Traditional It vendors are squeezed by cloud computing

Virtualization technology has a great impact on it technology, including a huge challenge to computing, storage, and networking. The emergence of open source server, virtualization platform to complete storage virtualization, virtual switches and other columns of application deployment of traditional it vendors caused by the squeeze.

From the sidelines to look at cloud computing technology hotspots, stand-alone operating system is already a relatively mature industry, virtualized operating system as a hotspot under the cloud, by many people think it is a cloud environment. At the H3C Technical Conference, H3C Solutions minister Kangliang that "the cloud environment and virtualized environment is not the same, if only with virtualized environment, no related to the entire data center of the resource pool automatic scheduling and automation, this can not become a cloud." ”

At present, the commercial virtualization operating system is also relatively mature, is already vmware, Xen, Hyper-V three points world situation. A clear shift since the second half of last year is that virtualization is being talked about less and turning to the cloud operating system. In interpreting the relationship between stand-alone operating systems, virtual machine operating systems, and cloud operating systems, Kangliang that they are a gradual process of maturation, standardization, and commercialization from the inside out to the bottom up.

Operating system diagram in cloud computing environment

Further divide the cloud computing industry chain, one kind is the traditional it manufacturer, one kind is the emerging manufacturer, the other kind is the open source organization. As emerging companies, Google, Amazon or Microsoft, the main use of unique architecture and technology to build the public cloud. Private cloud, whether it is medical, government, large enterprises, building a private cloud is still in the beginning stage. The virtualization layer of the private cloud has more VMware applications, followed by Microsoft and Citrix. But now these companies are working on virtualized operating systems while starting to dabble in cloud computing operating systems.

Traditional IT vendors, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Cisco are all hardware, including servers, networks, storage. Kangliang stressed, "although these traditional it vendors are also doing cloud operating systems, but they are faced with ' waist missing ', that is, virtualization technology. Because virtualization technology is now a relatively mature stage, ' waist ' by VMware and other software manufacturers master, so to traditional it vendors of the scheme to bring obstacles. ”

So see the trend, all the virtualization layer of vendors are going up or down to do some business. Although not deliberately down, its technology will affect the lower hardware and products. The expansion from the virtualization layer to the top is already clear, and almost all the virtualization makers have turned their attention to the cloud operating system.

Kangliang that virtualization technology has a big impact on it technology. A few years ago to build IT systems, the traditional it architecture, including servers, storage, network and other hardware to build some middleware, and then run some applications, followed by a database. But virtualization technology has added two new levels of it architecture, with the exception of the virtualization layer, as well as the cloud. The virtualization layer has a big impact on traditional it and other hardware vendors. For computing, virtualization technology itself is a computational innovation. X86 virtualization brings about a burst of cloud computing, so see Open source, standardized servers, and the use of ARM chips to create low-power, compact computing nodes. For storage, it used to be centralized, large storage, but virtualization poses a whole new challenge to storage. Now every physical server runs a lot of virtual machines, and the storage of each virtual machine is different from that of a single physical server, and the virtualization platform can complete storage virtualization. For the network, the previous network connection is a physical server, now is a physical server running dozens of virtual servers, the exchange of dozens of virtual servers in the end is to do with a soft virtual switch or hardware to do, how to do according to the need for bandwidth restrictions, access control, how to achieve seamless migration, Need new network technology and products to support. We see that vswitch can realize the exchange of several different virtual machines on the same physical server, including the firewalls and IPs of the virtualization layer such as Vsafe/vshield. So the virtualization of traditional IT vendors caused a great squeeze, of course, but also is the current data center technology innovation power.

From the industry action, the manufacturers around virtualization and cloud technology is also in the vertical, lien. From a vertical perspective, one is acquisition, including HP's acquisition of the H3C,IBM acquisition of the Blade,dell acquisition FORCE10, and the second is the Alliance, Cisco, VMWare, EMC with specific protocols, standards to form a strategic alliance. From the lien point of view, it is from the horizontal direction to do standardized technology, to achieve the standard interface of each layer, the establishment of standard open technical system.

Kangliang stressed, "H3C is the open cloud strategy, with standard technology to achieve different levels of docking." "In addition to hardware, H3C also cooperates and develops at the virtualization layer and the cloud operating system layer, including a standardized data center-level network switching platform, a standard open virtualization platform, and a standard open cloud platform."

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)