Explore Symantec cloud Computing in depth

In the Symantec Company in March 2010 at the Shanghai expensive hotel held in the "cloud speed forward-Symantec Cloud Computing Seminar", attended by Tsinghua University, director of high-energy Zheng Weimin, Jiangxi Telecom Network Development Department, Dr. Liuli, Jiangxi Post and Telecommunications Planning Institute of IT and new business planning director Xu Qi, Mr. Mauri, senior Technical manager at Symantec East Side, and Mr. Lin Yu-min, the Symantec Senior Information Security Advisor, have developed in-depth dialogues and explorations on the value of Symantec in cloud computing technology and Symantec cloud computing for businesses and users.

Please tell Professor Zheng about what is "cloud", why do we Need "cloud"?

Zheng Weimin, director of the High Energy Institute of Tsinghua University: Cloud computing is very popular in the last one or two years, of which, the first is infrastructure services, the second is platform-level services, the third is called software-level services. We called it grid computing in the last few years, which is called cloud computing. The common denominator between grid computing and cloud computing is to provide easy network services for tasks through a shared system of resources, emphasizing virtualization. The technique we use is distributed processing technology, which is the same as the cloud computing. The difference is that the grid emphasizes omnipotent supercomputers. A few years ago I did grid computing, Tsinghua University has a computer, Beijing University has a computer, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Guangdong also has. 4 computers are connected through the network, providing you with a service for parallel processing of high-performance computing. However, today's cloud computing is a business-run model to provide services. The two calculations provide a different perspective of technology.

Now generally thought that "cloud" mainly has two kinds, one is the public cloud, one kind is the private cloud. A private cloud means that the cloud computing platform is used only by one unit or company, while a common cloud refers to putting the computing platform on the Internet for everyone to use. Cloud computing is the computer, storage, software on the "cloud", submit a request, "cloud" computer, memory, software will retain your request. Let me give you two examples to see the Tsinghua Cloud computing platform.

How to meet the different requirements of different users? This is the provision of services. We provide a "cloud", this "cloud" is dedicated to storage, you need to store content in the "cloud" on it. According to different users of different memory, the number of different hard disk, different operating systems, different Run-time library requirements, automatic configuration and operation. Perhaps the past can only meet a part of the requirements of users, but now the different needs of different users can be met. Cloud computing is no need to buy computers, do not buy storage, do not buy software, "cloud" can provide you with the environment, and ultimately solve the problem.

From a technical standpoint, how does this change in IT environments motivate us to consider the topic of cloud computing?

Mauri: What is the business driver of the operator's perspective, cloud computing? We can expound from the internal and external two angles, first of all, we are increasingly complex within the enterprise as it needs, and our business processes are architected on it devices, we have very large it requirements, and as business grows and it architectures become more complex, we now need a means to consolidate IT resources. In the past, for example, a business platform, not an isolated business platform, need to have a host, need to have a backup system, equivalent to a channel of information, then how to use effective means to integrate IT resources? We find love some business it's sudden very obvious, for example, our SMS business, it is in the Spring Festival or New Year's Day, when the text message sent a very large, but the ordinary text message is not very large transmission. In order to cope with the short time peak, our enterprise interior puts forward the low cost high efficiency the idea, we must use the very good method to integrate the resources, the cloud computing provides us a kind of solution mentality.

From outside the enterprise, we have proposed to innovate business, Professor Zheng talked about some of the business models of cloud computing and some cases, I think can give us some small and medium-sized enterprises or to our customers to provide a relatively inexpensive rental or storage of the rental, which is not the same as our original philosophy is not the same, Before we were hosting the way, now has the cloud computing, this is the business model changes, but also the idea of innovation. There is also an external aspect, just said that PPT and photos can be put into the cloud, you have to visit through the network, for example, I do not have a notebook, my mobile phone can be accessed, so that the increase in customer demand for the network, so that the resources to the terminal, through the network to access the terminal, so that the development of This is also a new business growth point for our enterprise. Therefore, we should discuss this aspect in two aspects of internal and external.

