"Openness" is the destination of the cloud platform

"Open" is the spirit of the Internet, "open" is also the inevitable trend of the development of the cloud platform. In today's internet age, the original closed it architecture, patterns and software platform has been difficult to meet the future needs of business development. Throughout the world, openness is becoming a trend sweeping the cloud computing market, with OpenStack as the representative of the open source cloud community is growing rapidly, become the market can not ignore the important force. In view of the topic of open cloud Platform, "People's Post and telecommunications" reporter has interviewed the relevant experts from research institutes, telecom operators and mainstream equipment manufacturers to explore the importance of open cloud platform and how to build a truly open, future-oriented cloud platform.

Guests：

He Baohong, director of Internet Center, Ministry of Telecommunications Research Institute

China Telecom cloud computing capability and application product line director Rai

Huawei It product line marketing Director Sun Jia

Openness is the general trend

From closed to open, this has become an inevitable historical development. Openness has promoted the progress of human society, and openness has also contributed to the prosperity of the Internet. Similarly, the development of cloud computing industry is inseparable from the power of openness. So what does openness mean? What does openness bring?

He Baohong: The opening of the cloud platform is a necessity. Openness represents the sharing of knowledge and resources, and for users, openness means the price advantage brought about by intensification. For developers, openness reduces development costs and greatly lowers entry thresholds. Open to the cloud platform as well as the entire cloud computing industry have a positive significance, open to the entire human society is also an important contribution.

The history of the Internet is the development of open source. Tracing the history of the Internet can be found that, thanks to open source, the open source of TCP/IP system has been embedded into open source Unix, driving the Internet to start and prosper. Can say, no open source there is no internet today. Today, given the importance of open source, almost all Internet technologies have open source implementations, and standards have often been open source since their inception.

At present, more and more companies start to focus on open source, and use the power of open source. Big companies like Microsoft have even set up a dedicated Open-source unit, and in 2012 Microsoft set up a subsidiary dedicated to Microsoft and open source communities and standards to further open source and open source standards. At the same time, some of the mainstream IT companies in China began to vigorously promote open source.

The unification and openness of standards cannot be neglected. At present, the open cloud platform in the global market faces the standard inconsistency, the problem with the fact that industry standards, this will undoubtedly bring some problems, the most prominent is the user's "lock", that is, because the standard inconsistency causes users to migrate before the different cloud platform, the cost of high, end users have to be "locked" on a certain platform. Therefore, the unification and openness of standards is also an important direction for the industry to explore.

Rai: The cloud operating system is moving from windows to Linus, an open trend and tide. Since Linus is open source, it is difficult to keep a "backdoor". For operators, the choice of an operating system is an important indicator of security, no loopholes, open source for this option to provide protection.

The future of the cloud platform should be open, but also should be concise, to make it business delivery easier and more convenient. For telecommunications operators, the use of the cloud platform will bring many benefits. On the one hand is conducive to the integration of internal operating platform, improve resource utilization, shorten business delivery time. On the other hand is conducive to the promotion of external service capabilities, telecommunications operators of their own cloud platform to build, can help the user system deployment and transformation, improve the user's business capabilities.

Sun Jia: Openness is ultimately about bringing benefits to customers. True openness means that the right to choose, the right to a flexible mix, and the pricing power are put into the hands of the user, which is the main trend in the future.

For users, choosing a cloud service is ideal when choosing an open it architecture based on their technical strength, input, and flexible selection of components such as virtualization, servers, storage, and networking to build a complete it virtual architecture. At the same time, various applications of the enterprise can flow freely between the cloud platforms of common standards.

To achieve this vision, we need the support of the open cloud platform. Only under the premise of openness, users will be able to have their own it cloud architecture ownership, control and management rights, will not be expensive, closed, single suppliers "locked." At the same time, based on such a development cloud platform, users can flexibly configure the business core according to the needs of industry and enterprise development.

