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Amazon led the cloud market Microsoft play pro and card

This week for the Amazon, it should be "a year of mixed feelings." First of all, AWS's first market training event in China kicked off in Beijing. Nearly 400 participants from all over the country gathered for the venue to open the "AWS China" sign.

The second happy event for AWS is that the latest survey of public clouds published by RightScale research shows that AWS has achieved 54% of respondents' usage, far behind 12% of Rackspace and Google's At the same time, AWS has reached 49% utilization in large enterprises (more than 1000 employees), and the total of VMware vCHS (18%) and Microsoft Azure (12%) is still inferior to AWS.

Although Microsoft achieved the third position in the enterprise public cloud market, but the service types lost to Amazon, the price is not as attractive as Google, the software giant how to break? Perhaps only by user experience. Microsoft this week demonstrated its new Azure portal preview to simplify the deployment, use, and management of cloud resources. Another source said that Microsoft will provide free database rollback capabilities in Azure to give developers more help.

But another thing may make AWS a little "wronged". In a forthcoming clean energy report, the environmental group Greenpeace affirmed Google, Apple and Facebook's achievements in clean energy, criticizing AWS for not doing enough. However, AWS immediately responded that it has achieved good operational efficiency and high utilization in more than a dozen data centers around the world, and two of these data centers are completely carbon-free.

Such as the AWS and Google Internet giants, is definitely a big energy consumer, low-carbon energy is the bounden duty of these giants. In this regard, they did make a lot of contributions. For example, the OCP Project Foundation, sponsored by the Facebook group, helps save energy while Facebook also sources open source code for its data center.

These are based on the existing silicon to redesign and use of data centers, it is not possible to find a more energy efficient than silicon to make chips it? Recently, researchers at Stanford University announced a new technology, carbon-transistor technology, which is said to be highly likely to replace the current dominant silicon transistor technology if successful. Because carbon transistors are 100 times faster than the latest silicon nanocrystals and have a 99.5% reduction in power consumption.

Big data shuffle market database into the "fanatical" mode?

Although people are currently mixed about big data, it is undeniable that it is changing the IT industry, and may even trigger an industry reshuffle. Some open-source technology-based companies are attacking established software companies. For example, Pivotal unveiled its latest pricing model, charging per core at which users can run Pivotal's data products including Greenplum, GemFire ​​and HAWQ SQL.

Pivotal believes that this pricing strategy is closer to the price of professional Hadoop suppliers, rather than the price of traditional data management providers, it seems open source. Pivotal also be called an open source company, right? Its biggest strength lies in its open source Cloud Foundry platform.

Salesforce.com, a cloud-based model, also clamored to replace SAP as the world's third-largest enterprise software company. After several years of rapid growth, it generated $ 3.8 billion in revenue in 2013, a fifth of SAP's $ 185 billion revenue but showing tremendous potential for cloud computing.

These are the market or policy level issues, and now to focus on the next area of ​​software technology. After a week of "public cloud", this week seems to be a week for the database. According to sources, NASA will release a database catalog of over 1,000 projects and will later open source the software code for these projects through searchable databases. DARPA had previously released a similar database directory.

At about the same time, Twitter also released details of its Manhattan real-time database. The code-named "Manhattan" database is a distributed multi-tenant real-time database, its most prominent feature is to provide database services in the form of similar cloud storage services, users can immediately access the appropriate data storage capabilities after the application needs are preset.

According to Pan Jun, a ZDNet enterprise solutions center, just as the WebScaleSQL open source database project was founded before, the demand for performance and scalability of large Internet companies has led to the emergence of new projects and the development of database technologies.

Following last week's MariaDB release of the latest version, Oracle is also unwilling to release its latest open source MySQL 5.7 release this week.

Cisco Cloud Application SDN Technology Cisco Announces OpFlex

Google has been a pioneer in SDN and analyzed Google's B4 SDN WAN, a worldwide SDN network, in our reports, and Andromeda is a follow-up to this area, with two Google Compute Engine Zone - us- central1-b and europe-west1-a started using Andromeda SDN technology, and other areas are under planning. Andromeda aims to provide near-native bottom-tier network performance in cloud services while also providing network capabilities virtualization capabilities, while Andromeda offers features such as DDoS protection, transparent service load balancing, ACLs and firewalls while boosting the performance of Google Compute Engine Scalability, reduce costs and improve performance.

Pan Chun Comments: SDN not only reduces operational complexity, it can also improve the utilization of network resources, reduce bottlenecks and improve performance, which in the Google B4 WAN SDN traffic engineering can be well reflected. Large-scale public cloud use of network virtualization technology and SDN is an inevitable trend.

SDN is the focus of the networking industry. As the leader in networking, Cisco announced Wednesday its OpFlex protocol for the Cisco ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure) SDN architecture, which is designed to deliver policy instructions to networked hardware as well That is to say it is the same as the OpenFlow SDN protocol. The draft OpFlex agreement has been submitted to the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), hoping to become a standard agreement.

The OpFlex protocol is supported by the OpenDaylight organization, while the widely used OpenFlow is the ONF (Open Networking Foundation) main push, apparently they constitute a competitive relationship. OpFlex was released with Citrix, Microsoft, F5, IBM, RedHat, Sourcefire, Canonical and Embrane, but major network equipment vendors such as Juniper, Brocade and Arista Networks are not included.