Finance server operation and maintenance solution choice: self-built or hosted

"Tenkine Server channel March 8 News" as the internet wave of wave after wave forward, the whole market pattern has been rewritten, this huge cake attracts more and more traditional offline industries to join, the banking, insurance, securities and other financial industries because of its business characteristics of the first to join the online service expansion, This makes the storage and maintenance of the massive and sensitive data a critical issue. Faced with such a huge demand, financial enterprises are faced with two choices: self-built data center or server hosting?

With the development perspective of the problem, linked to the current self-built computer room and host custody of the dispute, for financial enterprises in fact, these two forms have advantages and disadvantages.

Since the building of the machine room is tailored to the specific needs of the exclusive products, choose to build the room because it can more accurately meet the financial industry for security, privacy requirements, to a large extent, due to the presence of the server in the public room was attacked, data stolen hidden dangers. At the same time, because the data center is operated by the financial Enterprise, it has the innate advantage in the communication link and the speed of dealing with the sudden problem. In addition, the self-built room also avoids problems caused by third party fault or because of problems in other servers in the data center.

Compared to the advantages, the establishment of the computer room for the financial industry there are some obvious drawbacks. First of all, the financial enterprise's own data center is a costly purchase behavior: Rough calculation, the enterprise construction of a 1000 square meters and all aspects of the fully equipped data center at least 30 million of the capital investment, and the same size of the computer room by the Professional data center Builder to execute only about 13 million, Because the builders focus on data center construction, so that they have the characteristics of mass construction, and the industry upstream and downstream industry chain familiar with, can greatly control the cost of compression. Secondly, due to the high requirements and complexity of the data center, the construction period is usually calculated by the quarter or year, and the planning time is counted, the whole implementation process will be longer and the time cost is huge. In addition, at the beginning of the construction of the data center must have detailed planning, need to build a large scale. Can not make a room after the completion of half space is vacant, resulting in waste, but also to avoid the completion of the computer room soon after the absence of space, resulting in another waste. Many large and well-known enterprises in the construction of their own data center, but also to carry out large-scale server hosting outsourcing, because in today's development speed of the Internet, the calculation of accurate redundancy is very difficult.

The construction of the data center includes a number of links and factors, such as infrastructure engineering, housing structure, power supply system, cooling systems, wiring, lighting, security systems and IT equipment, bandwidth resources procurement, decision makers need to be listed above all the items for advanced, practical and redundant considerations, Take the most core of the broadband line resources for example, enterprise-built computer rooms often have a low rated flow, Network load small, poor link stability, high price, can not achieve multiple lines and so on. At the same time, the risk of some acts of abuse is greatly increased in the construction of this huge investment project

In addition, a IDC data center if you want to maintain a good operating state, you must face cumbersome details and a large number of uncontrollable factors, from such as network deployment, application requirements, equipment depreciation, security disaster preparedness and other business needs to temporary power outages, server downtime, network failures and other emergencies. Sometimes it is difficult to communicate and coordinate with some basic operators ' network problems. Whether an enterprise has an example to maintain the normal operation of IDC data Center, its need strength not only refers to the capital, but also stresses the back-up technical force and management ability.

Server hosting business can well avoid the above drawbacks. In the construction of data center, operators of computer room and server hosting servers built in the scale of the computer room will be the number of times, but also professional operation and maintenance staff for all the customer service, reduced unit operating costs, so as compared with the self-built computer room significantly reduce the actual cost of customers. At the same time, operators and server hosting services can focus on the advantages of resources for the room to provide the best quality bandwidth resources and facilities configuration, and according to the differences in these resources for each data center rating, so that different customers according to their own needs to choose the appropriate configuration of the data center. Generally speaking, five-star and super five-star room can fully meet the financial enterprises for data security and privacy of high demand. In addition, some of the top rooms for this type of special needs of customers to provide personalized VIP room service, enterprises can rent room space by region, and install access control systems, to become a relatively independent space to ensure security and privacy.

In the world, many enterprises, including well-known large enterprises to choose a more economical and convenient data management model: cloud computing. Zynga, the world's largest SNS gaming platform, solves its data storage and application problems through cloud computing. At the beginning of his masterpiece, "Happy Farm," Zynga was not predicting a high number of users, but as the number of users increased rapidly, Zynga's own servers grew from dozens of to thousands of oddities, but still failed to meet the user's growth rate. So Zynga made a sensible decision: with Amazon cloud storage services, hardware hosting and software using SaaS services to ensure the game's operation and success. Today, the total number of active users in all of Zynga's product lines with cloud computing has reached 235 million, with a total of 65 million active users. Such examples abound. In China, the electric carrier Alibaba's flagship payment products Alipay Annual water volume has exceeded 2 trillion yuan, the user amount of over 500 million, such a size of the financial body, is still determined to choose the server hosting, and in the short term has not built a computer room plan.

Many cases at home and abroad, a strong, technically excellent IDC service providers can be based on the situation of customers to develop a number of flexible solutions, can fully meet the financial enterprises in the server operational dimensions of the all-round needs. Of course, financial enterprises can also be based on their own needs, or the combination of two characteristics of complementary advantages, joint use, to achieve maximum benefits.