Big data is another hot topic for the IT industry to keep abreast of cloud computing. "Big Data" refers to the number of large, difficult to collect, processing, analysis of the dataset, which is prone to storage problems, this article introduces a few major problems.
"Big data" usually refers to data sets that are huge, difficult to collect, process, analyze, and those that are kept in the traditional infrastructure for long periods of time. The "big" here has several meanings, it can describe the size of the organization, and more importantly, it defines the size of the IT infrastructure in the enterprise. The industry has an infinite expectation of large data applications. The more value the business information accumulates, the more it's worth, but we need a way to dig it out.
Why do we need large data now?
In addition to the ability to store more data, we have to face more data types than ever before. The sources of these data include online trading, social networking, automatic sensors, mobile devices and scientific instruments, among others. In addition to the fixed sources of data production, various transactions can also speed up the accumulation of data. For example, the explosive growth of social-type multimedia data stems from new online transactions and record-keeping practices. Data is always growing, but the ability to store huge amounts of data is not enough because it does not guarantee that we can successfully search for business value from it.
Data is an important factor of production
In the information age, data has become an important factor of production, like capital, labor and raw materials and other elements, and as a general demand, it is no longer limited to the application of certain special industries. Companies from all walks of life collect and use a large number of data analysis results to reduce costs as much as possible, improve product quality, improve production efficiency and create new products. For example, by analyzing data collected directly from the product test site, you can help the enterprise improve the design. In addition, a company can surpass its rivals by analyzing customer behavior in depth, contrasting a lot of market data.
Storage technology must keep up
With the explosive growth of large data applications, it has spawned its own unique architecture, and has directly driven the development of storage, networking and computing. After all, the special need to deal with big data is a new challenge. The development of hardware is ultimately driven by software requirements, and in this case, it is clear that large data analysis application requirements are affecting the development of the data storage infrastructure.
On the other hand, this change is not an opportunity for storage vendors and other IT infrastructure vendors. With the continuous growth of structured and unstructured data and the diversification of data sources, the design of storage systems has not been able to meet the needs of large data applications. As the storage vendors realized this, they began to modify the architecture design of block and file based storage systems to accommodate these new requirements. Here we discuss what attributes are relevant to the large data storage infrastructure to see how they meet the challenges of large data.
Capacity issues
Here the "large capacity" can usually reach the PB-level data scale, therefore, the mass data storage system must have a corresponding level of expansion capabilities. At the same time, the expansion of the storage system must be simple, you can increase the capacity by adding modules or disk cabinets, and even do not need downtime. Based on this demand, customers are now increasingly favoring the storage of scale-out architectures. Scale-out cluster structure is characterized by a certain amount of storage capacity of each node, in addition to the internal data processing capacity and interconnection equipment, and traditional storage system chimney-style architecture is completely different, scale-out architecture can achieve seamless and smooth expansion to avoid storage islands.
The big Data application, in addition to the scale of the data, means that there is a huge number of files. Therefore, how to manage the accumulated metadata of the filesystem layer is a difficult problem, and improper handling can affect the scalability and performance of the system, which is the bottleneck of traditional NAS systems. Fortunately, there is no such problem with object-based storage architectures, which can manage the number of files at level 1 billion in a single system, and are not plagued by metadata management like traditional storage. Object-based Storage systems also have wide-area scalability to deploy and form a large, cross-regional storage infrastructure in several different locations.
Latency issues
The "Big Data" application also has a real time problem. In particular, it involves applications related to online transactions or financial classes. For example, the online advertising service in the apparel sales industry requires real-time analysis of customer browsing records and accurate advertising. This requires the storage system to be able to support these features while maintaining a high response speed, as the result of response latency is that the system pushes "expired" advertising content to the customer. In this scenario, the Scale-out architecture's storage system can play an advantage because each of its nodes has a processing and interconnect component that can grow synchronously while increasing capacity. The object-based storage System can support concurrent data flow, and further improve data throughput.
