Discussion: Cloud computing push disaster backup market pattern reconstruction?

With the development of domestic information construction and the promulgation of national standard "information system disaster Recovery Code" (gb/t20988-2007), more and more enterprises and institutions begin to realize the importance of disaster backup and recovery of information system.

With the development of the domestic information construction and the promulgation of the national standard "Information System Disaster Recovery Specification" (gb/t20988-2007), more and more enterprises and institutions begin to realize the importance of the disaster backup and recovery of information system. IDC "China Business continuity and disaster recovery market 2008-2012 Forecast and Analysis" report shows that China's disaster-tolerant market after years of exploration, has been the rapid growth of the momentum into the practice and development stage. 2008 China disaster-tolerant solution market (software and services) reached 480 million U.S. dollars, compared to the 2007 growth disaster preparedness market in the rapid development, but also showed some new trends. IBM, the universal data and other manufacturers this year to promote the "disaster preparedness outsourcing" benefits, and H3C also began to explore its "shared disaster preparedness" model this year, although the concept is different, but these vendors are trying to instill in the user a message that the traditional user-built disaster preparedness Center model is now no longer popular, Users can now choose a safer, more economical way to back up their data. Is that so?   Maturing disaster preparedness outsourcing   at IBM's recent "Business resilience and disaster backup depth seminar" held in Zhuhai, IBM's global senior disaster preparedness architecture expert Huang Zhouli briefed reporters on IBM's application of the outsourcing model in foreign markets.   According to Huang Zhouli, IBM in the United States has three large disaster preparedness centers, these three centers backup each other, and has been a number of disaster preparedness exercises, security, reliability and so on, there are no problems, has been for many customers to provide disaster preparedness outsourcing or hosting services. Huang Zhouli that the company will accept a third-party agency such as IBM to provide the disaster outsourcing or hosting business, because it can reduce the cost of IT operations, on the other hand, can reduce the complexity of management.   For many domestic customers from the establishment of disaster preparedness center and only for their own use of the way, Huang Zhouli said he did not understand, he thought that this is like a person just want to drink milk, but for this at home raised a cow, not in line with economic benefits.   Market Analysis Agency ESG China general manager Wang Cong also introduced, foreign companies have a lot of manufacturers in the specialized provision of disaster preparedness outsourcing services. Like Amazon, There is also an online backup service vendor, Mozy, acquired by EMC in 2007, Wang Cong that the disaster preparedness markets in North America or Europe have undergone twenty or thirty years of development are maturing, many companies have their own disaster preparedness centers, but given the pressure on the disaster preparedness center caused by the rapid growth of data and the need to reduce costs, they will choose to prepare the most critical data themselves, rather than the critical Data is hosted by a third party.   According to Wang Cong, as the model of disaster preparedness outsourcing has become increasingly popular abroad, has been an industry, so the corresponding standards began to form. For example, how do you provide service to a service provider? According to what criteriaTo charge? For end users, how to prioritize different data based on the importance of the data and the impact on the business, and decide which data to outsource based on your budget, and tolerate the degree of risk that outsourcing poses to itself. Generally, these are reflected in SLA (service level agreements) signed by the service provider and the user. Take Mozy as an example, if users choose mozy for their disaster preparedness services, they can, when needed, at any time to test to see if the data can be restored to their requirements.   compared with foreign countries, China's disaster preparedness market started late, but the development is very rapid. In recent years, the universal data, CICC data and other manufacturers have begun to provide disaster preparedness outsourcing business. At the 2009 International Disaster Recovery and Service outsourcing summit and the Fourth China Disaster Recovery Industry High-level Forum, Huang, founder, president and CEO of the world's data, said: "To invest in a huge disaster backup, is actually taking today's huge sums of money for tomorrow's not know whether the disaster to do a backup."   Handing a disaster backup to an outsourced enterprise is a good way to reduce investment, improve levels, and ensure disaster backup. "According to the data of the world, they will set up more than 20 data centers in the country and even in Asia in the future, and ensure the management level, SLA and operation capacity through the establishment of independent professional data center management company Data technology companies."   What is a shared disaster preparedness?   in IBM, the international data to promote the users of "disaster preparedness outsourcing", while the domestic storage manufacturers H3C also put forward a "shared disaster preparedness" concept. What is "shared disaster preparedness"? Which users are eligible to choose "Shared disaster preparedness"? H3C Storage product line leader Xu Yunsong for reporters.   