Cloud Data Center change: strengthening green and service functions

"Using data explosions to describe today's IT development is no longer a thing, data growth is endless." "Century Interconnection" (Beijing Century Internet Broadband Data Center Co., Ltd., 21vianetgroup,inc. Century interconnection) Dr Li Zhijian believes that for enterprises, the use of user habits, geographical distribution, and even enterprise demand changes can be in large data mining to get valuable reference information. The big data age pushes the concept of information value to the corporate CIO.

Each increase in the number of data flow level, requires it to have the corresponding efficient processing capacity. From the PC, the Internet to today's cloud computing, is to enhance it efficiency and the emergence of technology and solutions.

IDC predicts that in 2020, the total number of servers owned by all IT departments worldwide will be 10 times times higher (including virtual machines and physical machines), the data being managed is 50 times times higher, and IT managers are growing only 1.5 times times. The need for efficient storage and efficient extraction of large data is urging traditional data centers to transform into data centers that meet the requirements of cloud computing applications.

"Virtualization technology improves the efficiency of traditional physical machines and forms a pool of resources through cloud computing, distributed across different physical machines in resource pools." Large data mining tools play a role in the pointer, according to the content of the information needs of information storage space to form a data warehouse. This series of changes will occur in the cloud Computing data center. "Li Zhijian said.

Figure: Large data from scattered to concentrated

Green energy saving becomes necessary condition

"From the equipment, the server, room, bandwidth, power, refrigeration and other hardware facilities compared to the traditional data center does not occur in the essential changes, but will be green energy for the purpose of development." Data center power consumption The future will be a core issue. ”

Ohnathang.koomey, a professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, reports that global data centers consume 198.8 billion kwh of electricity in 2010, about a 1.1至1.5% of total annual generating capacity, which is not negligible. Power has become the largest share of data center spending, and data centers such as Google and Microsoft are beginning to try to build data centers in cold areas to reduce power consumption.

"It's worth the cost of data processing, and cloud computing helps companies reduce IT costs." Dr. Li Zhijian pointed out.

Cloud computing data centers can reduce the average cost of data processing through large-scale data center integration. Large cloud computing data centers will consider the geographical environment, make full use of natural conditions to reduce energy consumption, such as local low-temperature climate, wind, tidal, solar energy and other clean energy.

Operational Services Outsourcing

Dr Li Zhijian that the most fundamental change in cloud computing data centers lies in software and services. Software, including the implementation of storage, computing power calls, billing, security, such as virtualization, distributed technology, Microsoft, Amazon for the precedent, service changes means that the traditional physical computer room of the operation of the DNA will serve as a prerequisite for quality service, rather than the whole content. Operation of the maintenance engineer from the physical computer room to the software platform, network platform maintenance.

With the large-scale development of the cloud data center, the operation and maintenance services are both soft and hard, and the difficulty and scale of operation service are enlarged correspondingly.

"Operation and maintenance services to specialization, outsourcing will become the industry trend, in this field opportunities and challenges coexist." With operation-dimensional DNA data center enterprises will have the opportunity to grow into a professional cloud data center operation service provider. Century interconnection as a data center service provider with more than 10 years of operational DNA, future exploration of the cloud is worth looking forward to. ”

The Cloud data center needs the top level design

China currently has 588,000 data centers, and the Institute of Advanced Industry data shows that 2011 new numbers are up to 6,800, excluding cloud computing data centers that are being planned around the world.

In the context of large data, how should we view the rapid growth of China's cloud computing data center?

Li Zhijian His own understanding: "Due to the realization of virtualization technology, the tide of multi-tenant technology, the United States in 2011 to reduce the number of government IDC from 2000 to 1200, attention, is to reduce, not increase." But the premise is that cloud computing applications are already quite common. In China, the Cloud data center is in the construction period, it is the best time to carry on the top level design and the overall plan. In the fields of e-government, education and medical care, the introduction of public cloud will promote the development of intelligent city. When the public cloud hits the ground, the change in China's cloud computing data center will come true. ”