Cloud Computing Case II: Wuxi Cloud Computing Project

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Cloud computing is not out of thin air, it is accompanied by the evolution of technology. IBM Greater China Chief technology officer, Li, dean of IBM China Research Institute, points out that the maturity of several key technologies has contributed to the emergence of cloud computing, including fast-growing chips and hardware technology, virtualization technology, massive multi-tenant technology, service-oriented architecture (SOA), interface technology, and network technology, The development and maturity of many technologies make the implementation of cloud computing possible.

At present, the market "cloud" concept emerges endlessly, everyone is talking about "cloud", but everyone talks about "cloud" is different. In all kinds of clouds, the utility value of the resource cloud is higher, but its application is still in the experimental and exploratory period, we use two cases to explain it.

Cloud computing Case One: Beijing University of Technology building cloud computing platform

Beijing University of Technology to build a cloud computing platform, in fact, initially in 2006 began brewing, was the Ministry of Education and the cooperation of a grid project, the construction of campus grid. The cloud computing platform was built in the process.

Beijing University of Technology Grid Center Deputy Director Di Ruihua professor said: "2008, in the whole campus grid to do the construction of the time, began to consider the use of cloud computing program." During the construction process we contacted many suppliers at home and abroad, through the choice, we think that IBM from the infrastructure, from hardware to software to services, can provide a whole solution, so we and IBM cooperation, on the one hand, the whole cluster system built up, but also set up a cloud computing platform. Because it's a school, our cloud computing platform is both a computing center and a datacenter. At that time, the primary consideration was the sharing of resources in schools. Because the original colleges are doing their own small cluster, do high-performance computing, the entire resource to focus on sharing and centralized management, from the investment is to save, from the use is also convenient, including some of the application software does not need to repeat the purchase. We started in the second half of 2009, including the construction of the computer room, has been put into trial operation. ”

North Dajian Cloud computing platform has three functions: first, the teaching and research of computer courses in the service school, the second is to carry out scientific research and the third is to support Beijing.

The North Industrial cloud computing platform is run through 9 colleges, more than 100 graduate students, more than 30 parallel groups to participate in the competition, the competition is also to promote high-performance computing in scientific research, in order to let college students directly contact the cloud is what. In the process of organizing the contest, how many resources each team needs and what kind of software to use, these resources are by the school cloud

Computing platform; Then each team goes to configure and deploy.

"We also have the idea of how to use computational methods to promote the design of scientific research and new products and new materials." In the past, each scientific project was done on its own small cluster or on some platforms, but when the scale was larger, such as the study of some materials, the computation at the atomic level was very large, but computing resources were not always used. We built a big platform to provide the scalability of the resources through the cloud computing platform itself, for example, some disciplines in a certain stage to do computational research, the need for a large amount of storage, give him a large space, but if he completed this paragraph of research, we can recover his resources, and then to other subjects, other students use, In this way, the whole resource can be fully utilized. Professor Di Ruihua said.

"The third function of the cloud computing platform is to serve Beijing: Now the Beijing municipal government, the city of Beijing through the letter Committee are considering, the annual information construction investment in the capital, how to save money through the cloud technology, now also the research project to us, hope that through our platform to do the pilot, we are Beijing's school, It is our bounden duty to serve the economic construction of Beijing. ”

Taihu Lake Cloud Computing Center restructured into a joint-Stock Co., Ltd. last October, after nearly a year of exploration, cloud computing has not only played the role of the public service platform of the original government, but also formed a large industry. "We define cloud computing as a service plant for information technology, which has great industrial prospects." Lu Jianhao, general manager of Taihu Cloud Computing Center. At present, Taihu Lake Cloud Computing Center's business is divided into three parts:

One is the private cloud business, the slogan is "The world is not difficult to do

IT. If there are large companies, organizations, there is enough of IT resources, it is worth using cloud computing technology to transform. The Wuxi government data Center employs a cloud computing center architecture, saving 50% of the energy and TCO savings of 30%. At the same time, the Taihu Cloud Computing Center offers high quality services such as rapid deployment, recovery, redundancy, which were not previously available. For a private cloud, there is no information security problem because it is for internal service.

Second, E-commerce. "Everyone may do consumer-to-consumer on Taobao, do E-commerce business, that is equivalent in the market, a booth." What we do is the real estate business of the online boutique. For example, our customers seven wolves, rented our one-stop service. "Lu Jianhao said.

Seven wolves are in the clothing business, and their concern is how much of the sales in the store, thus, the use of leasing, the establishment of the world's first-class one-stop service Web site, rental for the Seven wolves to reduce the risk, do not need to invest, "the operation of the entire platform, from network information security, middleware, database, backup, storage, A complete set by our professional firms to provide, but also quickly into the market. I think this value is very obvious to the user. So we are hoping to create a cloud computing era for business. "Lu Jianhao said.

Third, the SME cloud computing services. Through the Taihu Cloud Computing Center to provide some basic services, including Amazon's EC2, as well as computing services, storage services, online, mailbox, the gradual transition to some value-added services.

"At present, from the number of customers, private cloud business, is a project to do; the third business now has a lot of users, such as we provide some mailboxes, storage of these services, some fees, there are some free. Our Board of Directors is asking to be listed within 3-5 years, our sales revenue in the first half of this year is 10 million, the target for the whole year is 20 million. "Lu Jianhao said.