A new generation of data center platforms should be "cloud"-born

Now more and more enterprises are sprouting strong cloud computing service demand, for example, Haier Group plans to use the cloud computing service on-demand procurement model, as the future communication and information base platform of the main procurement methods. In many enterprise customers to "cloud" close, in order to obtain effective and efficient information technology support services in the background, the telecommunications industry's next generation of data center platform should be "cloud" and born.

From basic business to "value business"

In the current data center resources, the operator's basic business accounted for about 90%, "value business" growth bottlenecks, high energy consumption, higher operating costs have been plagued by operators, due to the previous server and data center hosting business development, most of the data center equipment ownership of IDC customers, With the weakness of value-added service and application service, the problem of low operation efficiency, long customer business deployment cycle and high cost has plagued telecom operators and their IDC customers.

The data center advocated by the cloud computing era, with open, intelligent, automation and other characteristics, for operators, can provide customers with a one-stop rich, high-value diversification of services, while the equipment property rights slowly to the operator ownership, enhance the development of value-added services, thus for the refinement of operations, unified management Platform, The use of economies of scale to achieve profits lay a solid foundation. IDC's important customer base also benefited from it, with the help of cloud computing system, the use of self-service services, guesthouses to achieve rapid business deployment, low-cost access to IT resources, reduce the threshold of information.

In China's data center construction, telecom operators occupy the main position, but the previous construction projects are too extensive, the data center is small, too dispersed, resulting in operators in the data center efficiency management and cost control investment in huge output very little. By contrast, the development of a new generation of data centers abroad is much faster than at home, and there have been some enterprises to achieve the cloud data center deployment, its main purpose is to save the operating costs of their own enterprises, energy-saving emission reduction, simplifying their business development process. Amazon, such as the establishment of E-commerce cloud Platform, the main purpose is to reduce their own hardware and other aspects of the demand, reduce the overall energy consumption of enterprises, simplifying the operation of E-commerce services, in addition to the surplus server equipment and other data center resources can be leased to other companies in need.

To comply with the trend of technology development, domestic operators are stepping up the deployment of cloud storage systems, to achieve IT system optimization, promote the integration of Internet services, and thus achieve data center transformation.

From chimney-type architecture to intensive platform

Network-centric, service-providing, highly scalable, highly reliable, resource-pooling, and transparent cloud computing require large, distributed physical resources at the infrastructure level to enable virtual machines, virtual storage, and even virtual networks, The entire data center will transform from a traditional chimney-style architecture into an intensive unified cloud platform, covers the server, storage, network and other professional fields, the degree of automation significantly increased, and the original multiple independent data center also presented to the whole network integration trend in order to achieve unified construction, operation, maintenance of the cloud Computing data Center transformation.

At present, the expansion of data center has become the preferred strategy of the major operators, to ease the pressure of data explosion due to network diversification and intelligence, but the development of data center is not only to increase the number of servers, according to cloud computing requirements, the development of data center faces many challenges: first, in the network-centric era of cloud computing, Need to achieve unified operations, including unified business acceptance, business opening, service tariffs, after-sales service, etc. secondly, the End-to-end application maintenance requires breaking the professional vertical line maintenance mode, increasing the degree of automation, new roles and processes; Finally, in terms of security, user information is stored in the IT resources provided by the operator, There is a risk of prying and tampering, and a user's wrongful actions can lead to risk.

In order to deal with the above problems, the data center needs to introduce an open technology architecture to establish a balanced computing model, use cloud system and unify network interface to realize the fusion of network, so as to simplify the architecture of data center system and reduce the cost and complexity of operation maintenance.

From concept popularization to technological innovation

The transformation of data centers requires technological innovation in all aspects: on the storage side, it is necessary to introduce innovative and efficient solutions to implement the storage process to allocate storage space to separate applications only when data is written to disk, to subtract duplicate data or redundant copy data, and to tier data according to the data invocation. On the Internet, the typical virtualization server contains 8~10 Gigabit Ethernet LAN Ports and two dedicated San ports that are already unable to meet complex network requirements, and a unified 10GbE network interface has emerged; in energy consumption, the automatic adjustment of energy consumption management system has gradually aroused people's attention; in Ann On the whole, "trusted pool" strengthens the control chain from the application user interface to the basic hardware, which is more effective against software-based attacks.

After the popularity of the concept, cloud computing has been widely recognized by the public, at present, many IT companies at home and abroad are looking for new data center technology, in order to achieve the real cloud computing landing and the overall transformation of the data center. The industry's mainstream x86 server IT product service system is improving and enhancing its ability to support cloud computing. Intel is announcing the need to capture the hardware and software requirements of the next generation of data centers from the servers, storage, and networking aspects of IT systems, and to provide users with better technology in achieving more open and interoperable cloud computing and data center solutions.

Innovative Data center technologies can provide tremendous opportunities for the advancement and implementation of cloud computing, enabling operators to improve flexibility, performance, and resource efficiency in their data centers, allowing operators to successfully transition to cloud computing. Especially after the Xeon E7 processor appears, in the extended storage, efficient storage has been widely recognized, the Unified 10GbE network interface and virtualization technology is also very consistent with the cloud computing environment users of the network needs, and its very characteristics of intelligent node power management technology also directly for the Telecom data center brings lower energy consumption, Human cost output, for the future of cloud computing services laid a good foundation.

With the development and advancement of cloud computing, the development of data center technology is also being explored. Telecom operators A new generation of data center will play its irreplaceable role, as a cornerstone to help cloud computing goal: to achieve a flexible, reliable, intelligent Social Information Service system, greatly enhance the overall social information efficiency, accelerate the pace of scientific and technological innovation.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)