2013 business decision makers focus on cloud operations: Open hybrid cloud is a big way

From the concept of the proposed, to be the industry concerned about the speculation, and then to the real cloud for rain on the landing of flowers, for business decision-makers, cloud computing is no longer a new technology, but a choice. In the 2013, businesses need to take cloud operations seriously as an integral part of the overall it operation.

The hybrid cloud is a great way to go.

Security is an eternal topic, and concerns about cloud security have been at the top of the cloud's list of concerns, while preventing data leaks in data centers is the most immediate security issue.

At present, the cloud infrastructure running failures occur continuously, the public cloud has the risk of running outages and data loss. Not all enterprise information or data can be placed on the public cloud, and in order to save costs, the enterprise will want to lower security levels of applications or data to the public cloud. As a result, the hybrid cloud is the best choice for an enterprise because it can run not only the best solution within the organization but also the choice to use an external cloud service.

Hybrid cloud deployment will become mainstream in 2013. The survey shows that the hybrid cloud will be the main model of China's cloud computing in the next 3-5 years. A hybrid cloud refers to a cloud management model that can be applied either internally (or by a managed provider-specific resource) or in a multiuser public cloud. In other words, the hybrid cloud allows users to put non-critical business on a relatively inexpensive public cloud while keeping key businesses running on the internal infrastructure. By mixing cloud, users can use these resources quickly and easily while accessing the public cloud, and can guarantee the whole process under the unified Agreement's IT management control.

Openness is the most important driving device for hybrid IT applications

Openness is the most important driving device for hybrid IT applications, because it helps users avoid problems with vendors, especially ecosystems. This is not just open source, including the application of programming interfaces, standards and the openness of the various perspectives that allow the use of intellectual property (such as copyrights, patents, etc.).

Service lockout issues related to service providers, more and more cloud computing providers to build their own cloud computing solutions, which is like a separate screw, when the enterprise adoption of services need to match the corresponding nut. Many of the current cloud computing vendors are busy building screws and nuts that are different in shape to lock customers.

Most of the value of cloud computing stems from the ability of companies to choose the best solution for their needs. Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst said, "The 1810 invention of the mold technology to achieve standardized production, the achievement of the industrial era." Similarly, only the network, technology these "cloud computing components" to standardize, commercialize and modular, in order to truly release the computing power of the cloud. "Cloud computing service providers need to provide standard, modular solutions, to create standard screw accessories, to ease business concerns, so that more enterprises migrate to the cloud architecture, the formation of a larger cloud computing industry, so that the real value of cloud computing business."

One of the most important cloud migrations is the standardization of legacy systems that require more modern standard hardware and software to be used in a specific context. Open clouds can balance existing IT investments in hardware, software, and training to help organizations build clouds incrementally, while reducing costs and risks.

Open source giant and its open hybrid cloud concept

Open source giant Red Hat is a natural cloud player, it has unmatched advantage in the open source domain, and in the public cloud service domain, most of the underlying architecture is built on the Linux operating system, and the industry is constantly showing the other operating system to the Linux system migration trend, can say, " Red Riding Hood has been at the forefront of cloud computing from the start.

In the area of cloud computing, Red Hat constantly launches PAAs and IaaS products. At the PAAs level, Red Hat launches open source platform OpenShift, enabling developers to run their applications in any supported Red Hat Certified public cloud provider, eliminating vendor lock-in associated with PAAs vendors. By partnering with Zend, Red Hat has successfully expanded the OpenShift ecosystem, providing PHP developers with greater flexibility and ease of application development. OpenShift is launched in two levels, namely Freeshift and Megashift. Currently on the market is the developer Preview version. At the IaaS level, Red Hat launches a set of cloudforms for creating and managing the private and mixed cloud of infrastructure, the services. Cloudforms is a management layer that is used to manage other IaaS clouds such as OpenStack. The IaaS hybrid cloud created by Red Hat Cloudforms provides self-service computing resources to users through manageable, manageable security. Cloudforms combines integrated application lifecycle management with the ability to create an open hybrid cloud from the largest range of computing resources, providing mobility within heterogeneous virtualization platforms and scaling to the public cloud.

In early June 2012, Red Hat Company delivered the first edition of Red Hat cloudforms. At present, Red Hat has officially issued CloudForms1.1 version. In this release, Red Hat company has added four languages, including Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Portuguese, and expanded its products to the Asia-Pacific region and Europe.

Conclusion

The hybrid cloud allows the user to take a hybrid cloud architecture as a step-by-step approach to acquiring more dynamic computing architectures. Although the number of mixed computing architectures currently in use is relatively limited, the trend toward a mixed cloud is clear. Gartner's analyst advises corporate users to "design a private cloud configuration and leverage this interoperability to advance the hybrid cloud of the future".

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)