Hug Cloud Talk about the construction and future of data center

Thanks to the endless innovations in Internet services and applications over the past 10 years, the reliance on IT infrastructure innovation, this is silently operating in various major enterprises, various network service providers behind the scenes, carrying these services and applications of the data center, also "accidentally" to maintain a certain degree of exposure, which makes its planning, construction, Energy conservation and upgrade issues have become a general concern of the industry.

Now, in 21st century the second 10 just ushered in the beginning, in the virtual server virtualization to the popularization, in the sustenance of more users look forward to the concept of cloud computing and the idea is about to hit the ground, people on the topic of data center, is a rising tide, whether professionals, Or to the enterprise computing knowledge of the average user, are eager to understand: in the end what kind of data center to meet the needs of cloud computing? What innovative ideas and technologies are needed to create such a data center?

The pursuit of "openness" as an industry consensus

In the face of these puzzles, it vendors and users who have begun to explore the cloud in the first part of the concept have their own insights. With the continuous improvement of related technologies, and from the experience of more relevant practice cases, manufacturers and users experience, although there are more or less individual differences, but there is a bit of common expression is more and more prominent, that is the gradual recognition of the open road, It is believed that the products, technologies and solutions needed for cloud computing data centers should be built on an open architecture, and that a mutually beneficial industrial ecosystem should be developed in an open manner to promote the practice and improvement of these products, technologies and solutions, thus promoting the development of cloud computing technology and applications.

Just as the call for openness has become increasingly widespread across the cloud computing industry, Intel, as the technology leader in computing open architecture for individuals and businesses, finally officially released in November 2010 what is now well known, covering interoperability, automation, and client-side adaptive The three main elements of the 2015 cloud vision, so adhere to the open road to build cloud computing needs of the data center has become the industry's consensus. In fact, the key to Intel's vision is the opening of the word-its technical cornerstone, Intel's Open Data center concept, and its development relies on an open ecosystem-Open Data Center Alliance (Open Datacenter Alliance, ODCA) and support for the Intel Cloud Builder (Intel Cloud Builder) program.

will open data centers be a pillar of cloud computing?

In the months since Intel released the 2015 Cloud Vision, I believe a lot of people have a different level and perspective of the analysis or interpretation, but in any case, its relationship with the Open Data center is inseparable, perhaps some people will ask: does this mean that only open data centers to meet the needs of the ideal cloud computing or cloud services?

To answer this question, let's start with what cloud computing and its most important requirements-the most popular and understandable notion of cloud computing is that all computing resources and information services, like tap water, are available to end users on demand and share. To make this application a real scene, an important carrier of cloud computing or cloud services-all computing devices in the data center, including servers, storage and network devices, and the resources they represent and host, require a high degree of abstraction and aggregation to achieve efficient management and flexible allocation based on user access requirements.

It's not hard to imagine what it would look like in the face of such demand, if not an open architecture based datacenter: Computing devices based on closed architectures and their applications are likely to be incompatible with compatibility issues, not to mention equipment interoperability, data migration, resource integration, and flexibility. Even if users are paying a high price to solve these problems within their cloud computing platforms, how can they interact with other, architecture-differentiated cloud platforms? If you abandon this interaction, the cloud and cloud will inevitably form a new island of information, which is inconsistent with the development goals of cloud computing, to achieve interaction, it is difficult to resolve this architecture across the platform and data center conflicts.

The best way to deal with this dilemma is to build what Intel says is an Open data center, emphasizing the development and application of data centers built on open, standardized architectures of products, technologies, and solutions. Open data centers benefit from the open architecture "innate" advantages not only to easily crack complex compatibility and interoperability issues, but also to make the data Center architecture simpler, more efficient management. From this perspective, it is the most suitable for cloud computing needs of the data center, it will not only lead the current data center of the construction trend, but also represents the future of the data center.

(Responsible editor: Liu Fen)