, and it seems the first phase of the project hasn't been officially handed over yet. However, over 80,000 cabinets were deployed last year and the year before last, and in fact, operations began the year before last."
"The last time I was here was four months ago when Qianxun Cloud was migrating. At that time, we received news that Luosha had been hacked. Boss Jiang and our team worked through three days and nights before we finally cleared the backdoor and plugged that zero-day vulnerability."
Liu Wenxiao's curiosity was surging: "A hacker war? Is it intense?"
The IT industry is also full of differences. He is engaged in deep learning and doesn't know much about network security and system security.
Bai Yuheng looked a little embarrassed. "I'm a security development engineer at Qianxun. I don't know much about penetration testing and defense. I'm mainly doing development and providing logistical support to the frontline team. But the Luosha black hats are really powerful. Even Boss Jiang almost couldn't handle them at that time."
In the field of global Internet security, a considerable proportion of black hats come from Luosha. Luosha black hats are also the most active of all hacker groups in the dark web network black industry. Many black industry data such as the personal information of the Great Zhou Dynasty sold on the dark web are the work of Luosha black hats.
The communication along the way made Bai Yuheng no longer as nervous as before. He felt that the people in Youzi Technology were quite simple.
Instead, revisiting the old place again made him feel more sad.
His workplace is in Xinhao, but he has been here on business trips quite often in the past two years.
Four months later, when Bai Yuheng came here again, he actually felt that everything had changed.
It was true that things and people had changed. He didn't recognize any of the people in the park. Moreover, these people acted in a very methodical manner and didn't look like Chihiro's people at all.
As soon as the group entered the complex building, they were led into a fully enclosed meeting room. They waited for nearly two hours, and were so bored that they played more than a dozen black games before they were notified to go downstairs.
Zhou Shuzi and Hua Zecheng knew that this was to allow all bidding parties' technical teams to enter the market at the same time to ensure the fairness of the bidding.
"Why Network Technology Co., Ltd., please follow me." A thin and dark-skinned young man wearing a white short-sleeved shirt drove an electric car in the Qianxun Park and motioned everyone to get on.
What's going on?
The bidding of major manufacturers for Qianxun was top secret information. Several major manufacturers that had passed the pre-qualification did not tell the technical teams they sent, and only a few people in the company's management knew about it.
Among the people who came from Youzi Technology this time, only Zhou Shuzi knew the whole situation. Even Chen Shuyao and Hua Zecheng only knew part of it.
Everyone was a little confused, but seeing Zhou Shuzi and Hua Zecheng get into the car calmly, they all followed suit.
This time, there were only 12 people from Youzi Technology and Ysou, including Zhou Shuzi and Shen Shuyao, and a 14-person electric car was just enough to accommodate them.
After the electric car started, it drove directly to one of the IDC computer rooms without going around in circles.
Since the data center has not yet been officially handed over to Qianxun, it has not been officially named. Bai Yuheng has always called this computer room Room No. 3.
This time, in the temporary reception room on the first floor of Computer Room 3, Bai Yuheng saw someone he knew.
Xu Li!
Qianxunyun’s vice president!
Although this position is not considered the most core executive, as the powerful management of Qianxun's core department, he was also considered one of the most popular people within Qianxun in the past.
Next to Xu Li was a thin man wearing glasses. Bai Yuheng also knew this man, Wang Pengfei, a senior expert in the system department of Qianxun Yujun Data Center.
Although Xu Li also graduated from a professional background, he was not promoted from R&D. Instead, he was gradually promoted from an operations position by Yuan Shanjun. He is now responsible for the operation and delivery of Qianxun Cloud.
A few months ago, Xu Li would not even look at Bai Yuheng, a person of his level.
But now, Xu Li's face was full of smiles. When he saw Zhou Shuzi and Hua Zecheng, his body automatically bent into a 120-degree obtuse angle, and he jogged over with a bent waist, and stretched out his right hand.
"Welcome, Mr. Zhou, welcome, Mr. Hua, welcome everyone from Ysou and Youzi Technology. I'm Xu Li."
Hua Zecheng has never been interested in this kind of pipe material, otherwise he would not have entered a large factory before. He shook hands with Xu Li with a faint expression.
Zhou Shuzi, being approachable, took Xu Li's hands and shook them with a smile, then took the initiative to shake hands with Wang Pengfei.
Wang Pengfei pursed his lips, his expression looked a little depressed, and his smile was very forced.
"Is this your first time here, everyone from Youzi Technology? Please take a seat here first. Once other colleagues arrive, I'll show you around the site."
Xu Li asked the staff to give each person a bottle of 5100 glacier water.
It was Xu Li who took the initiative to get this reception job.
As for the acquisition of Qianxun, due to the takeover from above, the current management of Qianxun has no say in it and is even unaware of the specific progress.
Although Xu Li didn't know that various companies were bidding for Qianxun, the fact that the higher-ups arranged for technical teams and senior executives from many large companies to enter Qianxun and help it solve problems was a signal in itself.
