Chat 2013 Enterprise It:linux become cloud operating system PAAs will become mainstream

Enterprise IT in 2012 with a lightning speed of rapid development. Concepts such as hybrid environments and cloud operating systems have become real plans from the buzz words discussed, and in many cases even have been implemented on a large scale. At the same time, other trends are becoming clearer – trends that will have a profound impact on the IT path of tomorrow and beyond.

Linux becomes Cloud operating system

The operating system has always been two: enabling software and developers to consume and leverage the latest hardware innovations, as well as provide a foundation for the application to run stably. In the future, the operating system will continue to move along these two paths to inject power into the cloud. Linux, for example, is developed and serviced by the Internet, and has now grown to 8 applications in every 10 cloud-based applications supported by Linux. This is because it is portable, secure, scalable, and reliable, and it is open and standards-based.

What the cloud needs is choice and flexibility, and we believe that is the reason why Linux is still the future cloud operating system, and we expect Red Hat Enterprise Linux to play a key role in the future. Red Hat Enterprise Linux enables applications to consume a variety of virtualization solutions from numerous vendors and compute, store, and network resources on cloud services, and is committed to providing stability over a ten-year lifecycle.

The operating system has been a cornerstone of traditional it for decades and has been a pillar in the latest innovations. I think it will continue to play that role in the 2013 and in the future. This operating system will continue to provide a critical foundation as organizations migrate to the cloud.

Virtualization, bare-metal, containerized coexistence

When enterprise application software is huge and resource-intensive, it makes sense to focus on the large resource-consuming virtual machine in the virtualization strategy. However, as cloud configuration patterns become more frequent, applications begin to structure lightweight, stateless, automated CPU and memory containers, and large volumes of storage and network management begin to be outsourced to dedicated network and storage virtualization solutions.

While some vendors want the market to believe that moving the entire architecture to the virtual machine is the only path to the cloud, we believe that bare-metal workloads will continue to exist, although not as prevalent as they are now, but remain part of the cloud strategy of the enterprise. Virtual machines are a good first step in improving resource utilization and manageability, and incorporating virtualization capabilities (known as "containerization") into the operating system allows virtual machines or bare-metal servers to be subdivided, while providing application protection and more resource allocation.

In the 2013, we also predicted that platforms as services (PaaS), such as the Red Hat OpenShift, would be more common-using bare-metal, virtualization and containerized operating systems such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux to help enterprise users better use their resources to deliver enterprise-class applications.

The challenge for Red Hat will be to drive technologies that can drive future trends to become easier to develop and manage.

Private (and mixed) platforms as services (PaaS) are becoming mainstream

Like other aspects of cloud computing, PAAs is evolving as markets evolve. What many application developers don't want to touch is the underlying operating system and related technical issues, which is what the PAAs is still doing. But the PAAs products that restrict developers from using a specialized programming language on a single managed platform are no longer accepted by developers. PAAs with multiple languages and frameworks is starting to get more and more popular.

But for many business users, it is a great deal of determination to shift their research and development to the public cloud, even if they can choose their own tools. Enterprise users simply need to be able to provide functionality such as automatic extension of applications, and application of multi-tenant, when the application software migrates to an internal production environment. Similar to the Red Hat OpenShift, the PAAs management tool provided to the system administrator can help them solve these problems while also explaining that PAAs is not just a tool for developers.

The same is true of IaaS, we believe that PAAs not only shows its ability in the public cloud, but also applies to private and mixed clouds. At least for enterprise application software development. Some examples of private PAAs have emerged in the market, but we predict that this trend will grow faster in 2013.

Open source storage software will go far beyond proprietary storage software

The requirements and requirements of a new enterprise load-generated storage to perform a unified management are different from the way the storage software vendors are based on community-driven innovation. Community-driven innovation is the most fundamental open source solution to enterprise storage problems. For example, there are more than 100 open source "Big data" projects in the emerging world of only large data, with thousands of software developers contributing code, enhancing features, and improving stability. In the manufacturer's own closed environment, it is very difficult to catch up with the Community innovation speed in writing software. We anticipate that companies will tend to open source approaches to meet the real-world storage challenges. Projects such as Glusterfs, Ceph, Apache Hadoop and MongoDB have gained greater community participation and adoption by more enterprises. We therefore expect this trend to continue to grow in 2013.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)