China Telecom to promote the development of cloud computing standards

Cloud computing surging, is leading the new IT technology changes, the current cloud computing has entered the implementation phase of promotion. Although cloud computing industry chain ecosystem major role (service provider, equipment supplier, user, etc.) have realized that cloud computing is an important trend of IT service development in the future, but the cloud computing domain lacks the unified, universally accepted international standard, causes the cloud computing service lacks the compatibility, the portability safeguard, May affect the development of cloud computing industry.

In order to promote the implementation of cloud computing overall strategy, China Telecom actively participate in and actively promote cloud computing standards and standardize the work, mainly reflected in foreign participation in international, domestic standards and internal development of enterprise cloud computing related norms two.

Actively participate in the development of international and domestic standards

Externally, China Telecom tracking important cloud computing standards organization work progress, and actively participate in international standardization collaboration, and combining their own advantages leading the relevant domestic and foreign cloud computing standards, the output of China Telecom in the cloud computing technology and business requirements, accumulation and results, expand China Telecom's international influence.

1. Focus on Telecom cloud computing standard trends

In the standardization of Cloud Computing in ITU's Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (ITU-T), China Telecom is actively involved in the SG13 Cloud computing Working Group and the SG17 Cloud computing Security Research Group. Since 2010, China Telecom has been actively involved in the ITU-T Cloud computing ecosystem, Reference Architecture, infrastructure, benefit analysis and other standards, the current representative of China Telecom as the first editor of the "cloud infrastructure Requirements", "cloud computing Operations Security Guide" two standards of research and development, These two international standards may be released in 2013.

At the same time, China Telecom is also closely monitoring the Telecommunications Management Forum (Tmforum) in the direction of cloud computing standardization work and output results.

2. Focus Cloud Network technology and standard development

As a member of the MEF, China Telecom actively participates in the research work of the Metropolitan Ethernet Forum (MEF) and the Broadband Forum (BBF) cloud network. China Telecom is currently focused on the "dynamic and responsive Ethernet (DRE)" Standard project, while leading the broadband forum BBF "cloud marginal Gateway", "Cloud broadband network" two standards for the formulation.

3. Focus on the common needs of domestic and foreign leading customers

China Telecom, as a member of the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA), participates actively in the standardization activities of the Alliance, which covers the data center infrastructure, management, government regulation and ecosystem, security and other needs.

4. Focus on domestic industry standard trends

China Telecom is actively participating in the standardization of cloud Computing in the Chinese Telecommunication Standardization Association (CCSA). At present, China Telecom in CCSA led the "Business Ethernet carrier private cloud services, the key technical requirements", "cloud computing IaaS Service Reference framework", "cloud computing application Security operating technology requirements" and other cloud industry standards, but also actively participate in the development of "green data center technical requirements and evaluation methods", " Can operate the overall technical requirements of virtual desktop system and other CCSA cloud related standards.

5. Focus on cloud computing industry and academic Development direction

China Telecom is also concerned about the development of industry standards organizations and Alliance cloud computing Standardization, and actively participates in China cloud computing technology and Industry Alliance work, actively participates in open stack open source cloud computing management Platform project, and open Cirrus Global opening cloud computing platform research work.

Reasonable formulation of relevant standards for enterprises

Internally, China Telecom according to its own internal applications, business development needs to study the key cloud computing technology, timely formulation of relevant enterprises cloud computing technology specifications, business norms.

The research focus of China Telecom on the specification of cloud computing enterprise is related to the general specification, business application and platform, network and terminal four aspects. With the development of China Telecom cloud computing Business (cloud host, Cloud storage, CDN, etc.) and internal application requirements, China Telecom has developed its own cloud computing standards and regulations mainly from the following aspects.

1. General specification

In 2010, China Telecom released the internal use of the "cloud computing Technology white paper" Detailed definition and description of cloud computing concepts and classifications, architecture, system level, function location, key technology, industry status, and the relationship between cloud computing system and peripheral system (such as IT system, network management system, terminal equipment).

2. Business applications and platforms

In the cloud computing resources layer, China Telecom has developed the cloud computing IaaS Infrastructure series of technical specifications, covering: IaaS Server virtualization Technology requirements, cloud storage technology requirements, cloud computing integrated Management Platform technical specifications, capacity open technical specifications, etc. at the same time in the cloud computing business layer, China Telecom organization has developed a cloud host, cloud storage, Cloud desktop, cloud games, cloud security and other business norms, as well as cloud computing business operations management norms.

3. The network

On the network, China Telecom is studying and developing the network optimization, network security and other related standards to meet the requirements of cloud computing service delivery, including network virtualization, network acceleration technology, load balancing technology, Virtual desktop delivery technology, cloud computing network security, storage network and Ethernet fusion technology and so on.

4. Terminal

In the terminal aspect, the research of the new and Low-cost terminal technology is part of China Telecom's introduction of cloud computing technology, including user terminal interaction technology, cross Terminal adaptation technology, personalized rendering technology, off-line access technology, terminal Energy saving technology, Low-cost software and hardware architecture, At present, research and development of differentiated cloud terminal technology standards and specifications, cross-Terminal Services synergy and interactive technical specifications, as well as cloud broadband terminals, virtual desktop terminals and other technical standards and norms.

Promoting the development of cloud computing standards

At present, cloud computing technology and services are leading it, the Internet technology and industry a new round of change, concern and engaged in cloud computing technology research, products, business operations, domestic and foreign government organizations, research institutions, industry manufacturers, service providers are very numerous. Many standardization organizations in the field of cloud computing work to start soon, to be mature, most of the relevant standards for cloud computing needs further research and improvement. In addition, many manufacturers consider the reasons for their own interests do not want to promote cloud computing related technical standards and release, but also to some extent hinder the standardization process of cloud computing.

As an internationally renowned telecom operator, China Telecom, while actively introducing cloud computing technology and developing related businesses, is also concerned about and promoting the development of cloud computing standardization, focusing on ITU-T, DMTF, SNIA, TMF Forum, IETF, IEEE, CSA, such as the more leading international cloud computing standardization Organization, and actively participate in and promote the relevant international and domestic standardization research and development work, on the other hand, in the existing international and domestic cloud computing standards on the basis of strengthening research and development of cloud computing internal applications, external business operations related technical norms and business norms, To meet the needs of new business development.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)