There are many "big data" applications that require high IOPS performance, such as HPC high-performance computing. In addition, the popularity of server virtualization has led to a need for high iops, just as it has changed the traditional IT environment. In order to meet these challenges, various models of solid-state storage equipment emerged, small to simple within the server to do the cache, large to solid-state media, such as scalable storage system, etc. are booming.
Concurrent access once the enterprise recognizes the potential value of large data analysis applications, they will compare more datasets into the system, while allowing more people to share and use the data. In order to create more business value, enterprises tend to synthetically analyze the various data objects from different platforms. The storage infrastructure, including the global file system, can help users solve data access problems, and the global file system allows multiple users on multiple hosts to access file data concurrently, which can be stored on multiple different types of storage devices in multiple locations.
Security issues
Some special industries, such as financial data, medical information and government intelligence, have their own security standards and confidentiality requirements. Although this is no different for IT managers, and all of them have to be obeyed, but large data analysis often requires multiple types of data to reference each other, and in the past there is no such data mixed access, so large data applications also spawned some new security issues to consider.
Cost issues
"Big" can also mean expensive. Cost control is a key issue for companies that are using large data environments. Trying to control costs means that we have to make each device more "efficient" while also reducing the expensive parts. Currently, technologies such as data deduplication have entered the primary storage market and can now handle more data types, which can bring more value to large data storage applications and improve storage efficiency. In an environment where data volumes are growing, a significant return on investment can be achieved by reducing the consumption of back-end storage, even if only a few percentage points. In addition, the use of automated compact configuration, snapshots, and cloning technology can also improve storage efficiency.
Many large data storage systems include archiving components, especially for organizations that need to analyze historical data or require long-term data retention. Tape is still the most economical storage medium from the point of view of unit capacity storage cost, in fact, in many enterprises, it is still the de facto standard and practice to use archive systems that support terabytes of high-capacity tape. The most influential factor in cost control is those commercially available hardware devices. As a result, many first-time users and those with the largest number of applications will customize their own "hardware platforms" rather than off-the-shelf commercial products, a move that can be used to balance their cost-control strategies in the business expansion process. In order to adapt to this demand, more and more storage products are now provided in the form of pure software, can be directly installed in the user's existing, general-purpose or off-the-shelf hardware devices. In addition, a lot of storage software companies are also selling software products as the core of soft and hard integration devices, or with the hardware manufacturers alliances, the introduction of cooperative products.
22223 months 10th news, according to the Ministry of the Department of the Bureau of Operation Forecast, in the 4G network online, China's 4G smartphone shipments reached 120 million in 2014 to meet the user's huge demand for network access. From user development and revenue, 4G development rate will be far higher than the 3G network deployment of the record, the next 3 years the domestic 4G market will show explosive growth, rather than the early 3G incremental growth.
It is reported that the Ministry of Industry recently released the "2013 Mobile phone Business Development Review and Prospects", from which the 2013, China's mobile phone production reached 1.46 billion, growth of 23.2%, the growth rate increased by 18.9% over the previous year. According to IDC released the 2013 Global mobile phone 1.8 billion shipments measured, China's output accounted for the world's share of shipments reached 81.1%, compared to 2012 increase more than 10%.
Since 2013, China's mobile phone exports have grown faster. According to customs statistics, January-December, China's mobile phone exports 1.19 billion, an increase of 16.9%, the growth rate than the previous year increased 1%, exports 95.1 billion U.S. dollars, year-on-year growth of 17.4%, faster than the average level of electronic information products 5.5%.
2013 1-December, the communications terminal equipment manufacturing industry to achieve total business income of 1.0233 trillion yuan, an increase of 30.4%, to achieve total profit of 35.5 billion yuan, growth of 20.5%; industry income growth rate is higher than the average level of electronics manufacturing 20%; industry average profit margin reaches 3.5%, Below the average level of electronics manufacturing 1%.
2013, the communication terminal equipment manufacturing more than 5 million yuan project completed fixed assets investment 43.4 billion yuan, an increase of 38.8%, the growth rate than the previous year increased by more than 20%, higher than the average level of electronic manufacturing 25.9%. From the perspective of investment, the enterprise's investment focus from the production link upstream downstream transfer, mainly includes the upper reaches of the chip, design and software development and downstream value-added services and other fields.
