(Yicai Global) Aug. 31 -- Inspur Group, aconventional Chinese tech company, will evolveinto a new type of internet company with cloud + big datatoformanecology with its own platform, Peter Sun, its chairman and chief executive,told Yicai Global in a recent interview.

Inspurviews the cloud business as its key development directionand will floata separate initial public offering for it, Sun said.

The companyis reshuffling itsbusiness as itembarks onitssecond fundinground. "We want the public to better know Inspur Cloud," he stated.

Inspur has four listed companies --Inspur Electronic Information Industry, Inspur Software, Inspur International and Shandong Inspur Huaguang Optoelectronics --which all plya high proportion of standardIT businesses.

The group will lay its primary emphasis on government cloud services. Traditional internet companies use powerful applications to acquire user data, thus becoming large data repositories, in Sun's view. "We, bycontrast, depend on cloud to help governments achieve data aggregation, sharing and opening to realizedata authorization operations," Sunsaid.

Techfirms formerly regardedcompletion of project construction as task completion butnowfocus on provision ofservices, "Providing cloud services is 'babysitting,'"Sun told Yicai Global.Hiscompany helps operate government data, changing its task from 'babysitting' to 'housekeeping' of government data.

Inspur now supplies cloud services to22 provincial and over 120 municipal governments and is buildinga data opening and sharing platform.

China now has four kinds of participants in the government cloud market: major telecoms such as China Telecom, China Unicom and China Mobile, Huawei Technologies, New H3C Groupand other classicIT companies, internet service providers such as Tencent Cloud, Alibaba Cloud and Kingsoft Cloud and system integrators likeTaiji Computer.

"Many standardtechcompanies start their businesses byproviding solutions for government. Compared with internet giants, though they lack theflexible architecture, they have amassed experience in government-end business segments and can therefore compete with thesegiants.

"Becausethey are more familiar with government business, they have progressedin expanding channels in the early phasessincethey have sales channels in manymunicipal governments," Henry Yan, International Data Corp.China's senior research manager, told Yicai Global.

China is a rapidly developing government cloud environment. Over 90 percent of provincial governments and 70 percent of municipal ones have built or are building cloud platforms, and thesewill generatea domestic market worth nearly CNY30 billion(USD4.4 billion), awhite paper on sectordevelopment by theChina Academy of Information and Communications Technologyprojects.

Editor: Ben Armour