The Industrial Revolution of mobile Internet is making people give new meaning to data center infrastructure, based on security, convenience and cost consideration. Isite that the software needs to redefine the next generation of data centers, provide a single platform for managing internal data centers and external data centers, and that their team has a common goal of building and supporting better heterogeneous cloud management solutions, created Esage because they believe the core ideas behind the data center are not being implemented, The potential of minimalism, unification and automation has not been fully exerted.
Islab Jie adhering to the product concept of "heterogeneous" platform management model, advocating a new concept, as a unified, heterogeneous virtualization management Platform advocates, no matter what you used to hypervisor, Isite can manage it. The following is a transcript of the interview with Isite.
Islab Technology Team (part)
CSDN: Mentioned in the field of virtualization and cloud software, there are some very competitive technology companies abroad, Isite is how to consider to do this field? What are the characteristics compared to them?
Isite: Everyone knows that virtualization and cloud software are hot, and VMware now occupies a high share of the Chinese virtualization market, which is the status quo.
As an infrastructure management software, in any case involving the management of two words, generally have the following laws, the early days by the European and American software Evangelism, leading, the latter part of the local enterprise based on flexible development and to meet the needs of local characteristics, catch up, this rule in oa/erp/network management software has been validated, Isite believe that virtualization and cloud software
Since its inception in 08, Islab is always adhering to the product concept of "heterogeneous" platform management model, Isite advocates a new concept, as a unified, heterogeneous virtualization management Platform advocates, no matter what you used in the past hypervisor, Isite's Unicenter can be managed to provide users with the power to purchase equipment and technology choices. In this respect, Isite is the first to launch a unified heterogeneous hypervisor virtualization management platform manufacturers.
Its meaning can be VMware understood as Symbian system, esage as if Android,symbian from once brilliant to decline and end, one of the most fundamental reasons, it is the essence of closed-source products, developers of its application areas of development has certain difficulties, And Android is open source products, based on Linux development, Linux applications are easily ported to the Android platform, the experience is very good, users more and more, making it the mainstream smartphone operating system.
CSDN: The trend of the next generation of data centers is undoubtedly the software definition data center, you think the core idea behind the data center has not been implemented, yet not fully realize the potential of minimalism, unification, automation, then how do you plan to create minimalism, unity, automation?
Isite: At present, the domestic data center is the application of the framework, the basic is to follow the traditional silo deployment mode, the traditional silo design seriously restricts the development of the data center, there is a server spread, management complex, high operating costs, application deployment cycle long, lack of flexibility and other disadvantages, The application of cloud requires the change of data center. The Software definition Data center is virtualized in a way, not just the virtualization of computing resources, but also storage virtualization, network virtualization, Application Virtualization, desktop virtualization, management virtualization, security virtualization, and so on, through virtualization to abstract, pool, and finally automate, which is the cornerstone of cloud computing, It is also the soul and core idea of the data center defined by software. At the present stage, computational virtualization has been maturing for more than more than 10 years, while storage virtualization, network virtualization, desktop virtualization have just started, Application virtualization, management virtualization and security virtualization are more at the conceptual level. There is still a long way to go to achieve a minimalist, unified, automated cloud data center.
Isite is a cloud based software products company, we serve the target users and channel partners, then on the delivery of products we want to provide users with a very simple installation, configuration process and user experience. and unification is well reflected in the function of our products, support heterogeneous allows customers to manage a variety of hypervisor on a unified platform, to solve the complexity of management and also to avoid vendor lock-in, and the full range of standard APIs can easily with Third-party software, hardware depth integration, For example, the Unicloud depth integration Cisco UCS components, through the Load UCS service profile, you can complete the UCS of all configuration management work on a unified platform. On the basis of minimalism and unification, Unicloud can help customers complete automation of installation, deployment, resource scheduling, management monitoring and so on through powerful management function and integration with third party key services.
CSDN: How many developers are you investing in this piece at the moment? What is the goal of the team?
Isite: At present, Esage's development team has nearly 50 people, distributed in both Beijing and Hangzhou.