In the overall shipments, 2013, the domestic mobile phone market cumulative shipments of 579 million, an increase of 24.1% per cent. Among them, 2G mobile phone shipments of 170 million, 3G mobile phone shipments reached 408 million. Among them, the smartphone shipments of 423 million, an increase of 64.1%, the market share reached 73.1%, of which Android phone shipments 398 million, accounting for the same period of smartphone shipments of 94%.
In the new product listing, 2013, the domestic listed mobile phone models 2,861, down 26.7% year-on-year. Among them, 2G new mobile phone models 786, 3G new models of mobile phones, 2,055, LTE mobile phones new models 20. Among them, the listing of new smartphone models 2,288, an increase of 3%, accounting for the total number of new models 80%, including 2,217 of the use of the Android operating system, accounting for the same period of new models of smartphones 96.9%.
In the domestic brand development, 2013, domestic brand mobile phone shipments 461 million, an increase of 24.9%, accounting for the total number of mobile phone shipments of 79.7%, the new model listed 2,691, down 27.2%, the total number of mobile phone listed new models of 94.1%. 3G mobile phone, domestic brand shipments share is: TD-SCDMA Mobile phone 89%, WCDMA mobile phone 52.2%, cdma2000 mobile phone 75.5%; LTE mobile phones, domestic brands accounted for 54%.
According to the Ministry of Industry, because of the lack of technology accumulation of domestic mobile phone production enterprises, with a large number of foreign mobile phone companies, the overall technical level is still far behind the foreign-funded enterprises, the core technology is almost all in foreign mobile phone manufacturers.
In hardware, China's mobile phone companies lack chips and RF components, such as key core technology. On the one hand lead to China's domestic mobile phone lack of high-end products, weak market competitiveness, less profit, on the other hand, led to the homogenization of domestic mobile phone products more and more serious, directly restricted the healthy development of China's mobile phone industry.
In software, the smartphone is popular all over the world, gradually replacing the traditional function-type mobile phone, and the domestic mobile phone in the field of intelligent development is obviously backward. Most of the domestic mobile phone operating system based on Android and custom business for market development, the real unique characteristics of the application of rare, domestic mobile phone operating systems generally have a slow version upgrade, operating system "trap", "efficiency" of the speed of the obvious lag and so on. Looking at the gross profit margin of the global smartphone, Apple is over 50%, Samsung and HTC remain at 30%, while the gross margin of domestic brands is less than 20%.
The strength of the brand construction is insufficient. There is a common problem in the development of domestic mobile phone enterprises: enterprises lack to do strong, big long-term planning, ignoring the construction of corporate brand. Many mobile phone consumers in the purchase of mobile phones more and more rational, mobile phone brands have a great impact on their purchase decisions. Due to the lack of key core technology, China's domestic handset manufacturers have been forced to abandon high-end products market to move to low-end products market, and the main battlefield positioning in the following models, triggering price war, and to consumers at home and abroad left the impression of low-end products.
In addition, some domestic handset manufacturers to meet the market demand for the new style of mobile phones, and strive to shorten the mobile phone from the research and development to the market time, resulting in some product quality instability, repair higher, the user on the quality of mobile phone complaints continue to improve.
International competition tends to be fierce. In recent years, developing countries such as India and Vietnam have adopted various preferential policies to foster the development of their industries. Because these countries have very rich cheap labor force, as well as the industrial chain supporting facilities are becoming more and more perfect, mobile phone electronic products orders to these countries, the trend is becoming more and more obvious, is gradually occupy the international mobile phone market originally belonged to our country's order share.
