Sky Cloud trends: cloud management goes hand-in-hand with Hadoop industry solutions

Sky Cloud Trend, one of the core enterprises of cloud base, is the cloud base to work together trend technology, should "cloud" and born enterprise. It is influential in the open source World: Hadoop Source code contribution to the world eighth, many in the Hadoop, HBase, flume projects in the committer;cloudstack of the Chinese community, the substantive leader in 2012, in-depth China's two or three-line cities to host dozens of open source technology training, Train a group of Cloudstack and Hadoop professional and technical personnel. "2012 Cloud World Congress", CSDN on Cloudstack, Hadoop, industry landing application practices, large data on the future direction of development and many other issues interviewed the sky Cloud Trend vice President Gao Zhaozhao.

Gao Zhaozhao, vice president of Cloud trends, introduces Elaster Cloud Platform 5.0 new version

Gao Zhaozhao, vice president of Cloud trends, interviewed by CSDN reporter

Elaster Cloud Management steadily forward

CSDN: What is the technical strength of the cloud trend in Cloudstack and Hadoop?

Gao Zhaozhao: Trend Technology is the first contributor to Hadoop Asia. As a joint venture of cloud base and trend technology, we have 100% cutting-edge technology supplies for trend technology and have contributed to the world eighth in Hadoop source code through years of code delivery. Companies in Hadoop, HBase, Flume and other projects are more than committer active in the open source community. and early in Cloudstack Open source, the cloud trend has been obtained from cloud.com Cloudstack the full set of source code, as well as China all sales license and pricing rights, according to different users to complete customized changes, kernel modifications, etc., Apache Two of the Cloudstack core contributors are cloud trend employees, and through the Cloudstack Chinese community, we have held dozens of technical salons throughout the country this year, with more than 600 community members, hoping to reach 5000 people next year.

CSDN: The industry is more concerned about the profitability of cloud software companies, the trend of cloud revenue?

Gao Zhaozhao: 2009 Launched the enterprise-class cloud management platform Elaster Yunchengping, a short span of three years, the sky cloud trend into more than 10 million, has elaster from 1.0 version to today's 5.0 version, which also proves that we want to do the domestic cloud platform software manufacturers determination. At present, the cloud trend of pure cloud platform revenue is currently close to 10 million, expected next year earnings will remain near 10 million, can achieve break-even.

CSDN: What are the main landing industries for Elaster?

Gao Zhaozhao: Early operators mainly, such as China Telecom, Heilongjiang Mobile, Shanghai Telecom and so on, after the government and park (software Park), is now enterprises, large enterprises, industry users (finance, electricity, aviation) and small and medium-sized enterprises are covered. Although for some enterprises or dozens of to hundreds of units of scale, but already in testing and practice, many companies have realized that cloud computing can indeed reduce IT staff burden, improve overall productivity. Just as the first time to go to the bank to deal with the business needs to go to the front desk, arranging, and now ATM and network Silver can achieve the same services, the recognition of the convenient service model provided by cloud, believe that the market will have more breakthroughs.

CSDN: In practical applications, what is the difficulty for the enterprise to apply open source system?

Gao Zhaozhao: There are several problems, one is the IT administrator from the previous work orders and other models to change out, deeply understand the Self service mode; second, familiar with the new system, cloud computing software has not been like Windows, Linux, through the manual can be directly used, but also need training, so the necessary learning curve is still needed The third is to make the cloud computing more simple and practical, the need to serve as the basis for more attempts and efforts; Four is the enterprise to open source or closed source is not very sensitive, but also hope that the system stability, technical team can help the operation of the dimension, and in the presence of problems can be timely response to solve, this is open source technology provider's ability also put forward higher requirements.

Large data application in depth development

CSDN: From the technical point of view, the domestic based on open source cloud management platform and foreign gap?

Gao Zhaozhao: The technology level is already very close. But in the Silicon Valley visit, the feeling obvious difference is that there will be 10-20 of small enterprises abroad, do the direction is very specialized, can do one thing to achieve the ultimate, do the best, but the domestic generally are all-inclusive. This is realistic, because if the enterprise only makes a small piece, then the customer and the system integrator will think the product or the plan value is small, has no brand influence, the service ability is also easy to be suspected. This clearly requires a shift in thinking and takes time. But the most basic of cloud computing is to achieve resource integration, perhaps through the way of capital, these small and refined enterprises into aircraft carriers, the formation of a complete solution or a viable model, such as the cloud base.

CSDN: For developers, will the Elaster from open source be a more open platform with more space?

