Why don't people believe in homegrown virtualization technology?

Random computer and network environment, the gradual maturation of virtualization technology, coupled with the main mainstream it media rendering, international manufacturers marketing offensive, as if the virtual wind has swept China overnight, to the urgent need to the point, from a few people's studio to have tens of thousands of PC state-owned enterprises, nowhere to talk about virtualization, Even a lot of enterprises and enterprise for information construction achievements, surprise launch of the virtualization project, from the server to the desktop application of a full set of deployment, coupled with server hardware and network equipment transformation costs, a virtualization project investment is often over million, In fact, the cost of the current virtualization project investment and evaluation of the comprehensive value of the assessment of many experts have done the analysis, here I do not want to repeat, from a technical point of view of virtualization is indeed a solution to solve the problem of the operation and maintenance of information technology, many domestic research and development enterprises are also in the relevant product development, Domestic virtualization technology is also being dug up.

But it seems that in many places in the market, domestic virtualization products do not want to be accepted by enterprises, they would rather buy more expensive foreign products. There are even people on the two sides of similar products for horizontal evaluation, on-site demonstrations with data to prove the advantages of the situation, it is difficult to impress customers, which is what is hindering the domestic virtualization giant stride toward the pace of application?

I have also been with a number of large enterprises network center management staff to communicate, from their feedback to get some answers, summarized as follows:

1. More believe that the international manufacturers of research and development strength, virtualization software, although the principle is simple, but to become a mature product, the development team needs long-term accumulation, virtualization products developers need to be able to work with Microsoft, IBM, Intel, the world's top system of the original vendor has a real deep code sharing level of cooperation, this is not a few domestic programmers in a year or two can be locked in the development department inside the MSDN, and the System Factory SDK to write a bunch of code lei out.

2. More trust in the follow-up service capabilities of international manufacturers, the current international can do virtualization product development company, the shortest also has 10 years of history, longer in the Second World War is already the U.S. military electronic equipment suppliers, and our domestic enterprises are difficult to "over San Guan", many at first very good product unfortunately, Because the enterprise follow-up research and development services cannot keep up. Enterprises are worried about the product once launched, developers cannot bear the follow-up research and development and support, enterprises will face all kinds of difficulties.

3. The head of the information center, including the enterprise bosses are afraid to bear the risk of business interruption, the most important thing in the virtualization project is stability, once the problem of downtime is absolutely not one or two PCs so simple, it is very likely to lead to the entire business system paralysis. This risk may not be completely avoided, but if they are purchasing the products of the first-line manufacturers, then in the "disaster" to facilitate the push off responsibility, they can be questioned in front of Enron answer: "This problem is * * * product itself problem, even the world's top 500 use their products ...", And this problem if is a domestic product, the media will be deep digging in the Enterprise Procurement manager and suppliers there is some interest relationship, whether there is a purchase shady. This is a habitual thinking, and people like to see this.

4. Brand effect + Face engineering, many state-owned enterprises on the virtualization project more for information construction achievements, in the future media coverage, reporting materials, the goal said the use of the world's latest technology ... American * * Company's products, the names of these companies are often only computer minesweeper, Dou landlord Zhu Er have heard of, but once reported to be the name of an unknown company, they feel that can not earn face.

5. The above four points summed up, it is the common problem of our countrymen: "Foreign monks will practice the sutra."

There may be more reasons I did not collect, but from the point of view of the actual application of the project, regardless of where a product comes from, the most important thing is its applicability, the application here is not only the product in different hardware and software environment can play the greatest effect, but also whether it conforms to the user's habit, Meet the user's final needs. If it does not have applicability, more expensive products also do not have the use value, it will only become a handicraft.

Two years ago, I was involved in the development of a domestic virtualization project, the deep feelings, in fact, only now I have always believed that the product design concept and the cultural roots of different nationalities have a great relationship, such as the German company every morning to work do not have to play fingerprint record attendance, American enterprises can not install behavior management software on the computer , Japanese enterprises in the desktop virtualization is very popular, Chinese enterprises in the computer from the game to music, the film is not exist, this habit of difference is different from the National Cultural foundation of different countries formed; So in the design of domestic software, I accompanied the need to take into account the domestic users of the use of habits, enterprise management system, According to the national conditions of the hardware and software environment, these indispensable.

