Data center dominated by developers

The software defined data center tells you how to build a new generation of data centers, while the Development defined data center explains the reasons for the software definition of the data center. The development definition data center highlights the value of IT developers and the importance of in-depth communication and close collaboration between IT departments and business departments.

As software defined data centers (SDDC) are widely used today, HDS has introduced the concept of "Developing and defining data centers. Is the development definition data center a gimmick? Many people may have such an idea in their minds. Michael hay, vice president of HDS product planning and chief engineer of the information technology platform department, said in an interview with our reporter that SDDC only tells people how to build a new generation of data center, but it does not tell people why they want to do so, and the Development definition data center just answers this question.

　Change as needed

In the face of cloud computing, big data, mobile and social challenges, the business needs and IT architecture of enterprises are changing. For example, the life cycle of an application may be only two or three quarters. Enterprises must provide a more efficient, easy-to-use and friendly development platform for the application. This is a challenge that enterprise IT staff or developers must face. In the face of a large number of complex applications, the traditional IT resource usage and IT system construction methods of enterprises must be greatly changed. How can we communicate more effectively between servers and networks, how can we meet the needs of applications for high bandwidth and low latency, and how to achieve low-cost and secure connections in the Wide Area Network, these forces enterprise IT developers to find new solutions and tools. The emergence of SDDC provides it developers with methodologies and related tools for building new data centers.

Michael hay said that during the construction of SDDC, it developers must change their thinking and adopt new tools. In the course of transformation, the traditional cascade development model will be replaced by the iterative development model. "In the past, a developer only focused on and managed a single product or application, such as a server or storage. But now, developers need to manage all the components in the data center in a unified manner and achieve more efficient integration ." Michael hay explained to reporters that "the Proposal of the concept of Data Center for Development defines the importance, scope of work, and responsibilities of IT developers within an enterprise in the software definition era. It developers are responsible for providing a complete and friendly solution and platform to help enterprises achieve rapid development ."

The "business-defined it" proposed by HDS is another interpretation of the "software-defined it" that people often talk about. Brian householder, chief operating officer of HDS, once said that the business department has an increasing impact on IT procurement and decision-making. The IT and business departments are working more closely to ensure consistency between technical functions and business objectives. This is the core value of business-defined it.

From the perspective of HDS, the key to understanding and implementing business-defined it is to grasp three principles: first, sustainable development of HDS can be achieved only when the customer achieves sustainable growth; second, HDS policies and solutions must always be consistent with customer needs, such as better support for mobile applications and secure access. Third, HDS must continue to innovate, it is not only the innovation of technology itself, but also the innovation of technology implementation.

The new concept of developing and defining data centers proposed by HDS can be seen as the implementation of the business-defined IT strategy.

　　It developers are the core

What is the relationship between the data center and SDDC? What is the difference? According to Michael hay, development-defined data centers are extensions and extensions of software-defined data centers. The development definition Data Center Tells users why they must use SDDC to build a new generation data center. Because the IT environment has changed and users' needs have changed, users must consider complicated problems such as costs, connectivity, security, and scalability. Application changes require that the IT architecture also change.

IT platform vendors should provide a more comprehensive, efficient, and complete platform based on customer needs, and achieve visualization of the development platform, it allows enterprise IT developers to develop applications more conveniently and quickly on this platform. IT personnel in an enterprise manage the entire architecture or platform instead of a single server or storage device.

The definition of Data Center for Development emphasizes that enterprise IT staff and developers are the core of the definition of data center for development. "If the IT department cannot meet the business needs, the budget of the IT department will not only decrease, but also reduce the role and importance of the IT department in the enterprise. Whether it is business-defined it or development-defined data center, it aims to help the IT department better meet application requirements, it does not outsource or place the work that should be taken care of by the internal IT department of the enterprise into the cloud, but is still kept in the internal data center of the enterprise. From this perspective, the development-defined data center actually helps the IT department to preserve and improve its position ." Said Michael hay.

Michael hay gave another example. Although a financial service enterprise's internal IT department has developed thousands of applications, they have not fully communicated with the business team. As a result, some business departments have created their own IT platforms, even part of the budget is allocated from the IT department. HDS helps the IT department of the enterprise reorganize the IT platform, sorts workflows and new applications through the development of the defined IT environment, and enhances the management of internal and external applications of the enterprise, re-establish the IT Department's authority.

The development definition data center is in the same line with the business definition it advocated by HDS, both of which emphasize that IT departments and business departments must work closely together.

　　Be cautious in Transformation

Michael Hay also agreed that the integrated infrastructure will become the main pillar of the data center. The integrated infrastructure is easier to configure and manage, providing better support for the efficient operation of IT departments. HDS itself can provide end-to-end integrated solutions, such as the UCP Unified Computing Platform, which integrates computing, storage, network and management software and supports mainstream server virtualization software, you can make more choices. "HDS relies on an ecosystem composed of software vendors and many partners and integrated infrastructure solutions to help enterprises build development-defined data centers ." Said Michael hay.

The integrated infrastructure lays the foundation of technologies and solutions for developing and defining data centers. However, you must be cautious when deploying the data centers defined for development. For example, today, more and more users place their workloads in a memory computing environment. Users usually assume that memory is a stable storage. However, when people transfer a large amount of data to the memory computing environment, the policies and practices that people have become accustomed to for many years, such as disaster recovery and data protection, need to be rethought and laid out. Therefore, enterprises must be cautious when selecting memory computing.

"When upgrading the system, you should retain the required O & M knowledge and skills ." Michael hay said, "to meet customers' upgrade needs, HDS is committed to improving and optimizing the original products and solutions. We will try our best to reduce HDS's proprietary applications, and adopt a general hardware platform and software, so that users can easily complete system upgrades and transformation. With HDS solutions, no matter which server virtualization platform you use, you can easily migrate applications to a software-defined or development-defined environment. However, some workloads must depend on specific hardware. Therefore, you must be cautious when migrating data to a development-defined data center. As a platform vendor, what HDS can do is to ensure that the customer's transformation is as smooth and simple as possible, and to use tools familiar to users as much as possible ."

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　Related Links HDS is a platform company

HDS has the characteristics of a typical technology company: do less and do more first. That's why HDS has been very low-profile in the past when other vendors have been hyping some technical concepts. However, since the transition to cloud computing solution providers, HDS is no longer silent, especially when it architecture is facing the challenges of restructuring and software definition. The power of accumulation over the years has made HDS more and more powerful in the software-defined era.

From "business-defined it" to "development-defined data center", HDS also began to talk about concepts. However, as opposed to some of the other concepts, HDS's Development definition data center concept is very real. When talking about developing and defining data centers, HDS did not abandon the technology-centric bottom line. HDS is based on storage and virtualization. However, HDS is indeed transforming. From the day it was proposed to become a cloud computing solution provider, HDS should not be treated as a pure storage vendor. From primary storage to backup and archiving, from simple data storage to comprehensive data management, from storage architecture to unified computing platform, from the famous "Three Clouds" (Infrastructure cloud, content cloud, and information cloud) to the development and definition data center, HDS has gradually become an IT platform vendor ".

On the basis of storage, HDS constantly challenges and breaks through itself. It sets itself as an IT platform vendor, and unites its partners to build a product ecosystem, constantly improve the role as an IT platform vendor. This is an inevitable choice for the development of the times. The development space of simple storage vendors has been greatly squeezed. If you don't stand a higher level, you can view your needs from the perspective of the entire data center and accelerate your own development, the future development of HDS may face more challenges.

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Data center dominated by developers