The so-called "shared disaster preparedness" refers to the sharing of important data from multiple data centers to the disaster preparedness center, and all relevant units share a set of disaster preparedness centers, which realizes the centralized management and infrastructure sharing of the disaster preparedness platform.   Xu Yunsong said that the purpose of the H3C launch of the "Shared disaster preparedness" solution was to help companies with the ability to build disaster preparedness centres to reduce costs while also allowing enterprises with no capacity to establish disaster preparedness centres to enjoy professional disaster preparedness services. This year, for example, the Hangzhou municipal government, with the help of H3C and China Telecom, has established a shared disaster preparedness platform to provide disaster preparedness services to SMEs in the region.   Xu Yunsong that "sharing disaster preparedness" is a big test for manufacturers ' technology. Because at present, suitable for the use of "shared disaster preparedness" of enterprises, including a number of strong vertical enterprises or institutions, such as PetroChina in all parts of the large enterprises with subsidiaries, if the head office to establish a disaster preparedness Center for the subordinate branches of the centralized provision of disaster preparedness services, is a good choice. But the head office and each branch office often distance, the network transmission becomes a problem. In addition, in the shared disaster-preparedness model, the standbyThe structure will bring the compatibility problem, at the same time the main network environment, network link complexity and so on, for the manufacturers have put forward very high requirements. H3C in its IP remote replication technology, 10G Network technology, Grid technology, virtualization technology, replication and mirroring technology, CDP continuous data protection technology, Wsan wide-area storage technology, storage network security technology, such as integration, so that users do not need to make a major transformation of the original network architecture, To maximize the protection of the user's investment.   Multiple units share a set of disaster preparedness centers, some users may worry, data privacy and security how to guarantee? In this regard, Xu Yunsong said that the security issue is "shared disaster preparedness" to solve the core problem, but he does not believe that the problem can be solved simply by technical means. H3C introduced a variety of measures to ensure user data security: First of all, we adopt H3C data protection technology, multi-One remote replication technology, data encryption and secure transmission technology to ensure data security, and secondly, establish a perfect disaster preparedness system; They also deployed monitoring software in the disaster Preparedness Center, where users can monitor the operation of equipment in the disaster preparedness center and whether there are any personnel in and out.   Emerging technologies affect the development of market for disaster preparedness   Although there are some differences in the concept of "sharing disaster preparedness" and "disaster preparedness outsourcing", but ESG Wang Cong believes that for end users, both are essentially the same thing, that is, a third party through the network to provide disaster preparedness services, users do not need to buy hardware and software equipment. In her view, whether it is "disaster preparedness outsourcing", or "shared disaster preparedness" or, to some extent, as a kind of cloud computing, although previously we have less mention of cloud backup or cloud disaster preparation concept, but with cloud storage to total, but in fact, disaster preparedness is a necessary way to support the cloud.   When it comes to cloud computing, there is no need to mention virtualization, Wang Cong said, "Shared disaster preparedness", "disaster preparedness outsourcing" and "disaster preparedness", no matter what kind of backup method is inseparable from virtualization.   Because, these kinds of methods require the service provider to be able to realize the flexible response to the user's business technically. For example, a hospital, the morning 8 to 5 o'clock in the afternoon between the need to focus on their own business data backup, and a game company's backup needs may focus on the night between 7 o'clock to 12 points, this period of time is their business peak. For service providers, how to automatically adjust the hardware and software resources according to the needs of front-end users, dynamic, flexible response front-end business to the need for disaster preparedness, to achieve load balance, to ensure that every user needs service standards, this is mainly through the virtualization of technical means to achieve. Not to say that the service provider has enough resources, has a large capacity, very high performance, to ensure that each user's needs can be timely response.   In addition to cloud computing and virtualization, there are other technologies that are also affecting the development of the market for disaster preparedness, such as heavyDuplicate data deletion.   Wang Cong Introduction, "Shared disaster preparedness", "disaster preparedness Outsourcing" and "cloud disaster preparedness" of these types of disaster preparedness are related to off-site backup, off-site backup in the process of data transfer back, the technology used is replication (online recovery). There is no online restore when there is no duplicate data deletion, because the bandwidth is too high. However, after the use of data de-duplication technology, the resources occupied by 99% less than before, so that the recovery process greatly improved, ensuring the availability of data reliability.   