Farewell to "foggy" small and medium enterprises public cloud landing

Cloud？ It is a big enterprise to enjoy the strength of services, for our small and medium enterprises is still a concept. ”
At present, cloud computing in the world does not have a unified, unanimously recognized definition, from the major enterprises and organizations derived from the concept of cloud computing countless, but there are few practical products and services to support. This makes the cutting-edge technology is not deep understanding of the small and medium-sized enterprises to cloud computing "there is a cloud on the horizon, like the fog like rain and wind" fuzzy understanding, most of them did not feel the cloud for the enterprise brought about the actual benefits and development changes.

According to a recent report released by Info-tech, an IT survey consultancy, 76% of IT decision makers prefer or choose to deploy a private cloud. But the deployment of their own private cloud, enterprises need to have a strong capital and scale strength, which is far from the SME user can be involved in the field.

The IaaS application of public cloud from Amazon

Cloud computing is divided into "public cloud", "Private Cloud" and "mixed cloud". Since the deployment of private cloud is not an option for SME users, a pay-as-you-go, scalable public cloud service is considered by many experts and businesses to be the best match for the needs of SME users.

In foreign countries, Amazon is the world's first successful application of cloud computing in small and medium enterprises, one of the leading manufacturers. At the outset, Amazon in the retail industry in order to put a large number of idle IT resources to integrate the use of, and developed today the embryonic form of the public cloud.

Today, Amazon Web Services is a cloud computing service provider dedicated to remote computing capabilities and storage services that allows users to use the company's virtual servers and data storage through the Pay-as-you-go approach.

In the United States, tens of thousands of small and medium enterprises and individual users use the IaaS provided by the Amazon Cloud (infrastructure as a service) to reduce the cost of procurement and operation of servers, large storage devices. The so-called IaaS refers to the service provided to the user is the use of all facilities resources, including processing, storage, network and other basic computing resources, users can deploy and run arbitrary software, including operating systems and applications, but users do not manage or control any cloud infrastructure, The infrastructure is provided by a service provider like Amazon.

Based on the cloud of IaaS model, small and medium-sized enterprises jumped out of the "drink milk to buy a cow" dilemma, can better focus on the main business, and those who are comparable to large enterprise-level IT equipment and cloud technology, the public cloud provider to provide. Moreover, with the development of enterprises, public cloud services can be upgraded on demand, flexible expansion, to ensure the supply of IT infrastructure, which is the most typical success of the world's leading social gaming company Zynga.

At first, Zynga was not the first company to launch a farm-like game, and Farm town had been available before the launch of Farmville. But farm town after the number of users exceeded 10 million, because it can not quickly upgrade the IT infrastructure, suffered a decline in game speed, user access difficulties and so on. And through the acquisition of Myminilife,zynga launched a farm-class game Farmville, the game's number of users can surpass farm Town to more than 80 million, in part thanks to Zynga's use of Amazon's cloud computing services, its flexible expansion, The feature of the fast upgrade ensures that the number of game users does not decrease the speed of the game, thus affecting the experience of the gamers.

It can be said that Zynga's success has made people see the great power of public cloud services in helping businesses grow rapidly. This is also like the China Informatization Advancement Alliance secretary General Liu Jinjun said: "Cloud computing can effectively overcome the small and medium-sized enterprises in the process of informatization in the enterprise scale, it investment, information technology and personnel lack of many contradictions." ”

The status quo of Chinese public cloud

In China, it is not uncommon for companies claiming to provide a public cloud IaaS service model, but from a technical point of view, the three major elements of cloud computing, such as Amazon, are virtually impossible to "virtualize", "automate" and "self-service" cloud data centers.

First of all, Amazon through virtualization technology, to achieve the separation of hardware and software, the IT resources to form a "cloud", and cut as needed to improve the data center load capacity, thereby increasing the utilization of resources. According to foreign media reports, Amazon through virtualization technology, so that tens of thousands of of server clusters to form a "big cloud" to ensure the rapid development of new internet companies such as Zynga demand.

