Building Cloud Data centers: Full lifecycle considerations

The data center is facing the challenge of how to operate more efficiently, and cloud computing is becoming an important way to improve the capacity and efficiency of data centers.

At the recently held "2012 Wisdom http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13647.html" > Cloud Data Center Summit Forum, IBM released a collaboration with market research Institute IDC Research report on best practices in global efficient data centers. The report shows that nearly 80% of the world's data centers are not running efficiently.

Based on this, IBM China announced that the government departments, enterprises and organizations to build a high reliability, green and efficient six characteristics of the cloud data center. Sun Jiangang, general manager of IBM Greater China Global Information Technology Service Data center, commented on related issues.

What are the revelations from the global highly Effective data center best Practices Research report for IBM?

Sun Jiangang: Research has found that global data centers are facing the problem of how to achieve higher efficiency. According to the survey, only 21% of the surveyed global business and organization data centers are at the most efficient strategic data center level, 62% of the surveyed data centers are medium-efficiency, while 17% of the data centers are at very low operating efficiency levels.

With the development of innovative technologies and applications represented by cloud computing and mobile interconnection, we urgently need to accurately recognize the direction of our data center development, and formulate effective plans to actively grasp new trends, and comprehensively improve data center efficiency to meet various challenges.

How do you think companies should build efficient data centers?

Sun Jiangang: Compared with inefficient data centers, efficient data centers devote more than 50% of their money to new projects and innovations, and inefficient data centers spend only 35% of their total budget on new projects, while 65% of the money is spent on maintaining their existing infrastructure.

The survey concludes four features of an efficient data center, these four points have also become an important way for companies to build their own efficient data centers: optimize IT facilities, maximize storage capacity and availability, implement flexible designs to support changing business requirements, and use automated tools to improve service levels and availability; Make planning to ensure consistency with business objectives.

What are the opportunities and challenges that cloud computing offers to create efficient data centers?

What is the driving force behind the growth of cloud data centers?

Sun Jiangang: Reality requires that we urgently need to accurately recognize the direction of their data center development, and formulate effective planning to grasp the new trends in the overall improvement of data center efficiency to meet various challenges, and through the cloud computing model to achieve it's on-demand, has become a key way to improve capacity and capacity of data centers. The driving force behind the growth of cloud data centers is naturally the development of cloud computing.

Specifically, the first is it growth, such as the promotion of large data, and the second is the cost of pressure, the survey found that many companies in the past two years did not increase the investment in it, if the cloud can help them more effectively manage the data center of the old system or maintain a good situation, The savings will help them try more innovative business; The third is the increasing demand for flexible business.

Why does IBM emphasize the "lifecycle" as the primary feature of the Intelligent Cloud data center?

Sun Jiangang: The Cloud data center distinguishes itself from traditional data centers, mainly because the former is based on the analysis and service of the data center, so the difference between the two mainly reflected in four aspects: first, the whole life cycle; second, there should be some forward-looking absorption; third, multidimensional balanced decision;

When building a cloud data center, both IBM and other enterprises need to consider the lifecycle issue. The data center's own function has an evolving process: from cost center, support business development into business center, drive business development, then to profit center, Innovation Center, become the accelerator of business innovation.

Different stages should have different emphases, for example, in the initial stage of construction more consideration how to meet business needs, how to improve the efficiency of unit use;

Then more consideration will be given to how to improve management efficiency and how to achieve continuous innovation.