Reflection on the construction and selection of cloud architecture

Recently in charge of the company's private cloud construction, has been thinking how to do cloud computing, how to be able to design a better cloud architecture. This article as far as possible comprehensively lists the cloud architecture construction and the selection consideration factor.

We have gradually assessed the construction and selection of cloud architecture from five levels, namely:

Industry ecology

Enterprise demand

The ability to cloud computing

Potential challenges

How to Build

First, the industry ecological

Computer cloud after years of development, from the beginning of the concept, slowly developed and able to market, provide a wide range of services, market space is very large.

In the development of the cloud, Amazon after years of deep accumulation, developed into a cloud industry benchmarking enterprises, can even be said to establish a cloud solution standards. Then, Google, IBM, Cisco, Oracle, HP, Intel, Huawei and other IT giants have been involved in the software and hardware to provide a dedicated enterprise-oriented solutions, are playing cloud computing, large data, intelligence and other concepts to attract customers, expand the market.

On the other hand, based on large data, storage, cloud services and so on, the market has also appeared some innovative enterprises, such as Dropbox, Rackspace, the domestic seven cows, Qingyun, unitedstack and so on.

A common phenomenon in the current it world is that as long as there is a certain area of mature business software, there will also be a set of open source solutions, such as Windows to Linux,google MapReduce, GFS, the big table in Hadoop and so on. In the cloud domain also has the corresponding open source solution, is currently most famous has OpenStack and Cloudstack. The open source industry leader Redhat earlier

In the enterprise operating system market has done a good job, the Rhel version of the enterprise system market has a considerable market share. Now the Redhat pay special attention to cloud development, and the cloud operating system as the next 10 years of development strategy focus, in the last two years has acquired Gluster and Ceph and other storage enterprises to expand their influence in the cloud area.

With the development of the cloud, the market has gradually formed a series of ecological industries, such as providing the enterprise with hardware and software products, providing service provider for the enterprise, providing the basic service provider for the market start-ups, and providing the service provider for the personal business.