He and several of his friends who are also middle-level managers at Qianxun have been discussing possible future development trends these days.
Everyone thinks that Qianxun is likely to be acquired, but no one knows who will acquire it.
At this time, whoever can contact the potential acquirer first and leave a good impression on the other party will have a greater chance of keeping their position after being acquired.
So, I worked with a few friends to get the opportunity to explain the specific situation of the failure to the five major manufacturers who were nominally providing technical support.
Each company is connected to a different management level of Qianxun, and who connects to which company is entirely determined by drawing lots.
The company Xu Li drew was Youzi Technology.
Xu Li didn't feel that his luck was bad regarding the draw result.
Although many people, including him, think that Ahri and Penguin are the most likely, but these two are not 100% certain. This time, five companies jointly provide technical support to Qianxun. As long as the one drawn is not the stingy 720, Xu Li can accept it.
Zhou Shuzi was stunned when he heard what Xu Li said. Other colleagues? Didn't each company have an assigned IDC so they wouldn't meet each other? Why were there other bidders in this IDC?
Seeing Zhou Shuzi's reaction, Xu Li was also a little confused. He looked at the sparsely populated group of about ten people and said in disbelief, "Boss Zhou, does that mean no one will come back from Youzi Technology? No way?"
Zhou Shuzi smiled and said, "Yes, we are all here. It seems that other companies have already arrived. I saw the sign-in sheet and we should be the last one."
Xu Li was dumbfounded.
Several other companies have sent teams of at least a hundred people! What can you do with just a few of them?
This is a problem that Qianxun’s thousands of technical teams have not been able to solve!
These people were scattered in such a large IDC and couldn't even see each other!
Qianxun's IDC computer room has a single building area of nearly 20,000 square meters and more than 20,000 server nodes!
Could it be that his information was wrong, and Ysou didn't want to take over Qianxun at all, and was really here to provide technical support this time?
It’s broken, it’s broken. If I had known earlier, I should have swapped it with Lao Lin and connected to Didi.
Xu Li's eyes rolled around twice, and suddenly he found a familiar face in the small team of ten people in Youzi Technology.
Eh? Isn't this the guy who was rumored to have died suddenly a few days ago? His name was Bai... Bai what? Was he from Jiang Feiyu's previous department?
This guy used to come here on business trips frequently a few months ago. I was surprised when I heard this gossip.
I am such a soft-hearted person.
Did he search on Y?
Xu Li's eyes flashed, and he decided to find an opportunity to collude with this kid and see if he could get some inside information.
Anyway, the armed patrols are guarding outside. Now three meals a day are delivered by outsiders, and I can't go out. It's like being in prison. I'm just sitting there doing nothing.
"Mr. Xu, quality is more important than quantity. We are all pressed for time. Let's deal with the business first and then get to know each other better. What do you think?" Zhou Shuzi took the initiative as soon as he opened his mouth.
Quality is more important than quantity? Are you saying that we are all just dirtbags and only you are the elite soldiers?
Although Xu Li was unhappy, he did not dare to act rashly in front of someone of Zhou Shuzi's level.
Not to mention that Qianxun's status in the martial arts world has plummeted now, even in the past, Zhou Shuzi was a person who could have a direct dialogue with Robert Lee, and he was still two levels away from Yuan Shanjun.
Xu Li slapped his forehead and smiled broadly, "Of course no problem. So, Engineer Wang, please report the specific situation to the Y search instructors first."
Wang Pengfei glanced at Xu Li, opened the prepared PowerPoint presentation, and was about to speak when he heard Hua Zecheng, who had been silent the entire time, say, "No need, Engineer Wang. Could you please transfer the super administrator privileges of the A-03 mirror server we won to us as soon as possible so we can troubleshoot the problem as quickly as possible?"
Xu Li and Wang Pengfei both couldn't help but look a little unhappy.
Too arrogant! Really too arrogant!
Without understanding the situation at all and without even introducing yourself, you are ready to take over super-management authority?
Do you know what happened?
Computer Room 1.
More than 30 people squeezed into the temporary reception room with the same layout, and more than 70 people were watching on laptops in the hot and cold aisles as Chen Qian, technical director of the Qianxun System Department, introduced the details of the fault to the Ali Security Team.
There was a hint of arrogance on everyone's face, more or less.
And everyone has a work badge around their neck.
"...From July 6th to 8th, we conducted multiple comprehensive reviews of system core logs, application logs, and security audit logs. We focused on analyzing system calls and permission change records during critical time windows, but found no unusual access permission changes, process hangs, or abnormal system restarts..."
"...We checked whether there were any abnormal behaviors or zombie processes in background daemons, scheduled tasks, and self-starting services. No abnormal processes or unknown services were found to be occupying system resources..."
"...At the database level, we used MySQL Check for integrity verification and Percona Toolkit for cross-node data consistency comparison. No suspicious transaction operations were found in the Binlog logs. Ultimately, no abnormal SQL operations were found in the logs, and all queries met expectations..."