Islab aims to be the most advanced and innovative next-generation infrastructure software provider and to deliver the best choice of product portfolio to our industry alliance. To achieve this vision, we must have the following capabilities:
is a technology leader who can match the leader in software-defined data centers. Is China's infrastructure software leader. is to reputation, service-oriented, to become the customer's largest overall interest provider.CSDN: In fact, your positioning is very clear, is "committed to the data center minimalist management experience," then you have made what efforts to integrate which resources?
Isite: We think that data center minimalist management experience the best model is one machine, that is, computing, storage, network and the use of the experience of a high degree of unity, but also a word, that is, to avoid user lock-in, users want to be integrated solutions but do not want all products from a business, For this Isite is to integrate the industry's best manufacturers, forming alliances, in particular, our integrated computing resources for Cisco UCS and HP servers, storage integration NetApp, Nexenta and so on, network resources are simple, as long as you meet the 802.1X specifications.
CSDN: Can you share some specific ideas, techniques, and basic architecture of Isite in creating "minimalist, unified and automated data centers"?
Isite: Islab Agile Architectures are based on enterprise-class technologies such as Python,go,apache Tomcat and MySQL, as well as other widely used technologies such as DHCP servers and network attached storage (NAS) servers.
Isite uses server-side technology to manage, store, and process cloud nodes to create all relevant information and events. Users (tenants) can deploy their own virtual machine applications by using a self-service platform within the resource limits set by the administrator to easily access the virtual machine Template Library.
Islab open architecture enables customers to integrate infrastructure and other critical business services, such as third-party monitoring, billing/invoicing systems, configuration management databases and backup solutions, to build end-to-end cloud services through powerful APIs and workflows.
CSDN: What's your client size at the moment? Are there some heavyweight customers?
Isite: We currently have customers all over the country, government, finance, telecommunications, education and other industries are involved, including Tsinghua University, CCB headquarters, Hangzhou Hua, Beijing Xiangyun Gold background, such as some important customers.
CSDN: What are the issues that customers are most concerned about? Do you have any specific measures to address these problems?
Isite: With years of project experience and industry background, we concluded and found that in the current virtualization product area: "Heterogeneous" Virtualization management platform is currently the most "grounding gas" product solutions. At present, the users of virtualization requirements can be roughly divided into two categories, one user has already used a virtualization product, and the other is the new user. In the current virtualization technology market scenario, users who have deployed virtualized products often adopt a one-sided approach: their hypervisor are products that are the same brand as virtualization management software. In the current domestic environment, this approach is likely to face a problem is that once the use of a manufacturer's products, the price of this product and new procurement prices in the future is basically unlikely to change; from another technical level, Although users are becoming more and more aware that different hypervisor have different features and the most suitable use scenarios, they are unable to implement the unified management platform. This situation allows an increasing number of users to consider heterogeneous hypervisor to avoid being limited to the technical impact of a single manufacturer and business hard binding.
Existing assets can not be replaced, two or more sets of virtualization platform to increase the difficulty of management and security risks, can the existing management platform to build a layer of management platform or use another management platform for unified management? As Isite's Unicenter product is implemented, it is possible to manage the hypervisor of the original virtualization offerings simultaneously with other hypervisor that meet business requirements and business requirements, and to manage them uniformly under the Unicenter function implementation. The Virtualization platform administrator can adjust and implement different deployment strategies flexibly based on different hypervisor according to business characteristics. Under such an idea, Isite Unicenter's cloud platform products and ideas have been practiced by two large groups of users in the country, and the user says: "It is a good way to protect current assets and extend to other hypervisor management needs." ”
Csdn:docker is currently in hot demand and is expected to have an impact on virtualization, including VMware, the virtualization manufacturers are actively embracing Docker, Isite how to look at this problem? Do you think about these Open-source cloud computing areas in Docker and OpenStack?
Isite: Docker is a container-level virtualization, the current for Linux support is better, Islab Agile positioning Enterprise-class users, the demand for Windows is relatively high, so we choose Docker internal support but not included in the research and development plan.
For OpenStack, Isite's cloud platform had been developed in 2010 years, when OpenStack was immature, and therefore did not adopt this open source technology, but the Isite modularity and architecture is highly similar.
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