Data center to Cloud transform VMware has 2 roles to play.

April 12, at the VMware 2012 Partner Conference, VMware released a survey of Asia-Pacific partners, which showed that cloud computing (50%), Desktop Virtualization (45%), and Data Center infrastructure (37%) Become partners think of the 2012 enterprise customers three key technical input fields.

This also means that more companies will consider transforming their traditional IT infrastructure into virtualization and cloud computing this year, a transition that will naturally require changes in the data center.

Three major trends drive data center change VMware has two roles to play.

"There are three major trends that are driving data center changes: hardware costs, virtualization of all hardware components, and new application architectures." "Today, consolidation is taking place at all levels of the data center, including" Integrating network, storage, encryption, GPU and other functions into a common CPU, "Babaugo Bogomil Balkansky, senior vice president of VMware's cloud infrastructure products, said in a speech. A variety of dedicated network technology unified to Gigabit Ethernet, computing, storage, IO, management integration in a system, more and more workloads through the virtual machine for integrated management, "and so on."

▲vmware Company Cloud Infrastructure Products Senior Vice President Babaugo (Bogomil Balkansky)

So, as the integration continues to deepen, what will become of the data center of the future?

Babaugo predicts that by 2014, in a new data center, the average server could have 2 CPUs, 16 cores per slot, 300GB RAM memory, and 320 virtual machines, which means a cabinet can host about 20,000 virtual machines! A company with 5,000 employees can condense IT infrastructure into cabinets that are sized to refrigerators.

Of course, this change is gradual, is constantly evolving!

In the face of this change, VMware's product line also experienced three stages: 2001-2005 Gsx/esx mainly do server virtualization, 2006-2010 Vi3/vsphere mainly do cluster/distributed virtualization, 2011 after the Vcloud for the mixed cloud.

▲vmware product line Development and transformation

It is predicted that by 2015, private cloud market opportunities will reach more than 41.5 billion dollars! In the face of this pet market, even VMware, already a leader in x86 virtualization, cannot sing "solo" – The growing partner team is VMware's killer. Babaugo said in an interview that VMware needs to play two roles in the process of transforming the user data center into cloud computing: one is to provide an efficient virtualization platform for servers, storage, networks, security, and other data center vendors. It is convenient for these manufacturers to put their products into the platform after virtualization, the second is to provide customers with a unified management platform for a variety of resources to achieve a unified management. "For example, trend technology anti-virus software, Cisco Firewall, F5 Load balancer can be made virtual device access to VMware virtualization platform, this will bring a very very large business opportunities for the industry." ”

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