Microsoft China: Virtualization itself is not cloud computing

June 3 News, Microsoft China today held a virtualization summit to promote its virtualization and cloud computing strategy.　　Microsoft believes that virtualization is an important foundation for data centers to implement cloud computing, but virtualization is not a cloud in itself, but one way to cloud computing. Thus, Microsoft believes that virtualization does not represent the full range of cloud computing centers, which makes the computing power of the data center more scalable and more flexible, so that it can better serve the cloud, but at the current level of technology, virtualization is not omnipotent, and therefore,　　Microsoft provides users with a more comprehensive and complete solution and management tool spanning virtual and non virtual platforms to provide users with a more reasonable infrastructure for cloud computing centers.　　Microsoft stresses that it is today the only data center that builds and operates a public cloud, and a vendor that builds private cloud solutions.　　For desktop and Application virtualization, Microsoft believes that this will allow win 7 to deploy faster, allowing the private cloud to actually fall. The following is a review of Microsoft's China perspective: the ongoing innovation in IT technology and philosophy also changes the application habits of end users and the IT architecture of the enterprise. When the enterprise is increasingly inseparable from it to help them to operate, we will find that the change of it architecture is closely related to the development of enterprises, which is the topic of any enterprise to face.　　In this process, as the industry leader-Microsoft, has been in the user's side, to provide users with a full range of solutions and services, and users walk side by step in the IT architecture of the forefront of the development of the enterprise IT architecture changes in the future. Today, more and more companies are noticing the limitations of traditional data centers, began to move to a higher level of architecture and ideas, and "towards cloud computing" is undoubtedly the ultimate vision of many customers, but in this process, how to take the first step, how to really swim clouds, and how orderly let "cloud" landing, are to be considered. Microsoft's unique advantage and value is that Microsoft is the only one that has the ability to build and operate a public cloud, and has advanced solutions and rich experience in helping customers build private clouds.　　At each step, Microsoft has a corresponding product solutions to deal with, and have a large number of partners strong support, so as to fully assist customers to successfully complete the transformation of IT architecture. Server and Datacenter virtualization: It's just the beginning, not the end of the architecture change. There is no doubt that virtualization is the most popular word in the current server and data center area, and that, unlike in previous years, more than just a wait-and-see and assessment level, more and more companies are now using virtualization for actual deployments,　　The potential of virtualization is in full swing. Server virtualization brings a series of benefits in data center building, such as by building multiple virtual machines on a single server to ensure a fuller utilization of physical resources, which allows administrators to consolidate applications from previous servers to a single server,It also has the function of cutting down the physical server and reducing the energy consumption.　　On the other hand, just as storage virtualization makes multiple storage devices virtual as a single storage unit, server virtualization also blends server resources in the datacenter, like a large "process resource pool." Microsoft is the world's largest x86 server operating system provider, its latest Windows Server 2008 R2 is currently the best x86 server operating system, widely praised by the industry, and its free with the Hyper-V R2 provides powerful virtualization capabilities and performance, this unique combination of　　, coupled with Microsoft's own powerful comprehensive server and virtualization management Tools System Center, has brought great convenience to users.　　But, in Microsoft's view, virtualization is not the end of enterprise IT architecture change, on the contrary it is just a new starting point, the so-called server consolidation/reduction, processing resources aggregation, more flexible resource scheduling is just a foundation, a step towards a higher level of the foundation, that is, cloud computing ... Cloud Computing Center: The Future of the data center cloud computing is actually a service model, if virtualization helps the data center to achieve the computing power of the orderly, on-demand provisioning, then cloud computing is for the application of an on-demand delivery and supply mode. Because computing power is the application service, it's not hard to understand the relationship between virtualization and cloud computing. Simply put, the cloud is a centralized supply center for some kind of application, such as storage cloud, office cloud, database Cloud and so on.　　While traditional data centers are more of data centralization and more of a physical architecture, the advent of cloud computing gives the datacenter an intelligence that provides applications to customers, not just data services. However, cloud computing is divided into private cloud and public cloud. Many people know this analogy: cloud computing is like running water, each family does not have its own reservoir, all through the water pipe to obtain the appropriate water, water is an application here, and the waterworks is equivalent to your water application cloud provider. Now we're going to expand this metaphor, and when households have other needs for water applications, they will spend money on bottled water, Coca-Cola, and so on, and then they need another provider.　　If we compare the water supply in the family to the private cloud, the bottled water and the Coca-Cola is a kind of public cloud that can be purchased by paying, which is a complementary relationship, and the customer is able to customize it flexibly according to their needs. Microsoft believes that virtualization is an important foundation for data centers to implement cloud computing, but virtualization is not a cloud in itself, but one way to cloud computing. So virtualization doesn't represent all of the cloud-centric forms, it makes the data center's computing power more scalable and more flexible, so that it can better serve cloud computing, but at the current level of technology, virtualization is not a panacea, and therefore, Microsoft for users in the establishment of cloud platformProvides a more comprehensive and complete solution and management tool spanning virtual and non virtual platforms, providing users with a more reasonable infrastructure for cloud computing centers. As the largest software provider, Microsoft is now the only data center that builds and operates a public cloud, and a vendor that builds private cloud solutions. Microsoft's Cloud Computing Center runs on the Windows Server platform and is under the control of Microsoft System Center. It carries Microsoft's key business from enterprise users to consumers.　　