Asia Pacific Technology director Liu Chengli also told reporters that data de-duplication can reduce the complexity of the disaster preparedness process by increasing the growth of virtual server applications. Virtual environments bring unique data protection issues, and installing traditional backup agents on virtual servers can cause performance bottlenecks because multiple processes use the same physical resource, so all operations slow down. Redundant operating systems and application data are distributed across a number of virtual servers, so the fact that backup data is constantly increasing can make the problem even worse. The usual backup solution uses additional physical servers that require cumbersome management and do not provide offline protection. The new DXi6500 de-duplication technology will dramatically reduce disk usage in virtual environments, reduce data by as much as 95%, and its replication capabilities provide automatic disaster recovery protection. The DXi6500 family of products is also equipped with the esxpress backup software for VMware virtual servers, which provides fault-tolerant backup and recovery, with minimal impact on VM servers, consoles, and network performance.   In addition to virtualization, duplicate data deletion, some technologies related to network resource optimization, such as WAN optimization, or LAN optimization technology, will affect the development of disaster-tolerant technology, Wang Cong said.   The future trend of domestic disaster preparedness Service market   for the future development of domestic disaster preparedness market, IBM Huang Zhouli said that China's rapid progress in disaster preparedness, the United States or Europe's disaster preparedness market after twenty or thirty years of development to achieve the current scale, and in China today's disaster preparedness market situation, It is expected to catch up with Europe and America within 3-5 years. Of course, this process also requires manufacturers and users to work together, manufacturers to provide users with quality technology and services, and users need to change the concept. IBM Global Information Technology Service China disaster Recovery chief architect Suchuo told reporters that IBM now has a center in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen that can provide disaster preparedness services, whether the user is hosting a simple device or wants to do a high level MCS (Sustainable service Management) Staff to the process is hosted throughout the disaster preparedness Center, IBM has end-to-end solutions to provide users with high availability services.   Xu Yunsong to reporters that h3c very optimistic about "sharing disaster preparedness", in order to come, they will also be able to exit the "unified disaster preparedness", that is, the creationUnified disaster preparedness platform, divided into each user logical independent storage space, to protect the data of the user Production center, these logically independent storage space can also be centralized on the same storage device, which can improve the resource utilization of storage equipment and improve the ROI of the users.     Xu Yunsong said H3C's goal is to make disaster preparedness also achieve four, that is, "platform, standardization, sharing", and finally fully "service". As to which industries may be more receptive to disaster preparedness services in the future, Wang Cong that our current health care reform will lead to the medical industry's demand for disaster preparedness services, medical management, medical imaging and so on, will produce a lot of data, many domestic hospitals are now built a small disaster preparedness center, But the ability of IT staff to manage such a complex disaster preparedness center is limited, and the choice of disaster preparedness centers and services provided by third parties can reduce investment, reduce the complexity of operation, and allow them to focus on providing the best service to patients without any worries. In addition, Wang Cong also said that the launch of 3G, will bring a large number of rich media audio and video transmission, as well as China's radio and television industry has a lot of historical data, these industries are more suitable for the use of disaster preparedness outsourcing services.   How do users choose a disaster preparedness service provider?   "Although the international economic environment is not optimistic about the development prospects of some industries, but effective business continuity and disaster recovery system is often related to the continuous operation of enterprise core business, even related to the normal operation of enterprises, the demand is relatively rigid." "IDC's China Business continuity and disaster recovery 2008-2012 forecast and Analysis report is a good illustration of why the domestic market for disaster preparedness is still booming in the current economic downturn."   Indeed, more and more enterprises are beginning to realize the importance of data to them, just as life is as important as human beings. IBM's experts do not quite understand why a person want to drink milk but a special to raise a cow, but the combination of domestic conditions, it is not surprising. The previous period of melamine incident let a lot of people shocking, some netizens jokingly way, it seems to drink milk later, really have to raise a cow.   Look back to the disaster preparedness market, the same, Wang Cong told reporters, now domestic disaster preparedness service market is not mature. Some qualified enterprises to see the business opportunities, but also the opportunity to enter the market, buy several servers, and then buy some storage equipment and network, on the external claims to provide disaster preparedness outside services.   But in fact, the industry's demand for manufacturers is high. Users in the selection of service providers must be cautious, as far as possible to choose the quality of sound, reliable and credible manufacturers. Otherwise, when the disaster is really happening, the user needs to restore the data before the backup, if the data is lost or even completely unable to recover, the disadvantage can only be users themselves.

(Executive Editor: admin)