Samsung invests in Vietnam as an example: Since 2008, Samsung has invested 670 million of billions of dollars in building its first mobile phone factory in Bac Province in Vietnam; in 2012, Samsung invested $700 million in a second mobile-phone factory in Thái Nguyên, North Vietnam, and in 2013, Samsung again upped Vietnam's investment, Plans to spend 2 billion dollars to build a third production base in Vietnam to make mobile phones, cameras and laptops. According to preliminary estimates, the 2013 Samsung under the flag of Vietnam's factory smartphone shipments will reach 240 million, accounting for more than half of its total production, accounting for the same period of global smartphone shipments of the share reached about 20%.
As for the 2014 mobile phone industry trends, JPMorgan's data show that in 2014, global smartphone shipments will grow more sharply than in 2013. The main reason for this trend is that the high-end smartphone market is becoming saturated, the number of first-time buyers is down, and the existing handsets are enough to meet the needs of most users, and the demand for mobile phone upgrades is also decreasing. In the context of gradually saturated market demand, mobile phone products will become increasingly competitive technology, multimode 4G chips, 2K high-definition screen, optical image-stabilization, NFC (near-distance wireless communication), flexible screens and batteries and dual operating systems will be the development trend of several technologies.
At the same time, the Ministry of Industry also expects that 2014 China's mobile phone sector will continue to maintain a certain range of growth, but by the global market demand saturation and industry competition intensifies and other adverse factors, production and sales growth rate will be slightly slower than 2013.
333333 months 10th news, according to the Ministry of the Department of the Bureau of Operation Forecast, in the 4G network online, China's 4G smartphone shipments reached 120 million in 2014 to meet the user's huge demand for network access. From user development and revenue, 4G development rate will be far higher than the 3G network deployment of the record, the next 3 years the domestic 4G market will show explosive growth, rather than the early 3G incremental growth.
It is reported that the Ministry of Industry recently released the "2013 Mobile phone Business Development Review and Prospects", from which the 2013, China's mobile phone production reached 1.46 billion, growth of 23.2%, the growth rate increased by 18.9% over the previous year. According to IDC released the 2013 Global mobile phone 1.8 billion shipments measured, China's output accounted for the world's share of shipments reached 81.1%, compared to 2012 increase more than 10%.
Since 2013, China's mobile phone exports have grown faster. According to customs statistics, January-December, China's mobile phone exports 1.19 billion, an increase of 16.9%, the growth rate than the previous year increased 1%, exports 95.1 billion U.S. dollars, year-on-year growth of 17.4%, faster than the average level of electronic information products 5.5%.
2013 1-December, the communications terminal equipment manufacturing industry to achieve total business income of 1.0233 trillion yuan, an increase of 30.4%, to achieve total profit of 35.5 billion yuan, growth of 20.5%; industry income growth rate is higher than the average level of electronics manufacturing 20%; industry average profit margin reaches 3.5%, Below the average level of electronics manufacturing 1%.
2013, the communication terminal equipment manufacturing more than 5 million yuan project completed fixed assets investment 43.4 billion yuan, an increase of 38.8%, the growth rate than the previous year increased by more than 20%, higher than the average level of electronic manufacturing 25.9%. From the perspective of investment, the enterprise's investment focus from the production link upstream downstream transfer, mainly includes the upper reaches of the chip, design and software development and downstream value-added services and other fields.
In the overall shipments, 2013, the domestic mobile phone market cumulative shipments of 579 million, an increase of 24.1% per cent. Among them, 2G mobile phone shipments of 170 million, 3G mobile phone shipments reached 408 million. Among them, the smartphone shipments of 423 million, an increase of 64.1%, the market share reached 73.1%, of which Android phone shipments 398 million, accounting for the same period of smartphone shipments of 94%.
In the new product listing, 2013, the domestic listed mobile phone models 2,861, down 26.7% year-on-year. Among them, 2G new mobile phone models 786, 3G new models of mobile phones, 2,055, LTE mobile phones new models 20. Among them, the listing of new smartphone models 2,288, an increase of 3%, accounting for the total number of new models 80%, including 2,217 of the use of the Android operating system, accounting for the same period of new models of smartphones 96.9%.
