Enlightenment of China Data Center conference: Software redefining DC

From the data center infrastructure building, the Green data center, the large Data reconstruction data center to the software remodeling data center, the China Data Center conference hosted by the China Computer newspaper participated in and witnessed the opportunities and changes in the Data center field. Into the 2013, cloud computing, large data boom, "software-defined data center" concept, the value of software to it will be further clarified and released. How can the challenges of data center deployment and operations be cracked by changing infrastructure, the management and availability pressures of growing complexity, the need for increased application efficiency and the level of energy efficiency management? The Second China Data Center Conference has a comprehensive interpretation of the current hot topic in the field of data center.

About two years ago, an article called "Why Software is Eating" ("Why software is devouring the world") has triggered a storm in the entire technology and IT industry. Anderson, the founder of Netscape, the famous Silicon Valley investor, points out that software will be the core driver of the digital transformation of the global economy.

At the time, Hewlett-Packard announced greater investment in the software business with greater growth potential, while Google bought Motorola Mobile. Today, intelligent terminal equipment, all kinds of applications and service delivery has penetrated all aspects of people's lives, whether it is their own study, car or office environment, whether it is mobile phones, pad or other terminals, intelligent experience is flowing with the blood of the software. It can be said that software has become the core of all industry competitiveness and vitality. The rise of cloud computing, the service delivery and business model, enterprise IT application and policy changes are the important evidence of "software definition". "Computing ubiquity has become an important representation of it evolution," said Li Shuyan, president of the China Computer newspaper, at the China Data Center Conference. A wide range of computing equipment, mobile terminals for data exchange, logic operations, can not be separated from the support of the background data center. The influx of unstructured data, characterized by social applications, mobile computing, and so on, has had a significant impact on the underlying platform behind service delivery. "It's important to look at today's data centers and information technologies from a software perspective as data centers evolve into software-oriented trends," he said.

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Vertical integration of hardware and software, integrated solutions, integrated infrastructure, open cloud Reference architectures, software definitions and so on are becoming the key words in today's data center market. Behind these keywords, we see the IT vendors of the "software definition" of the trend of value identification and demand. So what are the benefits of a software-defined solution for users of the data center? What is the business driving force behind it? VMware Greater China Technical director Zhang Zhenlen that how to run it more efficiently, reduce costs with automated management, and ensure high availability and agility in the data center is a common concern for enterprise CIOs and IT industry. In an environment where new applications are emerging and business needs are rapidly expanding, the back-end IT infrastructure requires greater resilience, reliability, and stability, and software will play an important role in addressing data center complexity and ensuring high availability and manageability of data centers.

In the past, enterprise-built data centers were based on specific applications, a project, a department-built system. However, the diversification of front-end business requirements, the expansion of traditional workloads and the emergence of new workloads and the large scale of data centers bring about management problems. Luzen, senior Advisor to the Huawei business IT product line data center, says most of the existing data centers are rigid, complex and inefficient. How to deal with these challenges? VMware's latest cloud-maturity index (for the Asia-Pacific and Japan regions) shows that 90% of companies believe virtualization is a necessary condition for moving to the cloud. IDC's research points out that cost, efficiency, and management are three very important drivers of virtualization applications. A study from Gartner points out that by 2016 China's 70% x86 enterprise servers will be virtualized. "X86 's price/performance, virtualization of all applications, and virtualization of all hardware components are the three key trends driving the data center towards the future." "Many users have taken virtualization as the first strategy in the enterprise IT deployment and implementation," Zhang Zhenlen said. The new data Center for the future is based on virtualization strategy, with cloud-related capabilities and features. Virtualization enables the integration of all computing, storage, network, security, and availability resources into a single virtual resource pool, and enables rapid delivery of applications and services through dynamic scheduling and automated management capabilities. "These processes are all policy-based, and users can deploy the configuration and deployment of resources at the minute level without considering storage, network complexity." Clearly, a software-defined datacenter simplifies the process of defining the application and all the resources it needs.

New workloads, represented by unstructured data, mobile computing, social networking, and so on, have not only brought pressure on the traditional IT infrastructure, but also further complicate the scenarios and environments in which deployment is deployed and the delivery model. For enterprise users, it is possible to implement service and application delivery through existing internal infrastructure platforms, private cloud deployments, or to choose a public cloud platform. Support for heterogeneous and complex environments enables cross cloud, seamless application drift and data migration, while ensuring high availability of services is also an important direction for future software-defined data center evolution. "Software-defined data centers can accelerate the landing of cloud computing, modernize the entire infrastructure, and accelerate it's value release to the business." "Zhang Zhenlen said.

(Responsible editor: Fumingli)