Development trend of data center in cloud computing environment

1. Modular Standard Infrastructure

In the next generation of data centers, in order for the IT infrastructure to be adaptable and scalable, systems such as servers, storage devices, networks, and so on, are standardized and streamlined according to predetermined configurations to tailor these configurations to the data center's primary services. The modular system based on standard can simplify the environment of data center and strengthen the control of cost. It uses a scalable, flexible IT system and services to build a more adaptable infrastructure environment, manage all resources easily, improve operational efficiencies, and reduce complexity and risk.

2. Virtualization of resources and environment

In a new generation of data centers, virtualization technology is widely used to centralize physical infrastructure to form a pool of shared virtual resources to achieve low-cost and fully efficient use of resources. Through server virtualization, solutions such as storage virtualization, network virtualization, Application virtualization, and data center virtualization can help businesses or organizations reduce the number of servers, optimize resource utilization, simplify management, and help enterprises or organizations implement dynamic IT infrastructure environments to reduce costs, Quickly respond to changes in business requirements to provide the necessary and solid foundation for an enterprise or organization to achieve data center automation and business continuity. Virtualization is the most widely used technology in a new generation of data centers and the biggest difference between a new generation of data centers and traditional data centers.

3. Automation Management

The next generation of data centers should be 7x24, unattended, and remotely managed, involving automated operations across the data center, not only to detect, repair hardware failures of devices, but also to manage end-to-end infrastructure from servers and storage systems to applications. Advanced automation capabilities enable the dynamic reallocation of resources to ensure that it is aligned with the business. By automating repetitive tasks, it organizations can reduce costs and reduce human error. An organic combination of automation, virtualization, and management can help IT organizations achieve the required service levels according to scheduled plans.

4. Fast Scalability

In the next generation of data centers, all servers, storage devices and networks can form virtual shared resource pools through virtualization technology, which is shared by various application systems in the data center. The new integrated virtualization scheme makes the hardware owner and the application logically separate through the separation of resource ownership, so that the system administrator can quickly create and redeploy virtual resources through software tools to make it a shared resource of IT services. Then, according to the established business application requirements and service levels, we can dynamically configure, order and supply virtual resources by monitoring service quality, realize the automation of virtual resource supply, and obtain the rapid expansion ability of infrastructure resource utilization.

5. Energy Saving and space saving

The traditional data center design pursues the performance, and the New Generation data center pursues the energy efficiency (PUE), namely the energy utilization of the data center in the situation of the energy shortage and the rapid increase of energy cost. In the next generation of data centers, will use a large number of energy-efficient servers, energy-saving storage equipment and blade servers, through advanced power supply and cooling technology (new power components, thermal intelligence, power capping, liquid cooling cabinets, tight coupling heat dissipation and dynamic intelligent cooling, etc.) to address the traditional data center of excessive refrigeration and space shortage problem, Realize seamless integration and management of power supply, heat dissipation and computational resources. The next generation of data centers will be a data center that can efficiently use energy and space, and support enterprises or institutions to obtain a sustainable computing environment.

6. High IT resource utilization

In a new generation of data centers, virtualization technology is widely used to integrate systems and data centers to address the problem of very low utilization of IT resources in traditional data centers (with an average server utilization of less than 20%). Virtualization technology helps break the island effect, share IT resources, optimize resource utilization, reduce costs, make IT infrastructure more flexible, and ensure balance between supply and demand.

7. High Reliability Redundancy

The next-generation data center should be continuously running on a 7x24-hour schedule and its services would not allow any disruption (including planned maintenance). The data centers of an enterprise or organization are the focus of important information and core applications, and disruption of IT systems caused by a variety of causes of failure or disaster can lead to business disruption, especially when critical business system outages can have a significant impact on enterprise production and organization operations. As a result, a new generation of data centers emphasize redundancy design (double or multiple backup) and even fault tolerant design in the system, which can ensure stable and continuous system connection, satisfy the requirement of the system performance of the key business, and guarantee the security of enterprise or organization data. In the next Generation data center, the establishment of a highly reliable computing platform (fault-tolerant computing environment) is the first, then the information security, including network security threat Prevention, data replication and backup, disaster Tolerance Center building measures to meet the requirements of high availability.

8, service-oriented computing platform

From the perspective of the value development of the data center, it has evolved from the past to provide technology, application and information, and evolve to provide business services. Therefore, the adoption of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to build a new generation of data centers will be an inevitable trend. SOA is a structured approach to building infrastructure. However, SOA is a service approach for it architecture and governance. In the building of a new generation of data centers, the adoption of an SOA model can help enterprises establish service-oriented infrastructures and encapsulate infrastructure, applications, and processes as "services". These services can then be redeployed and invoked by different departments as needed, thereby improving the flexibility of the data center and the adaptability of the enterprise.

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