Dawning IBM-HP interprets cloud computing data center

According to the relevant national technical standards, "Data center" is "computer room", this is a purely external physical rendering state to describe the definition. The "computer room" relative to the "Data center" is inflexible, with the fashionable "cloud computing," the word is more outdated. In the cloud-computing boom, there is an idea that the cloud is opposed to the data center, that the data center is no longer needed in the cloud computing era, that it is water and electricity, and is billed on demand. There is nothing wrong with this concept of the public, this is the goal that the IT industry hopes to achieve, that is, the data center is no longer related to the public, since the public "see" The data center, nature can be regarded as non-existent.

But many it operators also have a sense that, in the cloud computing era, the data center itself is no longer important, it is important to organize the means of IT resources, that is, the current industry hot discussion of various kinds of cloud technology. From a macro-industrial point of view, such as only focus on industrial growth and emerging technology hotspots, such as fixed perspective, this understanding is no problem, but this ignores the data center and cloud computing technology inherent in the relationship. When we come back from the cloud and re-examine the name of the data center as a concept of technology definition and market segmentation to see how it interacts with cloud computing, we find a data center that is not changing outside and is experiencing a revolution.

In the past, the data center carries the core business, the Government, the scientific research and so on high-end application, carries the society to unify the Internet, in the future, it will also serve as the core node, pushes the cloud computing, transforms it into the on-demand resources. In this change, we can also see more detailed industrial ecological changes, which will also affect the IT industry's own future.

The data center, which is in the midst of cloud change, is a new generation of data centers that are more apt to be called "cloud data centers."

Data Center construction boom

Roughly speaking, cloud computing is summed up in three levels: IaaS, PAAs, and SaaS, where IaaS (infrastructure as a service) does not address the business-level nature of the user, thereby providing an IaaS "infrastructure" for users of the public cloud and private cloud as the same type of user in the technical sense , it can be roughly equated to the concept of a datacenter. This is the most direct correlation between data center and cloud computing in the age of cloud computing.

With a clear definition of the development of the data center, one of the most obvious trends is that a new round of data center construction boom is emerging, almost itself is a cloud computing boom.

The boom is the most robust in China, and it's not hard to understand why IBM is being launched by the Chinese research and development team to launch the infrastructure Cloud Rapid Deployment Solution Suite Starter Kitfor Cloud (SKC).

"Building a new data center is an upsurge in China, even the" It's real estate project, "said. "IBM Greater China System and Technology division, industry and key customer support general manager Liang so described the Chinese region's data center building hot." The construction of these new data centers, mostly related to government behavior, not only reflects the rapid growth of the government's it needs, but also stems from it has been in-depth to all levels of society, while the cloud computing technology is maturing, to support the data center to meet the corresponding needs, so that the government can be assured of investment

Shen Weidong, director of infrastructure products at Shuguang Product Center, said: "In the near future, the data center will be the foundation of the city's hardware facilities, like utilities, roads and networks, and will be classified as an infrastructure project." "

The "future" mentioned in this conclusion no longer so distant, in fact, in developed cities, such as the first line of the North wide, and even Chongqing, in response to the needs of municipal management, the construction of the data center is in the ascendant, a number of cloud computing projects have been settled in these cities, but also as manufacturers to promote their own cloud computing solutions

The government-led cloud-era data center construction boom is only part of the surface, and the wave of old data center makeover and new data centers based on broad business needs is poised to emerge in the eyes of cloud-computing advocates. IBM Liang said, based on business outsourcing requirements of the data Center building, the trend is reflected, not fully revealed. At present, it is only focused on the telecom operators ' domain, they are gradually turning hardware hosting to the application services directly to the user's business. This segment of the market if good feedback, the development momentum will be very rapid.

In addition, the Enterprise Internal Data Center transformation, and even new data center, is brewing in the next wave.

Thus, the biggest impact of cloud computing on data centers is that the data center will become another development indicator for society, and its cumulative IT resources, including computing power, storage capacity, and so on, will gradually have a broad social impact, like the number of cars and road and rail mileage. On this basis, the construction boom of the data center will last for a long time.