Domestic cloud operating system into cloud computing landing point

Introduction: In the early promotion of cloud computing, it vendors should seize two major points, namely the end of the market: high-end enterprise users and consumer-level personal users. Cloud OS is the first step in "cloud computing" to get out of the real "landing".

As an emerging technology that promises to slash costs, cloud computing is increasingly being sought after by industry vendors, including Amazon, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Yahoo, EMC and Google, among other big it vendors. Now, with the gradual deepening of cloud computing concepts, cloud Computing's advantages in maximizing resources, quantifying it costs, and achieving broader information delivery have been recognized by most users. There is no doubt that cloud computing is becoming an important development trend in the IT industry, and its impact will gradually permeate the industry as well as the users ' applications. So what are the chances of cloud computing for domestic IT companies and users?

Three major impacts

Cloud computing will have a profound impact on Internet applications, product application patterns, and the direction of it product development.

First, cloud computing will give the internet greater meaning and, to some extent, change the way Internet companies operate, and through cloud computing, more apps can be delivered and run as Internet services. One of the pioneers of cloud computing-Google even insists that almost all software applications in the future can be moved to the Internet to replace software with services.

Second, cloud computing will expand the application of IT hardware and software products, and change the application mode of hardware and software products. At present, the industry has a very popular saying, the cloud model is likened to power plant centralized power supply model. In other words, through cloud computing, users can get the application environment or application itself without having to buy a new server, not to deploy the software. For users, hardware and software products will no longer need to be deployed around the user, these products are no longer exclusive to the user's own products, but become an available, virtual resources.

Furthermore, the direction of development of IT products will change to accommodate both of these changes. Intel has said that future technology development will be associated with the application in the cloud, Intel designed the server platform to adapt to this change, the technology development goals will also add to the "cloud" new content, IBM to cloud computing is a heavy note, and this is named "Blue Cloud" plan. In addition, there are now even a dedicated device for cloud computing applications released, known as the "cloud computing computer."

To sum up, cloud computing as an application model, its emergence and application scope of the gradual expansion of the industrial chain will have a significant impact on the downstream.

What users think

While cloud computing is considered an important development trend in the industry and has been enthusiastically pursued by industry vendors, do CIOs who hold it investment decisions really understand cloud computing? Will they pay for the new concept?

A CIO survey found that 55% of CIOs said they had heard of the concept of "cloud computing," but it wasn't clear what it meant, 25% of CIOs said they knew better, and 16% of CIOs said they knew it and were interested. While the half CIO is limited to understanding the concept of "cloud computing", we are delighted to conclude that the vast majority of CIOs are beginning to understand and recognize the concept of "cloud computing".

At a time when most CIOs are limited to understanding the concept of development, up to 58% of CIOs say cloud computing is a future trend, but not yet mature; 29% of CIOs say cloud computing will revolutionize the way it technology is going; At the same time, 8% of CIOs say cloud computing is good but not suitable for enterprise applications; Only 8% of CIOs think that cloud computing is just a blip in the hype. As can be seen, CIOs are optimistic about the future of cloud computing.

Of course, whether cloud computing can really be accepted by CIOs, the concept of understanding is only the first step, the real landing to the enterprise application is the key. The survey found that nearly 50% of CIOs said they had no plans or were not sure if they would, and only 12% of CIOs said they would consider the application within 1-3 years; 29% of CIOs said they were actively studying. It seems there's a long way to go from concept to landing.

When asked what opportunities cloud computing can bring to companies? 39% of CIOs see lower costs; 34% of CIOs say cloud computing gives businesses a quick response to the market; 25% of CIOs think cloud computing can improve business agility; and 29% of CIOs are unclear. As we can see from this set of data, CIOs are looking forward to not having to set up data centers for themselves or to use it with their access.

Two points of focus

Still, it's just the beginning of cloud computing, providing IT resources like power generation and allowing users to use it as a vision. CCW information that in the early promotion of cloud computing, it vendors should seize two major points, that is, the market at both ends: High-end enterprise users and consumer-level personal users.

In the high-end market, enterprise users will gradually start to try to build their own cloud computing infrastructure, which is now the industry called the "internal cloud." Through research, we find that enterprise-level users to build their own cloud computing platform is to improve the IT infrastructure within the enterprise, the key business and core data still running on the enterprise's internal computing platform. So for this segment of high-end enterprise users, accepting cloud computing is basically accepting a new technology and solution.

At the lower end of the market, consumer-level individual users are more likely to accept cloud computing services. At present, many websites are launching affordable data online storage services, even free of capacity-limited storage services: Microsoft announces Windows Live SkyDrive to the user; Google officially launched an upgraded version of the paid storage service. Compared to the core business data of the enterprise, some of the consumer's unclassified documents, photos and videos are much less sensitive, and now a large number of individual users are enjoying the service of cloud storage.

Cloud computing begins to land from the operating system

In a conversation with a CIO, he said in half jest: "The name of cloud computing is" good ", it is really a bit like the clouds in the sky, erratic. "It is true that cloud computing now needs to be" landed. Not long ago, VMware released the first cloud operating system VMware vsphere 4, the cloud operating system is believed that the launch of the "cloud" out of the real "landing" step.

As a VMware Infrastructure 3 upgrade, but did not follow the infrastructure 4 title, but renamed to Vsphere 4, then what is it with the "cloud" commensurate with the features and features? Although cloud computing is to be built on the basis of virtualization, but only the function of virtualization, it is certainly not be called a complete cloud operating system.　　So what is the difference between VMware's cloud operating system, compared to previous virtualization offerings? VMware Greater China technology director Zhang Zhenlen said, if the previous generation of virtualization technology focused on saving user investment, through server consolidation effectively reduce the number of physical servers in the data center; Then, as a new generation of cloud operating system, the scope of its application objects from a single server integration, extended to the entire server cluster, its focus is on the construction of high availability, accurate dynamic resource allocation, improve operational efficiency and reduce costs, and many other aspects. "The value of virtualization has grown from saving investment costs to reducing operating costs, that is, more focused on business value innovation." "Zhang Zhenlen said.

In addition, VMware vsphere 4 emphasizes helping organizations build internal clouds. "Now, the industry is more focused on the external public cloud, hoping to use the new application to meet the needs of the user's business, and VMware wants to be able to help the enterprise build the internal cloud start to let ' cloud ' landing." "Zhang Zhenlen said," Of course, after building the internal cloud, how the internal cloud and the external cloud work together, how to cross the internal cloud and external cloud, how to form a virtual private cloud, this requires another level of functionality to complete, and this part of the function we plan to release in the second half of the product will be reflected. "

According to Zhang Zhenlen, VMware's plan for enterprise application of "cloud computing" is to transform the existing data center of an enterprise into an internal cloud, and to work with managed and service providers to achieve a compatible external cloud, and then by connecting and managing the cloud Connect internal resources to available external resources to help businesses gain all the benefits and flexibility of cloud computing, the "virtual Private cloud" now called VMware.

Of course, this is not an absolute development process. "Ufida has been built a ' cloud ' for small and medium-sized enterprises to provide services for SMEs, this is an external cloud, but for Ufida this can also be seen as an internal cloud." Therefore, the concept of internal and external clouds is relative. Zhang Zhenlen added.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)