Cloud computing helps traditional enterprise information transformation

An article in the famous American financial magazine Barron Weekly pointed out that 2016 will be the year of cloud computing outbreak. 60% of the world's IT costs will be invested in cloud-related products and services, which will reach 100% by 2018. With the continuous Internetization of traditional enterprises, cloud computing has gradually become the cornerstone and new IT growth point for enterprise users to achieve breakthrough innovation through IT. As an effective way to improve IT flexibility and reduce IT costs, cloud computing has gradually become an engine for traditional enterprises to initiate change while increasing their competitiveness.

Cheng Xiaozhong, CEO of Shanghai Anchang Network Technology Co., Ltd., has more than 15 years of experience in data center operation and maintenance management, and has extensive experience in BGP autonomous network planning and operation, hybrid cloud architecture, operation and maintenance automation, container, log big data analysis and other fields. Vision and rich technical experience. This summit gave me his own insights on cloud computing assistants' traditional enterprise information transformation.

Cloud computing in Cheng Xiaozhong’s eyes

Cheng Xiaozhong said that the real beauty of cloud computing can be explained by a formula, that is, one server works for 1000 hours, which is equal to 1000 servers working for one hour. There are five key points in total: flexible expansion, on-demand supply, IT democracy, economic efficiency, and innovation. The first two points are flexible and on-demand, which truly demonstrates that IT can achieve very agile, agile IT infrastructure, can promote the agility of the application, and truly promote the agility of the final business. The third point is IT democracy, which allows a small, extensive company to gain the technology and power to negotiate with the top 500 companies or with very large Internet companies. Finally, the cost of the scale effect of cloud computing helps. After these points are combined, cloud computing, even at the infrastructure level, has already greatly promoted business innovation.

From talking cloud to using cloud

First of all, in the field of IT industry, cloud computing has spawned the integration of two sub-areas, one is IT and the other is CT. IT is more about server storage as understood on a regular basis. CT is more of a communication technology. But today's cloud computing has delivered all IT resources and services over the network. IT and CT have become a kind of service under the impetus of cloud computing. Today, we must integrate these computing resources into the computer room, so there is now a new term called ICT.

Secondly, due to the changes in the upper layer, the entire IT industry itself has undergone a very big change in recent years. In the past, a series of total generations, distribution integrators, everyone in the field of hardware, more through the logistics way, these IT solutions and products to the user. But in the era of cloud computing, the upper-level OEMs are now more and more hiding behind the cloud computing vendors, and they are beginning to disappear, but they are not really disappearing. With this change in the upper layer, the industrial chain in the middle of the industry has also begun to change. Mainly: the long chain in the middle of the IT industry is compressed, from moving boxes to delivering services, delivery channels from logistics to networking, centralized delivery management will be born in giant service providers.

In the IT field, application development and IT infrastructure have the opposite trend. Application development is from purchasing software products, outsourcing development to moderate enterprise self-built. In the infrastructure field, cloud computing definitely means IT infrastructure service. However, in recent years, with the service of the IT architecture itself, and the operation and maintenance management related to the IT architecture, many things have begun to show a trend of service. Mainly due to: new cloud computing technology, for enterprise IT teams, enterprises must be required to master the application; efficiency and cost optimization; step by step personnel transfer.

Hybrid cloud will be the mainstream choice for enterprise market

Hybrid cloud is a user of the enterprise, a mainstream product of medium and large enterprises. Of course, this is also the cause of the problem. First of all, these technical architectures cannot be moved to the virtualized environment and cannot be moved to the public cloud. There are also cost factors, private clouds. The cost is still lower than the cost of the public cloud; there are also some considerations on security and compliance, especially in the two years of risk control, in terms of compliance, these factors force companies to do Some choices are more suitable for them; including some strategic considerations.

Hybrid clouds, which are physical architectures, private clouds, public clouds, containers, etc., may also have some virtualization. Cheng Xiaozhong believes that a true hybrid cloud solves at least a few problems. The first form of this different infrastructure, the data between them can flow to each other, the business can be mobilized, even in terms of performance and security. There are a lot of requirements on it, and it is unified in management. And at present, most of our customers in China, in the hybrid cloud products, are actually more traditional logistics architecture, combined with some public cloud applications.

Enterprise cloud recommendation

First of all, we must objectively and rationally treat the cloud and avoid the trap brought by one-sided cognition. Need to address the characteristics of your own business, reasonably apply the multi-node, multi-area, etc. of the public cloud, and rationally plan your own business structure to avoid the multi cloud and multi-faceted of these services, the impact of infrastructure; Second, establish a double Modular IT governance capabilities. How to balance the development of traditional IT, steady-state security, and new business, the pursuit of agility, fast, these two requirements, our IT capabilities, from technology to capabilities should be balanced development. In the corporate scene, cloud computing is more important than technology. It is important to control the technical model and management capabilities. Then, grasp the correct rhythm. Finally, we will go to the cloud, whether it is multiple public clouds. Or public cloud + private cloud, and finally we have the ability to schedule services between multi clouds. The second one starts from the edge business and gradually transitions to the core business; it also chooses the right partner and the appropriate cloud migration method; of course, it also needs to pay attention to the three elements of the hybrid cloud, we must pay attention to it, the hybrid cloud can not be managed. Very convenient, it is able to perform business scheduling on the connection, and can meet the requirements in performance. Finally, paying attention to the bargaining of SLAs, even if there are a lot of technical choices discussed with all the service providers, the last thing is to implement commercial collaboration.