"Integration" drives technological reunion

This year's mid-autumn festival is a long holiday with the National Day holiday. Therefore, many friends who are wandering away can go home and enjoy the wonderful time of "two-person-month reunion. The double festival is approaching. Are you worried that you cannot get a ticket? Are you worried about the impact of unknown weather on monthly appreciation or traveling? The development of science and technology is closely related to life. One day, you may not have to worry about it, because there is a "Cloud "!

The emergence of cloud computing stems from enterprises' demands for high IT resource performance, high utilization, and low cost. In the final analysis, cloud computing serves the application environment. Driven by the big environment of cloud computing, the concept of "integration" is just a matter of course.

"Convergence" of servers, storage, and networks

Cloud computing has been implemented on IT infrastructure, and the concept of cloud data center has been derived. The cloud era requires data centers to be easier to maintain and manage, provide higher resource utilization and higher scalability. These demands have prompted servers, storage, networks, and other devices in the data center to gradually break the traditional boundary. From the development of servers, storage and network products in the past two years, it is not difficult to see that more and more server devices provide large-capacity local storage, and more storage devices are becoming more powerful in computing power, more and more storage devices provide 10GbE ports. The boundaries between servers and storage and networks have become increasingly blurred, and the convergence between servers has become an unstoppable trend.

Different from the traditional model, another advantage of the convergence of the three lies in making up for the short board. It is difficult for traditional data centers to unify computing resources, storage resources, and network resources. Under the influence of various technologies such as server virtualization, storage virtualization, and network virtualization, new data centers gradually open up business barriers, eliminate information silos, provide higher scalability, and make full use of the overall efficiency of the data center.

Combination of cloud computing and High Performance Computing

If cloud computing is first to package IT into a resource pool, HPC will undoubtedly play a role similar to the resource pool. The development of cloud computing will undoubtedly change people's lives. When cloud computing encounters a high-traffic application load, it naturally needs high-performance computers, such as the 12306 ticket booking system mentioned above; for example, meteorological prediction that is inseparable from life.

Intel is expected to launch the Xeon Phi (Xeon kernel family) processor at the end of the year for high-performance computing and cloud environments. Intel leads the data center business, while cloud computing and high-performance computing jointly promote the growth of Intel's data center business. Xeon Phi based on integrated multi-core (MIC) architecture will be an important supplement to the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600/4600 product family, multi-core processors provide higher computing density and parallel processing capabilities to achieve higher peak computing performance.

High-performance computing is usually used in cutting-edge technology fields. It is a type of application that is difficult to complete general computing capabilities. For example, weather prediction, seismic prediction, oil exploration, collision tests, and life sciences research, among which meteorological prediction is the most widely used in high-performance computing.

Meteorological Prediction consumes a large amount of computing and storage resources. On the one hand, it uses a series of new detection tools, such as satellites, radars, wind turbines, and automatic observation stations, to obtain and store real-time observation data; on the other hand, through the numerical model, the weather change process is deeply simulated and forecast test, and the Prediction conclusion is obtained based on the data analysis. The IBM eServer p690 system, known as the Blue storm, will serve meteorological information of the European people, it helps people prevent and prepare for various activities-from early warnings of storms and floods, to optimization of boat routes on the ocean, and even to planning and arrangement of picnic families. There are many other similar systems. Cloud computing is a desirable solution to save resources and devices and achieve information sharing.

Integration of cloud computing and Big Data

The rapid growth of data puts huge pressure on data storage, processing, and analysis. Big data has become another hot topic after cloud computing. The reason why Big Data is "big" is embodied in three aspects: large data volume, diversified data types, and real-time data processing capabilities. These three aspects are closely related to cloud computing, with the advent of the big data era, cloud computing is the only solution.

Taking the Big Data Platform launched by IBM as an example, the core capabilities of the Platform include Hadoop, Stream Computing, and Data Warehouse ), and Information Integration and Governance ). Other ancillary platform services include virtualization and exploration, application development, system management, and accelerators. Data can be converted into assets to meet the challenges of quantity, speed, and type, and improve the competitiveness of enterprises. It also proves that Cloud Technologies and big data are not independent, including virtualization, Hadoop, and other technologies. They are all interdependent and indispensable.

Cloud computing and big data focus on how to better complete data computing, storage, migration, and analysis, and promote the development of enterprise businesses.

As the IT environment becomes increasingly complex, any single technology cannot solve the IT situation faced by enterprises. From infrastructure integration to technology integration, the goal is to simplify management, improve efficiency, and reduce costs, these three are also interdependent. Just like: If your IT is "reunion", you can enjoy a "reunion" holiday with your family.