It observation: Pulse cloud computing, the server pattern will change

As cloud computing approaches, IT infrastructure is poised for a storm-like upheaval. Recently, the major server manufacturers frequent movements. EMC, allied to Lenovo last August, announced that it was working with Lenovo to develop next-generation X86 servers, Lenovo's IPDC dedicated servers, new server makers, and sky-cloud, which targets cloud-centric applications, unveiled a "hero" strategy; even IBM Power Bae, the representative of high-end machines, can't sit. , release the "New Power" program, including medium and low-end products included in the upgraded version.

Why are these manufacturers entering the low-end market? IDC's data show that the X86 architecture server's market erosion of UNIX servers is clear, with the market share of X86 servers reaching a record 66.2% in the fourth quarter of 2012. Market demand determines the direction of the manufacturer, the user for the X86 architecture server or ARM architecture server seems to favor, because compared to mainframe, professional machine high-end UNIX server, the first two cheaper, more convenient maintenance.

As we all know, the traditional server such as UNIX server pursues high performance, and emphasizes the outstanding performance in computing density, energy consumption, storage efficiency, CPU utilization and so on. The X86 architecture or ARM architecture server emphasizes key metrics such as energy efficiency, space, pue energy consumption metrics, TCO, and so on. The difference reflects the different requirements of cloud computing and cloud data centers. IDC has attributed the rise in the X86 architecture server share to the combination of virtualization and the server, and this is true.

Reporter in the interview world Super Cloud senior vice President Deng Hong, he thought whether the current cloud computing development trends is the key to the server manufacturers can continue to achieve market success. In the cloud computing environment, more users will switch from buying server products to buying cloud computing services. Users no longer care about how high the server's computing performance, how good reliability, but more concerned about energy consumption, price, load. The deep application of cloud computing will not only break the technology monopoly pattern which is the core of international manufacturers, but also make great changes in the server architecture and market pattern. In addition, Cloud computing Center is the construction of computing, storage, network, security, system software, such as the overall integration of infrastructure, can be seen in the future competition is no longer a simple server product competition, the need for cloud computing software and hardware system innovation capabilities.

From heaven and Earth's "hero" strategy can be seen, the server's high-density (high-density), Low-power (energy-saving), Cloud Computing Center Easy Management (reorganization), System optimization (optimization) Become the key word for the new server at the moment. For example, 2U space to accommodate 4 or even 8 independent motherboards cloud Server, the year-round running in the high temperature of about 40 degrees of the integrated machine system, and so on, these new server products compared to traditional servers, more suitable for the cloud computing center large-scale application deployment.

So, only now Facebook, Google, Baidu and other internet giants have introduced customized server solutions, and server manufacturers also accurately grasp the opportunity. For example, Lenovo's IPDC is tailor-made for the industry products and solutions, the world's E3000 series is also the winning bid Baidu Cloud data Center Customization machine, these are in the description of the traditional server is encountering a dilemma.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)