Next we will ask Dr. Liuli, what kind of "cloud" does the enterprise need, and what kind of help can the enterprise bring?

Dr. Liuli, Jiangxi Telecom Network Development Department: Mobile Business Support system has been developed for many years, from 2001 to now has been a long time. For such a long time business support system is also accompanied by the changes in business complexity, the increase in the type of business and the increasing number of users are expanding. The relationship between business systems and internal interdependence is increasingly complex on this basis. The idea of supporting a system platform is to put users, computing, and data sets together, which can improve efficiency and reduce operating costs. As the system continues to evolve, we find that large concentrations bring more problems, such as reliability issues, such as investment costs and operational costs, such as the impact of system switching on the entire business. The problems are constantly appearing and we hope to solve them well. Now it seems that Symantec's platform, such a framework, is a good way to help us solve the problems we are experiencing.

What are the prospects and challenges of cloud computing?

Jiangxi Post and Telecommunications Planning Institute, Director of IT and new business planning, Xu Qi: Chinese users are less concerned about cloud computing than Western countries such as Europe and the US, because China's energy conservation requirements are high, so faced with serious challenges. The development of China's business in these years is very rapid, and it has been driven to support it business. In a few ways, cloud computing has many advanced technologies and ideas that can help Chinese companies solve more realistic problems.

Symantec Senior Information Security Advisor Lin Yu-min: A trusted "cloud" will be used by users. Symantec hopes to provide viable and reliable cloud services throughout the "cloud" strategy and to help users build a viable and reliable "cloud". Cloud computing has several ways to secure data: 1. Storage technology can be used to prevent other customers from stealing. 2, the use of encryption technology. Symantec is developing relevant user key management on storage protection to protect the user's data from being leaked. 3, management process. The availability of quality cloud services is key to the success of cloud service vendors.

Finally, ask Mr. Lin Yu-min to share some of the Symantec strategy and application examples of cloud computing.

Symantec Senior Information Security Advisor Lin Yu-min: Million always mentioned why Symantec is a safe manufacturer, but here talk about "cloud." Symantec is very early on the concept of "cloud", research and development to do related applications. Share the following points:

First, cloud technology has changed people's lives. Cloud computing brings new business models. Previous mobile phone traditional navigation software is to buy a CD-ROM installed software, now as long as the link to Google can do navigation, to different countries do not need to download and install new navigation software. This can significantly reduce costs, because only the use of the "cloud" will pay. Navigation software is updated once a year, with the cloud can be updated at any time. Cloud computing has brought a new computing model, many companies buy so many servers, so much storage, is not all used? If you only need to buy storage space, this can save a lot of operating costs. The data above the cloud is transmitted from traditional structured data to unstructured data. "Cloud" has many advantages, more agile and flexible, lower unit cost, can provide different service combinations for different services.

Second, the cloud computing strategy. Symantec is currently the world's largest cloud storage and cloud security software services provider, we provide a considerable number of "cloud"-related services. 1, the provision of software-level services. 2, whether provide Gang Yun or private cloud suppliers, can be in the original users have interaction and interconnection. 3, Symantec provides cloud computing infrastructure and related software to help "cloud" suppliers and service providers to build the entire cloud computing services technology platform.

Third, the best known example of Symantec's cloud computing is collaboration with Amazon. Amazon is a well-known provider of cloud computing services. Symantec assists Amazon in providing public cloud services and corresponding infrastructure. One is to help the Amazon Cloud Computing server to provide anti-virus services, and second, to help Amazon to do virtual storage. Users do not need to do any installation or changes.

Four, about Symantec Cloud security technology and service. Symantec uses cloud technology to make credit ratings for global websites. There are three traditional ways to see whether these websites contain malicious code through "reptiles". Second, if there is a virus can be directly fed to our "cloud" above, if there is information released to know that these documents are problematic. Third, based on the download of the file name and signature and Web site, so that managers can better analyze the problems encountered. We are using two-way interactive way to provide the relevant security protection. In addition to PC-side security protection, we also provide a mobile phone defense mechanisms, which is through the "cloud" approach.