HDS business definition permanent IT architecture

The emergence of a sustainable IT architecture is not to replace the original equipment, but to help users migrate to the next-generation IT architecture step by step. In the hands of HDS, software-defined storage and object storage have become powerful tools to ensure that services are always online.

Although technological innovation is gratifying, the most advanced technology may not directly increase the company's revenue. In the end, technological innovation must adapt to business development. In the past, IT departments and business departments in enterprises were not in a confrontation, but at least there was a problem of disassociation between IT procurement and applications, which made it departments difficult to get rid of the embarrassment of being a cost center for a long time. Since the beginning of this year, HDS has vigorously promoted the concept of "business-defined it". Its goal is to allow manufacturers and users to rethink and streamline the relationship between it and business, it also guides future IT procurement and ensures the sustainable development of enterprises.

　Focus on Business Value

Although business-defined it and software-defined it and application-defined it are slightly different in terms of words, these concepts are actually about the same thing, that is, in the new situation, the relationship between it and business is getting closer and closer. According to the IDC survey, most developed economies in the world spend 55% of their business budget on technology expenditures, and 48% of their business departments impose an impact on each stage of the technology procurement cycle. "Business departments have 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 ." Brian householder, chief operating officer of HDS, told reporters at the 2014 hds cio Summit recently held.

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.

Business or application determines the direction of IT transformation. In turn, it innovation must escort business development. From this perspective, HDS believes that only a sustainable IT architecture can ensure that enterprise businesses are always online and allow enterprises to gain more commercial value. Brian householder summarizes three typical features of a sustainable IT architecture: first, business-defined it economics, that is, IT architecture should focus on business value to continuously reduce costs and improve profitability, it procurement, delivery, and management methods are re-shaped. Second, the Business defines mobility, that is, the IT architecture must meet the requirements of enterprise employees to securely access information anytime and anywhere, and improve the work efficiency of employees. Third, business definition insights: through extensive and rapid information collection, processing, and analysis, enterprises can gain insight into market changes, improve customer relationships, and accelerate innovation. Ultimately, they can improve their competitiveness.

HDS estimates that enterprises can use the HDS permanent IT architecture to increase the storage utilization by 2 ~ 3 times. Brian householder said: "In the company's transition to cloud computing, the proportion of revenue from storage products may be smaller and smaller. Some innovative solutions will bring us more profits, such as content management, mobile applications, and big data. The revenue of these new solutions accounts for 60% of the company's new revenue ~ 70% ."

　　SDS is soft and hard.

HDS perpetual IT architecture is an agile and rich software architecture that allows users to quickly respond to business changes and ensure the availability, automation, and flexibility of IT infrastructure. The storage core of the HDS perpetual IT architecture includes two parts: the first is the hardware infrastructure based on the latest hds vsp g1000 and the future storage platform, another is the HDS Storage Virtualization operating system svos, which can achieve unified management.

In terms of storage controller-based virtualization, HDS is undoubtedly leading the industry. From storage controller-based virtualization to storage virtualization operating system svos, HDS has made another huge step in storage virtualization. Svos abstracts the original virtualization layer based on each storage device and upgrades it to a higher level. Svos can Virtualize storage resources across storage devices or even data centers. With svos, the implementation of Dual-active data centers has become easier. "Storage Virtualization has reached an extreme level, and the next step should be to consider how to achieve horizontal scaling," said the vice president of global product marketing at HDS ."

The next-generation storage platform of HDS Based on svos, VSP g1000, is also a representative of Software Defined storage (SDS. The license does not regard SDS as a new storage product category, or even the concept of SDS as a new bottled old wine. SDS is only a change in technical means. users do not actually feel the difference between the application and the original. "I have heard from many users that they have said that in the future, all IT staff in the data center will become service personnel. They only need to select and confirm the level of service agreement to be reached, so they don't have to worry about hardware ." License told reporters that in the future, storage will be polarization: large enterprise customers will choose high-end storage with higher availability and intelligence, while small and medium customers will favor cheaper storage. The storage line is divided by the service protocol level.

There is still debate in the industry over the form of SDS. It is licensed that SDS has two forms: one is a software and hardware integrated product such as the VSP g1000. both hardware and software have different degrees of innovation, and the other is a pure software method, it can run on hardware that is commercially available without smart functions. Both methods of SDS can be provided by HDS. "For software-only SDS, HDS can provide software and users can prepare their own hardware. Hardware can be either a low-cost commercial hardware or a storage device with intelligent functions ." "We are still looking at the scale and development potential of this market for the SDS method that comes with your own hardware," the license said ."

"SDS does not mean that hardware is useless. On the contrary, hardware changes and innovations can encourage software to make full use of its functions ." Chen Ge, director of solutions and Professional Services Division of HDS China, said, "just like users who choose Apple mobile phones, they not only like iOS, but also like Apple mobile phone's elaborate hardware design ."

There is no rule for the cloud computing architecture. Users can choose both Distributed Storage Architecture and traditional high-end storage. The cloud service platform of capital online uses HDS blade servers and high-end storage. In foreign countries, many cloud computing customers choose HDS's high-end storage. "Users choose different architectures mainly because of different workloads. Some Internet companies mainly process a large amount of unstructured data, so it may be more appropriate to adopt a distributed storage architecture ." Chen Ge analyzed that "the construction of the cloud service platform is only related to the business and the architecture, and the selection of the Storage Architecture is related to the data source ."

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　OSS saves backups

This eliminates the need for data backup and ensures data availability? No, OSS can do this. HDS not only incorporates object storage into its own Unified Storage platform, but also expands the extension of the Object Storage-based HCP content archiving and management platform, for example, HCP anywhere that supports mobile applications is released.

Many Internet vendors are the first to use OSS. Why does OSS save data backup? Simply put, OSS has the self-protection function, that is, it retains two copies of data when writing data, the two copies of data are stored on different hardware devices. When one copy of the Data fails, the other copy can be used. Only object storage has this self-protection and self-healing function, but traditional SAN and NAs do not have this function. "Using Object Storage can save the data backup process, thus saving a lot of storage costs ." "However, Object Storage is only applicable to archiving unstructured data, however, databases that focus on structured data still need to be backed up."

Pratyush Khare summarizes five application scenarios of Object Storage: email archiving, file archiving, file server/NAS archiving, recording file archiving, and medical image archiving. "The object storage technology is very mature and can be safely used by enterprise-level customers. At present, more than 1200 enterprises around the world have chosen our object storage solution ." Pratyush Khare introduction.

HDS's object storage solution HCP can also be seamlessly connected to the public cloud to form a secure hybrid cloud environment. Pratyush Khare: "A User originally stored metadata and file data on the public cloud. Once, the user performs an analysis of its metadata, and the result requires a large public cloud service fee. After using our object storage solution, the user stores metadata locally and only the file data is stored on the public cloud. As a result, no additional public cloud service fee is required for metadata analysis. In the same way, users can store key data in local object storage, and store some unimportant data on the public cloud, such a hybrid cloud solution can better ensure user data security."

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