Gao Zhaozhao: We really hope so. Elaster positioning than cloustack so full, but it is rigorous testing, walking is like Redhat Enterprise Linux such a pattern, more in line with business needs, but also for special needs to add new features. Cloudstack community and cloud trends will provide the necessary technical support for the enterprise. In fact, around the cloudstack ecosystem is not perfect, such as how to connect with the public cloud, how to do application management, how to do configuration management, and so on, these need the help of developers, integration for a better program is the current domestic enterprises urgently needed.

CSDN: Enterprises focus on the overall technical service capabilities of the software business, in Cloudstack and Hadoop, the cloud trend is confident?

Gao Zhaozhao: We have this confidence and ability in the cloudstack side of the country. Hadoop is also in the construction of upper-level applications, the underlying technology has matured, at present more is the combination of industry enterprises to form a special industry program model. such as the cloud trend of important customer base, such as operators, pay attention to the list of detailed list, internet behavior, finance, attention to digital inquiries and financial analysis. Industry application model in the short term there is no innovation, there is no special outbreak of growth, so we believe that large data in another 2-3 years before Take-off.

CSDN: Do you think that the domestic big data still have 2-3 years to explode?

Gao Zhaozhao: Yes, because the domestic situation is very special. There is not much in the country to do data warehouse enterprises, not like IBM, Oracle or Teradata, can quickly transform the link to Hadoop on the launch of the industry-type large data program. Although Hadoop is not hard to learn, but the domestic data accumulation is a large number of Internet enterprises, they do not have large data products to promote the needs and motivation, and as a large part of the domestic IT industry, system integrators, technical and defective, which formed a large data application of the fault. This is also the opportunity to see the trend of the sky cloud. This is not simply to do the same as spam, log and other analytical services technical support, more integration of industry needs, with Oracle and HP so understand the industry needs of enterprises to master the opportunities offered by the application program.

Csdn:hadoop Cluster Management platform Bigdata Platform, positioning in what areas?

Gao Zhaozhao: Sky Cloud trend positioning large data, focus on two aspects: one is the operational dimension Management Platform BDP (Bigdata Platform), because in the practical application, whether the enterprise or the sky cloud trends are felt in the deployment and use, operation and maintenance management is a burden; the other is to integrate with the business, to achieve intelligent analysis, Provide support for decision-making, this year mainly for operators, financial and power grids and other three industries, custom industry-class solutions. From the actual market feedback, financial opportunities more than imagined.

CSDN: The financial industry has always been conservative, wading open source applications focused on what?

Gao Zhaozhao: Financial opportunities are recommended by partners. On the one hand, data warehouses are expensive; The initial data storage requirement was 3 years, and now requires 7 years. It can be saved by tape, but it is now clearly unrealistic. It's a new opportunity for Hadoop that the banks want data to be saved, quickly queried, and low cost online. Through the database docking, sql-mapreduce related programs, after a period of time, financial enterprises feel really good. And for the scan, ID card copies, photocopying documents, such as the storage of unstructured data, there is demand. But at this stage of quantitative change, it will take time for qualitative changes such as new business opportunities to be brought about through large data analysis. Clearly, financial companies want to tell him, and manufacturers want to see the financial needs first, this stage is still in the running, if the new model can be found out, I believe there will be explosive growth.

CSDN: There are various types of Hadoop distributions on the market, including Cloudera, Hortonworks, Amazon's EMR, MAPR distributions, and IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft Hadoop. What Hadoop does the sky Cloud trend support?

Gao Zhaozhao: We work with hortonworks more at the training level, before pushing the CDH version of Cloudera. But the future, in the Apache Hadoop2.0 (solve the single point problem) and Hortonworks distribution (strong technical support, easy to understand) will be evaluated between, will mainly look at the user's needs to choose.

CSDN: Do you have any related plans for the community activities next year?

Gao Zhaozhao: Through the cloudstack Chinese community, we have held dozens of technical salons throughout the country this year, with more than 600 community members, hoping to reach 5000 people next year. There may be a cloudstack conference in the two quarter next year, hoping to work with it communities like CSDN to help Cloudstack quickly build a domestic eco-chain system.

In a country that follows the wild model, the movement of technology, especially innovative technology, is always particularly striking. Mobile interconnection, cloud computing, large data, OpenStack, Cloudstack, Hadoop and so on, are helping more enterprises, not only the internet, in the fierce market competition ahead. In this way beyond the traditional thinking of the development of the road, based on the cloud computing platform, data, processes, services docking more smoothly, with the help of technology industry development Trend and the new guidelines. However, talent training, technical difficulties, cognitive transformation, service deepening, data analysis, decision-making support, even if the international has a successful precedent, it is difficult to learn. As Gao Zhaozhao, vice president of cloud trends, said: "Technology is ready, but the transformation of ideas and thinking will take time." "The good news is that the industry, represented by operators, the financial industry and the power system, has taken the step of practice, and in the effort of more innovative enterprises such as the cloud trend, it is not far from a comprehensive transition."

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)