A "cloud" rises on the dock-Tianjin Port Global Rolling Dock Company private Cloud Practice

Does cloud computing really "wool" in China? It is not necessarily that Tianjin Port Global Rolling Dock Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "global rolling Company") has been the first to use the private cloud.

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However, before the introduction of the global rolling company Private Cloud project, the company's IT executives to reporters this layman really explained what is "rolling." He said that the rolling is a means of transport, which means the use of a RO-ship with the carriage of goods together with a sea transport, the advantage of the convenience of loading and unloading low-cost. There are actually two rolling companies in Tianjin Tianjin Port Rolling Dock Co., Ltd. and the global roller-loading Dock Co., Ltd., the two companies are modern rolling ship and edible oil ship loading dock company, mainly engaged in import and export vehicles and other rolling cargo terminals handling, warehousing, Transportation and agency business. The IT department under the jurisdiction of the company actually provides IT support for the two brothers.

Of course, for reporters, figuring out why a terminal company is taking the lead in cloud computing is the real purpose of this trip.

Different industries, same needs

"Do you know a few of my men?" he said. Only 6! Therefore, from the specific it operation to the upper level of the application system is the construction of these 6 people are responsible. "The rest of the Xiao plainly.

In fact, from the number of servers alone, global rolling company's it size is not large-only more than 20 x86 servers based on Intel processors. But Xiao Ming said that his headache is that the rolling company's application system changes extremely frequently, and has uncertainty. He explained: "The rolling industry is not as mature as the container industry, the container industry has formed a standard operation, and the rolling industry in the domestic or half groping state, therefore, the business change cycle has great uncertainty." For example, a new car brand might suggest a new operating standard, if Toyota's requirements for car handling are completely different from those of BMW, in addition, customs requirements for rolling companies often change, resulting in business changes, and our software systems can only be changed. ”

"Therefore, I am particularly concerned about the new technology that frees our IT staff from trivial IT operations as much as possible, and is more focused on how IT applications support business." "The rest of the Xiao plainly.

In addition, it is also an IT executive with a strong focus on TCO (total cost of ownership). For example, although the number of servers is not large, he still values server energy consumption, "because it is not only conducive to energy-saving emissions, but also reduce our TCO." "For example, he would have a clear-cut indication that minicomputer would be slowly discarded (the company currently has a minicomputer)," on the one hand, Intel's x86 server performance is already very strong, on the other hand, the acquisition cost of minicomputer, especially the later maintenance cost is not cheap, if from the TCO point of view, it is not cost-effective. " ”

This shows that although the industry is different, but IT managers ' troubles and needs are probably the same.

Cloud storage, IaaS together

"I don't really care about cloud computing, but I find that cloud computing is just enough to meet a lot of our needs, so we're on cloud computing." "The rest of the Xiao plainly.

At present, through the deployment of World Super Cloud Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Super Cloud") "Cloud Warehouse" system, two rolling companies have used a private cloud storage system. "In fact, it is similar to the net disk, but only to our own staff." Our employees can now access and share their business data, anytime, anywhere, using a variety of terminals. Everyone's response is still very good. ”

In addition to the "Cloud Warehouse", the global rolling company also chose the "cloud cabinet" to build IaaS. It is reported that "cloud cabinet" is a soft and hard integrated cloud computing infrastructure Platform solution, composed of computing resource pool (32 dual Xeon servers), storage resource pool (maximum up to 180TB of one or two storage), network resource pool (4 Gigabit Switch, Double-link redundancy) and management cluster (redundant dual management nodes), The full cabinet delivery mode helps users achieve the IaaS platform simply and quickly.

Xiao Ming said that they have initially felt IaaS high resource utilization, high response speed, simplifying operation and other advantages, "These are consistent with our needs."

It is reported that the global rolling company is the "cloud cabinet" testing and some customization of work, in the near future, the two rolling dock companies will be fully migrated to the cloud environment.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)