Cloud computing infrastructure Five steps away

IDC released the "China Cloud Computing Infrastructure Building Guide," a roadmap for Chinese companies to build a cloud computing infrastructure. Based on IDC's in-depth research on the current situation of China's cloud computing market, and combined with the research results of IDC's Global cloud computing experts, the report aims to provide advice to enterprises and organizations that build cloud computing infrastructures so that end users can take fewer detours and deploy cloud platforms quickly and successfully.

IDC believes that the implementation of cloud computing infrastructure is not a simple software and hardware integration project, but a change in enterprise IT strategy, so users need to carefully assess the implementation of cloud computing projects, advising enterprises to work with experienced IT consulting service providers in the overall planning of cloud computing projects, Consider cloud computing data Center management model, the future operations into the overall planning, with a view to the full development of the cloud computing platform, so that enterprises can truly enjoy the benefits of cloud computing.

According to IDC user research, most users choose the cloud computing architecture, hoping that future cloud computing platforms will be compatible with the existing infrastructure, reducing implementation risk and quickly transitioning to the cloud platform. At the same time, smooth transition from existing architectures, on the other hand, can meet the requirements of users to save investment and shorten the implementation cycle.

To this end, IDC summed up the Chinese cloud computing infrastructure Implementation Roadmap, the proposed user's cloud computing infrastructure implementation process is divided into five stages.

1. Planning stage: The use of cloud computing as an enterprise strategy to treat, timely access to management attention and support, and clearly set each stage to achieve the goal. Overall, users need to integrate cloud computing to the corporate strategic level, planning and deploying from the height of business innovation and IT service transformation.

2. Preparation stage: According to the enterprise industry characteristics, fully aware of the use of cloud computing infrastructure to obtain the services and applications. Make a full evaluation of the cloud computing platform to select the technology architecture of the cloud computing platform. Users should also fully consider their own business and industry characteristics as well as the existing platform status, fully assess the feasibility of system migration, to ensure the infrastructure platform for technical continuity and core business continuity.

3. Implementation phase: Enterprise-class virtualization is the foundation of cloud computing. Building an enterprise-class virtualization platform that meets the requirements of security, reliability, scalability, and flexibility is the only way to build cloud computing.

4. The Drill-down phase: On the basis of infrastructure virtualization, users also implement automated provisioning. The cloud infrastructure is not just a platform for virtualization, it also requires automated monitoring and management tools to deploy virtual resources.

5. Application and Management phase: Openness is the basic feature of cloud computing, and the cloud computing platform should provide standard APIs and be well compatible with existing applications. Companies should choose their suppliers carefully, giving priority to partners who are committed to building open ecosystems. Enterprise Application porting is a gradual process, the cloud infrastructure should support the core applications of the enterprise, and not just new requirements. At the same time, the construction of cloud computing is a closed-loop process, and not overnight, enterprises need to continue to improve the cloud computing platform.

When choosing a vendor, the end user should consider more about the implementation experience of the supplier and the degree of understanding of the business. Also consider the long-term planning of the supplier, whether it can provide end-to-end services, and the maturity of the partners around the supplier.