Data center operators transfer corporate strategy to cloud computing

Currently, the Japanese Data Center (DC) industry has changed the crust. In the past, many of the data center space and racks leased to system integrators and hosting operators of data center operators, change their strategy turned into cloud computing http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/17487.html " > Service business.

There are many types of DC operators in Japan, for example, some operators are similar to real estate developers, which have ownership of their buildings while building data center buildings, which rent the space of the data center to the outside of the floor and Cage (Cage), while others are "DC operators without data centers", This type of operator is the facility for leasing data center operators, while the external data center is called "The data center of the Enterprise". Many hosting operators and system integrators belong to the latter, "DC operators without data centers."

The DC operator's boundaries are not clear.

In the past, there were data center operators and hosting operators in the DC industry, as well as system integrators, but the boundary between the two has become increasingly blurred in recent years.

The first to break the line is the property-type data center operator, which starts running its own servers in its own data center building, and provides external cloud computing services. For example, in addition to NTT Communications (NTT) and Japan KDDI Telecom and IDC Frontier (which belongs to the Japanese Yahoo Group) and other telecom-business-type DC operators, Other DC operators that used to rent DC space in the past have also started to provide infrastructure that services IaaS, such as INET, Bitisle and KVH.

At the same time, there is another trend in the opposite direction, that is, the hosting operators and system integrators who used to rent DC space have owned the DC buildings, such as the Sakura Internet of "Shi Shou dc" in the North Sea Road quarry and the opening of "West Tokyo DC" in Tokyo Tokyo. Canon IT Solution (CANON it FX). In 2012, the New Day Iron FX in Tokyo three Eagle City opened "5DC", the company built its own DC construction and ownership of its buildings, although this is the company's fifth DC, but it is also the first of its own DC.

The next development business for DC operators is "private cloud hosting services (Hosted private Cloud)"

Let's take a look at the new trends in the US DC market. Instead of competing directly with Amazon Web Services (AWS), DC operators in the US are trying to find a new way to live by offering a different cloud-hosting service (Hosted private Cloud).

The service is characterized by a DC operator providing a private cloud to build and run, although it uses an IaaS build software that is the same as a public cloud, but users use different resources (servers and storage) and networks.

This service differs from the public cloud in that users and other users do not share a "resource pool", which prepares a different physical server for each user, where the DC operator assembles the IaaS build software and is responsible for resource the software. The user enterprise can build the Cloud Self-Service portal (self service portals) provided by the software through IaaS, leveraging the virtual server.

The target audience for private cloud hosting services is users who do not want to share physical resources with other users but want to use self-service cloud computing. Although this service does not achieve the required On-demand-the necessary servers are readily available, this is the same as a private cloud run by the user through local (on-premises). For users who like private cloud, the advantage of private cloud hosting services is that users can be freed from the physical hardware and construction and operation of IaaS. Therefore, for the Japanese DC operators, it should be an effective alternative service.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)