After the concept hype period, cloud computing focus on where?

The International Cloud Computing Advisory Committee (Cloud Advisory Council, CAC) is a newly established international organization of 1.5 to jointly research and develop the next Generation cloud computing architecture, and its members from the beginning of the 15-bit has rapidly increased to today's more than 90. Mellanox, AMD, VMware, Rackspace, Dell, and China's Huawei, ZTE and Shuguang are all CAC members.

April 2014 10 to 11th, hosted by CAC in the 2014 China Cloud Computing summit in Nanjing. This summit brings together domestic and foreign cloud computing, learning, research and use of various elite, in-depth exchange and discussion of cloud computing, large data, data center and other latest development trends, technology and applications.

Participants generally believe that cloud computing has been gradually from the concept of speculation to mature landing period. At this stage, what is the focus of the industry's leading IT companies and innovative start-ups on how to get into cloud computing? Through a two-day speech at the conference, we can inkling the following key words.

Keyword 1: Green

"It has become the fifth largest energy-consuming industry after industry, agriculture, data center power consumption has accounted for the national power consumption of 1%~2%, the construction of green it is imminent." "Director of software and integrated Circuit Promotion Center (CSIP) of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (Chu Shanqin), chairman of China Open Source software Promotion Alliance, said.

Chu Shanqin said that cloud computing makes it more efficient, cloud computing is an effective way to achieve green it, so the data center to the cloud Data center transition is the industry's big trend.

But at the same time, how greener the large cloud data center is is a major research issue. The use of Low-power chips, customized servers, high-speed network technology are based on green energy-saving considerations. For example, Nanjing Stander Technology Co., Ltd. uses Mellanox high-speed network technology in its cloud solution to reduce overall energy consumption 30%~40%.

At the same time, the construction of cloud data center is different from the traditional EDC and IDC, Huawei Cloud computing CTO Wang Hai said that the cloud data center IT infrastructure in two directions, one is a highly integrated data center, the form can be easily understood as an integrated machine; the other is highly scalable data centers, The rise of the OCP movement is the result of this trend. Yang Qinghua, general manager of OCP, a manufacturer of cloud technology (quanta China), also showcased three cabinet servers for Facebook and Microsoft customization.

Keyword 2: Open source

Since the beginning of cloud computing, cloud computing and the open source movement are closely integrated. Open source platform OpenStack has become the hottest cloud computing platform in the world, and almost all it vendors are supporting and pushing Openstack,openstack to become one of the core issues of this Conference.

CAC says it has a dedicated project team to promote OpenStack research and application. Huawei, as China's first gold member of the OpenStack Foundation, has made a lot of contributions to OpenStack-statistics show that in Chinese companies Huawei is ranked second in the OpenStack Havana code contribution. At the same time, Huawei's own full range of IT products support OpenStack.

Chu Shanqin that there are plenty of opportunities for innovation in cloud computing based on open source software, and Chinese companies need to seize this opportunity. At this conference, the start-up company Stackinsider CEO Lee Thunder shows the world's first 0-cost open OpenStack cloud computing verification and deployment platform.

In addition, Chu Shanqin also said that in the open source world has a prominent contribution to the Chinese enterprises are still relatively few, he hopes to appear in the future more like Huawei positive return to open source community of companies.

Keyword 3: high-speed network

High-speed networks are essential to the landing of cloud computing services. That's why a growing number of large public-sector cloud [note] service providers around the world, including Facebook, use InfiniBand high-speed networks to build cloud platforms.

"Without him, because the InfiniBand network is the most efficient, with the highest return on investment." "Marc Sultzbaugh, Mellanox Global sales vice president, explained.

In order to further the potential of network hardware and further make the cloud platform more efficient, Mellanox recently launched a new CLOUDX solution. The scheme is based on the Mellanox OpenCloud architecture that supports both 40/56gb/s InfiniBand and Ethernet, enabling users to build a flexible, cost-effective private cloud [note], public cloud, or mixed cloud [note] using off-the-shelf infrastructure. And, CLOUDX supports OpenStack, allowing businesses to develop new applications on near-limitless cloud computing platforms.

Keyword 4:cloud500

In the field of HPC (High performance computing), HPC TOP500 is the globally recognized supercomputer rankings, and many countries and regions have been competing against each other for research and development in the first-ranking computing system. So is there any possibility of a ranking mechanism like HPC TOP500 in the cloud computing world?

The answer is: yes. CAC said at the conference that the group is designing a cloud computing rankings called "CLOUD500", the main purpose of which is to meet the needs of people to compare cloud computing horizontally. At the same time, one of the CAC members, the United States Cloud spectator company is to develop evaluation system for CLOUD500 and various benchmarks test procedures.

It is reported that the initial CAC Cloud500 list will be announced in June this year.

Keyword 6: China cloud

How does cloud computing develop in China? Meihong, Director of the Information Technology Science Department of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, introduced the national "Twelve-Five" key project-China cloud. He said the country hopes to use the "China Cloud" project, break through the core technology, the formation of independent cloud computing autonomous system, to achieve real landing cloud applications.