"Century interconnection" to understand the future development trend of cloud computing

"Cloud" is definitely the demand of the green age, today the entire ICT industry's electricity consumption is nearly 20% of the global electricity consumption. With the rapid development of the Internet, the green value of "cloud computing" will become more and more obvious. In this perspective, Century interconnection is for different hardware and software manufacturers to provide "platform" TSMC. Recently, Dr. Li Zhijian, chief expert of the technology strategy for the Internet, said in a media interview.

The interpretation and prediction of cloud computing has never ceased since 2007, when Google brought the word "cloud computing" into China. In the 2011, cloud computing has stripped away its smoky shell, which is clear at all levels of infrastructure, platforms and applications. Whether it is operators, communications vendors, Internet service providers, terminal manufacturers or application developers, they quickly expand their cloud computing market on the basis of their original business and join the array of cloud computing. Although the business model of cloud computing is still vague, it already has all the links of the commercial operation of the industrial chain.

Century internet Dr Li Zhijian, in accepting media questions about the future trends of cloud computing, has an in-depth understanding of the possible business models of cloud computing and the marketing that might be produced in the future for the entire IT industry.

1, for users, cloud computing will be through virtualization technology to achieve "reuse hardware and system software"

Cloud computing landing development, CPU utilization will be greatly increased, from the original less than 20% to 70%-80%. At this point, the services provided by the operators will no longer be limited to the traditional IDC network data center hosting and bandwidth, but more to the server hardware and operating system operations resource pool Management Service migration. The user body uses virtualization technology to reuse hardware and system software, and users no longer need to spend money to buy software installation licenses and local data management, but use the leasing software and server mode. For traditional server-side applications, the price of the purchase license is tied to the number of CPUs in the server, and cloud computing will revolutionize the pattern. This will be very effective for users to reduce equipment cost input and improve data resource utilization.

"In fact, in the US, Amazon and Google have started their own public cloud data center services in this way, and Oracle has officially unveiled its own cloud services a few days ago." Dr. Lee said.

2. The operating system used in cloud computing is not only the server operating system

Based on the impact that cloud computing may have on the IT hardware and software industry, cloud computing is less demanding on its own, but the operating system used by cloud computing is more complex. Future cloud service providers will be more than just software + hardware integration of services, the cloud ecosystem at all levels of vendor cooperation model will also bring more content for cloud services.

"The Century interconnection to" cloud operating system "definition is Oamp (twist, administration, maintenance, provisioning)," The Cloud operating system "certainly is not the simple sense server operating system, should include" the Operation + Management + Configuration + load Balancing + billing. Backend server clusters may use high-performance computing node technology, but the operating system architecture can be "closed-source windows", "open source Linux" or "mixed-source windows and Linux integration." Of course, the current high-end server is mainly Linux operating system, the most popular database in the cloud is MySQL. For different applications, users can build different clouds, but different applications will produce "cloud exchange" or gathered into. “

3, the cloud terminal to switch at any time need cloud operating system with "state management" ability

Future cloud terminals (including mobile cloud terminals) will be in the form of thin terminals, as the access network for resource calls to use the window, the main component is the kernel and browser. The advantage of running cloud computing in the background is the infinite synchronization of different terminals, such as the Icoud that Apple has already launched (the synchronization of data between Apple products). The future of the thin terminal synchronization is not limited to the same kind or the same brand terminals, but in the open computing environment any terminal to achieve "multiple screens a cloud", which is the core value of "cloud".

"Simply put, the cloud operating system must be able to record each step of the operation of the application, and application conversion to other types of terminals can continue to use synchronously." Dr. Lee explained.

Century Interconnection (nasdaq:vent)

Beijing Century internet Broadband Data Center Co., Ltd. (21Vianet Group, Inc. for the Century interconnection) is China's largest telecommunications-neutral Internet infrastructure service provider. As of August 3, 2011, Century Interconnection operates 51 data centers in 33 cities in the country, which are made up of high-quality data centers and a vast network of transmission networks. These include all of China's major internet centers, with a total of over 6,682 cabinets, providing services to more than 1,400 customers across a number of areas, including internet companies, government agencies, large blue-chip companies and small and medium-sized enterprises.

(Responsible editor: Songtao)