Cloud computing virtualization makes real-time mass data processing worry-free

Similar to the above information we can often see that the National Bureau of Statistics continuously to the community on the national economic development, people's livelihood and other levels of data. And what is behind these massive data processing an IT system supporting? How does the data related to the provincial and municipal levels be aggregated to the National Bureau of Statistics? What are the challenges of huge data processing for IT systems? For all kinds of questions, National Bureau of Statistics Management Center Director Xu Jianyi briefed reporters on the current National Bureau of Statistics of the whole IT system construction ideas, and the National Bureau of Statistics data Management Center Wang Hongchen Director of the detailed introduction of virtualization and cloud computing technology in the entire system role.

Using cloud computing virtualization to confront challenges

Last year, when the reporter interviewed Xu Jianyi, he gave reporters a "statistical cloud" of the Picture: The National Bureau of Statistics is building the entire statistical data system of the private cloud, the future Bureau of Statistics data collection, processing, processing, all with Beijing as the central data center, and then divided into four strata, to the national level.

See Xu Jianyi again, is in the National Bureau core Business System project in two period of time, for "statistics cloud" construction, Xu Jianyi has more feelings and ideas.

After years of development, the National Bureau of Information Construction has made great achievements, but more data processing, especially in terms of timeliness, accuracy requirements more, to the National Bureau of Information Construction brings challenges. "The National Bureau of the application system is very large, its massive data processing volume, high concurrency and so on IT systems will be a challenge." Xu Jianyi pointed out that to change these circumstances, hardware equipment capabilities, cost-effective are to be considered.

"Our idea is to use small machines to replace the role of large machines, the small machines through the cluster, clustering to the core business system to meet business needs." Xu Jianyi pointed out that this is a national bureau of thought, at the same time, the establishment of a unified system at all levels is also required by the Bureau, "statistical cloud" is based on such demand.

Xu Jianyi briefed reporters on the current state bureau IT system composition. "The bureau utilizes the State-of-the-art technology of virtualization, cloud computing and resource pooling to establish a national unified core business system, including a unified data center, with the Bureau as its center." "Xu Jianyi specifically presents a cluster of 10 IBM's newest small machines (including 6 IBM POWRE595 servers and 4 IBM Power780 servers) used in its system architecture," leveraging the latest products and technologies from several companies such as IBM, the entire architecture, So that the whole system does not have a single point of failure to solve security problems. ”

At the same time, the core business system of the Bureau also needs to solve the problem of high concurrency. Xu Jianyi pointed out that the entire design of the system was designed according to millions high concurrency, "the use of virtualization, cloud computing technology millions will not be a problem, can even achieve tens." "Xu Jianyi that the system also better play the IBM minicomputer training level to deal with the ability of high concurrency, last year's census is very good test this system," the whole system of coordination, operational capacity is very strong. "Xu Jianyi also gave us a data, before more than 1.3 billion people in the form of a single day or more time, and based on the new system, two minutes can be done."

The thought of the grand unification carried out the whole process of informatization construction of the National Bureau, and the thoughts of cloud also vividly. Xu Jianyi said that at present the Bureau is developing a national unified data processing application platform, and the next step also hopes to be the center of unified business applications. "The National unified business will be focused on a core business system to deal with, providing a cloud service for the entire statistic work." "Xu Jianyi described, the National Bureau of Information Construction is step by step towards a large unified" statistical cloud.

Four resource pools and their respective minicomputer support core business development

Xu Jianyi described to us the status of the entire IT system of the Bureau and the role it can play to give us a picture of the "temptation" of the statistical cloud, and the system in the end what hardware devices in support, cloud computing, virtualization and how to play a role? Wang Hongchen from the technical level to the reporter made a detailed introduction.

The idea of a private cloud has a strong appeal to the National Bureau, especially the cloud of service. Wang Hongchen told reporters that the full concept of private cloud implementation will be difficult, but still need to be guided by this idea, to structure the entire IT system. At present, the National Bureau has done a lot of work on the cloud level of infrastructure.

"With the business development, if constantly buy machines, load-bearing, electricity, space is not enough, in this case virtualization technology allows a machine to support more applications, this is in the PC service after several years of exploration has been achieved, and the effect is good." "Wang Hongchen pointed out that this success also hope to be able to copy to the minicomputer," minicomputer safe and reliable, has been supporting the important business of the Bureau, but the implementation of its virtualization will also exist compatible, unified platform. "IBM's solution, in Wang Hongchen's view, is best able to meet the needs of the Bureau."

With regard to the planning of the entire infrastructure, the invocation of the resource pool, Wang Hongchen introduced it into a total of four resource pools, namely, Web servers, application servers, databases, and storage. The four resource pools are also unified according to different requirements and standards. The database pool is an IBM based on minicomputer virtualization technology, the implementation of the entire database resource pool calls. A resource pool of virtualized application servers is also made up of different brands of minicomputer or PC servers. Wang Hongchen also emphasizes that security measures such as firewalls between resource pools must be done to ensure security.

For the current industry to talk about a lot of x86 application server, in the National Bureau of the IT system we can see. "In the infrastructure cloud, the database cloud is implemented by power; The application Server cloud is an application server for IBM, and the IBM Powre595 and IBM Powre780 play a very good role in dealing with large concurrent applications, and the Web server cloud uses blades. x86 based application servers also support the development of some non-critical business. "Wang Hongchen emphasizes that no matter what kind of cloud, based on which architecture, all are redundant, will maximize the high availability and sustainability of the business."

A sound, solid infrastructure cloud lays a solid foundation for the implementation of the entire statistical cloud.

The first to eat "crabs" will always cause a lot of attention, accompanied by a variety of questions, Xu Jianyi pointed out that it is for business services, as long as the new technology can bring real benefits to business development should try. The establishment of the infrastructure cloud makes the statistical office's day-to-day management and operations simple and resource allocation very flexible. From a business perspective, the integration of national statistical systems provides a good precondition for all data to be communicated and processed in real time. This is also Xu Jianyi has been stressed to the grand unification, and fell to the technical level, for IT equipment performance also has more challenges, how to deal with the relationship between many systems, security system stability and high utilization of resources, the Bureau of the infrastructure cloud will be a good reference.