China Telecom Cloud Computing company April Listing: A number of standard-setting

"Telecommunications Industry Network News" (reporter Wu Lei Shandan) China Telecom's enthusiasm for cloud computing is high, beyond everyone's imagination. Following August 31, 2011, after the first release of the full cloud computing strategy in the three major operators, the communications industry newspaper (NET) reporter recently learned that China Telecom will set up a professional cloud computing company to govern the management of the country's cloud computing business. Cloud computing companies are expected to be listed in April.

As early as last year's cloud computing strategy, cloud company preparatory was set up, according to people close to China Telecom. The preparatory group leader by deputy general manager Sun Kangmin as, preparatory members are from the group of Technology, Government and Enterprise Customer Department, Network dimension department, research Institute and other departments drawn from the lean force.

According to the reporter understand, in addition to the establishment of cloud computing company, China Telecom in the Cloud desktop, cloud service quality standards for the establishment of a large number of forward-looking research.

Industry experts said that China Telecom in the field of cloud computing strategic deployment far more than competitors, "How operators do cloud services have a very deep understanding." ”

Dispute company positioning

China Telecom in the industry took the lead in setting up a professional cloud computing company called the first crab, around the company's speculation has been rampant.

Prior to media reports, "cloud computing company general Manager of a thousand people plan to introduce senior talent as", "deputy general manager of the office will be a retiring head of the headquarters of the two-level female general manager as the".

Outside speculation, the general manager of the candidate may be the current China Telecom Beijing Institute chief Engineer Beachum, Deputy manager is the Enterprise Client Business Department general manager Liang Zhiping. However, this statement by China Telecom insiders denied. "Everything is not finalized, but it is certainly not the current version," the person said.

According to the reporter understands, at present China Telecom inside about cloud computing company's various issues most did not form the consensus, especially the company how locates, how to operate, with other department's relations and so on key question still is in the discussion stage.

"The establishment of cloud computing companies is a reorganization of internal resources." "The above analysis pointed out that the original dispersed in the various departments of resources first to be stripped, but the number of peel off, the number of reservations involved in the positioning of the new company."

Take the Enterprise Customer department as an example, the division is mainly responsible for the cloud computing products sold to enterprises and enterprises customers. According to the original practice, customer demand docking, packaging products, technical solutions, quotations and internal departmental coordination are completed by the account manager. Then after the establishment of cloud computing company, the sales function of the client department of the enterprise is retained to lead the whole body.

Cloud Management Platform May Online

It is now certain that the new cloud computing company will govern the cloud computing business in China Telecom's provinces and provide users with an on-demand IaaS service. As early as August 31 last year when the cloud computing strategy was released, China Telecom said 2012 launched Cloud host, cloud storage and other series of Sky cloud products, and to this end to develop a "three-step" strategy: The first step to unify the construction of the deployment of the National cloud Computing data center; the second step is to build a unified network of cloud management platform; Relying on the optical network covering the whole country, realize the high-speed interconnection of cloud data center and user high-speed access, let the fusion broadband and cloud computing.

Reporter learned that the first step of the server and storage and other hardware equipment has been installed, and the Cloud Data center management platform for the construction also entered the sprint stage.

The Cloud data center management platform is built independently by the cloud Computing Research Center of China Telecom Beijing Research Institute. Huiling, deputy Dean of China Telecom's Beijing Research Institute, who is in charge of project co-ordination, told reporters that cloud data center management platform is indispensable for overall management and allocation of virtual machine resources. Since the operators of various provinces gather equipment from different manufacturers, the management software can only adapt to the corresponding hardware products, so China Telecom chose the independent research and development of cloud data center management platform.

According to the introduction, Cloud data center management platform is divided into two levels of architecture, by cloud host management platform, cloud storage access platform and host adapter platform three components. The first batch will be deployed in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Hong Kong and Xi ' an five major IDC nodes. At present, the Beijing Research Institute of China Telecom is testing the management platform.

According to the plan, the March management platform will be transferred from the laboratory test phase to the five major nodes of the current network for testing, the test time is expected to last 2 months. Once the test passes, the cloud management platform will be officially launched in May, which will provide a full network of cloud services.

In addition, the Cloud Computing Research Center has done a lot of systematic and forward-looking research on cloud computing, including standard-setting, according to Huiling.

Standards have always been a battleground. At present, internationally renowned it giants and telecom operators are actively robbing the cloud computing standard discourse. China Telecom, from the establishment of enterprise standards to start step by step to industry standards and even international standards.

It is reported that the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) of the International Telecommunication Union Telecommunications Standardization Organization established in 2010 ITU-T Cloud Computing focus group. The group focuses on the telecommunications industry Network, security, service needs and other issues, to enable cloud computing services and applications to provide support for telecommunications networks. The group's key members are Cisco, Microsoft, France Telecom and so on.

Huiling said that China Telecom and France Telecom, in the cloud desktop, cloud service quality and other fields to participate in international standardization collaboration, hope to combine their own advantages leading cloud computing standards, expand international influence.

Rivals are hard to match

From the research and development leading to the standard first, from the professional operation to the scale of commercial, China Telecom Shengar cloud computing, not only make the viewer call "too much force", more step-by-step to shake off competitors.

2007, China Mobile launched the "Big Cloud" research and development project, the end of 2008 in the laboratory built a 256-node cloud computing cluster. Since then, China Mobile has expanded the lab system to 1024 nodes. May 2010, China Mobile officially released the "Big Cloud" 1.0. At present, the main task of China Mobile is to conquer the key technology of data mining and computing resource pool real time transaction application.

China Unicom has so far not seen a clear cloud computing solution, but has launched a Dios distributed intelligent open System, which is mainly for the telecommunications operators of the transformation of the business model proposed system framework.

The reputation of the "Big Cloud" project has not been able to go out of the laboratory, China Unicom is not enough to take into account the "fog", the industry laughed at the comparison with China Telecom, the other two operators of the cloud computing "too small Pediatrics", "no Operator".

Clearly, compared to Amazon, IBM, and VMware, the IT giants, telecom operators provide the advantage of cloud services in the infrastructure. In Huiling's view, the integration of the telecommunications infrastructure and IT infrastructure is the basis of cloud computing, deriving the cascade architecture of networks, data centers, platforms, and applications.

"No matter how the cloud companies are positioned to operate, the flexible trading of resources is at the core and is at the heart of business redemption, just like buying things at a supermarket." "China Telecom enterprises and enterprises of the relevant people said.

The height of the station decides to do the depth. From the operator's perspective to do cloud computing will be China Telecom always follow the law.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)