Don't fear cloud lock enterprise deploy cloud to meet challenge

With the successful landing and practice of some enterprise cloud computing, some enterprises have started to develop their own cloud computing tools, some companies have chosen to mix the cloud stacks of multiple vendor components, and some enterprises from Microsoft, VMware and other http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/ aggregation/13793.html "> Cloud service Provider where to buy tools.

In the cloud service model, users who buy all the tools from a single vendor and rely on a single vendor's products and services are likely to be locked by the cloud. It even leads to companies having to use the underlying virtualization platform chosen by the cloud service provider. Once the cloud is locked, the enterprise application will not be able to cross between the various platforms, the enterprise will lose the dominant power and bargaining power. Research data show that 80% of businesses have listed the lack of interoperability as a challenge for cloud computing services.

However, in the day-to-day communication services can see another situation: People can be based on their own preferences and telecommunications operators to provide services, easy to switch from one telecom operator to another. So can businesses easily convert cloud service providers? Is there any obstacle to the migration of workloads between these different clouds?

To migrate workloads from the data center to the cloud, or to transfer between two clouds, you need an application programming interface for the connection. At present, cloud service providers are developing a large number of different application programming interfaces. If two cloud service providers are based on the same infrastructure, data migration is easier to implement. With some migration tools, you can migrate from one carrier to another, or from the operator to the enterprise's own data center, which can be seamlessly migrated and applied without stopping.

If the two big cloud service providers are not based on the same architecture, such as one site using VMware and the other with Microsoft, data migration will be cumbersome. But the problem is now resolved, and Red Hat's "Deltacloud" provides the portability and interoperability needed to realize the full potential of cloud computing. A triangular cloud is the only major cloud framework that is not subject to any single vendor proprietary code, APIs, and other intellectual property rights constraints. This open source project is attracting a lot of vendors to participate in, providing a common platform for different vendors. The goal of the Triangle cloud is not to create a new API to replace an existing API, but to promote usability and portability among many profiled clouds. The openness, interoperability, and selectivity of the open API and interoperability are essential to the enterprise that considers cloud technology, and this is the Red Hat cloud computing force point.

With regard to data migration, some of the practices of telecom operators may give hints to cloud service providers. For example, we can still use China Mobile's network with China Mobile's mobile phone, as a result of a number of agreements between China Mobile and US telecom operators to provide customers with more convenient and simple services.

Cloud service providers may also need to forge such alliances in the future, with a unified and friendly interface between the major cloud providers. As long as you sign an agreement with one of them, you are free to choose a better provider of networks and services in this area.

Today, the big pattern of cloud computing is moving in this direction, and leading manufacturers such as Red Hat, IBM and Microsoft are working on the construction and Perfection of cloud computing ecosystem. The construction of the ecological chain is not built on the strength of a certain manufacturer, but it needs the whole industry to improve each part of the ecological chain.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)