Oracle Asia Pacific Systems Group Vice President secrets data center

Since the end of the 20th century, domestic financial, telecommunications, taxation, customs and other industries have integrated data. Currently, data centralization has become the mainstream trend in E-government and enterprise informatization construction in China. Data centralization is an inevitable requirement for intensive management and a necessary means for enterprises to optimize their business processes. Data center construction has become an inevitable outcome under the trend of data concentration. A Data Center is a huge system project that undertakes computing, storage, and application functions. It will become a new hotspot and core content of information construction.

Today's data centers are all expected to run around the clock on 365 days a year, because the current data center needs to meet the ever-changing business strategic needs, it also needs to be scalable to meet growing business needs, maintain business continuity and comply with regulations. When talking about data centers, we focus on security and physical facilities, including computing networks for servers, storage systems, databases, and application software, manages the operations of enterprises or organizations. These applications include CRM Customer Relationship Management), SCM supply chain management), HCM Human Capital Management) and ERP Enterprise Resource Planning ).

This is not limited to the fact that today's CIOs need to ensure that their data centers can quickly, easily, and securely support the launch of new application software and services, and they must also do so, in this way, we can save resources for the earth and basically achieve more and better work with less resources. In the face of these challenges, What should a Chief Information Officer consider when building a new data center or modernized and updating an existing data center? We believe that there are four key factors to consider:
1. Can IT improve efficiency and utilization of hardware, data center space, and IT personnel?
2. Can it become a green data center that operates with virtualization, server integration, and energy-saving best practices?
3. Can this data center provide higher service quality for business continuity and scale expansion to support faster and more predictable performance growth?
4. Finally, can IT use faster upgrades to increase IT flexibility to support business, new application deployment, and respond to changing workloads?

 

George Or, vice president of Oracle Asia Pacific Systems Group

Under the dynamic business needs, market and regulatory pressure, today's data centers need to implement green computing and reduce costs, and the chief information officer will also need to modernize and Virtualize. Our goal is to create such a data center where computing resources can be shared, configured, and provided on demand. The following are three steps to build a modern data center to meet future challenges:

1) integrated solutions provide better scalability and higher application performance. Enterprises tend to find key solutions to solve some special problems. Sometimes, this solution can be implemented, but it is often not feasible in terms of performance and efficiency costs. An integrated solution includes servers, storage systems, databases, middleware, and application software. It provides higher simplicity, scalability, and speed to meet your business needs.

2) tested and reliable solutions-aim to better work together. For example, based on an open standard, Oracle's Sun server and storage system integrate computing, storage, network, and software, this solution works effectively together as a system or as the best-of-breed component for a secure, reliable, and scalable system architecture. Therefore, this reduces data center space, energy consumption, and labor costs.

3) Use server integration and virtualization to maximize the resource utilization and business sensitivity of the data center. This will increase resource utilization and reduce equipment capital, energy consumption and labor costs. For example, Oracle Solaris and Oracle virtual machines in both Linux and x86 provide built-in and cost-free virtualization functions to merge and Virtualize servers to improve resource utilization, reduces device capital, energy, and labor costs. In addition, Oracle virtualization can provide faster IT service and application deployment and rapid IT resource allocation to meet changing business conditions.

In short, to keep pace with future demand growth, you do not need to completely reshape your data center unless you are currently building a data center. The above are the best suggestions for choosing and running world-class product portfolios in your data center and preparing for fast and unpredictable changes. Looking forward to the future, China's data center market will see China's booming overall economy, deepening IT application construction, increasingly mature product technologies, and increasingly rational market competition, china's next-generation data center market will enter a new stage of development.