Korn Ferry Investment has a heavy task this year, and in addition to the financial department, the acquisition of new companies also requires a lot of manpower and material resources. Therefore, Jiang Hui still spent a lot of energy on Guanghui investment.

The stall was too big, and Jiang Hui felt like he couldn't be busy all day. No, the flash rain of the Glorious Data Center came to Jiang Hui's office again.

Since the completion of the Imperial Capital Data Center of Guanghui Group, the construction of Guanghui Data Center has been fully rolled out. Up to now, the data centers in Shanghai and Shenzhen have been under construction in a low-key manner, and the land for the data center in Jiangcheng has been approved.

"Mr. Jiang, at present, our group's business volume in foreign countries is increasing, and it is necessary to consider setting up data centers abroad."

The layout of commercial data centers respects the choice of the market, and enterprises will first consider which customers can provide which services after the data center is completed and operated, and the level and scale of data center construction will be different according to the different service objects. At the same time, under the constraints of factors such as the network infrastructure environment, the development status of surrounding industries and market demand are often considered. Therefore, a clear positioning based on market demand is a key factor for enterprises to consider when selecting and building a data center.

Korn Ferry Group's Tudou, Meituan and other websites have a large number of users in the US market, island countries, South Korea and Southeast Asia, and most of the current data processing is leased from other companies' data centers.

From a global point of view, there are relatively few data centers in the Celestial Empire. Global data centers are mainly distributed in the United States, Europe, island countries and other regions. The U.S. and Europe account for almost half of the world's data centers.

From the perspective of regional distribution, data centers in the United States are mainly distributed in economically developed western and coastal areas, and relatively few are inland. In addition, the number of data centers in high-tech industry clusters and university research clusters is significantly higher than in other regions.

European data centers are mainly distributed in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Netherlands and other countries. As an old European power, the United Kingdom has a stable economic and political situation, a developed IT industry, and is one of the most important network nodes in Europe, directly connected to the American continent, and its number of data centers ranks first in Europe. As one of the most populous countries in Europe and one of the largest countries in terms of land, Germany's data centers are mainly concentrated in Frankfurt, although its capital is in Berlin, mainly because the backbone nodes of data centers in Germany and network nodes with other countries are concentrated in Frankfurt.

As the scale of development of the Korn Ferry Group increases, there will be more disputes with competitors. In foreign countries, some opponents may use the corporate background of the Korn Ferry Group to say things, and in order to avoid these things, it is more and more important to make each branch look like a local enterprise as soon as possible.

"Well, it's only a matter of time before you build a data center abroad. Do you have any plans now?", Jiang Hui thought for a while and asked Flash Rain.

"I'm thinking about building a data center in the U.S. and an island country, and then a data center in Singapore, India, and the U.K., and then we'll see how much more we need to add based on the future development."

"You can go and inspect the site selection first, and the construction of two data centers in the United States and island countries is scheduled to start at the end of this year, and then the construction will be completed."

If the construction of a data center in a foreign country is not based on the construction company of the Celestial Empire, the construction period is relatively long. Especially in the United States, people don't give you overtime on weekends, and they don't work overtime at night. In the Celestial Empire, it takes two years to complete the project, which is normal.

"Mr. Jiang, considering that there will be more and more data centers in the future, our data center is now developing a set of data management system by itself, hoping to unify and flexibly use the resources of data centers in different places."

"It's a good idea, and it's a trend in the future of data processing. If you look at the servers we rent now, the utilization of resources is actually relatively low."

At present, most of the domestic data centers are built by several major operators such as telecommunications, and the construction scale is generally small, the planning is not reasonable, and these investments are not fully utilized. This problem exists in many countries, and it will take a few years to slowly improve. It can only be said that it takes a process for everyone to understand and apply new things.

"In terms of data processing, we are in short supply of high-end talents in China, and I am considering whether to build a branch of Guanghui Data in the United States or Europe to recruit a group of foreign technical talents."

The establishment of Guanghui Data Center means that the era of big data is coming. The corresponding demand for big data talents will also become more and more vigorous.

In Jiang Hui's view, the most critical part of big data is data analysis and data mining, and a large number of data scientists are needed to obtain these. Data scientists are multidisciplinary talents who have comprehensive control over mathematics, statistics, machine learning, and other aspects of knowledge. Junior analysts can only report and descriptively analyze data, and truly advanced data scientists need to make predictive and valuable analyses of data. Judging from the current talent pool, this part of the reserve is lacking.

"Let's set up a branch office in the U.S. first. Data analysis talents need a relatively high level of mathematics, and at the same time, they need to understand computer technology. Lao Mei still has an advantage in this regard."

In the world as a whole, the Celestial Empire is good at math, but the United States, Russia, and France are stronger in this regard. Princeton University, Harvard University, Moscow State University, Paris École Normale Supérieure and so on have a strong position and strength in the world mathematics community.

Take the Fields Medal, known as the Nobel Prize in mathematics. Harvard University has the world's No. 1 Fields Medal winners (alumni, professors, staff, etc.), while the University of Paris, the École Normale Supérieure de Paris, Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley, are ranked second to fifth in the world. The first Chinese mathematician to win the Fields Medal was Yau Chengtong.

It's also interesting to talk about this math award. As we all know, the Nobel Prize is the most well-known scientific prize worldwide. However, the Nobel Prize has only five categories: physics, chemistry, biology or medicine, literature, and peace (the Economics Prize was added in 1968), and there is no share of mathematics, which deprives the important discipline of mathematics the opportunity to evaluate its major achievements and recognize its outstanding figures in the world.

It is in this context that two international mathematics awards have been established in the world: one is under the auspices of the International Federation of Mathematicians. The Fields Medal is awarded at the quadrennial International Congress of Mathematicians, and the other is the annual Wolf Prize in Mathematics established by the Wolf Foundation.

These two mathematics awards are authoritative, international, and enjoy no less honors than the Nobel Prize, so they are known as the "Nobel Prize in mathematics" by the world, especially the Fields Medal.

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