Cloud Data center breaks enterprise "boundary"

The speed of enterprise growth has become the core factor of controllable resources and key market competitiveness, but the high growth enterprise with innovation as its core competitiveness is confronted with more management, technology, cost and other risks. Taking into account many factors, such as cost and it innovation management, more and more leaders in the CIO role in High-growth Enterprises began to shift the direction of IT strategy, focusing on the public cloud field of elasticity and cost advantage, and without losing security.

As virtualization and cloud computing technology have matured, companies are choosing to build cloud computing platforms not only to consider the one-time cost of input, but also the stability and security of the platform, as well as the wavering between IaaS (infrastructure as a service), PaaS (Platform service), SaaS (software as a service), After some thinking, or will be parked in the virtual cloud architecture or the physical host architecture Fork Junction.

Public cloud becomes the best model for it cost continuous operation

The Networkworld Web site surveyed 276 CIOs about its cloud application program at the end of 2011. The findings show that one-third of respondents have given some of their applications to service providers, allowing service providers to host them on the public cloud. In addition, one-third of respondents are planning to hand over some of their applications to service providers, completing the magnificent turn of the IT architecture in the era of innovation.

Traditional ideas under the influence of the growth of it builders, often with a sense of the idea to operate it, but this for the high growth of enterprises is unfavorable. Ultimately, enterprise policymakers need it to help and boost business growth, helping businesses achieve business innovation rather than sending them to the bottom of the traditional IT infrastructure (even if the underlying structure continues to expand and make sense). Enterprises choose to build their own complex IT systems and cloud computing platform, it is clear that a one-time investment in the big, supplementary staff, procurement of soft, hardware equipment, including data center infrastructure in the certification authority costs, and so on.

This form of self-reliance not only a long period of construction, coupled with the day-to-day operation of the cost of runaway, will cause a lot of burden or waste. In addition, in order to meet the requirements of high speed change and expansion in different regions, for example, common factories, external institutions, annexation and acquisition, the logical boundaries of the original data center of the enterprise must be "outward" constantly expanding, which means that in the financial statements of enterprises, this part of the investment will be likely to drag the growth of high-growth enterprises.

Perhaps among the 276 CIOs surveyed, "Two-thirds choice" is the right trend. Without a lot of upfront input, you can use on-demand cloud platform services to enable enterprise IT investments to be reflected in the operating process as a continuous operating cost rather than a one-time bill. Believe that with the increasing use of public cloud applications, service providers can provide more flexibility and freedom of the concept of virtualization will be rooted in the hearts of users, and eventually become the mainstream enterprise infrastructure services.

More "control" of virtualization architecture

In such a high-cost era, CIOs can reduce costs, improve performance, specialize in operations, and integrate upstream services (such as value-added, marketing, electricity, etc.) suppliers and downstream end-users to create new value chains and ecosystems by choosing public cloud services. But for users, it is often a dilemma to choose a physical host architecture or a public cloud architecture that is virtualized to the core.

For traditional service providers advocating physical host architectures, they repeatedly emphasize two viewpoints: the "control" of the physical host architecture and the immaturity of virtualization technology. Historically, these two viewpoints are tenable. First, Chinese corporate clients are always looking to buy products or equipment that can be seen and touched. While building a physical host architecture, users still need to consider renting physical space, server purchases, switches, and other required hardware devices. However, if we adopt the public cloud service, we must change the previous consumption concept, because whether it is the CPU of the physical host architecture, the storage structure, the top software and management layer, or the virtual cloud architecture, all the service providers will not give you the key of the engine room.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)