Consolidate virtual plus optimize IBM cloud storage Road ready? Go!

February 5, IBM in the overseas start a series of heavyweight storage and server product line, in the industry caused a lot of repercussions. On the day before the Spring festival in ZDNet, "So many voices," wired to IBM Systems and technology Department of Storage Products division of Greater China Strategy and marketing manager Mr. Wu, CBSI Enterprise Solutions Center, the chief analyst Zhang Guangbin to his online visit. At the same time, Mr. Wu said that in order to give users a hands-on experience of the actual technology display opportunities, IBM will be held on March 7 2013 IBM Wisdom Cloud Storage Peak Network forum.

For the launch of the heavyweight products, Mr. Wu said this is IBM's strong technical complement to cloud storage, where SmartCloud Storage Access (hereinafter referred to as SCSA) software can help users in the self-help environment, easy access to storage space, Other products released at the same time also improve performance, especially in real time compression, the overall interpretation of the IBM Cloud Picture practice of the complete blueprint.

At present, what is the cloud, we must also have a certain understanding of cloud computing, cloud storage is not unfamiliar, the industry has given a variety of definitions, Mr. Wu also talked about his concept of the cloud some understanding, he thought that in the definition of cloud storage, should be aware of the objects they serve.

In the case of a user, cloud computing can be said to be a service that a user can get on demand via the Internet, a service that is calculated, a service that is stored, and a fee that is paid on demand. Similar to the current network disk, users on-demand access to storage resources, such as the use of tap water, the amount of money to pay how much.

If it is for the builders of cloud storage, the first thing to consider is cost, under limited investment, to ensure adequate storage capacity, to obtain a certain amount of storage speed. This is why IBM is based on this point to launch a series of products, upgrade technology and even solutions. Second, how to protect the user's data security, when the data deposit, to ensure absolute security, improve self-healing ability, in the case of multiple tenants to ensure privacy. The 3rd is flexibility, allowing data to migrate freely on demand. Management naturally also need to be simple and convenient, fully grasp the different physical location of resources. In general, cloud storage is actually a highly efficient, secure, flexible, and manageable storage architecture for cloud storage builders.

Moving from current storage architectures to efficient, secure, flexible, and managed cloud storage architectures is not a step in the way. You may need to consolidate, virtualize, and then automate, and the whole process is complex. Mr Wu says IBM's IBM Cloud Picture Practice trip is designed to make this process faster and more secure.

Like IBM launched eight or nine years of SVC technology to help achieve the virtualization process, is a high degree of integration optimization, improve compatibility. Mr Wu says current virtualization technologies can be done either by IBM or non-IBM, even in different years different models of products can be compatible, the entire storage into a shared storage pool, so this step is very important, if not, to cloud storage will be difficult, data migration is difficult to achieve. This is also just the upgrade of real-time compression technology RTC is important, the growth of data capacity, the entire virtual pool more and more data, so must learn how to use limited resources, improve utilization, rely on IBM storwize RTC to help cloud storage builders to achieve integration and virtualization of the important phase.

Of course, efficiency does not depend on storage space alone, but also need access speed to lift, that is, in addition to speed up the speed of the processor, need to have a more intelligent way. IBM previously introduced Easytier automatic layering technology, through real-time monitoring data to distinguish cold data and thermal data, and then make appropriate processing, intelligent heat data on the fastest disk, cold data in the appropriate location. This will not only increase utilization, but also improve storage speed and optimize efficiency on the way to cloud storage.

Regardless of how the cloud storage architecture is optimized, how efficient, and most important, is to make it serve the public, that is, to achieve optimization at the service level. Self-Service services such as SCSA provide, is in storage space for the entire enterprise organization or a project, automatic Configuration Storage, chargeback, but also help the background of cloud storage administrators easy to monitor management, this service embodies the new IBM storage claims, the implementation of cloud storage efficiency optimization, security optimization, Management and service optimization four new capabilities!

Over the years, IBM has accumulated experience in the way of cloud storage or cloud computing, the summary is the recently launched campaign, "storage capacity, because I'm ready," explains Mr Wu, "I" here is the concept of inclusion, which means technology, products, solutions, but more importantly, those of us, There are three different kinds of people in this person: IBM customers who have had successful cases, how they help their businesses implement cloud storage, or can share these successful experiences with other industries, help them build their own cloud storage, and IBM's own technical team, using a wealth of technology and experience, Participate in the construction of cloud storage for users, while the third part is IBM's partner, working closely to help users build cloud storage. So, as I'm ready, IBM combines these three forces to help users transform from their existing storage technology architectures into cloud architectures, from efficiency, management, security, and service, just like the cloud storage expert group around you.

Mr Wu says this is also a process that IBM has built up over the years to develop cloud computing, and it is now up to the IBM to re-emphasize the concept of cloud storage, regardless of whether the technology, product, and implementation teams present a complete readiness to build a full cloud storage state.

IBM Cloud storage new ideas to lay the cornerstone, cloud storage Expert Group answers puzzled, then cloud storage new product SmartCloud Storage acces How can you underestimate? Some may wonder whether the cloud storage architecture must be built by IBM's storage products, Only IBM storage can achieve SCSA functionality? Mr. Wu says that because of IBM's highly compatible storage virtualization Technology-svc, the user's existing storage architecture, regardless of the brand, can ultimately achieve efficient, secure, flexible, and manageable cloud storage architectures in accordance with IBM's cloud storage journey. Soon, IBM will also provide users with a "seeing the real" opportunity. On March 7, the 2013 IBM Wisdom Cloud Storage Peak Network forum, will have the idea, there are products, experts, show the actual technology, is a real storage person event.