Sugon's Chinese-style storage Innovation

"Chinese-style storage" does not mean to create a storage product or category that only belongs to China from the technical point of view. The significance behind it is that after years of accumulation and accumulation, storage vendors in China should be confident that they can innovate and surpass the storage technology when the new technology cycle comes.

On June 18, June 13, sugon Information Industry Co., Ltd. (sugon) officially announced the establishment of an EB-level cloud storage laboratory. It also announced the cloud storage Promotion Plan "tengyun action ". Wang Zhengfu, chief operating officer of sugon, said that the EB-level cloud storage system with independent intellectual property rights of sugon is an important part of the next generation of key cloud computing technologies and system major project systems. The development of exabytes of cloud storage systems with proprietary intellectual property rights is of great significance for ensuring the security of China's cloud and comprehensively improving the performance of China's cloud.

With eb-level cloud storage as a symbol, sugon hopes to embark on a development path of Chinese-style storage in the cloud computing era, subvert the traditional storage market, and achieve new breakthroughs in technology and application.

　Whether cloud storage is a service or a product

Just as people have different understandings of cloud computing, cloud storage does not have a unified definition or international standard in the industry. In summary, there are three main interpretations of the concept of cloud storage: first, cloud storage is a service that provides storage hardware resources as a service to customers; second, as long as the storage that supports cloud applications is cloud storage, and third, cloud storage is an independent product born under the background of cloud computing.

Sugon is not entangled in the concept of cloud storage. "The cloud storage you see is a service, and the cloud service provider needs a reliable cloud storage solution ." "Sugon's mission is to provide service providers with an overall cloud storage solution," said huirun Hai, Assistant President of sugon and General Manager of the storage product department. Cloud storage customers include not only Internet enterprises that have deployed public clouds, but also private and enterprise-level customers ."

According to data provided by Shuguang, Shuguang eb-level cloud storage system adopts a flexible architecture platform that can be scaled online and automatically load balancing, and promotes the design of plane data to multiple layers, through loosely coupled network interconnection, multiple heterogeneous storage devices are deployed, used, and managed across regions. Shuguang eb-level storage system adopts advanced Fault-Tolerant Architecture and efficient data error-tolerant algorithms. Combined with user authentication and Data Encryption policies, it can effectively avoid data loss, error, and theft ", ensure the reliability and security of the EB-level storage system in the public network application environment.

Before the emergence of cloud computing, Shuguang parastor series of storage systems were called massive parallel data processing systems. Now, parastor is named "cloud storage system. Does parastor change the course of change, or is it a breakthrough in the technical architecture?

Huirun Hai briefly reviewed the development history of parastor products. The core technology of parastor series storage systems is parallel file processing systems. Prior to commercialization, the parallel file processing system developed by sugon was first designed for the high-energy physics institute of the Chinese Emy of sciences and has been well received by users in practical applications. Later, sugon launched the mature parastor series storage system that people saw today through in-depth productization. "Parallel file systems and Cluster Storage are all prototype of cloud storage ." "With the rise of cloud computing and big data, the traditional storage architecture cannot meet people's needs for Big Data Processing," said huirun-Hai. For example, cloud storage requires more interfaces, including files, data blocks, objects, and even table interfaces dedicated to big data. Cloud storage is constantly evolving ."

Currently, sugon has defined its application scope as private cloud, Internet Industry, voice and video, scientific research and computing. In 2012, the total capacity of the parastor storage system deployed in Shenzhen supercomputing center reached 16 Pb, which was the largest storage system in China. This event has aroused a sensation in the industry and is also considered a new starting point for sugon in the cloud storage field. Today, sugon has established an EB-level cloud storage laboratory, bringing the development and promotion of cloud storage to a new stage of large-scale, professional, and comprehensive development. Shuguang EB cloud storage lab is actually a group of laboratories, including four laboratories in Beijing, Baotou, Chengdu and Nanjing. The total storage capacity has reached 50 pb, the storage capacity of Beijing lab alone is 30 Pb. "While verifying cloud storage technologies and solutions, the lab will also simulate the actual storage needs of various industries and carry out large-scale cloud computing demonstration applications, combining the advanced storage technology with the market demand of the cloud platform, it leads the domestic cloud storage industry to the cutting-edge in the world."

