internal and external repair of China Telecom cloud transformation embryonic fade

"Transformation" and "innovation" have been the theme songs that telecom operators have to sing in this new information age. Whether it is the excavation of new competitive advantage or the trend of industry development, cloud computing has become a beneficial attempt to diversify development of operators.

At present, the three major operators have launched their own cloud computing strategy and products. China Telecom began to integrate Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou in 2011 to set up a cloud computing research center, the implementation of the cloud strategy to do a good technical reserve, at the same time last March registered to set up an independent cloud computing company, was considered into the cloud computing scale deployment, professional operation of a new stage; , the introduction of a representative product "big Cloud", at the same time in the north-south base to build two full network of cloud computing data center and the whole network resource Scheduling center; and the most "low-key" cloud strategy practitioner China Unicom, in the last year also released a series of corporate cloud services products, as the first company to provide corporate cloud services operators, and began operating cloud computing companies at the end of 2012.

Three operators have been chasing the pace of cloud computing, but since 2011, when the public release of cloud computing strategy and solutions, after more than a year, China Telecom seems to be at the forefront. At present, China Telecom has gradually clarified the overall planning of cloud computing development system, that is, the construction of two cloud, three resources pool, in the cloud computing practice has achieved some results, the embryonic form of strategic layout gradually protruding.

According to China Telecom Cloud computing planning and construction ideas, it will build internal bearing all kinds of IT support systems, business platform of the "Inner load Cloud", external to provide all kinds of public basic cloud services products and industry customers cloud "external services Cloud" two cloud system. And the so-called three resources pool system, is relatively independent IT resource pool, business platform resource pool, cloud data center three resource pools, each resource pool by the distribution in different physical location resource pool nodes, respectively through their own unified resource management platform management. The IT resource pool and the Business platform resource pool are based on the internal hosting cloud, the Cloud data center resource pool constructs the external service cloud.

The construction of the business resource pool conforms to the territoriality principle

In fact, one of the original intentions of telecom operators to adopt cloud computing is to save costs and improve resource utilization. "Telecom operators contain many business platforms, the traditional single construction method not only long cycle, subsequent expansion is not convenient, but after the resource pooling, not only can greatly improve the utilization of resources, but also enhance the flexibility of business deployment." "China Telecom communications experts said.

It is reported that China Telecom business Platform resource pool system consists of 1 group-level business platform and N Provincial business platform resource pool. At the same time, the deployment of a unified network resource management platform, according to the steps to manage the group and the provincial pool of resources to achieve decentralized division management, the ultimate realization of the whole network of resources Unified NA pipe, unified deployment, and the internal platform based on IaaS service system.

Among them, the group-level resource pool mainly includes two nodes in Beijing and Shanghai, carrying the professional platform of group-level business platform, operation and maintenance system, number hundred, payment and so on. At the same time, pilot-carried part of the provincial business platform, and with a view to maturity, accelerate the whole network platform, such as the new application-class platform to the group pool of resources, so as to enhance the level of intensive network resources.

The technical experts who participated in the construction of China Telecom resource Pool said that because the group-level business platform was mainly deployed in Beijing and Shanghai, it was regarded as the node of the group resource pool, and there was no specific business distinction in the node location, and the corresponding business was included in the corresponding resource pool according to the principle of

For the provincial Business platform resource pool, it mainly carries the provincial business platform, IT system, Operation dimension system and so on. As the resource pool of the group-level business platform, the construction of the resource pool of the provincial business platform will be included in the corresponding provincial resource pool according to the local characteristics. For example, Fujian animation base, Zhejiang reading base and other base business will still belong to the resource pool in the province. Base business rapid development, large scale, localized characteristics of strong, if run in the group resource pool will bring some management problems, and localization of the deployment may be more appropriate, experts said.

In addition, experts also pointed out that the current and future services full network of business platform will be in accordance with the National single node construction model, will not repeat the construction in the province, typically such as base business platform and such as download platform.

Four regional layout Cloud data center

In addition to the internal IT resource pool and business platform resource pool construction, in the external cloud services, China Telecom relies on the advantages of the past accumulated IDC resources, and adapt to the trend of further evolution, vigorously develop cloud data center construction and constitute a cloud data center resource pool. Sheichaoyang, general manager of China Telecom's cloud computing company, also publicly stated at the meeting that the key to developing cloud computing is the rational distribution of bandwidth and data centers.

Telecom Cloud Data Center resource pool system consists of 2 low-cost green data Centers and 4 regions (east, south, west, north) of the core node cloud data center.

The Low-cost Green data center mainly hosts the cloud host without localization requirements, cloud storage public cloud service, and focus on the Internet, mobile internet customers. In 4 areas, the deployment of a certain localization requirements of the Cloud Data Center node, hosting the region's cloud host, cloud storage business needs (including industry cloud).

At present, as one of 2 low-cost green data centers in the Inner Mongolia node has started construction, according to the public information, the 1.1-phase project will consist of 6 units of 18200 square meters of data center and 1 buildings with 41500 square meters, of which 4 data center rooms will be put into production in 2013. It will become the "first design, first start, first operation" of the large-scale cloud computing data center of three telecom operators in China. And yet another Low-cost green data center is still under planning.

At the same time, in the regional node construction, China Telecom has also started the North Regional Beijing node, East China Regional Shanghai node, South China Regional Guangdong node, the western region of Sichuan node resource pool construction, is expected to be in 2013 according to business development needs to add some regional nodes.

Although China Telecom is accelerating the pace of cloud computing, expansion or new data centers, but industry insiders pointed out that the telecommunications "external services cloud" is still mainly focused on computing resources and traditional resources rental, but in the cloud computing business system, PaaS, SaaS in fact occupy a broader market, telecommunications still need in the management system , innovation system and continuous optimization.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)