Cloud computing drives data center industry upgrades

At present, cloud computing construction is in full swing in China, in which the data center as the important carrier of cloud computing is developing rapidly. IDC research reports that 2012 China's data center market investment in the total size of 11.93 billion U.S. dollars, of which more than 500 square meters of the large data centers more than 4,000, accounting for about 8% of the total investment size of about 50%; nearly 70% of the large data centers are distributed in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou as the core of the eastern coastal developed areas, the distribution of data centers and investment has a significant aggregation effect. As the main players in the data center market, the major operators, in the context of cloud computing, has also accelerated the construction of a cloud based platform data center, to enhance its data center capacity and the next generation of evolution.

Cloud Transformation in traditional IDC

The traditional data center silo deployment mode makes each application system isolate each other and cannot share computing resources, and the tight coupling between application system and running platform, system and physical resource makes the physical resource reconfiguration will affect the operation and stability of the application system. This brings a new application system is difficult to quickly launch, low resource utilization, management operation and maintenance difficult, high energy consumption problems.

And in the cloud computing, improve resource utilization, flexible expansion, dynamic deployment is its advantage. For the data center based on cloud computing platform, it will change a little at the level of network infrastructure, including the comprehensive and dynamic scheduling of network resources, the flexibility for cloud computing application, the assurance of the application quality of cloud computing and the selectivity of network resource expansion. Specifically in terms of network, the introduction of the data center after the cloud, the network to achieve centralized control, resource bundle, the data center, the network between the data center will become an intelligent pipeline, rather than a simple bandwidth to provide, IT resources and network resources can be unified management, bundled services.

At the same time, the introduction of cloud computing makes the data center break the service type, and pay more attention to the virtualization of data storage and computing ability and the integration of equipment maintenance management.

New challenges in Data center network

In the development of traditional data center to cloud data center, data Center network put forward new demand for network because of the cloud of resources. In this year's Huawei Enterprise Network conference, Huawei Enterprise business BG Enterprise Network product line President Liu Shaowei it into: flexible, virtual, open. Cloud computing requires that the network can quickly adapt to changes in the internal structure, such as virtual machine migration, flexible network can better fit the business, and open to achieve different services and the bottom of the access, truly seamless "fit."

It is understood that Huawei released the cloud Fabric Data Center Network solution last year, the top of the architecture is storage resources and computing resources, the lower is SDN controller, business Orchestration interface and system, while as an open architecture, partners, manufacturers and customers can easily achieve docking.

In addition, Mark Levitt, director of cloud Strategy research at Strategy Analytics, told reporters that with the rapid growth of data in the cloud computing era, more and more business data center operators were at a loss. "While companies are aware of the vast amount of data hidden in a lot of valuable information, no data center owners and operators can provide almost unlimited financial and related resources to meet the growing data requirements of the computing power and storage capabilities of the corresponding upgrade." With the increasing of data in quantity, type and source, it is necessary to have more effective analytical tools to interpret the meaning of ' big data '. Mark Levitt said.

Government organization to standardize IDC service

Although in recent years and in the future there will be more cloud data center will be to the market, but from the overall development of industry, Ministry of Telecommunications Research Institute deputy Dean Liu Do said that the current data center industry in our country still have the following problems.

First, the overall scale is small, China's data center market share accounted for only 5% of the Asia-Pacific market, small data centers in China accounted for 90%;

Second, the technical level is low, our country's data center generally pue between 2.2 and 3;

Third, the business form is still to be perfected, at present our country's business form still takes the traditional business rack rental as the main, the high value-added form is comparatively few;

Four, the overall layout still has related problems, data center 65% is located in the Beijing-Shanghai wide three places, at present mainly to the southeast coast mainly.

"These problems have led to uneven levels of operation and quality of service in our national data centers." So, ultimately, the user's rights and interests will not be protected, and thus, not conducive to the healthy development of the entire industry. "Liu Do said.

It is understood that in view of the current data center industry encountered problems, China has launched the construction of IDC operating Services evaluation system. This system relies on the domestic core IDC user, the Establishment China IDC Service Appraisal System, the timely accurate response and the appraisal service provider's level. The framework design of the platform has been completed first and discussed at the working conference this May. As of October, a total of 15 panel discussions have been conducted, and the platform modeling and service provider evaluation have been basically completed. In addition, launched the IDC service Provider Enterprise's research and development activities, is expected in February next year will complete the National 8 Provinces 14 service provider's award research.

At the same time, the Ministry of Industry and Research institute also led the construction of IDC Facility Resources Monitoring System (designed to monitor and update the national IDC Room information, including geography, electricity, temperature, refrigeration, etc., reduce data center energy consumption and operating costs), And the national IDC Network Monitoring System (through the establishment of the national IDC network Real-time monitoring database, combined with large data systems to find and feedback changes in network resources, improve network operation level).

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)