A new era-cloud era

Cloud, tube, and end are the three levels that make up cloud computing. With the development of the Backstage Data center, the network bandwidth speed up, the operator cloud transformation, the development foreground of the cloud terminal is also widely favored by insiders.

Here, briefly describe a few of your own ideas about cloud terminals:

Cloud computing era, thick clouds, the end will be thin

With the advent of cloud computing solutions, computing power, infrastructure, user desktops, applications and other resources are concentrated in the cloud and can be delivered to customers in a service way. The cloud is thick, and the matching client device does not need to have the current computing power as traditional PCs do, a device that can host lightweight remote clients can meet the requirements of the application, which is precisely the kind of device that makes it an ideal alternative to PCs. By deploying a desktop cloud system, user desktops hosted on remote servers can be quickly distributed to thin client devices that are distributed across the board. According to Gatner forecast, China in 2015 to match the desktop cloud system solution of the number of terminals will reach 16 million units.

Cloud terminals are the only way to thin clients

In the field of industry desktop terminals, there are two formulations: one is called the thin client, the other is the cloud terminal, some vendors in the promotion process is to tell the user directly "thin client = Cloud Terminal", in fact, the two terms are not equivalent.

For thin clients, it is primarily the client of the Server-based Computing Architecture (sbc,server Based Computing), and the client group is mainly enterprise customers, which solves the problem of the operation and management of the large number of client devices due to the decentralized deployment.

For the cloud terminal, this is a large development of cloud computing technology, public cloud, private cloud architecture in the context of the broad presence of the concept, its client groups not only include enterprise-class customers, but also include consumer customers, covering a wider range of client-side equipment, As long as terminals have the ability to acquire resources from the cloud computing platform, they can be called cloud terminals. After the advent of the Virtual Desktop Technology architecture (VDI, Virtual Desktop infrastructure), thin clients can also become cloud terminals capable of remotely acquiring user desktops or application resources hosted in the cloud computing architecture as long as the desktop virtualization client is integrated.

Although the server-based computing architecture enables centralized computing, centralized storage and centralized management of maintenance, this is limited to the number of servers, and when the number of servers grows further, server management and maintenance becomes a new bottleneck. and the Virtual desktop technology architecture can solve the above problem very well, by pooling the user desktop resources, users can easily manage thousands of users ' desktop resources in the pool without having to care about the operational details of the underlying physical servers, thereby enabling operational automation, effectively reducing total cost of ownership (TCO).

Because of this advantage, we believe that the virtual desktop technology architecture will occupy a major market share in the future, and support the Virtual Desktop Architecture Cloud Terminal will become the mainstream of the market, user desktop terminal from thin client to cloud terminal is the inevitable choice of the market, is the only way to thin clients.

The initial input cost (CAPEX) of the cloud terminal is not necessarily low, but the total cost of ownership (TCO) is low

For the construction of a set of information systems, the costs involved include not only the initial cost of input (CAPEX), but also the operational management cost (OPEX) within its lifecycle, that is, considered and analyzed from the perspective of total cost of ownership (TCO = CAPEX + OPEX). If you compare a PC solution with a solution using a cloud terminal, we will find that for the initial cost of input (CAPEX), the cloud terminal solution is not much lower than the PC solution, but based on cloud terminal solutions because of improved reliability, stability, security, Management maintenance is easier, and energy consumption is greatly reduced, so for operation management Cost (OPEX), the cloud terminal solution is more than 50% lower than the PC solution, so the total cost of ownership (TCO) of solutions using cloud terminals is correspondingly low 20%~50%.

In the 2008 financial crisis, companies scaled back their investment in IT systems and equipment, but the lean client market's reverse-growth (and increase in shipments) proved the importance of lower total cost of ownership (TCO) for companies through the winter.

Private cloud systems are more likely to fall

Compared with the private cloud, the current public cloud has the following problems that make it difficult to land in the enterprise. One is the problem of network bandwidth. At present, the public cloud through the Internet line to achieve the upload of resources, the lower average transmission speed 100kb/s can not meet the needs of some enterprises key business. The second is the problem of data security. Compared to private clouds, people have doubts about the safety of data exposed to public clouds on the Internet. But the private cloud, large network bandwidth (LAN, 100m/1000m), good data security (private, closed, controllable) makes the private cloud system within the enterprise more easily landing.

According to market Research institute data, in the United States, by 2012, 50% of the companies will deploy desktop cloud system solutions, and 2011 This ratio of 40%, is expected to 2015, the world to a variety of terminal shape access to the cloud ratio will be as high as 80%. Globally, desktop cloud solutions are moving forward at an unprecedented rate. With the advent of the tide, enterprise-class client devices will gradually shift from the PC to the cloud terminal, including thin clients, a new era-the era of cloud is coming, in this era, we do not use PC.

(Responsible editor: Songtao)