Cloud Express research on local cloud service based on open architecture

It is believed that most of the friends who understand the development of China's cloud computing industry will not be unfamiliar with the name of the Cloud Express line. The company, which was established in October 2009 and affiliated to the Century group, is the only professional manufacturer specializing in the operation of public cloud computing infrastructure, and its existing business scope mainly includes cloud host, Cloud hosting, cloud backup, cloud storage, Cloud Cube, CDN Acceleration and other commercial application services, has successfully provided a reliable cloud computing infrastructure (IaaS) service for all kinds of customers including online games, application software development, logistics platform applications, industry Web applications and other Internet applications.

As the leader of the domestic cloud service industry, through the initial rapid development, the Cloud Express has also summed up some of the experience: "We used to imitate the Amazon development model, but now we look back to see that its rental model is a specific period of time," said Jianping, founder and chief technology officer of the Cloud Express: " And the domestic public cloud services to the threshold of higher, service providers not only to do similar to Amazon rental services, but also to do online management system rental, and to solve the network connection and the acceleration problem. "

In this case, the Cloud Express is dedicated to exploring the Home-grown cloud/cloud services development model, which in its view is a good choice for a one-stop Internet infrastructure service that will enable any customer's services on the Internet infrastructure to be found on the cloud-fast line- Cloud Express hope that customers can be on the Cloud express platform as accurate as possible to find their own hardware and software support.

In the process of exploring and implementing this development model, the data center related products and technology innovation based on the open Intel architecture, as well as the Open Data Center Alliance, are playing a very important role in promoting.

In the last issue of it, we mentioned that as early as the Open Data Center Alliance was established, the Cloud Express line joined the cloud-computing ecosystem, which is primarily made up of end users. At that time Jianping said: "The task of advancing cloud computing will be difficult for any single user and it vendor, and Open Data Center Alliance can help us to move forward together, so we are very optimistic about the development of the whole Alliance, which is also an important reason for us to participate actively in it. "Now, after more than half a year of joining the Open Data Center Alliance, Jianping's good expectations have come true, and the alliance has benefited from the discovery of cloud computing and cloud Service application patterns and related technology needs cloud fast line, which has become a shared or beneficiary of many relevant knowledge and technology."

The adoption of Intel architecture products, technologies, and solutions enables the Cloud Express to take account of its infrastructure performance, energy efficiency, compatibility, and price/performance requirements While the business is growing rapidly. "Our core needs are currently three, one is virtualization, two is automation, and three is energy efficiency, and Intel has a strong advantage, so we continue to choose hardware and software or solutions based on Intel Architecture product development," Jianping said. "

According to Jianping, the cloud fast line on the server virtualization coefficient requirements are very high, it has in more than 30 provinces and cities in the data center in the provision of related cloud services, and the 30 data centers in different businesses involved in the number of virtual machines have more than 10,000 units. In the face of such a strong virtualization application requirements, the cloud fast line on the server configuration requirements are very high, especially its processor processing capacity to be strong enough to achieve a relatively high application efficiency. In addition, in automation, the Cloud Express also has been emphasizing how to achieve lower energy consumption, higher resource utilization efficiency, better resource scheduling, better load identification, to achieve resources, data center level of automation. In response to these requirements, the Cloud Express chose to fully purchase and deploy the Intel architecture based products, and in the upgrading of these products, the Cloud Express line is also following Intel's footsteps-based on Intel's 2010 release of the latest products-Xeon 5600 and 7500 servers are currently available on the Cloud Express line, They are also configured with high memory bandwidth and high I/O performance, these server products not only can provide a strong performance support for its cloud services, but also effectively reduce energy consumption and improve the utilization of room space-"originally may need 10 machines to install a cabinet, now 100 machines are not accounted for a cabinet, This is a great boost to the pue of our data center.

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