EMC Cisco VMware Alliance wants to dominate cloud architecture

EMC, Cisco, VMware Three companies announced this year to enter the "cloud architecture"

At the end of last year, Cisco, EMC and VMware have announced a virtual Computing Environment Alliance (VBLOCK), a project that includes deep convergence in technology, capital, and business models, with announcements from the alliance on the same day that the alliance was set up to drive the transformation of the data Center architecture into virtualization and private cloud architectures. The three of IT companies that specialize in networking, storage, and virtual computing have been the focus of the industry because their cross-border alliances are likely to bind users and create a new monopoly system. For industry speculation, EMC, Cisco, in an interview with the China Electronics News reporter in Shanghai, the head of VMware's three companies denied the possibility of a new monopoly on binding users and claimed that the alliance of three companies would only give users more flexibility and agility, and that the landing in China this year would be more " The face of the city cloud appeared.

Data Center Optimization requirements

"Bundle up" manufacturers

"Virtualization", "cloud computing" can provide users with more flexibility in the data center, simplifying the IT architecture, and because of this, users increasingly favor data center virtualization. According to McKinsey, global data centers spend more than 350 billion dollars a year on technology infrastructure and services, half of which is capital expenditure (products) and the other half operating costs (services and labor). In addition, an estimated 70% or more of the overhead is spent on maintaining the existing infrastructure, leaving only 30% or less to spend on the development of new technologies and applications that enable enterprises to achieve breakthroughs in business differentiation. It is also estimated that the market size of data center virtualization and private cloud technology will reach about $85 billion trillion by 2015, accounting for 20% of the entire data center market.

Because of the great temptation of the market, IT companies in all fields, such as network, server, storage and so on, embrace virtualization to drive dynamic architecture or data center construction called "Cloud architecture". But at present in the drive of virtualization or "cloud structure" on the journey, each vendor is basically fragmented, each has its own implementation methods, and for users, the best optimization is the whole system optimization and integration. In order to maximize the overall optimization of the system, we need the network, storage, server, software and application of the manufacturers in the technology has more joint research and development, truly achieve the inherent integration and overall optimization. Based on this, Cisco, EMC, and VMware have started a cross-border alliance. In fact, the cross-border alliance does not start with three of them, and the current market alliance is dominated by market operations. "The biggest difference between us and the other alliances is that we are investing in joint research and development and working together on the business model and service support model," Shunyide, Cisco's Global executive vice president, said in an interview with the China Electronic newspaper. ”

It should be said that in theory, joint research and development from the technical level can indeed give users a better overall optimization results, but in a sense, it is also possible to let users lose the flexibility of choice, Cisco, EMC and VMware Joint will be possible to form a new monopoly system. Ye Chenghui, EMC's senior vice president and director of EMC Greater China, denied the "monopoly", saying: "We provide users with a comprehensive solution architecture for deep, optimized integration and flexible choices for users." They are free to choose and match freely. Of course, choosing the overall optimized architecture should maximize the customer's system optimization. ”

For the Vblock Alliance, journalists are paying more attention to the revelation that such a coalition can bring to the union of other camps. In more and more dynamic, more and more virtualization, more and more cloud computing needs in the background, whether from the bottom to achieve a system-wide penetration, will test the entire industrial chain of all enterprises. In order to achieve the maximum optimization of virtualization in the vertical direction, enterprises need to do more joint research and development at the technical level, not only the bundling of the sales level. But it also poses a problem: who is responsible for the data center's problem once it comes to a close bundle? The bosses of Cisco, EMC and VMware all say they have a dedicated service support team to solve the problem. More virtualization needs, the IT industry eco-chain will appear more compact alliance, capital, Research and development, technology, market and other all-round deeper vertical integration will be more and more.

"City Cloud"

Move the alliance to the front

If the three giants of Cisco, EMC and VMware were largely focused on the "private cloud" market by the end of last year, their appetite was not that big. But this year, they have shifted their target to the "City Cloud" (the public Cloud), which has greater demand. At present, many cities in China are promoting the process of digital city, Intelligent city and Wireless city. Building a more intelligent back-end data center requires the "City Cloud" to integrate medical, public security, traffic and so on all levels of "cloud" integration, which will form a huge demand market. In this context, the three giants naturally targeted the "City Cloud" market.

At this year's Shanghai World Expo, Cisco built a "smart + interconnected Life" venue, which is the only independent building of the Shanghai World Expo it Enterprise pavilion. With "Shanghai Old Chen home 2020 years of the day" this story to explain how intelligent transportation, wisdom and medical treatment to help people achieve a better life: Loop bridge car rear-end accident, intelligent transportation system immediately for the accident location, the monitoring personnel will immediately notify the relevant ambulance, accident handlers rushed to the scene, At the same time, the intelligent transport system will promptly inform other vehicle drivers and traffic grooming, so that they choose other sections in advance, in Shanghai in 2020, residents can the foot out of the body of the data transmitted to the corresponding medical centers, the intelligent medical system will be through data analysis of the health status of residents and medical implementation plan.

Cisco said that these beautiful, convenient intelligent city life, need the backstage "city Cloud" to support, and these "city cloud" need a lot of partners to work together to complete. The Vblock Alliance of Cisco, EMC and VMware, for example, is part of Cisco's drive to "smart cities", focusing primarily on the infrastructure level. And to truly realize the application of intelligent, need transportation, environmental protection, medical, public security, energy and so on a large number of front-end application partners to participate, as well as the support of a large number of users, but also need the government in the integration to give a strong support, all of these need to coordinate a lot of links And the same is the main push "smart city" of IBM, but also in the formation of IBM as the core of the Alliance, the future of the two "Smart city" alliance will increasingly white-hot. Cisco has been working with two cities in Chengdu and Chongqing to collaborate on "smarter + interconnected Cities," Cisco's global vice president said. The future of the "Smart city" alliance to win who wins is not conclusive, but the contention for application partners will become the focus.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)