Cloud computing and the changing shape of data centers in a virtualized economy

"2009 SaaS in China--the Third China Software Operation Service Conference" in Nanjing Grand opening. Intel, Ali Software, today's target, cloud online and other 50 well-known IT companies gathered in Nanjing, together to explore how to help the enterprise transformation and upgrading through SaaS. The conference also attracted more than 400 SME users and manufacturers from local and surrounding areas in Nanjing.

The annual "China Software Operations Service (SaaS)" Conference is the most authoritative professional meeting for SaaS professionals in the country. It is reported that this Congress is sponsored by Nanjing Municipal People's government, Nanjing Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone, CCW information Joint contractor, Jiangsu Information Center, Nanjing SME Bureau co-organizer.

At the conference, this goal won the "SaaS Product Innovation Award", this is the goal for many years of painstaking product design, research and development affirmation. Since the establishment of the company, this goal is to improve the management of small and medium-sized enterprises responsibility, and adhere to the first line of small and medium-sized enterprises, and a close interaction with the top management. At the same time, from the management master Drucker's thought to draw nutrition, combined with the actual situation of Chinese SMEs, to create a target management as the core of the solution.

In the context of cloud computing, virtualization, and the current economic environment, data centers have certainly been changing its shape over the past decade. We used to have multiple servers in our data center. Now, with virtualization, you can complete dozens of tasks on one machine and carry out a number of service businesses in the cloud with no local server at all, and only rely on routers to complete those deployments in the cloud. Every day, more and more SaaS vendors are publishing their products. And now, affected by the financial crisis, many companies have been forced to start to tighten their belts, to try to squeeze more applications from today's equipment, and to maintain their own earnings.

In this trend driven by the data center in the end how Earth-shaking changes? From IDC's server sales figures for May this year, we know that global server sales are down 25% from the first quarter of last year, and the IDC report of February this year showed that server sales fell 20% from a year earlier, Even media and analysis agencies predict that server sales will fall by more than 20% in 2009.

Next, I assume a few suggestions to help you tighten the purse strings in the current situation and not lose money by the impact of the economic crisis.

* Virtualization-Dozens of tasks now only need to run on a single server on it, it seems that the physical server is already obsolete. Obviously, now only need a small number of servers can do more work, virtualization is in disguise for the enterprise to save money. Virtualization, for example, reduces server deployment time and improves server availability in an efficient way.

*saas (software as a service)-the current development of SAAS is slow and not yet visible, but in the future he will be an important indicator of server sales and procurement. Take an example of outsourcing, for example, now many people like to use Google and Microsoft Mail business, if it is a business, if the application of Google or Microsoft's services, no need to purchase servers, build their own mail server, and only need to share mail services from the cloud.

* Economic environment-I do not have clear data on hand, but there are rumors and surveys to take advantage of. According to the survey, now the replacement cycle of the server is being extended, after all, even if the server purchased three years ago, it still has no problem, most of course, the majority of people will continue to use, especially in the current economic crisis. Also, if the server is still under warranty, a large number of businesses are willing to continue using the old server at the expense of the vendor warranty or purchase of a small number of maintenance services.

See the above suggestions, we should all understand that in this period, improve overall it efficiency as much as possible savings is kingly. So, if your existing servers don't have any problems, we recommend that you deploy as much virtualization as possible, and if the types of business that your existing servers can accomplish do not meet your needs, then you might as well try SaaS and use software to achieve your business needs; If your server dies, After looking for manufacturers to repair and not be resolved, as far as possible to the future of procurement think twice.

At the same time, this goal to obtain more and more users of the recognition, as of now, the target number of registered enterprises has reached 60,000. The "China Software Operations Services (SaaS) Conference", this goal has also become the focus of attention of the participants, facing small and medium-sized enterprises generally headache inefficient, internal friction and other management issues, this goal put forward a communication based on the goal of management as the core of the solution, has been universally recognized by participants.

This goal is the Beijing billion Enterprise Information Technology Co., Ltd. for small and medium-sized Enterprises launched a set of target management software, it uphold the management Master Drucker's goal of management philosophy, is committed to small and medium-sized enterprises to build an integrated network office environment. Through instant messaging, enterprise mailboxes, SMS switchboard and other functions, to meet the needs of all levels of enterprise communication, through the project management, planning management, log management functions, improve the efficiency of the implementation of management.

Through this goal, enterprises can easily retain work traces, in order to facilitate monitoring, evaluation, thereby enhancing the execution. At the same time, the knowledge of the enterprise, experience inadvertently accumulated, thus forming a business knowledge base. In addition, the staff can carry out various forms of communication in this target platform, and effectively solve the problems such as disconnection between departments and serious internal friction.

In addition, the target software uses the international leading SaaS service model, supplemented by the strong security safeguard measure. Enterprises do not need to buy software and hardware, online registration can be assured to use. Enterprises can also according to the actual situation, flexible choice of one or more functional modules, to build the network office environment in line with their own needs, and really do a little investment, 0 risk, 0 cycle period.