"Network and security aspects..."
“At the hardware level…”
"At the AI algorithm and business logic level..."
"In summary, no significant anomalies were found at the system, database, network and security, or hardware levels. No obvious erroneous jumps or faulty links were detected at the business logic and rule engine levels. Key links such as the cache system and access control have been rigorously reviewed, and no issues were found..."
After hearing Chen Qian's last words, Ali's CTO, Zhang Ruofeng, whose nickname is Xuan Dian, almost started cursing.
If it were Ali, he would have thrown the pen in his hand at Chen Qian's face.
After all this talk, everything is normal.
Everything is normal. How did the problem occur?
Isn't this a waste of half an hour?
If everything is normal, you just said that no problem was found and you can check it yourself, isn't that the end of it?
Why did you make a special PPT? Isn't our time time?
"It's okay, Boss. At least we can be sure that the cause of the problem is not simple. It may be hidden in a very small operating unit or an uncovered abnormal scenario."
A technician in his thirties wearing glasses nearby spoke calmly.
Zhang Ruofeng took a deep breath and calmed himself down.
That’s right, we are Ali, and we are the most powerful technical team in Da Zhou.
"Yuan Mo, perform system-level log and kernel checks on the mirror server."
"Jingchen, check all database ports..."
"Tracing the source of the API call link..."
"Ye Lan, security strategy layer..."
"Ge Ying..."
One command after another came out of Zhang Ruofeng's mouth. After each command was issued, the corresponding technical team immediately gathered and quickly entered work mode.
The technical team of more than a hundred people is like a group of well-trained worker ants, shuttling back and forth between each other, each doing their own thing, but efficiently.
This is our Ali’s iron army!
Looking at the real-time status of each group of the newly developed middle-office system on the computer screen, Zhang Ruofeng's eyes were filled with pride.
Everyone knows that Zhou Gong is Ali's Iron Army, but they don't know that the real Ali's Iron Army is us!
We are the true core of Ahri! The strongest technical team in Da Zhou!
The same scene was also happening at IDC No. 2, No. 4, and No. 5.
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Comprehensive Building, Qianxun Yujun Data Center Monitoring Room.
Ma Yun stared at the big screen closely, and when he saw the status of Ali's technical team of 100 people, he couldn't help but nodded with satisfaction.
Then he looked at Qiu Hongyi and Mahua Teng next to him, who were also staring at the monitoring screen, closely following the progress of their team.
There were quite a few people coming to every restaurant this time. The least was Didi, with more than 80 people coming.
In the end, there were five companies that passed the prequalification, not to mention Penguin, Ali, and Ysou, which had already decided to participate.
I don’t know which big shot 720 found to endorse it, so that the higher-ups recognized its valuation of 80 billion.
The other company is Didi, which had not even attended the meeting before.
"Huh? Why are there only a few people from Youzi Technology?" Ma Yun exchanged a few words with Huang Jian, the doctor beside him. Huang Jian frowned at the sight of the Youzi Technology team.
There isn’t a single technician involved in network security system architecture!
Except for an unknown and timid-looking office worker in his thirties, all of them are young researchers who have become famous in the field of large models in recent months.
What exactly does Yuzu Technology want to do? Has it given up?
Different fields have different worlds. Qianxun’s problem may be related to the system, architecture, logic, algorithm, security... but it is impossible for it to be related to the big model.
What’s the point of having so many people engaged in deep learning?
After hearing Huang Jian's introduction, Ma Yun couldn't help but look surprised, and then looked at Fang Yu, who was sitting on the chair with his legs crossed and a relaxed look on his face.
Could it be that Ysou doesn’t want to acquire Qianxun?
Then why is he doing so many things?
Besides Ahri, of course 720 is the one who pays the most attention to Ysou.
Whether in the above or in the search market, Ysou is now in direct conflict with 720.
With Qiu Hongyi's personality, I don't care who you are. If you fight with me, I will definitely beat you.
If I can't do it, I'll give in.
The main dish is a rolling meat.
When Qiu Hongyi saw that Ysou only sent a technical team of ten people to provide technical support, she laughed on the spot.
"Mr. Fang, is Ysou here to bid?" Qiu Hongyi, wearing a red T-shirt, grinned, with a few long nose hairs squeezed out of his nostrils.
Fang Yu remained calm, "Boss Qiu, there are over 130 of you here. You must have spent a lot of money on travel, right? How many days did you book the hotel for?"
Qiu Hongyi laughed: "How can you care about such a small cost when running a business? There aren't many good hotels here, and even booking for a week doesn't cost much. Mr. Fang, you can't be worried about the travel expenses so you gave up, right? Hahaha."
Fang Yu chuckled, "You booked it for a week. That's a good deal for you, Mr. Qiu. Let your team check out and book a high-speed train back to Xinhao tonight. You can save a lot on the room rate."
"Don't look down on small amounts of money. A week's accommodation for over a hundred people might one day be enough to cover your annual living expenses, Mr. Qiu."
(End of this chapter)
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