As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 159 Greed
Apart from looking at the appearance, they couldn't figure out the reason.

After all, the quality of an enterprise-level storage server cannot be judged by its appearance. Special testing tools are needed to see whether it works or not.

"If nothing else, Bei Ming No. 1 does not look like a storage server. It feels a bit like a fish tank with only water plants."

"Don't tell me, if Hua Wei put some ornamental fish in the pond, it would really be a fish tank."

"But the front is still in the traditional style, all black."

"Does Beiming No. 1 need to be fed with nutrient solution regularly?"

"It seems that if you are obedient, you only need to feed it once a week. The storage management system of Beiming No. 1 is linked to your email address. You will be notified by email when it is time to feed the nutrient solution."

"It always feels the same as mechanical life. Flesh and blood suffer, while machines ascend."

"According to their pre-sales manager, biological storage signal converters are, in a sense, mechanical life forms."

"It sounds very high-tech. By the way, have you asked them for the specific technical details?"

"What are you thinking? The pre-sales manager is only good at bragging. How can he know any technical details? I have heard that the biological storage part is made by Deep Blue Storage. I guess even Huawei's R&D center can't explain the specific technical principles clearly."

"No wonder when I heard that the Sugon sales team came to the meeting two days ago, they vowed that they would also make their own biological storage server."

The news that the first batch of Huawei biological storage servers had been officially delivered was transmitted to the market, causing Huawei Hongmeng concept stocks to soar.

Although biological storage technology has nothing to do with them.

The share prices of Sugon and Inspur have been rising. Although they have not yet obtained specific authorization, institutions have already received the news and have built large-scale positions in advance.

Wait until the news is officially released, then push up the stock price and sell it to retail investors.

The first reaction of financial institutions when they got Beiming No. 1 was to test it. After Ali Cloud got it, they directly went to their Ali Cloud platform.

A sales page for Biological Cloud Storage has been added to the homepage headlines.

Indicates that the service is a biological cloud storage service, and the price is more than five times more expensive than that of ordinary cloud hard drives.

As a result, 1000PB of storage space was sold out within one day of going online.

Basically, many small businesses want to buy it for testing. Even if it is five times more expensive than an ordinary cloud hard drive, it will not cost much money and is not as expensive as a random graphics card.

I only bought it for one month to test the effect.

Tencent saw what Ali did and quickly followed suit.

Seeing that they were doing this and setting the price of biological storage so high, Hua Wei naturally would not agree.

The original purpose of biological storage in the long run is to replace traditional magnetic materials. Now what Ali and Tencent are doing is equivalent to turning biological storage into high-end storage.

If this is done, it will have a negative impact on future large-scale promotion. Huawei's vision is not just about this small amount of money. Even if it is five times more expensive than traditional cloud storage, how much more money can it make?
If it really completely replaces traditional magnetic materials, the monopoly market it brings will be the most important thing.

Even though Deep Blue Storage stated that it would sell biological storage media to competing companies such as Sugon, Inspur, and Tsinghua Unigroup in the future, Huawei is confident that it can achieve a near-monopoly position.

As an Internet giant, Huawei also has its own public cloud. They also launched their own biological cloud storage server on the Huawei public cloud, with the price directly hitting one tenth of Ali's biological cloud storage.

It's like a knife cutting into the ankle, comparable to the A-share market in early 2022.

The price comparison is too obvious. Users are basically cursing Ali and Tencent for being unscrupulous merchants, and the prices are so much more expensive than Huawei.

"Mr. Lei, I'm very sorry for your question. This is mainly because Huawei is the manufacturer of biological storage servers, and their purchase price will be lower than that of Ahri."

Ali and Tencent's after-sales department apologized in various ways, because most of the users who are willing to spend money to buy Bio Cloud Storage are corporate users.

Someone just bought it, Huaweiyun's biological storage is only one tenth of your price, any customer would make a fuss.

Finally, unable to withstand the pressure from customers and the possible large-scale loss of subsequent customers, Ali and Tencent also lowered their prices to the same level as Huawei BioCloud.

However, for customers who have already purchased the product, the overpaid amount will never be refunded to them.

At most, I can return the money to them in the form of vouchers, which means that you can only recover your losses by spending with me in the future.

Ali Cloud and Tencent Cloud are disgusted by Hua Wei's lack of respect. Why don't they want to make money but instead let us make it?
Ali and Tencent are major customers of Huawei's ICT equipment, and they directly found the relevant persons in charge to put pressure on them.

"Huaweiyun and we are two completely different departments. We cannot interfere with Huaweiyun's decisions."

It's all excuses anyway. If you can use this method to excuse customers, Huawei can naturally use a similar method to excuse Ali and Tencent.

Anyway, Huawei is the only one that can sell biostorage equipment in China now. As for other ICT equipment, Huawei has the best price-performance ratio among domestic brands.

