35 years of virtualization is a top priority for cloud computing

In the past, the domestic enterprise information construction is usually to build an application system to buy a set of servers, with the increasing application system, the server is constantly expanding, upgrading and updating, and enterprise application of the characteristics of the operation of the server resource utilization is not high, the server long-term inefficient operation, system resources cannot be flexibly adjusted with application changes. Virtual server, cloud computing and so on the emergence of technology, it seems to the plight of the enterprise information A glimmer of hope of the sun.

Taking cloud computing as an example, the concept of speculation, landing difficulties is the most common phenomenon of the current market. But even so, most people in the industry are optimistic about the future of cloud computing. Baosteel Group Shanghai Meishan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., director of Information Office, said: cloud computing on domestic manufacturing enterprises in the impact of information technology is limited in 3-5 years, from the application of the value and feasibility, the virtualization of the technical realization is the most urgent. Cloud computing in the domestic manufacturing technology to achieve some limitations, mainly in:

One is the technical limit. In the early days of cloud computing, the IT industry was more focused on public cloud services, trying to fully leverage new applications and architectures to meet business needs. Although it vendors have made a lot of effort in recent years, system equipment manufacturers have failed to break the cloud's technical requirements for system equipment manufacturing. At present, the main application system of large and medium-sized enterprises in manufacturing industry (production and marketing, logistics. Financial management, etc.) are built on the UNIX system platform, while the UNIX system device virtualization technology is far from the technical requirements of cloud computing: Do not say that you can build heterogeneous system equipment resource pool, even the same manufacturer of UNIX system equipment products, it is difficult to achieve the compatibility of different generations of products. Only by using technology such as VMware on x86 platform can we build heterogeneous system resource pools to realize resource sharing among different systems. This is limited in the usability of the Manufacturing cloud computing environment (the local cloud computing environment of the enterprise can be built).

Second, investment restrictions. The technological transformation of the domestic manufacturing industry informatization to drive industrialization is only the beginning of this century, most of the enterprise's main production management application information system has been put into operation for 5-8 years, and through continuous investment and transformation, the system is now in the mature period of application. If in order to realize cloud computing technology, now invest a large amount of funds to eliminate the main equipment of the original system, in order to build cloud computing system architecture, such development path is difficult to get the enterprise widely recognized, because very few enterprises will abandon the existing application because of the new architecture.

In the enterprise's view, "cloud is not a goal, but a way to perform the calculation." Cloud computing should be implemented either internally, externally or both, and no enterprise should abandon its accumulated IT investments and then start over, and only follow a gradual, non-destructive path of development to make the cloud truly fall.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)