Cloud computing enables flexible resource integration and configuration

Large Data Center resource surplus, many resources can not be effectively used, in this case, cloud computing resources flexibly integrated and dynamic configuration, no doubt to provide a good solution for enterprises.





problem PROBLEM





2011, Gartner, a renowned consultancy and research firm, ranked Cloud computing as its top 10 strategic technology, and many Chinese companies announced their own cloud computing strategies and started a long way to go.





in this "surging" environment, enterprises are facing the end of what kind of it status? What are the problems that need to be solved? "Now many state-owned large and medium-sized enterprises are facing the problem of surplus IT resources. Wu Zhenya, chief information officer of Shanghai Shen Hong Investment Development Co., said, "Some of the big projects our country is investing in, such as high-speed rail and port, are often very large in data centers." But after the completion of the data center construction, its resource utilization is not very high. ”





and the cause of this phenomenon is now to do the initial stage of the system, the enterprise can not accurately know the implementation of the system after the actual amount of data to be processed, but to make a forecast, and in the latter part of the business needs of the resource situation is often different from the forecast.





Traditional Data Center in the construction of the way there are also a lot of irrationality, the enterprise of a new project, it is necessary to support a system, and then a new background or even data center. and the new data center construction and operation of the cost of large, often let the enterprise back heavy baggage, and its data management and the difficulty of interaction also caused the burden on the enterprise.





In addition to the data center upgrade, some of the server inside the application will be limited, the system to migrate resources will also face many problems.





Enterprise Temporary marketing activities, IT resources need rapid configuration and response, and can meet the unknown business elasticity requirements. All of this is the problem that it has to face in a traditional data center, in the context of an increasingly dependent it on the business.





All these challenges the configuration of the existing IT resources, and how to integrate and configure the resources flexibly and efficiently becomes the serious problem that CIOs face.





Ask Enterprise CIO:




Is
facing the problem of surplus enterprise resources?





asked the company CFO:




is the investment in the
Data center increasing every year?





Method SOLUTION





"Last year, our group of Chinese medicines based on cloud computing concept to do a data center virtualization platform, so as to effectively meet more than 2000 of our nationwide store construction." Revan, the group leader of China Group of informatization experts. The traditional pharmaceutical sales system has a retail system, the front-end POS system, logistics system, financial system, BI system, and so on, the group of the five sets of system integration, unified the virtualization platform, virtual storage, and finally integrated into a unified customer service system, thus saving a lot of it investment costs.





"In fact, the essence of cloud computing is to rely on the network to integrate the enterprise's existing resources." "We are now using cloud computing to transform existing resources and make technical adjustments," Wu Zhenya said. The effective allocation of this kind of resources not only has a great effect on the enterprise's own it construction, but also has important significance to the enterprise merger and reorganization. ”





with the gradual regulation of China's market and the influence of a series of national laws and regulations, Chinese enterprises gradually began to undertake large-scale mergers and reorganization. In this kind of integration, the integration of data center is often the focus and difficulty of the whole link. In the traditional enterprise IT integration process, the enterprise flexibility is very low. For example, a Shanghai company buys a company in Hangzhou, and if it is to manage its assets, according to traditional ideas, Shanghai needs to redeploy a data center in Hangzhou and then transfer the local production and operation of Hangzhou to Shanghai.





"This is time-consuming, costly, and there will be problems with unified data management and interaction in the future." If the idea of using the cloud is much better. Wu Zhenya explained. According to the concept of cloud, enterprises only need to use the original data center in Shanghai, and in Hangzhou, the deployment of front-end equipment, Shanghai's data center through the network to Hangzhou for unified management, so that the front-end equipment is very simple, for the operation of the requirements and IT personnel requirements are much lower. "Of course, this requires a higher network." I even think that the main point of cloud computing is to rely on the progress of network technology, the core is to achieve the integration of resources through the network. "Wu Zhenya said.





Shanghai Investment Development Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Shenhong investment) is now from the construction of the Hongqiao hub to the construction of the Hongqiao business district. Its companies are also in the process of transformation, and gradually began to expand to real estate, new energy and other industries. As a result of business expansion, it needs to carry out construction, according to the previous practice, a new company, you have to do their own set of systems to build their own data center. Now the Shenhong investment is to build a total data center, the total data Center for each company or each piece of business unified allocation IT resources. The front-end only deploys simple devices, and the final data is pooled into the total data center. "This can greatly save investment. The new project is now slowly taking this approach. "Wu Zhenya said.





the benefits of unified integration of resources are also obvious. It enhances the enterprise's ability to manage the entire data center, while the availability of support to the business is greatly improved. "The benefits of the cloud architecture are flexible scalability, and the deployment of your system resources and requirements as needed." The foundation of cloud computing itself is virtualization, the ability to integrate individual physical resources into more applications. Gaoqing, the manager of the IT department of Fortis Fund.





"Many enterprises for resource flexibility, system stability requirements are very high, cloud computing this efficient and flexible way to allocate resources is very effective." Gaoqing the story that the hottest movie of the last year was not "Avatar", its large number of special effects require a lot of computing resources, but this demand is not cyclical, it may be a period of time to need so much computing resources, may be a few months or years, after this time, these resources will not be used. If you use cloud computing, the advantages of dynamic adjustment can be fully demonstrated. The financial industry also has such a situation, such as when the industry is good, need more resources.





Not only in the flexibility of resource allocation, but also in the speed of it response, it shows obvious advantages. In the traditional enterprise, the marketing department to do the campaign needs IT support, first of all, it will need to the activities of IT resources such as server, memory, hard disk and so on to estimate, and then take time to buy equipment, but also with different networks, different server standards, this time on the average needs 两到3个月. If the previously estimated IT resources are inaccurate, it will affect the stable operation of the business. But under the cloud architecture, IT staff can quickly allocate server resources to business requirements. In this way, the enterprise can adapt to the changing market and respond quickly to the business environment,





Finally, the efficient resource integration of cloud computing can also directly bring cost advantages to the enterprise. The construction of traditional data center, such as computer room, heat dissipation equipment, power supply equipment, etc. account for the very high proportion of enterprise IT budget. And now it equipment elimination rate is higher, the renewal cycle is shortened, so the late operation and maintenance costs are also increasing. With the idea of cloud computing, investment will be relatively much reduced. Not to occupy the construction resources, equipment updates relative savings, staffing will also be reduced.