In the domestic brand development, 2013, domestic brand mobile phone shipments 461 million, an increase of 24.9%, accounting for the total number of mobile phone shipments of 79.7%, the new model listed 2,691, down 27.2%, the total number of mobile phone listed new models of 94.1%. 3G mobile phone, domestic brand shipments share is: TD-SCDMA Mobile phone 89%, WCDMA mobile phone 52.2%, cdma2000 mobile phone 75.5%; LTE mobile phones, domestic brands accounted for 54%.
According to the Ministry of Industry, because of the lack of technology accumulation of domestic mobile phone production enterprises, with a large number of foreign mobile phone companies, the overall technical level is still far behind the foreign-funded enterprises, the core technology is almost all in foreign mobile phone manufacturers.
In hardware, China's mobile phone companies lack chips and RF components, such as key core technology. On the one hand lead to China's domestic mobile phone lack of high-end products, weak market competitiveness, less profit, on the other hand, led to the homogenization of domestic mobile phone products more and more serious, directly restricted the healthy development of China's mobile phone industry.
In software, the smartphone is popular all over the world, gradually replacing the traditional function-type mobile phone, and the domestic mobile phone in the field of intelligent development is obviously backward. Most of the domestic mobile phone operating system based on Android and custom business for market development, the real unique characteristics of the application of rare, domestic mobile phone operating systems generally have a slow version upgrade, operating system "trap", "efficiency" of the speed of the obvious lag and so on. Looking at the gross profit margin of the global smartphone, Apple is over 50%, Samsung and HTC remain at 30%, while the gross margin of domestic brands is less than 20%.
The strength of the brand construction is insufficient. There is a common problem in the development of domestic mobile phone enterprises: enterprises lack to do strong, big long-term planning, ignoring the construction of corporate brand. Many mobile phone consumers in the purchase of mobile phones more and more rational, mobile phone brands have a great impact on their purchase decisions. Due to the lack of key core technology, China's domestic handset manufacturers have been forced to abandon high-end products market to move to low-end products market, and the main battlefield positioning in the following models, triggering price war, and to consumers at home and abroad left the impression of low-end products.
In addition, some domestic handset manufacturers to meet the market demand for the new style of mobile phones, and strive to shorten the mobile phone from the research and development to the market time, resulting in some product quality instability, repair higher, the user on the quality of mobile phone complaints continue to improve.
International competition tends to be fierce. In recent years, developing countries such as India and Vietnam have adopted various preferential policies to foster the development of their industries. Because these countries have very rich cheap labor force, as well as the industrial chain supporting facilities are becoming more and more perfect, mobile phone electronic products orders to these countries, the trend is becoming more and more obvious, is gradually occupy the international mobile phone market originally belonged to our country's order share.
Samsung invests in Vietnam as an example: Since 2008, Samsung has invested 670 million of billions of dollars in building its first mobile phone factory in Bac Province in Vietnam; in 2012, Samsung invested $700 million in a second mobile-phone factory in Thái Nguyên, North Vietnam, and in 2013, Samsung again upped Vietnam's investment, Plans to spend 2 billion dollars to build a third production base in Vietnam to make mobile phones, cameras and laptops. According to preliminary estimates, the 2013 Samsung under the flag of Vietnam's factory smartphone shipments will reach 240 million, accounting for more than half of its total production, accounting for the same period of global smartphone shipments of the share reached about 20%.
As for the 2014 mobile phone industry trends, JPMorgan's data show that in 2014, global smartphone shipments will grow more sharply than in 2013. The main reason for this trend is that the high-end smartphone market is becoming saturated, the number of first-time buyers is down, and the existing handsets are enough to meet the needs of most users, and the demand for mobile phone upgrades is also decreasing. In the context of gradually saturated market demand, mobile phone products will become increasingly competitive technology, multimode 4G chips, 2K high-definition screen, optical image-stabilization, NFC (near-distance wireless communication), flexible screens and batteries and dual operating systems will be the development trend of several technologies.
At the same time, the Ministry of Industry also expects that 2014 China's mobile phone sector will continue to maintain a certain range of growth, but by the global market demand saturation and industry competition intensifies and other adverse factors, production and sales growth rate will be slightly slower than 2013.
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