"Currently, cloud storage and traditional storage will coexist. However, with the development of technology and application requirements, cloud storage will be miniaturized in the future and its functions will be further enriched. By then, cloud storage will

Storage has a stronger impact, or even completely replaced ." Traditional disk arrays are classified as high-, medium-, and low-end because they use the storage controller architecture, which limits the storage system capacity, performance, and scalability. Cloud storage does not have the Controller concept. It can implement on-demand configuration and horizontal scaling to meet different needs from low-end to high-end, so there is no high, medium, or low-end. From sugon's storage product line, traditional storage will still exist, but sugon will focus its R & D and promotion on cloud storage.

　Same start line

If eb-level storage is literally understood, it is nothing more than a larger storage capacity. Can this talk about the disruption to traditional storage? "Eb-level storage does not only represent a change in capacity ." "Managing 1000 disks is essentially different from managing tens of thousands of disks, the technical architecture, software programming volume, storage usage mode, management methods, and maintenance methods will change dramatically."

Cloud storage is a watershed, and it is revolutionizing traditional storage technologies and the market. With the explosive growth of data, the traditional storage architecture cannot meet the processing needs of large data volumes, even if Pb-level storage is used in ultra-large-scale smart city construction, gene sequencing for international data sharing, and massive data processing on the global unified media platform, it will be stretched. For Chinese storage manufacturers, there is no need to invest and develop traditional storage, and it is meaningless to create a traditional low-end disk array. The emergence of cloud computing, big data and other technologies provides Chinese storage manufacturers with an opportunity to achieve innovation and breakthroughs.

Traditional storage technology R & D thinking is easy, difficult, and slow development, from components to systems gradually improved, and then replaced. If you still use this technology, Chinese storage vendors will always be able to play the catch-up role and have no chance to surpass it. Chinese storage manufacturers should take the initiative to challenge cloud computing, big data and other technical difficulties, and compete with foreign manufacturers in the cutting-edge technology fields. In the process of catching up with foreign manufacturers, Chinese storage manufacturers are prone to a misunderstanding: to save costs, repair and supplement based on open-source software. Storage is different from other IT products, and has extremely high requirements on reliability, availability, and scalability. If it is simply modified on the basis of open-source software, it is difficult to meet the storage requirements of enterprise users.

Does Cloud computing give a Chinese storage vendor with a disadvantage in terms of technical accumulation a chance to overtake a curve? When the reporter threw this question to foreign storage manufacturers, they got the same answer: cloud storage development also requires technical accumulation. We have different understandings about this problem: "We cannot say that technical accumulation is not important, but for cloud storage, technological accumulation is not as significant as it is in the traditional storage field. In the cloud computing and big data fields, Chinese storage manufacturers face the same problems and challenges as foreign storage manufacturers. We can fully leverage the advanced development thinking of foreign vendors to achieve small steps and rapid development. In terms of cloud storage, the gap between us and foreign vendors is not big ."

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　Chinese-style Storage

In the server market, we have seen the trend of replacing Unix servers with x86 servers. In this context, server vendors in China are rapidly emerging. According to statistics, in the Chinese market, the shipment of Chinese server manufacturers has exceeded 50% of the total market volume. In the server market, localized substitution is no longer empty talk.

On the other hand, due to the long-standing technical gap, more than 70% of China's storage market share remains under the control of foreign vendors. There is still a long way to go for localized replacement of storage. However, independent storage innovation and localized substitution are essential because they are related to national information security.

While announcing the establishment of the EB-level cloud storage laboratory, sugon also proposed a Chinese-style storage to achieve disruption and breakthrough. Breakthrough is to break the technical barriers of foreign manufacturers, especially in cloud computing and big data, and to achieve independent innovation and new value at the core technology points. "Chinese-style storage" does not mean to create a storage product or category that only belongs to China from the technical point of view. The significance behind it is that after years of accumulation and accumulation, storage vendors in China should be confident that they can innovate and surpass the storage technology when the new technology cycle comes.

In different stages of development, different technical trends often emerge in the storage market. From the current situation, there are two major trends worth attention: first, the integration of servers and storage on the hardware layer. In the future, hardware will be standardized, and all the storage functions and features will be defined by software; second, cloud computing and big data will drive the development of storage, and cloud storage applications will become more popular. "We propose 'Chinese-style storage' to call for and drive the rapid development of local storage manufacturers in China and achieve independent innovation ." "The localized replacement of storage is not determined by the vendor, but more importantly, it depends on the user's needs and choices ."

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