Wisdom of the Earth: Based on Linux, the use of "cloud computing" to build the entire social ERP

At the end of last year, Palmisano proposed IBM's new global Strategy: Smarter Planet, "the Earth of Wisdom". Recently, in the "open source China, open source World" summit forum and round Table, IBM Greater China Chief technology officer, China Research Institute Dean Li again to the wisdom of the Earth published his own views.

Li that, with another more obvious explanation to explain "wisdom of the Earth", is to establish the whole society of ERP. ERP is the abbreviation of Enterprise Resource calculates (Enterprise resource plan). ERP refers to the management platform, based on the information technology, to establish a systematic management thought for the decision-making and operation of the enterprise. ERP system combines information technology with advanced management thought, it is the recognized operation mode of modern enterprise, can allocate resources rationally, create wealth according to social requirement, and is the cornerstone of enterprise's survival and development in information age.

There are many new topics under the topic of Intelligent earth, transportation, energy, logistics, supply chain, food safety, drinking water, retail, urban management, each subject need to exist, all need to have their own specific range of ERP, but the need to cross the field of integration between the need for cross-sectoral integration, but become the social ERP , we feel that there are a few special needs: first, there is a need to be able to deal with a large amount of information; second, there needs to be a new perspective, a model, a mathematical ability to put different information into the model to integrate, so that you can see how the impact of the whole body, or even upside down, from the results to see the source Figuring out the point of a variety of manufacturing problems, in other words, the need for strong computational power to help people's brain not completely cover the place, when we put these together, we have clearly seen that we need to have more intelligent IT support.

More intelligent IT support also represents another meaning, wisdom can bring us better business interests and value, if you want to build a full ERP, must be sustainable development, and economic scale can make everyone who want to do this work easy access, in other words, to lower the threshold. From this point of view, it is clear that there are several technologies that need to be developed and that need to be made available to open source communities, one of which is "cloud computing".

Whether it's a software developer or a school researcher, or telecom operators, will ask a question, I have not enjoyed the real application of which is really in the "cloud" running, if not seen, they will naturally ask whether the implementation, IBM is proposed "cloud computing" company system, from the IBM point of view, There are already a number of existing technologies and solutions that can make "cloud computing" a reality.

IBM is actually doing this in the belief that it can be true, IBM has built a "cloud computing" center in the country, open to use, and, in order to help people use open source more respect for intellectual property management, IBM even has a set of open methodology and tools, It is legal and ethical to make it more clear how to use open source software. In the software Park, IBM has helped 12 ISVs to quickly put their applications or new applications on the "cloud computing" platform to provide end users with a winning ecosystem.

In this work, IBM not only provides the platform, but also offers a lot of solutions, but also emphasizes the hope to do specifics work, in the use of open source software rapid development in that area of application, can through the "cloud computing" platform to reduce costs, and further integrate different areas of application, The actual development of the application brought to the wider use of the community, can do to establish the concept of the entire social ERP.

To do this, it's clear that Linux is an important foundation, a catalyst, that Linux can be the same foundation from the smallest device to the most powerful supercomputers, and that it will be easier to do the whole thing in the future, and that the cost of development can be drastically reduced.

On the wisdom of the Earth, Linux has a great impact on four areas, including Linux for High-performance databases, as well as the flow calculation, from the management of the social ERP point of view, the required technology is constantly flowing into the data is changed, but the user may ask the same kind of problem, which is called flow calculation, Linux plays a very important role in the development of stream computing. The second is to reduce infrastructure costs, so IBM proposes to use a lot of virtualization to do dynamic infrastructure, not just SOA, while Linux has a good foundation for many open source software platforms and infrastructure virtualization. Third, with the use of the relationship, Linux has a lot of foundation, need to be further expanded. We need greener, more environmentally friendly, many of the virtualization advanced technologies that are engaged in Linux are conducive to energy saving and emission reduction.

IBM believes that the Linux based, more open attitude for more people to participate in the development of open source software to the infrastructure use of "cloud computing" can be more effective and better management of the world, the establishment of the whole society of ERP.