Second, after virtualization technology is implemented, automated management tools can unify and consolidate distributed storage resources across physical and virtual infrastructures.

Third, self-service provides users with the greatest degree of flexibility, so that end users without IT personnel intervention can directly use the Intelligent Monitoring management platform to meet their business needs.

Although there is no uniform definition of cloud computing, these three elements are generally recognized as cloud computing standards. In our country, the reporter deeply understands, in part, companies that offer services to the public cloud IaaS for small and medium-sized enterprises, "just a few servers, install a virtualization software", and did not realize the core of cloud computing virtualization technology, nor like Amazon has a strong multi-room and tens of thousands of server cluster size, The smaller cluster size limits the scalability of the cloud, and the inability to implement highly available cluster architectures, and more simply to attract users with the concept of low price and cloud computing, which not only hurts the interests of users, but also allows many small and medium-sized enterprises to be skeptical about cloud computing.

There is no unified standard, some cloud service providers immature, cloud products imperfect, small and medium-sized enterprise user knowledge level is limited to avoid the practical problems, limited the public cloud application in our small and medium enterprises between the landing.

The public cloud "Flower Falls" who home?

In this "cloud" of the era, in addition to many government agencies are in full swing to form the cloud data Center for small and medium-sized Enterprises, many of the strength of the smell sensitive enterprises have begun to let the public cloud landing process.

Recently, as the first domestic introduction of the concept of "virtual technology" and turned it into reality million network announced the success of the cloud, to transform almost all of its applications into cloud services, and the introduction includes free 5M bandwidth, 2G free space, free genuine Microsoft operating system, free cloud host data snapshot and backup services, Free Domain name Information privacy protection, free domain name brand health Service six free value-added services.

Coincidentally, last October, the Amazon Cloud Computing division, AWS (Amazon Web Services), announced that it would provide a one-year free Amazon EC2 Micro Instance for new users from November 1, and that users of the free service could use the "cloud" To run anything, and the network also played a free service card, but this service not only lasted a year.

According to the introduction, million network cloud computing is based on parallel computing as the core, on-Demand scheduling computing task allocation and computing resources, and provide data from the integration processing, calculation model set to the results of the output, the various forms of display, application API, such as complete data processing services. At present, a large number of SME users have chosen the cloud host network.

For the million network public cloud IaaS model is mature problem, million net products and direct Sales Vice President Zhang Benwei introduced: "Million network cloud computing is based on a number of large server cluster framework, the use of BGP backbone network." At the same time, million network remote room using gigabit optical fiber connection, the implementation of enterprise-class virtualization technology and management platform, to achieve the elasticity of the cluster, users can change the configuration of the server on demand, can be distributed on demand in a number of data center of a single or even hundreds of servers. In addition, the data backup and recovery service based on snapshot technology almost eliminates the concern of the users of small and medium-sized enterprises for security and expansion. ”

Through comparison, we can see that the million network in the virtualization technology, automatic scheduling IT resources and hardware scale have reached a certain level, in line with the definition of cloud computing. and the 3rd element of cloud computing: self-service services. Zhang Benwei said: "Million network will launch a powerful control panel platform, integration of more mainstream application packages, to help users achieve self-service initialization system, self-service replacement operating system, self-service recovery snapshot data, such as one-stop self-service function, so that not good at the technology of small and medium-sized users can help themselves and convenient use of cloud computing. ”

It is understood that in the million network cloud mainframe users of a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises, there is a rapid growth of e-commerce and group purchase sites, the official website of small and medium-sized enterprises, there are a large number of forums and information portal class sites. This not only shows the public cloud model of the new Internet enterprises, the great attraction, but also let us see more and more small and medium-sized enterprises began to choose Public Cloud, enterprise IDC investment is undergoing a huge change. From this we can infer that the public cloud IaaS that has been bothering the small and medium sized enterprises or the "cloud Open Fog", "use it like water and electricity" will no longer be a mere empty talk.

(Responsible editor: admin)