It is precisely because of the view that the direction of openness, Huawei is committed to promoting the development of open cloud platform, and actively to the international influential open source community to contribute their strength. Huawei officially became a gold member of the Open Cloud Computing Organization (OPENSTACK) in November 2013, the first company to date in China and Asia. Meanwhile, Huawei is based on open architecture, relatively standard protocols and open source communities

Committed to building a truly open, and able to integrate online and offline capabilities, to meet enterprise-class critical applications, high reliability, high-performance open Cloud operating system fusionsphere.

It is worth mentioning that the development of the hybrid cloud will also be aimed at openness. It can be foreseen that the future operation of the enterprise will be built on the mixed cloud, and only in the open environment to realize the service provider public cloud interoperability, docking, enterprises can enjoy the public cloud services brought convenience and benefits.

The key to build a total-win ecological chain

Openness means cooperation, and openness is a symbol of total win. To build a truly open cloud platform, the construction of the ecological chain cannot be neglected. Both the Linux boom and the success of the Android operating system have proven the value and significance of cooperation, a win-lose ecosystem. In the construction of open cloud platform, how can we build an open, cooperative and win-win ecosystem?

He Baohong: The Internet itself advocates open, advocating the construction of a cooperative, win-lose eco-industrial chain, so as to eventually achieve the health and sustainable development of the entire industry. The construction of the open industry chain of cloud platform needs to start from two aspects, one is the opening of the cloud service, the other is the open source of the cloud product. The two are the relations of mutual promotion and benign development.

At present, open source cloud operating system is getting more and more attention. From the global perspective, some mature open source cloud Community has been formed, in the industry to play a positive role in the development. At home, the development of open source cloud operating system has just started, some enterprises have already started to build open source cloud operating system, but compared with the international developed countries still have a certain gap.

It is worth mentioning that domestic enterprises in the source of the contribution is growing. China's enterprises in the open source of the strength is growing, it is very proud of. An international web site that counts the contribution of countries to Linux in the world, China has now risen to third place. It can be predicted that with the accumulation of Chinese enterprises in the open source power, China's open cloud platform will be further developed, open and win the ecological system will gradually build up.

Rai: In the construction of open cloud platform, the building of ecosystem is very important. Only in a cooperative ecological environment, the industry chain parties can achieve a total win, can eventually open the cloud platform bigger and stronger.

The competing relationship in the open ecosystem is worthy of attention. In today's era, the relationship between market subjects and industrial chains is multidimensional, there is no absolute opponent and no absolute partner. In foreign markets, for example, Amazon and Microsoft are rivals, but Amazon's virtual mainframe is helping Microsoft sell the system. Red Hat and Microsoft are rivals, but their platforms are mutually supportive.

At present, Huawei launched the cloud operating system Fusionsphere, and advocated the construction of a fusionsphere based ecological value circle. As an influential company, Huawei has a strong independent research and development capabilities, while the company's volume is also very large, if it can be a strategic effort to invest in open cloud platform ecosystem construction, will be very meaningful thing.

Sun Jia: The Open Cloud Platform construction, can not be separated from the customer business application of the cooperation, win-lose ecological chain, which will provide customers and partners to create business transformation opportunities and business mechanisms, but also for the development of the entire industry to bring impetus.

It industry is a very long ecological chain, which not only has dozens of of the scale of more than Chi "Giants", as well as the "old shop" to maintain the hundred years of operation, these enterprises are not only opponents, but also partners. Overall, IT industry is an industry that attaches great importance to open cooperation.

The establishment of an open, cooperative, and win-only ecosystem needs to be based on multiple forces. Taking Huawei as an example, with more and more industries involved, with the increasing number of users, only by virtue of Huawei's own strength has not been enough for all enterprises to provide quality cloud services. Therefore, we must join hands with partners to integrate the advanced technology of cloud computing into the application of all walks of life, and build an open and win ecological value circle.

It is with this philosophy that Huawei focuses not only on the IT innovation infrastructure of servers, storage, networks, cloud operating systems and cloud management products and solutions. At the same time, we also adhere to open cooperation, committed to working with partners to provide differentiated, competitive solutions and services for the digital restructuring of the enterprise, and to build a total-win ecosystem based on Fusionsphere.

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)