Cloud computing, hot in the clouds can not "fly"

The ubiquity and unique "illusory", so that the current fiery anomaly of cloud computing has been a lot of criticism. But the radical action has begun. In the recent "2012 China Cloud Computing Best Practice Exhibition" first station Beijing station and launch ceremony, China Computer Industry Association cloud Computing Professional Committee released the "Cloud Computing Data Center Infrastructure Construction Guidelines (1.0 version)" (hereinafter referred to as the "norms") draft.

Sadie consultant Vice president, China Computer Industry Association Cloud Computing Professional Committee Secretary General Sun Hui in an interview with the China Economic Herald, said the professional Committee on Cloud computing in the third quarter of this year officially issued the "norms." He said he hoped the code would become an industry standard in a year or two.

The standard should change from the project system to the record system

In the face of cloud computing, shortage, but words, the yous researcher at the Development Research Center of the State Council, may be able to calm many people down, he said: "Now the hottest word in China, cloud computing at least three, everyone said ' cloud ' was first proposed by Google, but Google China's president told me, ' The cloud is also in the conceptual design phase of Google. ”

Although still in the gestation stage, but cloud computing as a national strategic emerging industries, in all regions have shown a vigorous momentum. According to the China Computer Industry Association Cloud Computing Professional Committee Wang Endong Chairman introduced, in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and other cities to carry out cloud computing pilot work, the country has more than 50 cities have begun the cloud computing industry development Planning and construction work, east of Shanghai's "Sea of Clouds Plan", West Chongqing's "cloud plan , South Guangzhou's "Tian Yun Plan", North Beijing's "Xiangyun project." At the same time, a number of outstanding domestic enterprises are also actively engaged in the development of cloud industry, such as the wave of data center operating system, Huawei's intelligent Cloud, Ufida online ERP, China Mobile large cloud system, and so on.

But Wang Endong changed: "There is a series of realistic problems in the sustainable development of cloud computing industry." The emergence of these problems, the core is the lack of standards, norms! "He believes that it is because of the lack of standards, the shortage of top-level design, the current domestic regional cloud computing data centers exist planning unreasonable, substandard infrastructure, lack of matching, management by artificial, energy consumption is serious, security hidden trouble big defects."

According to the introduction, the international has more than 50 standards organizations to start the cloud computing related standards of drafting and promotion work, this number is still increasing. "China's development in the cloud computing norms and standards is still very slow, which is very detrimental to the long-term growth of our cloud computing industry." "Wang Endong said. He said that to speed up the development of cloud computing standards in China, we need to develop ideas, break existing systems and mechanisms to meet the characteristics of rapid development of emerging technologies. At present, China's standards for the implementation of similar research projects in the system, can only approve one or two each year, keep pace with the rapid development of the cloud computing industry. Wang Endong suggested that the standard should be changed from the original standard establishment system to the standard filing system.

In his statement, the director of the Electronic Information Division of the Ministry of Industry and Information technology, Chowe, said this year, the Electronic information Division will further strengthen planning guidance, policy support and standards development, organize the implementation of cloud computing, cloud services, and actively participate in international standardization activities, build a cloud computing standard system, and continuously optimize the development environment of our cloud computing industry.

Cloud Computing Data Center infrastructure has a threshold

According to Sadie consultant IT system Industry Research Center General Manager Liang, according to the Cloud Computing Professional Committee on Finance, government, manufacturing, telecommunications and other industries 300 data centers of research, in the overall market, 500 square meters below the data center is the mainstream of the market, more than 50% of the market share, therefore, The construction of the domestic market data center is still a small, decentralized data center, the next 3 years, the need for planning and expansion, new users close to 40%. "In the context of cloud computing, one of the trends in cloud computing data centers is scale, and small and medium-sized data centers will be integrated by large data centers." "Liang said.

According to the hands of the "cloud Computing Data Center Infrastructure Construction Guidelines (1.0 version)", the reporter found that the "code" for the construction of cloud computing data Center put forward the following requirements:

-The cloud data center needs to meet the application requirements of the operating cycle for the next 15-30 years, as well as the future integration of new technologies.

-consulting firm must have at least one or more consulting or design performance of 1000 square meters and above data center and supporting facilities system in the last 3 years.

--the corresponding relationship between data center size type and node server number is: small corresponding 1000~5000, medium corresponding 5000~1 million, large corresponding 10,000 ~10 million, super corresponding to more than 100,000.

-The ideal value for data center energy Efficiency PUE (data center total consumption/IT equipment energy consumption) should be less than or equal to 1.6.

Sun Hui told reporters that at present only data center and room class standards, there is no specialized cloud computing data center standards. He said that cloud computing is an opportunity for China's IT industry, because we do not have chips and core operating systems, our IT industry's technology dependence is very high, so there is no competitive advantage in small machines. But through the integration of the new application pattern of cloud, it is possible to drive the large-scale industrialization of the upstream chip through the virtualization of the architecture.

Yous said with emotion: "Cloud computing data Center to have a construction standard, this standard is late, just released since it is 1.0 version, then this standard should be constantly improved." ”

The code is not a panacea.

Frankly speaking, despite the "norms", but can not rely on simply relying on the "norms" will be able to change the cloud computing industry in the development of low-level duplication of construction phenomenon.

Sun Hui told China's Economic Herald reporter, for the rational layout of cloud computing and control of cloud computing investment overheating, I hope the norms can also play some role. For example, design layout, in fact, from the overall construction cost considerations, to some low-cost, energy-rich areas of the transfer is correct, and from the real trend, but also in accordance with such a way. He also candidly said: "We can not use a code to solve all the problems." such as the billing of services, it is not possible in the absence of application and technical support of the development of billing standards, which is unrealistic. ”

Indeed, the overall layout of the cloud computing data center depends on the planning and approval of the Government's functional departments, and it is by no means the norms can be solved.

In fact, in the cloud computing development tide, the future cloud computing center how to operate management is the most fundamental problem. Yous even predicted: "There will be more than half of the current cloud computing center in hibernation!" ”

I hope this is just an alarmist prophecy.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)