It is impossible for Ali and Tencent to find a substitute at once.

This incident caused a lot of ridicule in the industry. Although everyone has always known that Tencent and Ali have an ugly way of eating, even if they have not seen it with their own eyes, they have heard about it.

This time, I just deepened my understanding of each other.

At the same time, Qiandu Cloud Disk is also taking advantage of the popularity of biological storage. They have launched a membership for biological cloud storage, called Qiandu Cloud Technology Membership.

This member can get 50G of biological cloud storage space and high-speed download function.

The download speed of Qiandu Cloud has always been criticized by users. If you don’t become a member, the download speed is extremely slow.

Later, Baidu also launched the service of purchasing a few minutes of high-speed downloading for a few dollars, which clearly tells you: I have limited the speed.

This kind of operation is designed to disgust users.

As for the technology membership launched by Qiandu Cloud this time, some users have specifically calculated that the unit price of storage is actually more expensive than the cloud storage prices of Ali and Tencent.

Qiandu Cloud's explanation for this is that we also provide a bunch of other features. As for whether users need these features, they don't consider it at all.

As a result of Qiandu Cloud’s outrageous operations, after biological storage became widely popular, products that replaced Qiandu Cloud soon emerged.

In the past, cloud storage services for individuals may not have been cost-effective and had very low returns, but after biological storage lowered the unit price, this track is still very profitable.

The bad impression that Qiandu had previously left on users caused them to be quickly eliminated after the track regained vitality due to the upgrade of basic technology.

He has worked in this field the longest, but he is the first to be eliminated when the opportunity comes.

This is not the first time Qiandu has encountered such a thing, and it will not be the last.

However, Ke Chuang Bio's Lion City R&D center wanted to buy it, but Huawei made it clear that Beiming No. 1 cannot be exported for the time being and can only be used domestically.

Therefore, Kechuang Bio ordered two machines, one for Gusu and the other for its R&D center in Jiangcheng.

Zheng Li was just curious about Hua Wei's biological storage server, but he didn't have to see it.

The Pacific BioCloud he developed is much more advanced than the biological storage server.

Not of the same magnitude at all.

However, Li Wanqing and the researchers from Singapore were a little disappointed. They had originally thought that they could experience the biological storage technology.

Some men are easily obsessed with electronic products, especially programmers, this symptom is more serious.

As for foreign storage giants such as Samsung, Seagate, and Micron, they basically obtained preliminary test data after Huawei delivered the first batch of Beiming-1.

The storage data of Beiming No. 1 made them realize that Huawei’s enterprise-level storage market was basically gone for them.

Unless serious problems arise, China's state-owned enterprises will no longer consider foreign storage servers.

Originally, China’s state-owned enterprises could have chosen not to buy foreign equipment.

However, since we have not yet achieved domestic production of high-end storage, we still have a certain degree of dependence on foreign countries.

After Beiming No. 1 came out, the last bit of dependence was gone.

"It's okay. The Chinese market has already shrunk significantly. Our losses are within an acceptable range."

"Idiot! Beiming No. 1 and the Deep Blue Storage behind it will affect not the present, but the future.

Biological storage technology will erode our market. Now only the Chinese market is being eroded, and in the future more markets will be eroded by the Chinese.

Those who do not plan for the overall situation are not qualified to plan for a specific area; those who do not plan for eternity are not qualified to plan for the moment!
We also need to master biological storage technology and let Cui try every means to obtain this technology. We can exchange it for some semiconductor technology that the Chinese have not yet mastered. Everything is negotiable.

It would be even better if we could send industrial spies to obtain specific technical information.”

The key manufacturing processes of biological storage are all placed in the Management Bureau of Anomalous Matters. It is wishful thinking for the Koreans to obtain them through industrial espionage.

Neuralink previously spent a lot of effort to acquire the brain-computer connection technology from Ke Chuang Biotechnology, but it was not until 23 that the accurate recognition rate of brain-computer connection was pushed forward by %.

It has now reached 90%, and Ke Chuang Bio's brain-computer connection VR is about to be launched on the market.

However, since Neuralink is the only company on the market that can see the taillights of scientific and technological innovation, it still enjoys an extremely high valuation.

As for biological storage technology, even if Samsung obtained the technical data of Deep Blue Storage, it would be impossible for them to master the specific production process in a hundred years without the Magic Brain.

Goryeo wanted to steal, and so did America, but they knew they couldn't, so they chose to increase their investment in domestic companies related to biostorage technology.

This is just a spontaneous action of private capital. Some investors believe that if the Chinese can do it, then this technology must not be that difficult and we can do it too.

So they chose to invest heavily in biostorage-related companies.

The American government is now focusing all its remaining energy on NASA's Mars landing plan.

An unmanned Mars probe has been launched and landed on Mars.

Thanks to Changqing1040 for the reward!
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