At present, Microsoft's cloud computing center, costing 500 million of billions of dollars, is the equivalent of 60 football pitches, and the number of servers is increasing by 10,000 units a month, hosting 2.8 billion searches per month, 60 billion corporate mail processing, 240 billion instant messaging, and services for 2 million enterprise end users. With such a public and private cloud computing platform to build experience, Microsoft is undoubtedly the best corporate customer cloud computing partner, whether the enterprise needs a private cloud, or the need for public cloud, or mixed cloud, Microsoft has a full and mature solution.　　And, not only the cloud computing center itself, Microsoft is also ready for you to use cloud computing application delivery Tools-desktop and Application Virtualization ... Desktop and Application Virtualization-the ultimate goal of letting win 7 deploy faster, and letting private cloud truly fall into the cloud is to provide end users with a better user experience, more flexible and powerful IT service support. Microsoft has been advocating the "cloud" + "end-to-end" strategy, on the one hand through the cloud to bring more powerful and flexible back-end support and centralized control of IT systems. On the other hand, the powerful "cloud" needs a new generation of "end" to support, the combination of cloud and end makes the end user more convenient access to various information and systems.　　Currently, Microsoft is the only vendor that can provide solutions from the cloud to the end. If the server and data center virtualization emphasizes the computing power in the back-end of the centralized and flexible supply, cloud computing emphasizes the application in the back-end of the centralized and flexible supply, then desktop and application virtualization is in the front-end, computing power and application of flexible reception.　　It will maximize the transparency of the devices on the receiving end, and let users focus on getting the applications they need anytime, anywhere. Virtual Desktop Architecture (VDI), let a traditional computer installed a set of operating system and application of the mode of history, the required operating systems and applications are deployed in the data center, the front-end device is more than just a command input and display output role, all the application processing and application generated data are in the background. Users can also retain the existing computer and operating system, and have local desktop, just accept the background of the application services, this is the application of virtualization.　　Both are essentially a way to accept a remote application delivery service, except that virtual desktops are virtual. This unified delivery and acceptance mode will make the enterprise IT management has been greatly simplified, management efficiency and security level has been greatly improved, enterprises can expressTo upgrade desktop and application versions for each employee, through desktop and application virtualization, businesses can upgrade to Windows 7 or office 2010 for tens of thousands of employees within a few 10 minutes, as previously unthinkable. Users can even use Apple's products to receive Windows desktops and apps (or just apps), which undoubtedly greatly improves the flexibility and efficiency of day-to-day office work.　　Moreover, even if the user's terminal is lost, there is no need to worry about the disclosure of enterprise data, because all application data is above the cloud, not on the local terminal. By contrast, virtual desktop does not require a strong and full-featured local terminal equipment, more suitable for the need to highly centralized control, or want to a large number of IT users unified management of enterprises, such as finance, telecommunications, research and development, and only to do the application of virtualization to the terminal left a greater flexibility, For those who need more flexible local processing capabilities, but want to ensure the application of data security, such as the company's senior and mobile workers, SME users.　　This type of user's computer itself can also completely receive the virtual desktop (that is, desktop virtualization must include the application of virtualization, but the application of virtualization does not require the desktop is virtual), thus for the enterprise IT executives to build for different users of the application and management model to provide greater convenience. In this area, Microsoft's App-V provides a powerful application virtualization capability and works with Citrix to provide users with more flexible and efficient Desktop virtualization Architecture (VDI) solutions, and with Microsoft's Hyper-V, System　　Center in the data center virtualization and all-round management approach to achieve a perfect integration.　　Whether in the desktop operating system market or in the Enterprise Office application market, Microsoft occupies an absolute market share, this all-in-one, from the back-end, from the operating system and application to virtualization, and then to the global management of the integration program only Microsoft can provide. To sum up, whether it is in the Enterprise data center of the primary it optimization, server consolidation phase, or in the data center to various types of cloud computing models in the process of implementation, deployment and landing, Microsoft can provide a full range of solutions and, Microsoft is the only manufacturer of cloud data center solutions that has experience building a cloud computing platform. All this stems from Microsoft's own strong technical strength, but also with the industry's broad support, including Citrix, Intel, HP, Dell, NETAPP, HDS and other leadership vendors are Microsoft's close partners, their own outstanding products and Microsoft complement each other, will continue to provide users with a more excellent from the front end to the back end, simple and efficient all-round solutions.