Integrated platform simplifies cloud storage

With the rise of cloud computing, many companies have launched their own cloud solutions. However, many cloud solutions in the market are simply consolidating existing servers, storage, and network devices into a single cabinet, resulting in relatively independent cloud computing, cloud storage, and cloud network solutions. Chengdu PIVOT3 Technology Co., Ltd. will be high-performance computing and mass storage integration, launched a simultaneous computing and storage capabilities of the cloud solution.

Huang Xi, chairman of the company, said that PIVOT3 adopted the integrated, component, modular and hardware and software design ideas, abandoned the traditional cloud computing, cloud storage infrastructure design in the hierarchy of resource allocation, the calculation of resources, storage resources, such as integration in the integration of hardware equipment, Reduce the configuration complexity of the cloud computing server's overall architecture. "Pivot3 the CPU, disk, network, operating system, and virtualization software from the underlying architecture, and divides it into a four-tier architecture: The bottom layer is the hardware infrastructure, such as disk and CPU, on which the Raige OS Cloud management operating system, developed by Walter, is built Another layer is the virtualization layer, supporting VMware, Xen and other virtualization software, located at the top of the virtual server environment, can support a variety of different applications. "Huang Xi said.

PIVOT3 builds up cloud computing platform through cluster stacking, and integrates computing resources and storage resources into a complete resource pool, in which resources can be dispatched and failed to transfer in real time and dynamically according to the application load. This kind of stacking construction method can realize the linear expansion of platform computing and storage capability under the premise of ensuring business continuity.

As an infrastructure and it integrated solutions provider, why does Piper aim to target cloud storage in its business direction? Huang Xi said: "When we first do video surveillance storage project, the user's monitoring range will often need to expand, then we need to increase the front of the camera at any time." This expansion makes it difficult to make adjustments to the hard disk recorders and back-end storage devices. "In this case, Piper started to try to integrate the CPU, the control software and the storage device." "The results of the integration are very pleasing, because the system has become more convenient to expand." At the same time, we have found in many projects that users encounter similar problems in computing, storage, and network resource expansion. Therefore, we began to develop universal integration platform--PIVOT3 cloud storage integration equipment. "Huang Xi said.

At present, the school is actively expanding with the mainstream software manufacturers, integrators to promote the application of one machine. This includes the cooperation with Symantec to launch a backup machine, and Datang, Object video surveillance and other monitoring and analysis manufacturers to cooperate in the development of video surveillance analysis machine. Huang Xi said the next step would be to work with database manufacturers to promote the integration of the database machine solution.

For enterprises how to apply cloud storage, Huang Xi that cloud storage has its advantages, but not necessarily suitable for all IT systems, not blindly swarmed. Whether or not an enterprise uses cloud storage can be considered in two ways: the first is the predictability of the business system, for the development of predictable systems such as carrier billing systems, which, according to their development rules, can confirm the range of data growth over the next 5 years or even longer, which is suitable for use with traditional storage. And for operators value-added services, in various types of telecommunications business in the emerging today, it is difficult to predict its future 3〜5 years of development, then you can use cloud storage. Next is security and reliability, and if a business system spans multiple storage systems, its reliability can be significantly reduced.