Analysis of the present situation of China's virtualization

Virtualization technology has been deeply rooted, virtualization technology in China to promote the process is also very rapid, in the current market to see in the domestic promotion of virtualization, what is the difficulty? What measures should be taken to break through?

Hou Jitao: People's understanding of virtualization is much better than before, and there is no doubt about the benefits of server virtualization, including the use of resources more disciplined, the management of convenience and so on. However, in the current international and domestic forms, the real virtualization of the server proportion is not high, the proportion of server virtualization is 8%, that is, 92% of the server is not virtualized.

At present, the difficulty of popularizing virtualization in China is mainly security, stability and the unknown. From the physical machine into a virtual machine has a lot of unknowns, from the user's point of view to determine the implementation of virtualization will bring what problems, such as the data center of the hundreds of servers to achieve virtualization after how to manage, people, tools, processes (PPT) What happened to change and so on. Many users begin by deploying virtualization in a test environment, a development environment, and slowly transitioning to a production environment.

Mr. Hou Jitao, Technical manager of the Greater China region, Si-jie

On the other hand, China's domestic conditions are not the same as those of foreign countries, in foreign countries, the advantages of the normal, not necessarily considered the advantages, such as server CPU usage is usually 10%, widely considered as a waste in foreign countries, it is urgent to solve, this is their first starting point to use server virtualization. However, some large domestic users, more concerned about the reliability and stability of the server, requires server virtualization can not affect the reliability and stability of the system. However, this situation is changing, the state advocates energy-saving emission reduction, domestic users because of this drive, also will gradually adopt server virtualization. Therefore, according to different circumstances, combined with the different needs of users, from improving stability, improve front-end business users satisfaction, analysis of why the use of server virtualization, rather than simply cost analysis, may be more easily accepted by users.

In addition, the understanding of virtualization technology is not very deep, when users consider virtualization, should consider end-to-end scenarios rather than just server virtualization, but also includes application virtualization, desktop virtualization, network optimization, and the corresponding security measures. Citrix defines an end-to-end virtualization scenario as a core part of the application delivery architecture, including three virtualization, server virtualization, Desktop virtualization, Application Virtualization, and the corresponding optimized network scenario, which allows users to choose from their own needs. If you're worried about the unknowns that virtualization brings, you can start with a simple scenario, for example, you can start with Application virtualization, and the application of virtualization is more transparent and will not result in changes in the state of the user's current application, but with a more secure and reliable way of accessing the benefits of virtualization, Then the transition to desktop virtualization, but also relatively simple, will not affect the core of the application. Users from the management, maintenance, security changes, so that they accept the concept of virtualization, slowly transition to an important production environment, and then the virtualization application of the entire server environment, production environment.

Enable front-end IT services for business user-aware virtualization scenarios, realize the benefits of virtualization, a gradual transition to server virtualization he may not know, although business users are not concerned about the background, but after all it is a service business, first let him perceive what is called virtualization, so that he can be more simple and transparent understanding of virtualization, Easier to drive the entire process of server virtualization.

The ratio of server virtualization to the one mentioned earlier is 8%. This may be not very accurate data, but we can see the virtualization of the market space is still very large, but now is facing a world-class financial crisis, its impact on large and medium-sized enterprises are very large, Citrix in the domestic customer to what enterprise? What are the challenges and opportunities for China to advance the virtualization process at this very time?

Hou Jitao: Si Jie's customers cover all aspects. Citrix officially entered China in 2003, so far there are more than 4,000 users, covering large enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises, they use the company's solution is the most of the application of virtualization solution, because the application of virtualization solution is the first place, is the world's leading program. For example, some manufacturing, government, banking, telecommunications, all walks of life have our users. At present, the size of enterprise customers are the focus, some important industries, the company will use direct marketing model to help users understand the needs of the needs analysis to design a specific program, small and medium-sized enterprises are using partners to market points.

The impact of financial crisis on enterprises is very far-reaching. Many enterprises have reduced IT operations, and a large number of IT projects will be affected. However, we should also note that the financial crisis drives the process of virtualization, as the virtualization scenario can significantly reduce management costs, enhance the ease of work for IT staff, and make fuller use of current limited resources. It was also illustrated by the fact that Gartner recently unveiled the top ten topics for CIO concerns in 2009 at the U.S. annual meeting.

So, in what ways can virtualization programs help companies get through the cold winter? In particular, it may include the following:

The application of virtualization allows business users to securely access enterprise core applications anytime, anywhere, in a way that facilitates innovation in many businesses, such as reducing office space, reducing the leasing of business equipment (especially front-end PCs), encouraging employees to carry their own computers to work, and so on. All of these can be achieved by applying virtualization schemes;

The ﹡ Desktop Virtualization solution can provide enterprise employees with lower management-cost virtual desktops, which can help organizations drastically reduce the cost of managing distributed desktops and reducing the cost of distributed desktop security management software. At the same time, also allows enterprises to reduce office space, using a lower-configured PC, etc.;

The ﹡ server virtualization program allows businesses to make new purchases the use of existing physical devices to provide more business requirements, and does not add additional administrative burden; In new projects, enterprises can use server virtualization technology to ensure high performance and system reliability under limited budget.

﹡ Enterprises can take advantage of Citrix's End-to-end virtualization solution, build their own corporate cloud or take advantage of cloud computing on the Internet, and can even migrate part of the workload from Citrix's Cloud Computing Solutions (C3) to cloud services, dramatically reducing management and operating costs.

There is no denying that the financial crisis has a negative impact on all areas, and in the field of virtualization, it is a crisis and a chance.