Taking the most competitive "desktop virtualization" in China as an example, we can analyze the applicability of the products;

1. At present, most enterprises in the domestic network to hundred trillion, the client hardware configuration although not unified, but the configuration is relatively high, so many enterprises in the PC is used as a workstation, that is, many industrial drawings, graphics processing, computing and design work is done directly on the client, and no professional minicomputer and workstation use , and unlike the European and American enterprises inside the ordinary employees of the PC are only to do daily word processing, OA, reporting and other work, and the real industrial-level applications by a dedicated server or workstation to handle. That line under this condition XenDesktop, Vmwareview can host desktop app push when session host is not infinite power?

2. European and American enterprises advocating open freedom, to learn time can be self-control by the staff, the Division of Labor and Cooperation is very clear, and domestic enterprises from the domestic consciousness is limited, often have a very uniform schedule requirements for learning, 9:00 everyone at work, in just a few minutes hundreds of PCs at the same time to the Virtual desktop Session host connection, How much storage will be added to relieve stress in a system that uses VDI mode when the login storm is generated?

3. As mentioned before, domestic people's computer like personality, 1000 people's computer will have 1000 different desktop backgrounds, on the desktop to save files, icon personality has become a habit. So in the case of unified push, how is personalization guaranteed? Do you want to customize 1000 domain user accounts and scripts for 1000 users?

4. Tablet, mobile phone can be a desktop office may be a fashion, but in the Chinese market at least for the next five years will not become mainstream, because our enterprise outsourcing process is far less mature, a lot of work needs our staff to actually step by step to complete, not only with the tablet, Mobile phone connected to the Remote Desktop Jiangshan can be delivered, then cross-platform desktop roaming real value where?

5. The people of the domestic staff are also very personal, when everything is limited, whether their emotions will affect the efficiency of the work? When the network or the server in the event of accidental or human-induced any little shock, how to protect the virtual desktop user disconnection is available? Uninterrupted business continuity?

These questions are really worth the attention of our Information Center Director in considering International brands, this is not about the future of China and the United States in the next day of the "war" in the system security, imagine a distant international companies can really at any time for your waiting for your life service? System software compatibility is very important, as a virtual desktop from the operating principle of the port to the mouse operation of everything is mapped, in the peripheral and application software compatibility more to be tested, when you encounter the problem is the need for virtual desktop developers to fix for you, the other shore of the international company can be the first time for you emergency?

In consideration, I think we should not be too superstitious international brands, although domestic virtualization has a long way to go, but we should have more confidence in domestic, believe that the Chinese people's own research and development strength, service capabilities. In fact, after several years of development, we can feel that China's local virtualization technology is being dug up, has also grown up a group of independent intellectual property rights in the domestic research and development enterprises and institutions. Their products have been in the vast number of universities, enterprises and enterprises have been the application of the test, its stability and reliability and not some people want to the middle of the poor, but more close to the use of Chinese users habits.

In this author to the domestic virtualization research and Development enterprises pm to mention a few points:

1. Focus more on desktop applications rather than server virtualization.
2. Pay more attention to the user experience, use the designer's perspective to take the engineer's perspective to create the product UI.
3. The purpose of virtualization on the enterprise is not to virtualize and virtualize, but to save comprehensive maintenance costs and improve productivity, and never move all the client applications to the cloud.
4. The risks of public cloud applications are beyond the responsibility of small and medium-sized enterprises, which require enterprise-private cloud storage.

In the end, I would like to wish China's virtualization technology to form a set of its own independent product concept system, transition from product developers to the role of solution providers. As soon as possible to grow out of the same business as Citrix/vmware. To make domestic virtualization products of their own characteristics.

Why don't people believe in homegrown virtualization technology?